Five blind reviewers over the day-old export stage; ~30 findings
verified, the big ones sharing one root — a static-site generator
makes promises a pipeline stage doesn't, and the first cut kept none
of them.
URL stability was empirically false two ways: adding an edition whose
key sorted first STOLE the base slug (every colliding URL reshuffled),
and removing the base holder renumbered survivors over the stale
pages' corpses — wrong content at live URLs, not even 404s. And
nothing ever deleted anything: removed games stayed published forever.
One mechanism fixes all of it — a manifest (.bggpipe-export.json) in
the output directory records which slugs the export owns and which
source URL produced each cover. Slugs persist across runs (a published
URL never moves and can never be stolen), stale pages are removed
(only ever manifest-claimed ones — user files are not ours to touch),
replaced box art re-fetches when its URL changes, and "art" is a
reserved name so a game called Art can't move into the asset dir.
Trust-the-network fixes: a 200 response must LOOK like an image (magic
bytes + size) before it's cached, else a CDN interstitial became a
permanent "cover" that re-runs skipped forever; downloads go through
fsio.atomic_write_bytes instead of a hand-rolled fixed-tmp-name dance
(the exact hazard fsio's own docstring warns about); a missing
hand-added cover counts as a failure instead of silently shipping
coverless; the badge file is sniffed too; CDN pacing raised to 1s and
written into the spec as an adjudicated carve-out rather than a code
comment's private opinion.
Ship-shape: pages write atomically with the index LAST (a killed run
can't publish links to pages that don't exist); the CLI exits nonzero
on failures so `export && rsync` can't publish an incomplete site;
footer/fine-print contrast now clears WCAG AA on the sky background;
meta description, og:title/og:image and a favicon stop bare unfurls;
the BGG link moved out of the h1; the noart tile is aria-hidden; the
search box gained a no-matches message; numeric fields from enrich
render instead of crashing the join; years and ids are escaped; the
players/playtime formatters are aligned with their JS twins and both
sides carry keep-in-sync constraint comments; export moved after
enrich in the CLI listing.
Twelve export tests now, including the previously-vacuous atomicity
test rebuilt to actually interrupt a write. One honest loose end: one
full cover re-fetch occurred during rollout that the identical naming
code can't explain; the manifest's URL records make any recurrence
diagnosable. 352 tests.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
Eric wanted the library on his blog; the spec always called games.json
"the seed for a future web frontend." The new export stage renders it
as self-contained static pages — an index with search, one page per
game with facts, chips, the owner's edition and the description — that
drop into any static host (Hugo's static/ folder included). No server,
no build step, no external requests from the published pages.
Public pages carry obligations a localhost app doesn't. Cover art is
downloaded once from BGG's CDN instead of hotlinked (0.3s between
fetches — a guest, not a crawler; part-file writes so a failure never
leaves a truncated image; re-runs skip what exists, so the export is
idempotent and resumable like every stage). The footer shows a
Powered-by-BGG badge per BGG's public-app policy — text by default,
upgraded to the official logo when the owner saves it from their
registered-application page as data/powered-by-bgg.png — plus the
trademark attribution. And one privacy rule, tested: shelf photos are
never exported; they picture the inside of the owner's home. Covers
and hand-added local art only, per Eric's explicit choice.
Slugs are deterministic and collision-stable (two editions of one game
get -2 suffixes in sorted-key order) so re-exports keep every URL.
Descriptions un-double-encode BGG's entities. First real run: 136
pages, 254 covers, 64MB, live on the blog's static directory.
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Three of four reviewer nits. The real gap: the Gitea instance takes no
public registrations, so announcement readers had no way to report
anything — the README now offers the author's email and says plainly
why there's no issue tracker yet. The Titles screenshot still showed
the day-three catalog ("123 extracted titles") — replaced with the
clean run's capture (150 reads, shaky-read badges, the add-a-game
panel) and honest alt text. And the Beta classifier gets a comment
recording that it's deliberate alongside the README's "battle-tested":
tested for one person on one platform is exactly what Beta means.
