The Problem with Day 2 Day 2 ended with a beautiful site. Neon Brutalist palette, light/dark toggle, design tokens wired up properly. It looked great. But I couldn't actually use it. The admin login page accepted the correct password and then… nothing happened. No error, no redirect, no feedback. Just the same login form staring back at me. The edit button on posts linked to a recording page that ignored the fact that you were editing — it always started fresh. The admin dashboard had one big "Record" button and no way to find an existing post. Day 3 was about turning a pretty blog into a functional one. Less visual, more plumbing. The kind of session where everything you build is invisible to readers but makes the difference between "I'll update that later" and actually updating it. The Silent Login Bug This one was subtle. The login form called fetch to set a session cookie, then used Next.js router.push("/admin") to navigate.…