The legend's region sections, its Deaf row and its one-country zones, the
wall's card names, the print progress and error messages, the map's status
badge and the Population column all rendered English in every locale. None
of them was visible to check:hardcoded-english: they were single words, .js
modules, Error() arguments, library components or number formatting.
- Legend: region rows through one REGION_KEY table shared with the wall
(poster.region_*, new region_deaf); zones through zoneTitle (tier A by
country, the Deaf row by its bloc name); node ids stay English-derived.
- Wall: card labels through zoneTitle, so the Show-on-map name, alt text,
tooltip, HUD title and printed title agree with the legend and packet.
- Errors a reader sees are keyedError(key, English, params);
errorText(e, t) shows them translated, and an unkeyed error still shows
its own message. Developer detail for a failed data load goes to the
console; the badge says upgMap.mapDataFailed.
- Population: Intl compact notation in the app's locale, same precision.
- Country Posters: the unsupported card's reason is
messages.countryPosterTooMany, not the data file's English note.
- Strings only the UPG-100 map shows move to a new upgMap area, so other
bundles do not carry them (country-posters 1,490,907 bytes).
- check:hardcoded-english judges keyedError's English as a fallback
(quiet when the key resolves everywhere, a finding when it does not);
check:label-key-coverage follows REGION_KEY to legend-tree.js and covers
the legend's table and its regionFor producer. Both self-tests two-sided.
Found while classifying the remainder rather than by the gate pointing at them:
the search box's aria-label was hardcoded English — screen-reader text, the same
class as the resize-handle bug that check:i18n-keys-exist documents — along with
the legend's open/close label, the three gap-chart titles, "unnamed language",
the unchecked-link notice, and "no code", which appears at six call sites and is
now one key.
Nine keys, sixteen call sites. 102 -> 88.
These were hiding inside the 102 I had described as mostly-deliberate. The
classification was worth doing for its own sake: four of the five classes really
are deliberate, but the fifth had real defects in it, and I would not have found
them by reading the count.
Five more keys: the table's loading line, the language sheet's population and
countries line, and the two bold lead-ins that introduce the caveat prose in
resources-list. The caveat prose itself stays inside its dir="ltr" island, which
the gate already marks deliberate — only the heading that introduces it is
language.
Not touched, and not oversights: "· GRN", "· Zume" and "· Door43" are a separator
plus a publisher's name, on lines whose translatable half is ALREADY keyed. A
brand name after a middot is not a sentence.
106 -> 102.
"Showing {shown} of {total}." appears twice, for the with-resources and
without-resources lists, and is ONE key used twice. The population suffix and the
related-language line join it; "way in:" reuses the key the gap list already has
rather than authoring a second one for the same words.
Three new keys, five call sites.
Four fragments around three counts, two bold words and a bdi island — "people
groups are", "people,", "an estimated", "deaths per day." — become one message
with named slots, the same shape as the charts hero.
Verified through a real createI18n: en renders as today, ar carries the clause
order Arabic needs, zh reorders too. The counts and the quoted phrase go in as
values, so the bold and the dir="ltr" survive without a translator reproducing
markup.
115 -> 111.
Twelve more keys across resources-map: the two resource chips ("Scripture,
{medium} · {source}" and "Bible video · {source}", where the type word is
language and the source is data), the sheet headings that carry a count, the
country line, the pray count, and the loading notice.
The separators stay out of the catalogue. A "·" between a type and a source is
structure, not prose, and a translator asked to reproduce it would eventually get
it wrong in a language that does not use it — so the punctuation lives in the
message and only the words vary.
124 -> 115 findings. The ratio is back to roughly one finding per key now the
duplicated spans are gone, which is what I said would happen once the one-off
sentences began.
resources-map's gap list read as fragments around its values: "{count} people ·
{iso3}", "way in: {via}", "has {what} — no text found", and a "Showing only …"
whose bold phrase came from a four-branch conditional. Each was a sentence broken
around the data it carries, which is the shape that cannot be reordered.
Nine keys, and one of them does three jobs: the population line appears three
times in near-identical sibling spans, so it is ONE key used three times rather
than three keys — the duplication was in the template, not in the language.
The four filter descriptions are their own keys and slot into the sentence, so a
translator can move "Showing only" around the phrase rather than being handed two
halves to join in English order.
144 -> 124 findings for eleven keys. The ratio is better than the proving case
because the duplicates collapsed; it will worsen again on the one-off sentences.
charts.vue's hero read as six fragments concatenated around three counts and a
bdi island: "of", "languages have", "— the languages of", "people." Arabic does
not put those clauses in that order, so translating the fragments would have
given Arabic words in English order — grammatically broken, and worse than
leaving it English, because it looks translated and nobody re-checks it.
Now one message with named placeholders through useSentence. The counts and the
quoted phrase go in as VALUES, so the bold and the dir="ltr" survive without a
translator ever reproducing markup, and keep() hands the placeholders back to t()
intact — without it the lookup blanks them and the sentence renders with no
values at all.
Proven through a real createI18n rather than in isolation, which is the lesson
from the keep() trap: en renders as it does today, and ar and ru both LEAD with
the object and put the counts after — the reordering that fragment-by-fragment
translation cannot express. zh reorders too.
The gate moves 144 -> 142 for this one sentence. That is the honest number: six
fragments collapse into one key, but the gate counts findings, not fragments, so
the count falls more slowly than the work proceeds. ~26 fragments remain.
gospel found 12 real defects — including a search box's aria-label, which is
screen-reader text — inside 88 findings they had already described as mostly
deliberate. None were visible from the count. They classified every remaining
finding by hand and named the two shapes the gate miscounts.
A string compared with === against table data is a value, not a label.
`scope === 'Full Bible'` tests a cell of the shipped resource table; the
reader never sees that literal, and the row it selects renders through a key.
Translating it makes the comparison miss and the feature stop, while the
count falls and it looks like progress — the same inversion as a lookup-table
key, which is why gospel classed them together.
