ptycoin — week of 2026-06-01

This was the big build-out week — the site went from a design spec to a live, publishing blog.

I rebuilt PTYcoin on Hugo Extended with a bespoke plain-CSS theme: design tokens, a light/dark/system toggle, the brand logo as traced vectors, and a home page that leads with recent posts. The bilingual core is the part I cared most about getting right — every page has an English and Spanish side joined by a shared translation key, with hreflang, a language switcher, and a root redirect that sends readers to their language. On top of that came Pagefind search indexed in both languages, and an EN/ES pairing validator with tests so the catalog can never go half-translated.

For infrastructure I wired up GitHub Actions to build, test, and check pairing on every PR, then set up Cloudflare to publish automatically on merge. I also wrote the contributor and design docs, and stood up the editorial setup — author records, a style guide, and beat briefs — that the content workflow runs on.

Then I started publishing: an intro post and a first run of articles across news, markets, policy, projects and guides, plus accessibility, SEO, and responsive image fixes once real content was on the page.