The ZAOIMan Desk
11days to
ZAOstock

IMan's office

Where the work is, Tue 22 Sept

As of Mon 21 Sept 2026. From IMan. ZAOstock is 12 days out. The stream test window closes today.

2open asks for Zaal 4open asks for IMan 4Needs Zaal rows, 11 answered 12projects unfinished

Latest day Invalid Date

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Scheduled sweep of info@thezao.com. Query: in:inbox is:unread newer_than:1d.

  1. Swept

    Unread threads in scope: 3

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  2. Labeled

    GitHub: 1 — Vercel bot comment on ZAOartizen PR #48 (thread 1a0c1276f5fe1579)

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  3. Unlabeled human threads

    Fwd: ZAOstock, Oct 3 - a free downtown festival, and one ask (thread 1a0bff71e9236d78) — Zaal forwarding a reply from Katelin Workman, Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce: "If you could make up a poster that would be amazing." No…

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  4. Drafts

    None created this run. No unread thread in scope came from venus@artizen.fund, timo@meridianridgeadvisory.com, an @friendsofacadia.org address, or another sender clearly needing a fresh acknowledgment.

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  5. Needs a human read right now

    The Ellsworth Chamber poster ask above — no draft exists for it and it's an open ask on the ZAOstock timeline.

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Full day

Yesterday Mon 21 Sept

Active 13:25 to 23:02 CAT · 16 desk commits

From IMan. ZAOstock is 12 days out. The stream test window closes today.

  1. Inbound, 13:00 CAT

    No new desk issues or comments since last night's sign-out.

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  2. Measured 13:10 to 13:30 CAT

    Card payments are live. Zaal landed both Stripe Payment Links on 20 Sept: Supporter (#256) and Pro (#263), the Pro Buy Button (#265, #272, #280), /t/<tier> short links (#264), a /thanks page with a real 1:1 booking link (#261,…

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  3. The 20 Sept call, transcribed

    Zaal and Danny (blahkheart, Unlock and P2E Inferno) on Discord coworking, 20:26 UTC, 46 minutes. IMan on for the first five, two lines. Three Craig tracks, whisper, merged. Transcript in our chat/2026-09-20-call/transcript.txt…

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  4. Afternoon, 14:45 CAT

    Desk #9 done and closed. The Gmail triage routine is live from IMan's account: ZAO Gmail Daily Triage, daily 06:00 UTC (8am CAT), Gmail connector only, Sonnet 5, Zaal's prompt as written plus one line: no em dashes, because the…

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  5. DMs, read 15:10 CAT

    Zaal by DM, 10:13 to 10:14 UTC: on his way to work; "if I give you $20 can you test out Stripe"; tell him when IMan is at the desk and when IMan can get on Discord today; are the 9:30, 11:30 and 4pm ET check-ins fine. IMan…

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  6. Coworking bot, 15:40 CAT

    /mine: 26 open, unchanged since the 19 Sept audit. 14 are IMan's and none is due before 3 Oct; 11 are Zaal's to reassign; #1282 is the standing PR review.

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  7. Desk site, 15:49 CAT: live again

    Seven deploy tries, three causes. Two ISP DNS drops on api.vercel.com (socket hang up, ENOTFOUND). One 100 MB upload limit: the untracked creativity corner folder is 878 MB, now in .vercelignore. Then the real one, hidden under…

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  8. Call with Zaal, 15:30 CAT

    Held on Discord, his 9:30 ET check-in. Brief was drafts/2026-09-21-call-brief.md. Zaal confirmed the checkout is done on his side. Other rulings: pending IMan's notes or the Craig recording.

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  9. Evening, 22:15 CAT: Chamber poster made

    Task 14 poster built. The 20 Sept flyer rendered as a print-ready US Letter PDF (one page, 8.5 x 11 in) and a 2700 x 3375 PNG. Same words, logos and photos: nothing rewritten while Zaal is cutting copy. Local in creativity…

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  10. Master doc, 22:40 CAT

    Paste refreshed: drafts/2026-09-21-master-doc-paste.md replaces the 17 Sept draft, which was wrong in five places (payments, acts, stage managers). Read the live doc through Drive: the Stilo evening, the Sep 1 reveal, the…

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  11. Zaal's answers, and the 22:36 CAT call

    Why they were missed: Zaal opened desk #11, "Answered 21 Sept: your six open questions", at 21:20 CAT and #10 (Unlock) at 18:02 CAT, both after the morning inbox check. The for-iman list was not re-read before the call. From now:…

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  12. Sign-out, 23:59 CAT

    idesk.thezao.com is live, from Zaal on #11: A record at Porkbun, and a Vercel project in his team that builds from main. Checked from Lusaka: HTTP 200, served from Cape Town, current. Answered him: it loads here, and idesk is the…