A separator followed by a brand is not a sentence. `{{ t('…') }} · GRN`
splits into a keyed half and the text node "· GRN", and only the second
reaches this scan.
The names are LISTED, not patterned. "Punctuation then a capitalised word"
would swallow "· Not found in any pool", a real caveat, and that is the class
gospel's 12 defects were hiding in. A name earns its place by being a
publisher or standard that is the same word in every language.
Each quiet case is paired in the self-test with the nearest thing that must
stay loud: a caveat after the same separator, prose that merely begins with a
brand, a real English sentence used as a table key, and an .includes()
argument. Poisoning the name list into a punctuation rule fails.
Poisoning the operator check did NOT fail, which is why there is now a
concatenation case: `greeting + 'Welcome to the prayer map'` is a
BinaryExpression too, so accepting any operator would silence a sentence
assembled for the reader. Only an equality test means "compared against
data".
Also the last finding in this owner's plugins. All seven main tabs resolve
through tabs.<id> in all eleven locales, so their English labels could never
render — a second copy of each name that could only drift. The sub-tab tables
lost theirs the same way.
Fleet 152 -> 143. This owner's plugins: 1 -> 0.
The regions list showed a poster per country and could print the poster alone.
Supplying a records provider is what makes the Prayer List, Card Deck and Prayer
Packet buttons appear at all -- PosterWall hides them when a wall cannot supply
rows, rather than failing at click time -- and this wall never supplied any.
Records come from the shared provider, not a copy of anyone's fetch. It caches
one request per language and every country in every region shares it, so opening
five regions is still one request, and the same rows feed the sheet, so the
printed map and the printed list cannot disagree about which groups are in a
country.
Page 1 is GENERATED, because there is nothing to load. No country sheet ships:
data/posters holds 28 .html and all 28 are zones, and emit-countries.mjs writes
only country-posters.json, whose `sheet` field is a paper size rather than a
filename. So the packet's default lift asked for posters/country-<iso3>.html and
404ed on all 175. country-sheet-print.js draws it instead, in the same shape as
the zone sheet next door so the two surfaces cannot draw the same sheet two
ways, and returns '' when there is no country or no rows so the caller falls
through rather than printing an empty country.
There is ONE loading path for the generator, not two: this calls
generateCountrySheet, and posterSheets resolves the served, sha384-pinned
poster-render.js itself. Nothing here fetches or imports the generator directly.
MEASURED against the development baseline, both built here: 1044 -> 1061 KB,
+17 KB. An earlier measurement of this same wiring on the pre-pinned base read
+208 KB; almost all of that was the printing subsystem that is now served rather
than bundled, so the cost fell by about 190 KB without this file changing.
createPosterGenerator does not appear in the bundle.
item-count-key replaces nothing: the noun pair still names the section, and the
count now goes through the plural-aware key.
countries-map.vue and research-map.vue share 1,756 lines across 60
contiguous blocks, and 78% of that is one concern: the wiring between a
semantic-tree legend and the map beside it. The two files already import
the same 41 library modules and the same five legend-data composables, so
the data layer was never the duplication. The glue was, and glue is where
a fix lands in one copy and not the other: the packet kind-split, the
poster attribution reading and the packet page-1 map hand-off each shipped
fixed in one twin and broken in the other.
Only the four functions that are BYTE-IDENTICAL in both files move:
clearCountryHighlight, _flatItemsToStlNodes, onLegendRowClick and
_bridgeSelection. Measured, not assumed — applyDimFilter (185 lines against
170) and switchTab (49 against 50) genuinely differ and stay where they
are. Sharing code that merely looks similar is how a refactor picks one
plugin's behaviour for both.
A composable rather than a component: the legend markup already lives in
SemanticTreeLegend and its two shells, and a component would have forced
both plugins to give up the template where their real differences live.
Nothing is injected or reached for, so a second dashboard can adopt it
without inheriting research-map's provide tree.
Both calls sit after countryOutline and pplrInstance. The declarations they
replace were hoisted and ran above those consts; a composable call is not
hoisted, and placed too early it would read undefined at the first call
rather than at import — the legend would stop highlighting with no error.
The gate asserts both the dependency list and that ordering, for every
caller.
Rebuild-and-compare on both bundles: research-map 1,237,385 -> 1,237,709
bytes, country-posters 1,550,988 -> 1,551,317, and every behaviour-bearing
token identical in both — regions-fill, regions-border, fill-opacity,
fill-outline-color, line-color, line-width, visibility,
doxa:legend-row-click, _flat_filter, iso_3166_1_alpha_3. Counted rather
than set-compared, because minified output renames freely.
104 lines out of the plugins, shared lines 1,756 -> 1,702.
Page 1 keeps the live map rather than a fetched sheet, and it was handed
across as a bare <img> in mapSvg — raw markup the renderer interpolates.
The page-1 redesign no longer draws that full page, so the map arrived
shrunk inside a layout built for a stored sheet. It reads as a styling
quirk rather than a wiring mistake, which is why it survived here after
country-posters was fixed. The URL now goes through mapImage, which places
it as the whole page.
This is the third defect of the same shape between these two files: a fix
lands in one twin and not the other, and nothing reports it. So the gate
asserts the seam for every host that rasterises a live map, rather than for
one file.
Two fixes to the check itself, both found by poisoning it rather than by
reading it. `[^)]*` cannot cross the arrow function's own parens, so
`useMapPoster(() => map.value).render(` never matched and the new section
skipped both files — it passed while testing nothing. And an older
assertion pinned the exact literal `{ mapSvg, variant }`, so moving to the
seam failed a check that was still describing the shape it replaced; it now
asserts that the variant travels, not the argument list it travelled in. A
gate that names one spelling of a call turns every refactor into a false
alarm, and a false alarm is how a real one gets waved through.
