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+%{
+  title: "Scheduled Publishing & Author Dashboard",
+  author: "Willem van den Ende",
+  tags: ~w(release features),
+  description: "Future-dated posts stay hidden until their publish date, authors get a dashboard to track drafts and scheduled content, and registration is locked down to invited emails only."
+}
+---
+
+Posts in Firehose are markdown files with a date in the filename. Until now, every published post was immediately visible. That changes today: posts with a future date are now hidden from public views until their date arrives.
+
+This was built in a single session using an agentic dev team -- 12 issues tracked in beads, executed in three parallel phases, producing 232 tests across the blogex library and Phoenix app.
+
+## What changed
+
+### Future-dated posts are hidden from public views
+
+The blog index, tag pages, RSS feeds, and Atom feeds now filter out posts where the date is after today. If you schedule a post for next Tuesday, readers won't see it until then.
+
+![Blog index showing only past-dated posts](/images/scheduled-publishing/scheduled-blog-index.png)
+
+But here's the key design choice: **direct URL access still works**. If you know the slug, you can view the post. This lets authors share preview links with reviewers before the publish date.
+
+![Future post accessible by direct URL](/images/scheduled-publishing/scheduled-direct-access.png)
+
+### Status banners for authors
+
+When you're logged in, draft and scheduled posts show a status banner so you always know what state a post is in. Unauthenticated visitors see nothing -- no clue the post isn't "live" yet.
+
+**Scheduled posts** show a blue banner with the target date:
+
+![Scheduled banner showing target publish date](/images/scheduled-publishing/scheduled-banner-future.png)
+
+**Draft posts** (unpublished) show an amber banner:
+
+![Draft banner on unpublished post](/images/scheduled-publishing/scheduled-banner-draft.png)
+
+### Editor dashboard
+
+A new LiveView at `/editor/dashboard` gives authors a unified view of all non-live content across every blog. Two tabs: drafts and scheduled posts. Scheduled posts show a "days until live" countdown.
+
+![Dashboard drafts tab](/images/scheduled-publishing/scheduled-dashboard.png)
+
+![Dashboard scheduled tab with countdown](/images/scheduled-publishing/scheduled-dashboard-scheduled.png)
+
+The dashboard requires authentication -- unauthenticated users are redirected to the login page.
+
+### Authentication and registration gating
+
+We added `mix phx.gen.auth` for session-based authentication with magic links and password login. Login and registration pages are accessible by direct URL only -- they're intentionally not linked from the public navigation.
+
+Registration is gated to a single email via the `ALLOWED_REGISTRATION_EMAIL` environment variable. Anyone else gets a polite rejection:
+
+![Registration rejected for non-matching email](/images/scheduled-publishing/scheduled-registration-rejected.png)
+
+When the environment variable isn't set, registration is disabled entirely. A demo user (`demo@example.com`) is seeded in dev for local testing.
+
+## How it was built
+
+The feature was planned as an [Allium specification](https://github.com/your-org/allium) with surfaces, rules, and domain entities, then broken into 12 beads (issues) across three phases:
+
+1. **Scheduled posts** (5 beads): date filtering in blogex, unfiltered direct access, feed/router verification
+2. **Authentication** (3 beads): phx.gen.auth scaffolding, registration gating, dev seed
+3. **Dashboard** (4 beads): post visibility helpers, unfiltered registry access, LiveView dashboard, status banners
+
+All 12 beads were executed with parallel agentic workers in isolated git worktrees, then merged and integrated on main. The demo caught one bug (auth check using `current_user` instead of `current_scope`) which was fixed before this post.
+
+## By the numbers
+
+- **232 tests** passing (89 blogex + 143 Phoenix app)
+- **12 beads** planned, executed, and closed
+- **3 phases** run with parallel workers
+- **0 compiler warnings**
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