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Full day

On the desk now

Full table
1 Card payments live since 20 Sept. Zaal pasted both Stripe links (#256, #263) and the Buy Button (#265); /tickets and /donate check out. Only the Unlock lock is unset. Playwright run 26 Sept liveZAOstock 2 Master doc the block and the four wrong lines are written, draft "Master doc: the update from both 15 Sept calls". Access ruled 19 Sept: "he has editing". IMan checks it opens as Editing, then pastes paste todayZAOstock 3 Wristbands shortlist done, cheapest is $16 for 500. draft "Wristbands: the cheapest stock options". Zaal buys ready to send 4 Freymon.eth hello drafted, draft "Hello to Freymon.eth on Farcaster". ready to send 5 DCoop's article, the 31 Days restart drafted, draft "DCoop, 31 Days of ZAOstock, restart entry". ready, Zaal picks where it runs 6 ZAOstock video ad IMan is on the final cut, 20 Sept afternoon. Ad set to Zaal when it is done cutting nowZAOstock 7 /live and the rest of the day-of pass, #229, merged 19 Sept Telegram fallback, watch parties, the evening, /build, both run sheets and the crew board. WATCH_HREF still waits on the stream test mergedZAOstock 8 Voice shout-outs the ask and the cut schedule are written, draft "Voice shout-outs: the ask, and the schedule". Collecting from today, track to Steve 1 Oct collecting 12 Star 97.7 radio spot, 19 Sept Copy was with Zaal: draft "Star 97.7 radio pack, spot for 19 Sept". No word yet on whether it aired with ZaalZAOstock 9 Backstage pages out to every act Closed by Zaal, 21 Sept: "the acts have given enough", the outreach round is not needed. Draft stays in draft "The eight outreach messages". answeredZAOstock 10 8 of 8 acts live on 21 Sept, every bio in Photos 6 of 8: Grass Rug and Acadia Rising still have none, and the deadline was yesterday two photosZAOstock 11 Stream test, 19 to 21 Sept Zaal pins IMan when he runs it (ruled 18 Sept). No pin yet window closes tonightZAOstock 13 Facebook who has admin and payment access on the zaofestivals page and ad account, and what adding a second admin takes. Zaal's ask, 19 Sept, tracker card 9817. By hand, report on #8 before the ads run 14 Poster for the Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce Katelin Workman replied to Zaal's ZAOstock note: "If you could make up a poster that would be amazing." Surfaced by the Gmail triage, 21 Sept, from Zaal's forward to info@thezao. Made 21 Sept: the flyer as a print-ready Letter PDF and a 300 dpi PNG, same words, plus a reply for Zaal. Her ask dates from 31 Aug, no size or deadline given with IMan to check, then Zaal sendsZAOstock 16 Share Zaal's daily poidh challenge, every day for a week, on @thezaodao and the… daily from 22 SeptZAOstock 17 Facebook a ZAOstock page under the ZAO Festivals account, every organiser added as admin, IMan among them for cross-posting from X. Zaal sets it up (call, 21 Sept); replaces the admin check in task 13 Zaal firstZAOstock 15 Test the Stripe checkout end to end Zaal by DM, 21 Sept 10:13 UTC: "if I give you $20 can you test out Stripe." IMan said yes. Waits on the $20, then one real Supporter purchase on /tickets, /thanks checked, receipt and Stripe dashboard confirmed, report on #8 when the $20 landsZAOstock

Needs Zaal

Open asks
1 Two photos Grass Rug and Acadia Rising (via Sen). The other six are up. Deadline was Sun 20 Sept openZAOstock 7 A new Gemini API key, by DM Zaal's seat, 19 Sept: "Idk let's ask iman". IMan has none; the old one is dead on a public repo. Any Google account can issue one at aistudio.google.com openLink Router 13 His own boards are stale, except ZOE, whose Saturday file now carries the desk… openZaal&#39;s bots 15 A player on /live half answered 21 Sept. Clean audio comes from the BetterCallZaal account (desk #11). On the call: it embeds a YouTube or Twitch feed, which one "not sure still". IMan wires it once the feed is picked. Was: A player on /live, yes or no. The Day 263 preview links "watch the live stream" to zaostock.com/live, and that page has no player: the four ways in and the YouTube channel link only. The newsletter promises 12 to 6 Eastern, no sign-up. Yes means IMan builds an embed slot behind WATCH_HREF with a holding state until the stream URL lands; no means /live waits for the stream test and the platform ruling. Sent through ZOE 20 Sept 18:11 UTC openZAOstock