Both twins now use the seam. The render is skipped for a card deck, which
has no map page; this map's legend menu only asks for full or lightweight,
so that arm guards a future caller rather than a path taken today.
useDashboardAggregations re-exported lbl, aggregate, OTHER_KEY, otherLabel
and NEUTRAL from @map/composables/useFacetAggregation.js, so that callers
could migrate after kit landing 4c-1 moved the generic half to the library.
Five files were still importing through it. They now import from the library
directly and the re-export line is gone; what stays in this module — colorFor
and its facet branches, the religion palettes, the donut and bar builders —
is research-specific.
DashboardChartsRail keeps its three builders from here and takes the other
four symbols from the library, so the split is by what each symbol is, not
by which file is nearer.
NEUTRAL is still imported: colorFor and buildCountryRegionColors read it five
times as the "no palette for this key" colour. Kit landing 4c-1 updated the
re-export line and not the import beside it, and every read threw
ReferenceError until that was fixed — deleting a re-export is not the same as
deleting the import next to it, so the import stays and the now-unused lbl
and aggregate come out of it.
Rebuild-and-compare on dashboard-plus-grid: 821.50 kB before and after,
899,237 bytes both, and every string literal appears the same number of times
in each. The builds differ only in which short names the minifier assigned,
which is what a change of module order looks like.
(cherry picked from commit f2cdcd0b62)
A map says how it behaves on a narrow screen once, in its <profile>.meta.json:
"mobile": "desktop-only" (blocked on a phone) or "larger-screens" (opens,
under a dismissible notice). Absent means phone-ready. Until now the rule
lived only in the Research Gallery, as two hard-coded id sets, so a map
opened standalone on its own leaf page on a phone got neither the block nor
the notice.
- profile-meta.mjs knows the vocabulary; generate-tree and the dev manifest
carry the flag into each profile's manifest entry, and generate-tree into
the leaf page's BASE_CONFIG (with the map's name for the desktop-only
sentence).
- ProfileLoader mounts library/components/LargerScreenNotice.vue on a screen
under 640px: for desktop-only the profile is never mounted and a centred
message says why; for larger-screens a slim in-flow bar sits above the map
(it cannot cover the map's controls), dismissible per profile for the
session, in the element's own locale and direction. Inside the Gallery it
stays quiet: every Gallery pane now carries data-doxa-gallery.
- One text: the Gallery's two sentences moved into the library catalogue as
messages.largerScreenNotice / desktopOnlyNotice (+ noticeDismiss), all 11
locales moved as they were, and the Gallery reads them from there.
- The Gallery derives its rules from the manifest's flags. On a phone it
mounts nothing until the manifest has landed: its baked first tab (Big
Picture) would otherwise mount there before the flags say it is
desktop-only.
- dashboard-plus-grid is desktop-only and gospel-internet/board is
larger-screens, the two sets the Gallery held; nothing changes for either.
- check:mobile-gating now asserts the vocabulary, that each flagged leaf page
carries its flag, the Gallery's derivation and its closed-before-manifest
rule, that Big Picture stays desktop-only, the 11 locales, and the
notice's mounting. Its self-test plants one failure per rule.
Measured on the live list (2026-09-29): after loading, the store tested every photo by loading it, three at a time with a second between batches: 932 photos, 132 MB by their Content-Length (the 77 IMB photos alone are 115 MB), for as long as the page stayed open, whether or not anyone zoomed in. All 939 photo URLs answered 200, and the canvas already loads only the photos in view and draws its grey box for any that fail, so the test is removed. A headless run of the real store with a counting Image stub: 12 photo requests in the first 3.5 s before, 0 after.
A group with no photo URL now gets none, instead of the stock "no image" photo, which answers 404. Today every group has a URL (a regional photo when it has none of its own), so nothing changes on screen.
The source picker only showed with two sources or more, and there has been one since the WordPress API and the CSV were dropped. It goes, with the two loaders, the CSV parser, their CSS, and the card component nothing imports. The bundle is 9.6 kB smaller (2.5 kB gzip).
rega at 390 px: the Mobilize list, a bottom sheet over 54% of the map, had no way to put it down. A handle at the top of the sheet (both views, one shared choice) lowers it to a 56 px bar and raises it again, and the map frames the selection above whichever height it has.
country-map filtered its fetched groups to the countries it was given, and fell
through to the UNFILTERED list when it was given none. So a host that omits the
attribute, misspells it, or passes a value that is neither an array nor a
comma-string got the entire global list drawn on an element whose whole contract
is one country.
Measured against the shipped country data: 2,106 groups across 175 countries,
where a typical country has 1 and the largest has 855. And the child's fill
expression matches nothing on an empty list, so those pins arrive with no
country outline at all -- a wall of worldwide dots that looks like data rather
than like the misconfiguration it is.
Empty now draws nothing, and says why in the console, addressed to whoever
embedded the element: this is a missing attribute rather than a data state, so
it does not belong in a translated sentence on the page. It sits beside the
fetch error that was already logged there.
Verified in the built bundle, not the source: the minified output carries
`E.size||console.error(...)` and the empty branch compiles to [].
Probe in _qa-cycle reads the filter expression out of the component and
exercises it. Mutation-tested: restoring the fall-through makes it report 3 pins
where it wants 0, and it passes only with the fix.
country-map reused the regions dashboard's load-failure sentence. That wording
is right on both regions surfaces and wrong here: this element has no region, it
has one or more countries, and what it fetches is people groups. A reader whose
country map failed to load was told the region data failed.
It was wrong in all eleven locales, not just English -- ar reads "بيانات
المناطق", ru "данные по регионам", de "Regionsdaten", all of them regions.
The people-groups sentence was already in the catalogue and already translated
in all eleven, so this adds no string and moves no parity: it is the same
sentence the grid and the other consumers already show when this fetch fails.
Verified in the built bundle rather than the source, because the minifier
rewrites the call: the component's own render now calls the people-groups key,
and the remaining "Region data" occurrences are catalogue entries, which ship
for every key regardless of which one is called. check:i18n-keys-exist passes,
so the key resolves. check:hardcoded-english is unchanged at 257 with
country-map contributing 0, measured before and after.
