The Plencner Labs Post wireframes
Wireframe. Every headline, blurb, score and post title here is placeholder copy. The real page fills from edition.json at 6 AM and 5 PM Eastern.

The Plencner Labs Post. All the news that fits Phil.

Masthead art: img/masthead-morning.svg, with the press disc as the left ear and the Price Free box as the right. On phones it's cropped to the title and motto.
Vol. I, No. 37 Morning Edition, Tuesday, November 10, 2026 Last night: Ravens 27, Bengals 20
Team results move from the ears into the right end of the dateline: last night's finals in the morning, tonight's games in the evening. It links to the Scoreboard. Weather (Open-Meteo, Baltimore) leads the section index row. Morning: today's high and conditions. Evening: tonight's low and tomorrow. On phones it's the first item in the sideways-scrolling section strip.

Washington Post

Voters Return to the Ballot in Three States as Turnout Tops Forecasts

Early tallies point to close races; officials expect final counts by the weekend

Polling places opened before dawn across three states on Tuesday, and election officials said lines were longer than they had planned for in several counties. The early numbers suggest turnout above the level forecast last month, with mail ballots still arriving through the end of the week…

By a staff writer, 2 hrs ago

Lead: the newest story from a lead: true source (WaPo). It gets a drop cap and a deck line if the feed provides a subtitle. The blurb is the feed summary cut to about 40 words.
Inside Today: the top item from each later section, with a "page" number that is really an anchor link.

World & NationPage 2

Each section: stories flow in 3 columns (2 on tablet, 1 on phone). The first story is a size up. Sources are interleaved so one site can't fill the section.

TechnologyPage 3

HN items show no blurb; points and a comments link stand in for one. Substack posts may be up to 7 days old.

MusicPage 4

SportsPage 5

Letters & OpinionPage 6

Letters from an American

November 9, 2026

Heather Cox Richardson's nightly letter on the day's news and its history…

Substack, 9 hrs ago

Hand-picked Substacks live in sources.yaml. Post titles here are placeholders.

Arts & GamesPage 6

The Puzzle PagePage 7

Headline Jumble

Unscramble four words from today's paper. Circled letters spell the answer to the riddle.

TOLLAB“Voters Return to the ______ in Three States”
BROHAR“Storm Closes Baltimore ______ for Second Day”
DRANUT“…a thawing stretch of Arctic ______”
MITSUM“Leaders Meet at Pacific ______”

Riddle: Sold by the side at every shop in the Classifieds.

Built at ingest from 4 words (5–7 letters) in today's headlines. Clue = the headline with the word blanked. Riddle answers come from a small word bank.

Liner Notes Cryptogram

Each letter stands for another. One is given.

Quote comes from config/quotes.yaml, which Phil fills with favorite lines. The cipher is seeded by the date, so everyone gets the same one.

Puzzles Elsewhere

Answers to Monday evening's puzzles. Sudoku: the solved grid prints here in small type, 9 rows of 9 digits.
Links only, from config/puzzles.yaml. The answers box prints the previous edition's solutions upside down, the old-paper way. The Sudoku runs in the evening.

Classified AdvertisementsPage 8, Records & Music

New & used vinyl, CDs and pre-orders.

New arrivals

Also: Used vinyl, New CDs

Soul, jazz, funk, Brazilian and beyond. Chicago.

New arrivals

New stock posted on Instagram.

@cyclebreakers_records_tapes

New arrivals posted on Instagram.

@celebratedsummerrecords
Featured shop (double border, 2 columns) rotates each edition. Logo slots show where Phil's saved logos go; shops without a logo get a typeset wordmark, like the two Instagram shops here. Logos print in grayscale to match the ink.
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