Suggestions and questions

a yes or no closes each
  1. 1
    When is the stream test? Ruled: this weekend, 19 to 21 Sept
    Was: run it at the Friday soundcheck, 2 Oct, 4 to 7 PM. The AV team, the desk, the PA and the acts are all on site anyway, and a test that passes there is a test on the real chain. Anything earlier works too, this just costs nothing extra
  2. 2
    Which ZAO account carries the clean audio channel? Ruled 21 Sept: BetterCallZaal
    Name it once, and /live carries it from then on. Until then the page describes the format without naming the account
  3. 3
    Is the after-party streamed? Ruled 21 Sept: no
    No. Keep the stream on the parklet and let the evening be in person. One phone for clips is plenty. #229 already says so on the page; it is one line to reverse if Zaal wants it streamed
  4. 4
    Watch parties: before the day, or on it? Ruled 21 Sept: before
    Before. Forward anyone who says they are hosting and they go on /live as they come in, so the list is warm on the morning of the 3rd instead of being assembled while the show runs
  5. 5
    Who runs the PA while OPEN X play? Ruled 21 Sept: OPEN X covers it; ask Ryan from OPEN X
    Somebody on the desk for those forty minutes. It has never been named anywhere, because the PA arrangement was settled on the 15 Sept call, after every plan was last written
  6. 6
    First Aid contact Ruled 21 Sept: none booked, urgent care is close by. Open now: the Fire Chief question
    Name the person, or say it is you. The Fire Chief question sits behind it and there are 15 days left
  7. 7
    The two checkout links Done 20 Sept, both live
    Was: paste the two Payment Links into #8. The Unlock lock can wait; the card door works without it
  8. 8
    Crypto on the tickets page? Ruled 21 Sept: both. Stripe crypto toggle on Zaal's side, and his new $1 Unlock collectible lock on Base (#10). Tickets may move to Unlock: open Stripe fixes are on hold
    Turn on crypto in the Stripe dashboard (Settings, Payment methods, Crypto). One toggle, and the same Buy Button takes USDC. Unlock can follow after 3 Oct

Projects

All project pages
ZAOstockOn the desk

Master doc paste, shout-outs track, video ad, backstage pages, two photos, Facebook admin check, /live player

Last touched 21 Sept
Music courseOngoing

Re-cut to DJing, loops to test, first live lesson

Last touched 13 Sept
Desk asks #4 and #5Queued

ZAOscout address, ZAO Zone answer. #6 closed 18 Sept. #9 closed 21 Sept: the Gmail triage routine runs daily at 8am CAT and writes updates/gmail-triage-*.md

Last touched 21 Sept
ZAO on ArtizenLive, unfinished

Talk with Danny (Zaal opens the group), the ZAO Artizen team site once assigned, S7 match funds on record, 7 issues from July

Last touched 21 Sept
ZABAL GamezLive, unfinished

8 issues from July, zabal-cli week 2

Last touched 14 Sept
Newsletter and researchUnfinished

Canonical repo ruled: bettercallzaal/zaoonparagraph. Move IMan's voice guide there

Last touched 19 Sept
zpoidhLive

Nothing. The last fix was merged as #107 on 4 Sept; row 9 closed 20 Sept

Last touched 20 Sept
Link RouterBlocked

Gemini key (Zaal says ask IMan; IMan has none), 7 local changes

Last touched 20 Sept
ZAO CoworkLive

Idea #215. Cowork bot list audited 19 Sept: 12 closed, 11 are Zaal's to reassign

Last touched 19 Sept
ZAO ZonePaused

Decision on #4

Last touched 14 Jul
DEVZ app and thezao.com UIPaused

Fold into Zone or 101

Last touched 1 Aug
Small buildsPaused

Zlank, ZAO Poker

Last touched 10 Jul

Live now

Working towards

  • OverdueMaster doc paste (access ruled 19 Sept). Two photos: Grass Rug, Acadia Rising
  • Today, 21 SeptCall actions on the desk (done). Gmail triage routine live, desk #9 closed. Top drone picks into the ZAO Festivals group. Video ad in final cut
  • This weekPoster for the Ellsworth Chamber (task 14). Stripe checkout test once Zaal sends $20 (task 15)
  • UnsentBackstage pages out to every ZAOstock act. Zaal five, Steve two, Sen one
  • Tonight, 21 SeptStream test window closes. Then fill WATCH_HREF on the live page
  • Fri 26 SeptPlaywright checkout run (ZAOstock #237), links are in
  • Before 3 OctZaal's DJ basics on the DDJ-SB3
  • Fri 2 OctZAOstock soundcheck, 4 to 7 PM
  • Sat 3 OctZAOstock
  • After 3 Oct"IMan Teaches Music" live, most days, 4:30pm ET
  • Wed 7 OctDanny's ZAO Artizen stream, 5pm ET. Then the Wave Station daily quest campaign
  • After 3 OctZAO Zone refocus, repo dashboard, the paused builds