Generating map sheets in the browser inlined Natural Earth's capitals and cities (170 KB) into every
bundle that can print one: single-file builds inline lazy imports, so the whole page paid for a table
only a reader who prints needs. The tree now serves it beside the boundaries (boundaries/
ne-places.json, one line in generate-tree's copy list; public domain, no credit to carry) and
posterSheets fetches it at the first print, with the boundaries. No asset base, or a failed fetch,
draws no city dots — the generator's own rule for absent data. The Node generator reads the same file
from its source.
Measured: my-upg-100-list 482 -> 432 KB gzipped, country-posters 547 -> 496 KB. check:poster-browser-
equiv still passes byte-identical through makeZoneSheet and generateCountrySheet, which now fetch the
served table — so the fetch path draws the same dots Node does. gates:pre 73/73.
Ten agents read today's branch (five finders, one skeptic per area who had to confirm each finding
against the current code); 21 distinct defects survived. All are fixed here.
Generator and its proof
- generateCountrySheet fed only ADM0, so a country beside India or China printed without their
provinces (Nepal: 251 KB against Node's 921 KB). It loads the full boundary set, as the driver does.
- check:poster-browser-equiv rebuilt its own feed, so it could not see that. It now calls what the
browser calls (makeZoneSheet, generateCountrySheet — Nepal), deletes the target before the Node run,
runs Node with a clean environment, and FAILS (not "not measured") when the Node generator breaks.
Proven two-sided: it fails with the ADM1 fix reverted.
- The facts table's country list sorted in the reader's browser locale; pinned to en-US (Node's
default, so Node's output still hashes to the baseline).
- zone-sheet-print.js imports the library relatively, so bun, Node and the bundler resolve it alike.
Print seams and wiring
- The wall's Poster Map button used its own stored-file fetch and never the generated sheet, so every
country poster 404'd on the published tree; it now prints the generated sheet first.
- Country Posters wall: card stocks passed (its Card Deck could never print), iso3-names passed (zh/ar
page 1 kept English names), the stored fallback reads previews/ (where the tree serves them).
- Card-stock labels render at render time, so a locale change relabels them.
- The records provider caches by language AND list, and does not keep a failed membership load.
- The UPG-100 legend's Card Deck returns quietly on a parent row instead of an evaluator error; the
selection fetch uses PRINT_FIELDS.
Packet
- The centered-set caption counts what is DRAWN (a ring too full to separate reports its remainder).
- Each ring's number lane is sized to its own radius (ring 1 put a dot under its badge).
- Per-box line keeps a decimal below 10 people ("≈ 0" for small lists); worksheet rows name the country;
the localized poster kicker is fitted against the poster's real 19px, not 22.
Plurals and gates
- regions.countryCount / regionCount were authored in English zero|one|other order in de, es, fr, hi, it
and pt, so CLDR picked "27 Land", "1 países". Rewritten in each locale's own order; check:plural-forms
now fails a string in English order (proven on the old German string).
- check:optional-t-equivalence (gates:post) crashed on the new plural fallback's imports; it injects the
real cldrChoiceIndex and asserts the plural path (ru 21/3/5, en 0/1/7).
- check:packets-all and check-packet-render counted people as cards only, so every lightweight packet
read as "a packet of nobody"; worksheet rows count, and the browser gate checks the grid's top fill
(the renamed .lc-frame) instead of the retired scatter. check:packet-variants now reads the grid itself
— 5,200 boxes, Jesus' 1,716 from the top, the % shading from the top — proven: it fails on a renderer
that shades the last boxes.
gates:pre 68/68, check:optional-t-equivalence PASS, both bundles build.
The Driver's print standard: every export is generated when it is asked for, and only previews are
stored. The zone and country map sheets — the poster, and the map-only sheet on a packet's page 1 —
existed only if library/scripts/posters/generate.mjs (Node) had written them ahead of time; no country
had a print-resolution sheet at all.
- library/packet/poster-render.js is generate.mjs's drawing layer (2,645 lines) as a pure factory,
createPosterGenerator({ env, SERIES_DEF, ISO3_NAME, adm0, adm1Ind, adm1Chn, nePlaces, series }). Moved
VERBATIM (template literals carry their whitespace into the output), `process.env` read through a
local shadow; its inputs are its free variables, found by a scope-aware parse, not a grep (a grep
missed adm0, and the proof caught it). generate.mjs is now its Node driver.
- PROVEN BYTE-IDENTICAL: all 118 sheets of a pinned offline matrix — the 28 zones in 3x4, 3x3, letter
and packet, and a country sample at both sheet sizes — hash the same before and after.
- data/zone-sheet.js is which group pins in which zone (first claim wins), now ONE function both the
Node driver and the browser call, so a group cannot pin in one zone on paper and another on screen.
- library/packet/posterSheets.js feeds the factory in the browser: the served full-resolution
boundaries, the shared series and places tables, a generator per call (caching by format pinned the
first caller's data on every later sheet). generateCountrySheet does a country end to end;
data/zone-sheet-print.js a UPG-100 zone. ISO3_NAME moves to library/data (territory-counts re-exports).
- usePosterPrints gains opts.sheet: the poster print is the generated letter sheet as a VECTOR page,
and the packet's page 1 the generated map-only sheet (item.mapId honoured); stored images remain the
fallback when generation fails. PosterWall forwards it; the Country Posters wall, the UPG-100 wall and
the UPG-100 map pass it. The UPG-100 wall and map drop their own record fetches for the shared
provider, and the map's legend and selection HUD offer the card deck (production).
