RuView: Major UI Overhaul and First Cognitum Cog Release

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Good morning, it's May 20th, 2026. This is RuView - your daily developer briefing.

Yesterday saw significant activity with 20 merged pull requests and 23 additional commits.

The headline change comes from natiixnt, who merged a comprehensive UI overhaul consolidating five separate interface improvements into one release. The update adds keyboard shortcuts, performance monitoring, a toast notification system, dark mode support, and full PWA capabilities including offline functionality. The interface now supports mobile devices with hamburger navigation and includes accessibility features meeting WCAG standards.

ruvnet shipped the first Cognitum cog from this repository - a pose estimation module now available for production deployment. The cog supports both ARM and x86_64 architectures with signed binaries hosted on Google Cloud Storage. Initial benchmarks show 8.4 millisecond cold-start times on Raspberry Pi 5 and 5.4 milliseconds on x86_64 systems.

The team also integrated live edge module registry access, surfacing Cognitum's catalog of 105 available cogs across 11 categories through a new API endpoint. This replaces the previous static documentation approach.

therahul-yo completed a critical audit fixing seven additional sites where NaN values could crash the sensing server - a follow-up to earlier panic prevention work.

Infrastructure improvements include multi-architecture Docker builds for ARM64 support and enhanced ESP32 provisioning that prevents accidentally wiping existing WiFi credentials.

Additional commits include GitHub Pages deployment for three.js demos, traffic tracking automation, and documentation updates reflecting the new capabilities.

What's next: Hailo HEF cross-compilation remains pending for specialized hardware support, and mDNS discovery features are planned for simplified device provisioning.

That's your RuView briefing for May 20th. Back to you.