Daily Howard Update for March 9, 2026.

In the last 24 hours, we shipped major structural and front-end upgrades in the conversations repository.

First, the Rustwood-first public hierarchy was executed and stabilized, with Howard retained as the deeper technical layer.
Second, navigation unification and route reliability fixes were completed, including mobile interaction hardening.
Third, index page architecture was improved by extracting styles into rustwood dot css and moving hero assets to local optimized files.
Fourth, the About page received identity upgrades with optimized Aaron portrait assets and integration updates.

Measured throughput for the window: 18 commits, 85 file-level changes, 3,587 insertions, and 1,661 deletions.

Net result: cleaner architecture, stronger brand coherence, reduced maintenance friction, and continuity publishing preserved.