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 Who this is for:
-  Danilo is a developer and blogger running a bilingual (IT/EN) Hugo site at danix.xyz. He maintains a PyQt6 desktop app called my-publisher that centralizes his blog publishing workflow, and is continuing to extend it post-v1.4.
+  Danilo is a developer and blogger running a bilingual (IT/EN) Hugo site at danix.xyz. He maintains a PyQt6 desktop app called my-publisher that centralizes his blog publishing workflow, and is continuing to extend it post-v1.5.
 
 What we covered:
-  npm build integration was planned and implemented this session. The blog repo uses Tailwind CSS and npm run build compiles main.css to main.min.css. A new NpmWorker (workers/npm_worker.py) was created following the existing HugoWorker pattern: QObject + QProcess, emits log_line(str) and finished(bool). HugoPanel (ui/hugo_panel.py) was updated to sequence npm run build before starting hugo server when Avvia is clicked, and a new "Build CSS" button was added to allow manual Tailwind rebuilds while the server is already running. Button states are managed across four states: idle, building, running, rebuilding. All 34 tests pass. Changes were committed, pushed to master, and tagged v1.5.
+  Transart backend availability check was planned and implemented this session. Before starting a translation, the app now checks if the OLLAMA_HOST ollama backend is reachable. A new OllamaCheckWorker (workers/ollama_check_worker.py) was created as a QThread subclass that does a
+  blocking urllib.request.urlopen call to {host}/api/tags with a 4-second timeout. TranslationView.start_translation() was refactored to run this check first, storing the pending article, then either showing a QMessageBox.warning() popup (if unreachable) or calling the new
+  _start_worker() method (if reachable). A double-click guard prevents starting a second check while one is already running. The ollama_host field was added to the Config dataclass with a resolved_ollama_host() helper that falls back to the OLLAMA_HOST env var and then to http://localhost:11434. MainWindow passes ollama_host=self.config.ollama_host to TranslationView. Seven new tests were added. All 41 tests pass. Changes were committed, pushed to master, and tagged v1.6.
 
 What was confirmed:
-  NpmWorker follows the exact same QObject+QProcess pattern as HugoWorker. Sequential order was chosen: build completes before hugo starts. If build fails before hugo was ever started, the UI returns to idle state and Avvia is re-enabled. The blog repo package.json lives at the same path as config.blog_repo, so no new config fields were needed. Closing the app while hugo is running triggers stop_server() via closeEvent in main_window.py, which calls terminate() + waitForFinished(3000) on the QProcess. v1.5 is live on origin/master.
+  OllamaCheckWorker uses QThread (not QObject+QProcess) because it does a single blocking HTTP call, matching the GitWorker pattern. The /api/tags endpoint is the standard ollama health check. ollama_host defaults to empty string in Config, which resolves to the OLLAMA_HOST env var at call time (not at app start), so late-set env vars are picked up. Old config files without ollama_host load cleanly. The _retry() button re-runs start_translation() which re-checks the backend. All 41 tests pass. v1.6 is live on origin/master.
 
 Still in progress:
   Nothing was left open in this session.
 
 Next steps:
-  Remaining TODO items include: (1) transart backend availability check using OLLAMA_HOST — validate before translation starts or disable the translate button with a popup; (2) font size spinner in SetupDialog — add QSpinBox, save via Config.save(), re-apply with app.setFont(); (3) article editor language flag in the sidebar; (4) manage static pages in addition to articles.
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+  Remaining TODO items include: (1) font size spinner in SetupDialog — add QSpinBox, save via Config.save(), re-apply with app.setFont(); (2) article editor language flag in the sidebar — add a visible flag/indicator so the user knows the language of the article being edited, useful
+  for empty drafts; (3) manage static pages in addition to articles.
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