- check:poster-browser-equiv: the browser feed's sheet is byte-identical to the Node generator's for an
India zone (packet) and a country — proven two-sided (it fails when the feed drops the city dots).
check:selection-kinds reads the handler's branches instead of a fixed poster/packet pair, anchored on
`if (` (proven: it fails with the cards branch deleted). library/packet/README.md: the standard.
gates:pre 68/68; both bundles build.
check:optional-t-equivalence evaluates useOptionalT.js on its own, with its
imports stripped and tStatic and useI18n handed in. The composable now also
imports getRuntimeLocale and cldrChoiceIndex, so every section died with a
ReferenceError. The gate now hands in a bare host's getRuntimeLocale and the
shipped cldrChoiceIndex, lifted from library/i18n/index.js's own text; its
import control accepts tStatic among several names, but still only from
'@map/i18n/index.js' (a catalogue import of the module's own still fails).
check:frozen-labels caught the research filters' new search placeholder:
tStatic inside a computed that reads no locale never re-runs, so the
placeholder stayed in the boot language. It now reads and passes
locale.value, like the search chip in the same file.
- The legend's packet submenu emits 'packet:full' | 'packet:lightweight', and the country map compared
against a bare 'packet', so its legend Packet export did nothing at all. It splits the kind first, as
the UPG-100 map's handler does (the research map carries the same three lines; reported to its owner).
- The selection's rows come from the print standard's records provider by slug (full print fields,
the reader's language); the rows mapped by hand put the country's NAME in country_code and carried no
language, so every profile description ran short. They remain as the fallback. The live map's raster
goes in through the mapImage seam, so page 1 is the map full page.
- The legend gains an OPT-IN Card Deck export (exportCards; provide('legendExportCards') for the mobile
sheet), so a map that does not handle it never shows a dead item.
- library/print/experimentalExports.js is the ONE switch for rolling the standard's exports out on
maps that are not production print surfaces (production: the UPG 100 list, the Regions dashboard's
country posters, the Country Posters wall). This map's card deck sits behind it; off — per page, per
visit (?exports=off), per site or everywhere — restores the menu it had before.
- The records provider returns coordinates (a generated map's pins), exposes the unselected set
(recordsFor.all) and sorts in the reader's collation.
Eighteen keys across eleven locales for text that was written in English in
the components: the rail and filter toggles, the selection count, the CSV
export toast, the drawer's prayer and information links, the dashboard
title, the map's failure message, and the four search placeholders that name
the tiers of whichever tab is open.
The export toast is interpolated rather than concatenated. Its counts keep
going through fmt(), which groups digits the way each locale does, and only
the words around them come from the catalogue — the order of "rows",
"fields" and the outcome is not the same in every language, so a sentence
built by joining fragments cannot be translated at all. It uses the shared
fillParams, which leaves a placeholder visible when a value is missing
instead of rendering the word "null".
The map's failure message no longer names the token and the container: that
is for the console line, which stays English for whoever is debugging. What
the reader sees says what to do.
Three more shapes the scan could not see, each of them correct code: tStatic
called directly rather than through a wrapper; `config || t(key) || English`,
where the translator is not the immediate left operand because || is
left-associative; and the licence credits, media queries and product name
that must not be translated at all.
Own leaks 91 -> 1, the last being a tab label behind a key that resolves in
all eleven locales. Fleet 249 -> 159. check:i18n-parity,
never-translated, treeshake and stopped-scope all pass.
The legend emits 'packet:full' or 'packet:lightweight' — it widened its
existing event rather than adding a second one — and this router still
tested the whole string for 'packet'. Neither submenu item matched any
branch, so the Packet export opened nothing, logged nothing, and looked
like a menu item nobody had wired. Found by upg100, who had already hit
the same thing in its own copy.
The kind is split before it is compared, the way upg-100-list does it, and
a bare 'packet' still means the full packet so an older emitter keeps
working. The variant then has to survive the call as well: openPacket
ignored it and printPacket defaults to full, so lightweight would have
printed the full packet even once the menu fired.
The gate asserts the seam rather than one file — it reads the kinds the
legend actually emits and requires every consumer to split before
comparing, because this bug cannot be seen by reading either side alone.
It currently fails on country-posters/countries-map.vue, which has the
identical dead menu and is not mine to change.
Two fixes to the check itself while writing it: a fixed-size window read
only part of a long router and reported correct code as broken, so the
function's extent is found by brace depth; and a trailing \b after a
quoted literal never matches, which made the assertion fire on every
consumer including the working ones.
The legend gives each tab a small "i" button explaining what that tier
means — what an Affinity Block is, how a people group differs from a people
group in a country. SemanticTreeLegend already read that text from
legend.tabInfo.<id> behind a te() guard, and not one of the ten keys the
research map needs had ever been written. The tab chips were translated in
all eleven locales and the explanations beside them were not, so the reader
least able to guess what "PGIC" means was the one reader who got it in
English.
The keys are written for all eleven locales, following the terminology each
catalogue already uses for these same tiers — People Group as Volksgruppe,
Peuple, Pueblo, 民族, Народ, जनसमूह — with WAGF and UPG left untransliterated
as the corpus leaves them. The reader-facing text drops the source field
names and row counts that the English carried; those are notes for whoever
maintains the tables, so they stay in the source as a comment.
With the keys in place the English in the tab tables can never render, and
a second copy of a string drifts from the catalogue without anyone noticing,
so it is removed. `info: true` stays because the legend gates the "i" button
on that field being set — dropping it would have removed the affordance
instead of translating it — and tabInfo now treats only a string as a
fallback, so the flag cannot reach the popover as the word "true".
Verified every changed tab renders a real label and a real explanation in
all eleven locales. check:i18n-parity, check:i18n-never-translated and
check:i18n-treeshake pass; hardcoded-english 205 -> 190.
The country wall passed no records, so each of its 175 cards offered only the poster and said the
prayer list was "coming soon", while the people groups were one request away. library/lists/
peopleGroupRecords.js is the records half of the print standard: one people-groups fetch per language
(normalised the way the prints read rows, list membership applied), then a SELECTOR picks the set — a
country by ISO3, explicit slugs, any field, or a host's own selector language. A selector nobody
understands selects nothing rather than every group on earth, and a failed fetch is not cached.
