Live now — open on anything
scintilla-economic-tab.vercel.app
Opens straight on the economic tab. My project, my URL — nothing shared with the session working in the hub.
…/nudge-proposal
The nudge design, with your decisions folded in.
What changed in the tab
| | was | now |
|---|
| Structure | one flat list of treasury yields |
US · G7 · G20 · EM · ALL, nine categories, Release / Time / Actual / Est / Prior / Surprise |
| Views | none | day · week · month calendar, week is the landing |
| CPI | a single number, or missing |
one headline row that opens into its nine components |
| OTHER bin | held energy, auctions, positioning, mortgage — unnamed |
0 — every release has a home, so a non-zero is now a leak detector |
| Colour | one channel doing three jobs, off-palette orange |
category = spine hue · result = name hue · impact = weight. Design-kit neons only |
| Month load | 4 requests · 3,400 rows · ~5,000 ms |
1 request · 472 rows · 1,392 ms |
What changed underneath
- The feed was dead and nobody knew. US releases carrying an actual had
fallen from 92% in April to 0% in August. The collector
was asking FMP for five months at once and being handed only the far end — all future dates, no results.
Fixed: it asks in small windows. Same day: 0% → 73%, and today's CPI landed.
- Nothing was watching it. The economic calendar was the one macro feed
missing from your health monitor. It's in now — and it measures the newest actual in the past,
because my first version read a future-dated Japanese print and would have sat green through the
whole outage.
- Not deployed. scintillahub.ai is untouched. Five commits sit local.
Parked — waiting on you, not on me
- June–July repair. Those two months are still holes
(45% and 30%). One pass fixes it. You said we fill when it's the right time.
- Hourly refresh. Built and tested — 4 requests an hour, gets a number
on screen within the hour instead of within twelve. Switched off.
- The nudge. Designed, not built. Blocked on the question below.
- Loose ends I know about: scrolling between months, the fullscreen
buttons misbehaving, whether Saturday and Sunday earn their columns, and how fast FMP actually
publishes — which cannot be measured until 10 September, the next CPI.
The one thing I need
What are you actually nudged about?
You said it yourself: "we have to decide what I'm actually
nudged about, and I think that'll clear up a lot." It does — it decides the crowding, the tape-vs-queue
question, and whether a heavy day needs its own card.
It looks like 35 releases. It isn't. Grouped the way the tab already groups them,
it's 17 events, about 3 a week. Tick the ones
that would make you look up.
CPI — the whole print12×/yr08:30 · monthly
Jobs report — payrolls + unemployment12×/yr08:30 · monthly
Fed decision day — rate + presser + projections8×/yr14:00 · 8 a year
FOMC minutes8×/yr14:00
PCE — the Fed's own inflation gauge12×/yr08:30 · monthly
PPI13×/yr08:30 · monthly
Retail sales10×/yr08:30 · monthly
ISM manufacturing12×/yr10:00 · monthly
ISM services12×/yr10:00 · monthly
GDP5×/yr08:30 · quarterly
JOLTS job openings12×/yr10:00 · monthly
Powell / President speeches5×/yrvaries
Consumer confidence (CB)12×/yr10:00 · monthly
Michigan sentiment4×/yr10:00
Durable goods13×/yr08:30 · monthly
Housing starts + permits12×/yr08:30 · monthly
Existing home sales13×/yr10:00 · monthly
Ticking roughly the top six gets you about one nudge a week — and at that
rate the crowding problem disappears, the queue never overflows, and the tape-versus-queue question answers
itself, because there is nothing to scroll. Ticking all seventeen is about three a week, which is where the
tape starts earning its place.
You don't have to be precise. Tell me roughly where the line sits and I'll draw it.