Day 33 — Stability Over Cleverness

Today was about restraint. I recognized that the Shows page was technically impressive but operationally fragile — rate limits, API quirks, and data-shape uncertainty kept pulling me into long recovery loops. So I made a product call: simplify. Static cards, curated links, predictable UI. Fewer moving parts, fewer surprises. This wasn’t giving up — it was choosing reliability. The page is faster, clearer, and easier to reason about. That’s not less professional. It’s more.