The country wall uses it by ISO3, so every country now prints the list, the deck (all five stocks) and
the full or lightweight packet. The packet's page 1 is, for now, the country's stored poster when it is
really there; the in-browser map generator will replace that.
check:people-group-records asserts the selection two-sided with an injected fetch; registered in
gates:pre.
Rudder was measured slowing after about 1,400 words while a Tauri build
ran. The word count is incidental — it is a proxy for how long the build had
been going. The speech model runs on the CPU (backend/rudder-engine starts it
with --device cpu), and a Rust build saturates every core, so at equal priority
it starves the one process whose latency a person can hear.
Three changes, and the direction of the first is forced rather than chosen:
1. internal/desktop-build.mjs nices the whole build tree to 10, through the one
run() helper every step goes through, so cargo, rustc and the linker inherit
it. We nice the COMPETITOR because an unprivileged process cannot raise its
own priority on Linux — a negative nice needs CAP_SYS_NICE — so "promote the
ASR" would fail with EPERM. If nice(1) is missing the build still runs and
says so, because a silent fallback would look exactly like the fix working.
2. cargo is capped at cores-1. nice decides who wins a CONTESTED core; it does
not stop the build taking all of them, and a fully subscribed machine still
adds scheduling latency to the audio path. An explicit CARGO_BUILD_JOBS is
honoured rather than overridden.
3. yieldCPU reports its error instead of discarding it. It was
`_ = syscall.Setpriority(...)`, which cannot fail visibly — a call that
silently does nothing is indistinguishable from one that worked, and this one
guards something audible.
Also, one real O(n) in the widget, found while checking studio's answer that the
collapsed pill already shows the last words: sendActivity split the ENTIRE draft
on every activity tick to take five words. Measured at 3,000 words: 1.61ms per
tick against 0.051ms for a bounded tail, 31x, with byte-identical output.
Verify the priority work with `ps -o ni=` on the running cargo processes, never
by any of these calls returning.
The list kept its own page-1 map lift (packetMapSvg + packetLabelFor) beside the one in
usePosterPrints, and the two drifted: the list's relabelled country names, the wall's did not, which
is the zh finding rega made in the app. With the composable now taking iso3Names, the list passes it
and deletes its copy, so the list, the wall and any other map print page 1 through one path.
The selection packet borrowed one list's sheet when it held exactly one list. That is now a general
seam: item.mapId names the sheet when it is not the item's own id, and mapId: null says the item has
none, so a multi-zone selection fetches nothing and page 1 says the map is missing. Measured two-sided
through the real printPacket. gates:pre 66/66.
The i18n + RTL audit of Country Posters (the hardcoded-English gate only reads production plugins,
so it had never read this one; its scanner was run on the plugin directly and every hit triaged for
reachability, since the country map mounts one tab):
- 9 strings a reader sees were English in every locale: the search placeholder, the packet title's
"— 50 of N", the map-failed message, the wall's heading, tag, intro, soon message and item nouns,
and the view switcher's legend and label. All read from the catalogue now, reusing the existing
keys where they exist (tabs.selectView/views, the UPG-100 wall's tag and emphasis).
- The wall's section headings are the WAGF region labels in the data, English everywhere; they now
resolve through the Regions dashboard's own WAGF table, which gains its two missing regions.
- The three WAGF tier tooltips had no keys in any locale (legend.tabInfo.region/block/country).
- 0 physical-CSS findings.
PosterWall counted "N countries" as a number plus a 2-form noun pair and defaulted the plural to
noun + "s" — wrong for Russian and Arabic whatever strings it was given. It takes itemCountKey, a
plural catalogue key rendered with the count; useOptionalT forwards a plural count to vue-i18n (the
CLDR map picks ru 4 forms, ar 6, zh 1), and a host without i18n picks the English form by
vue-i18n's own rule. The people-group counts on the section heads and placeholder cards use
wall.peopleGroupCount the same way ("people groups" was hardcoded English on the cards).
The UPG-100 wall: its Americas and Europe section headings had no key (single words, invisible to
the gate), and it counts its lists with wall.listCount.
Checked: plural-forms, i18n-parity, keys-exist, never-translated, and i18n-treeshake against both
bundles built (26 bundles carry every area they ask for); gates:pre 66/66.
The list's own print relabelled the map sheet (mapLabels.js); the wall's print, through
usePosterPrints, lifted the sheet with no relabeller, so a zh packet printed from the wall kept
INDIA, CHINA … on page 1. The generator's ISO3 -> name table is plugin data the library cannot
import, so the host now supplies it: PosterWall iso3Names -> usePosterPrints iso3Names, and the
UPG-100 wall passes its territory-counts table lazily. A host that passes nothing prints exactly as
before. Measured two-sided through the real printPacket on a tracked sheet: without the table the
page carries CHINA and no 中国; with it, 中国 and no CHINA.
rega at 390 px: wrapped, the view tabs took five rows (160 px of 844), and the shared 'Tap a coloured dot, someone still needs prayer' hint sat on top of the view's own bottom bar and attribution. On a phone the views are one select in one row (the tabs stay on a wide screen); pinHint is off, as for UPG Neighbor and the Wall.
Measured on the live list: 77 photos are 1024 x 1024 (4 MB each decoded) and drawImage downscaled each of them on every frame it was visible. A loaded photo is now kept at 320 px on its long side (createImageBitmap with resize, or one drawImage into a small canvas where that is missing), and the original is released; the print frame loads the originals itself. Below text zoom no card is measured (the photo box uses an estimate), and at text zoom at most 150 new cards are measured per frame. The overlay's sheets use content-visibility:auto. The host hook reports the counts (photos loaded, thumbnails, fallbacks, cards measured) for the performance probes.
The brief's three sizes. At 3 x 4 and 2 x 3 ft a verse under each of ~2,100 cards would print at 3 pt and 2 pt, so those sizes use the strip layout: cards of name and photo, and one blessing verse per row on a strip under it at 9 pt (33 and 34 verses). 5 x 8 ft keeps a verse under every card at 6 pt. The footer's height now comes from its text (the whole passages), with the journey never below 6 pt; the screen shows the strips as it shows the rest of the poster.
