Review: How CodeGrind Learning Paths Structure DSA Progression for Interview Success

[rivie13]

Approval Gate

This PR contains the generated CodeGrind blog draft, the hero image asset, and the approved social copy draft.

• Draft post: _posts/codegrind/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.md
• Review packet: .github/codegrind-review/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.md
• Social draft json: .github/codegrind-review/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.json
• Canonical URL: https://rivie13.github.io/blog/2026/03/21/codegrind-learning-path-structure/

What merge means

• Merging this PR publishes the article on rivie13.github.io.
• Merging this PR also dispatches the approved social post workflow for any enabled platforms.
• No new AI social text will be generated after merge. The merged draft copy is what gets posted.

Review checklist

• Confirm the article title, excerpt, and body read correctly.
• Confirm the hero image looks acceptable.
• Confirm the Bluesky and LinkedIn copy sound right.
• Request changes on this PR instead of merging if any public-facing text or visuals need revision.

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📋 Review Commands

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Regenerate hero image

/regen image
/regen image: darker, more abstract

Generates a new image prompt from the post content, then creates a fresh hero image via Pollinations.

Edit post frontmatter

/set post title: New Title Here
/set post excerpt: A concise new excerpt

Updates the field in the post, review JSON, and review markdown.

Find and replace in post

/set post replace: old text -> new text

Replaces all occurrences. Cannot modify immutable fields (slug, date, layout, canonical_url, image, author).

Set social copy

/set social bluesky: Full replacement text here
/set social linkedin: Full replacement text here

Bluesky: ≤ 300 chars. LinkedIn: ≤ 1,200 chars.

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Full regeneration

To regenerate the entire post (text + image + social), re-run the CodeGrind blog workflow instead.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a new CodeGrind blog post draft (plus the corresponding review packet and social copy) and introduces/updates tag pages so the post’s tags resolve to valid /tag/... pages when published.

Changes:

• Added the draft post _posts/codegrind/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.md with frontmatter, hero image reference, and article content.
• Added the hero image asset at assets/images/codegrind/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.png.
• Added review packet + social copy JSON under .github/codegrind-review/.
• Added new tag pages under tags/ for tags used by the post.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 9 out of 10 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
_posts/codegrind/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.md	New post draft + frontmatter metadata for publication.
assets/images/codegrind/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.png	New hero image asset referenced by the post.
.github/codegrind-review/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.md	Review packet containing publication metadata + social preview text.
.github/codegrind-review/2026-03-21-codegrind-learning-path-structure.json	Workflow-consumed social copy + post metadata payload.
tags/skill-development.md	New tag landing page for “Skill Development”.
tags/problem-solving.md	New tag landing page for “Problem Solving”.
tags/interview-preparation.md	New tag landing page for “Interview Preparation”.
tags/educational-design.md	New tag landing page for “Educational Design”.
tags/dsa.md	New tag landing page for “DSA”.
tags/coding-practice.md	New tag landing page for “Coding Practice”.

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[Copilot]

The frontmatter keywords line has an unmatched trailing quote, which will break YAML parsing for the post (and can fail the Jekyll build). Remove the stray quote so keywords is a plain comma-separated string, consistent with other posts.

Suggested change

	keywords: DSA learning, coding practice platform, algorithm practice, interview preparation, gamified learning, structured curriculum, coding challenges"
	keywords: DSA learning, coding practice platform, algorithm practice, interview preparation, gamified learning, structured curriculum, coding challenges

[Copilot]

This tag page duplicates an existing tag page (tags/codingpractice.md) with the same tag and permalink (/tag/Coding Practice). Having two pages for the same permalink can cause build conflicts/overwrites—please keep only one (preferably by renaming the existing file in this PR, or deleting one of them).

Suggested change

permalink: "/tag/Coding Practice"