Build Log
Let the Algorithm Publish Its Working
A calculator can hide its best work inside a button click. The v6 information release turned that logic into inspectable tables without creating a second, hand-maintained version of the answer.
One engine, sixteen tables
The site evaluates leave bridges for eight Australian jurisdictions across 2026 and 2027. For each block it records the dates, working days to book, leave consumed, total days off, efficiency, and the public holidays that anchor the break. The release published 297 ranked rows across those sixteen state-year combinations.
These rows are stored in data/computed-leave-bridges.json and rendered into the state pages. They are not editorial estimates. A separate Node verifier executes the production leave-optimiser.js logic and compares the output with every published row. The website therefore has two independent paths to the same result: runtime calculation and release-time verification.
Information gain without invented prose
Before this pass, the most distinctive sections of some state pages could collapse to a single recommendation. The repair was not to add generic paragraphs. It was to expose more of the site’s genuine computational value. Every state-year section now contains at least fifteen complete options, and the national 2027 rankings article compares results across jurisdictions and strategies.
Holiday guides use the same source data to show worked examples. State pages add jurisdiction-specific notes only where the record supports them, including differences such as regional observances or provisional school-calendar status. Computation, data, and prose keep different jobs.
What became standard
When a tool makes a claim, publish enough intermediate structure for a reader to inspect it and enough machine checks for a maintainer to reproduce it. Generated content is trustworthy when it exposes real information gain and stays coupled to the production algorithm.
Inspect the national rankings, a state bridge table, or the plain-language method.