The priestly blessing is Numbers 6:22-27 in full: the Lord's word to Moses and Aaron in small type, the three blessing lines large, and the promise that closes it. Each station of the journey quotes the passage the brief lists: Genesis 12:1-4, Genesis 15:5-6, Galatians 3:13-14, 1 Peter 2:4-8 (the cornerstone, at the centre), Galatians 3:5-7 and 28-29, 1 Peter 2:9-10, Luke 19:9-10. The chart's New Testament verses name their passages (Matthew 21:21, from 21:18-22; Matthew 8:26, from 8:23-27). All WEB, verbatim, checked by script against ebible.org.
sr's census found item-noun="country", item-noun-plural="countries" and
unit="UPG" passed as literals. All three reach the DOM: PosterWall renders the
noun pair at its section count (n === 1 ? itemNoun : plural) and the unit beside
each row's count, so in Arabic the chrome translated and these stayed English.
The noun pair now goes through t(). Country and Countries were already in the
catalogue in all eleven locales -- Land/Länder, الدولة/الدول, Страна/Страны --
so this adds no strings, and PosterWall keeps making its own singular/plural
choice with the caller supplying both forms, which is what its props are for.
unit stays "UPG" on purpose. It is DX-life's term of art, and their own Arabic
common.json carries the literal "UPG" rather than translating it; matching them
is the point of the port. It is the one entry the census still reports here.
A fourth literal the census did not flag went with them: the prayer-list
"Coming soon" sentence, which reaches exportState.message and so renders too.
That one had no key, so it lands as an English-source key -- the convention
useRegionsI18n exists to serve -- translated in all eleven locales, 77 keys
each, parity green.
MEASURED, this plugin's entries in check:hardcoded-english: 3 before, 1 after.
check:no-new-driver-references went red on development with my landing: the
comment I wrote when removing the SVG download named who set the rule. The gate's
own advice is the fix — the engineering reason is what a reader needs, and it
stands without attribution.
Comment-only: 0 non-comment lines changed, and the minifier strips comments, so
the shipped bundle is byte-unaffected and needs no rebuild. Verified rather than
assumed: the phrase greps 0 in the built artefact either way.
Found by regions, who proved it on bare ced1eb73c before their own cherry-pick
touched anything, and who held their push rather than landing on a red.
regions' fleet audit found the one poster path in the tree that downloaded a
file. The Driver's rule is that a poster action opens the print dialog and never
downloads, and there is no case for an exception here: printPoster builds the
same poster from the same makePoster(), so the download was a second route to one
artefact rather than a capability only it could offer. A reader who needs a file
prints to PDF — the system's own dialog, not a silent write.
The button, the function and the now-unreferenced tree.posterSvg key in all
eleven locales are gone. The comment left in its place names check:poster-action-
print, which regions is extending with this file as its poison case, so a
download added here again fails a gate rather than shipping quietly.
The two CSV export paths in GiGrid and GiResources are deliberately untouched: a
table has no print equivalent, the export is a documented feature that writes a
header line of sources with the data, and the rule — and that gate's own
description — is about POSTER buttons. Flagged to the shepherd rather than left
for the extended gate to trip over.
A4.3. GiMap and GiTree already default their legends closed and read the host's
`legend: 'open'` knob; the centered set hardcoded ref(true), so it was the one
view whose decoder sat over the drawing from the first frame — on the chart where
seeing the target matters most. That was an inconsistency, not a considered
difference.
Changing the ref alone would have shipped NOTHING: applyWidth ran on mount and
set legendOpen back to `!m.matches`, so at any desktop width it reopened
immediately. The bug was in the width rule, not the initial value. Width now only
ever CLOSES the legend — a wide window is not a request to cover the chart, it is
just the absence of the reason to force it shut — and a choice the reader has
made still wins outright.
Checked as a state machine over the cases that matter: desktop with no host knob
closed, desktop with legend:'open' open, phone closed, phone→desktop stays
closed, and a reader who opens it keeps it through a rotation and a resize.
One hundred and forty-three comments across the research dashboard, the research
map, Big Picture and the two composites attributed a decision to a person: by
name, by quotation, by date, or as "per Driver". Shipped code should carry the
reason a thing is the way it is, not who said so. A reader of the giveaway repo
has no way to ask that person anything, and the name tells them nothing the
reason does not.
So a quotation becomes the requirement it was quoting, a ruling becomes the
ruling, "the Driver reported" becomes what was reported, and a decision still
waiting on an answer now reads as provisional and pending a product decision
rather than as somebody's pending word. Where a comment already stated the
reason -- most of them did -- only the attribution went.
Two things were removed rather than rewritten. A personal medical fact appeared
twice ("the Driver is photosensitive"), once in a comment and once in a gate's
console output where it printed on every run; the motion-safety requirement
stands on its own and now reads that readers may be photosensitive. Internal card
ids that named nobody stayed, since they point at this repo's own history.
The bulk went in three batched passes of meaning-preserving substitutions, and
that is where the risk was: a blind replacement produces sentences that are
grammatically wrong but still look plausible in a diff. Re-reading every changed
line found thirteen -- "the the report describes", "including the two that were
had just complained about", "because was asked for WHITE rings" -- each repaired
individually. The count of remaining references caught the tail three separate
times, when a file type, an escaped apostrophe, and a scripts/ path each fell
outside a filter I had assumed was total.
Comment bodies and two console strings only. All twenty-one files parse, both
meta.json files are still valid JSON, and no declaration moved.
Five comments in the shipped research dashboard cited _qa-cycle documents by
path: three RESEARCH write-ups, one REFERENCE standard, and one scratch probe.
Those files do not ship. A reader of the built plugin gets a path they cannot
open, and the reasoning it was standing in for is lost to them.
In every case the durable finding was already written out directly above the
citation, which was only ever a trailing "and here is where that came from". So
each now ends on the finding itself and the path is gone: that a comfort-tuned
palette anaesthetises the response the map exists to provoke; that a casing which
scales with zoom is what stops dense low-zoom rings swallowing their own fill;
that the real fix for pin contrast is the lightness-conditional stroke, which
holds whichever ramp is selected; and that the palette values come from the live
site rather than being re-invented, which is what stops an embedded dashboard
reading cooler than the page hosting it.
The scratch probe became the METHOD rather than a filename, since a probe is
worth citing only for what it does: contrast every ramp stop against all three
pin targets under both CVD simulations, and re-solve composited over the real
basemap. Compositing over pure white is what made two handed-over candidates
look like they passed, and that is the part a future reader needs.
Comment-only: no declaration moved, and all three files still parse.
The rule: never quote or cite the Driver in shipped code. Every one of these
comments had a real engineering reason attached, and the reason is what a future
reader needs — so the reason stays and the attribution goes.
COUNT IS THE CHECK: 31 before, 0 after, across 8 files.
I was pointed at 18 in region-dashboards. That was one file. Sweeping my own area
as instructed found 31 in eight files: region-dashboards 7, RegionCountryMap 13,
regions-list 5, UupgsList 2, plus regions-mfe.vue, regions-mfe.meta.json,
index.js and check-regions-uses-library.mjs with one each. Reporting the wider
number rather than the one I was given.
HOW EACH WAS REWRITTEN, by kind:
· a REPORTED SYMPTOM keeps the symptom, loses the reporter — "the pins were
reported too small at rest", "the list page was reported slow, with the
posters suspected", "instead of flying to the region, which is exactly the
reported symptom".
· a REQUIREMENT becomes a requirement — the region key is "a map that shows the
regions and countries AND lets a reader select one" rather than a quotation;
the missing fullscreen and zoom controls are "part of the cloned surface"
rather than someone's complaint about a full clone.
· an OPEN DECISION becomes provisional. Two of these: the stat-card divergence
from RegionDetail.vue:176 is now "carried back as a product question", and
the numeral-grouping parity reads "PROVISIONAL, pending a product decision"
instead of waiting on a named person's ruling.
· a CARD ID goes with the name: BUILD-REGIONS-MAP-RESTORE-EDGE-SCROLL-STRIPS
and the round-2 test numbering are internal handles that mean nothing to a
reader of a published bundle.
· a SCOPE RULING is stated as scope: "improve the map's LOOK and add the
all-regions map, which must be intuitive" — the constraint survives, the
quotation does not.
Nothing lost that a reader needs: every measurement, pixel value, file:line
citation into DX-life's source and engine-specific caveat is untouched. What went
is a name, four dates and two internal ids.
SAME PROOF AS THE CITATION COMMIT, because a prose sweep across eight files is
exactly where a stray edit hides:
· the only non-comment changes are an HTML comment in a template and the "note"
field of regions-mfe.meta.json — and `note` is read by nothing: generate-tree
never touches it, and the string does not appear in the built manifest.
· meta.json still parses.
· rebuilding regions-dashboard and country-map reproduces the committed bytes
EXACTLY, and a full `bun run tree` leaves public/ clean — so NO bundle needs
rebuilding for this.
· gates:pre 66/66.
gospel's citation rule, applied to mine: a comment citing a PROBE or MEASUREMENT
(_probe-*, _chk-*) states the FINDING and drops the path. A reader cannot open
_qa-cycle from a published bundle, and the path outlives the file — so the number
has to be in the comment or it is lost.
FOUR CITATIONS, all of the probe kind, so all get the same treatment. Every one
already carried its finding; only the dead path is removed:
RegionCountryMap:36 three engineFor implementations "decide identically in
every engine combination" — now says WHICH combinations
were checked (mapbox-only, maplibre-only, both globals
present) rather than naming the script that checked them.
RegionCountryMap:462 the globe-fill measurement keeps its numbers (zoom 1.229
-> 390.61px = 50.1% of the frame, half the frame dead
space) and loses the probe path.
RegionCountryMap:552 the fit-at-construction comparison keeps both readings
(bounds-at-construction zoom 3.210 / mercator at t=0 vs
fitBounds zoom 2.777 / globe) and the engine version.
region-dashboards:522 "4 of 10 app properties OK", with the five failures that
were one missing thing already spelled out below it.
I did NOT only fix the one line I was pointed at: I swept my own plugin files,
the six library files I own or moved this session, and the seven gates I wrote.
Four citations total, all in these two files; the gates and the other library
files carry none.
COMMENTS ONLY, and proved rather than asserted: the diff filtered to non-comment
lines is empty; check:ported-globals-identical still reports 4/4 byte-identical
emitted CSS; and rebuilding regions-dashboard and country-map reproduces the
committed bytes exactly — comments are stripped at build, so NO bundle needs
rebuilding for this and public/ stays untouched. gates:pre 66/66.
scripts/strip-code.mjs:5 is deliberately left alone: per the same ruling it
explains why a committed gate cannot import from the scratch area, which is a
fact about the boundary rather than a citation across it.
Seven comments in the library and the app pointed at probes, checks, a report or research notes that
live outside the repository, where a reader of the code cannot follow them. Each now states what was
found and drops the path: the engine-predicate equivalence, the chooser's globe-fill measurement, the
fit-at-construction probe, the worldview clause, the web-boundaries sizes (1,866 KB to 383 KB, every
feature and part kept). The QA corner and the packet generator lose a dead pointer. The app's nav
comment states the three sections and the third dashboard directly instead of quoting a transcript.
rega at 390 px: the tab strip ran past the right edge with no scroll cue, and the flat legend's collapse button measured 19×15 with an English title in every locale. On a phone the tabs wrap (the brand steps aside); the button is 24 px and named by the shared aria keys.
rega measured the header at 390 px: one row, so the title wrapped to five lines and the poster-size select (x=393) and the Bless/Social toggle (x=553) ran off the edge, unreachable. On a phone the title takes one short line and the controls wrap onto rows.