The fourth item (release notes on the v1.0.0 tag) is a Gitea web-UI
task — notes drafted separately for pasting.
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Eric's clean-room run produced screenshots of states the gallery
never had: Review showing LIVE ballots (Agricola vs Revised Edition,
with per-candidate ranks, owner counts and view-on-BGG links, and the
search BGG/RPGGeek buttons), the editions pass in full flight (five
English Catan printings to choose from — the version-selector shot
Eric asked for days ago), the Queue with real pending adds and a
pending version update, a dry run's would-add output (now
illustrating the guide's Uploading-safely section), and extract
streaming per-photo counts (now illustrating the guide's web-app
section). The old Review and Queue images showed stub-era done/empty
states with captions about waiting on tokens — retired.
Also linked, at Eric's suggestion: the pipeline's actual output is
public at boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/ewagoner — the README
status line and tour intro now point at it, because "here's the
collection it built" beats any amount of claimed battle-testing.
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Floating in the root under its planning-era name, the spec read like
leftover scaffolding. It isn't — it's the maintained design contract
(what must stay true, and why) that CLAUDE.md designates as
read-before-changing-semantics. Now docs/spec.md, with a header
saying exactly that and pointing usage questions at the guide; both
pointers updated.
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Eric's clean run put a price on the pipeline's only paid step:
65 shelf photos, 136 games, under a dollar on the default model. The
README's vision requirement and the guide's config section both now
say so, plus the shape of the cost — one-time, since per-photo reads
are cached and re-runs are free — and that the BGG side costs nothing.
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Eric has seen the criticism land on other BGG apps: why does this
thing want my password? The README now answers it where the
requirement appears: BGG has no write API, so uploading means signing
into the real website in a visible browser on the user's own machine
— that login is the password's entire job. And the reassurance that
matters: no server, no telemetry, no analytics, nothing collected;
credentials go to boardgamegeek.com and nowhere else, the only other
contact is the user's own chosen vision provider (photos only, and a
local Ollama keeps even those home). The guide's credentials section
links back and notes the saved browser session stays local too.
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Eric's read on the first-visitor experience: 190 lines of pitch,
manual, gallery, and contributor doc is intimidating when the visitor
only needs the first 40. Split three ways:
README.md is now the front door — what it is, why it exists (told in
first person now, since it IS a personal itch scratched), how the six
stages work, requirements, quick start, one hero screenshot, and the
development/citizenship/license notes. Sixty percent shorter.
docs/tour.md carries the full gallery: all seven pages, the game
detail view, and the phone set, captions intact.
docs/guide.md is the complete user's guide: credentials and config,
the stages and their flags, phone pairing, photo technique, curation
stores, RPG handling, upload safety (including the collection-export
lag), the no-token-yet path, and the keep-data-out-of-git rationale.
Every relative link and README→guide anchor machine-verified to
resolve.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
Eric flagged the detail pages as worth showing. Britannia's page joins
BGG's stats with the pipeline's own knowledge — the owned edition and
the shelf photo provenance — which is the pitch in one image.
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The README still warned "not yet battle-tested / browser flows await
their first real run" — they ran, against a live account: 62 adds and
36 version updates landed, every flow verified. Status blurb, stage
table, spec's update-mode paragraph (now describing the verified
collection-cell route instead of asking for manual verification), and
the CLAUDE.md token/fixture notes all now describe the present.
Screenshots 01 and 06 retaken: the Pipeline card shows a completed
run's real numbers instead of stub-lock banners, and the Library shows
136 games as art cards instead of the empty state.
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The card read "1 version updates" while upload said "skipping 1 already
done". Both were right. Recon on the live site shows the update DID
apply — the version cell reads "English first edition Year: 2012" and
its radio is checked — but BGG's XML collection export still reports
that collid with no version, even on a forced refresh. diff reads the
API, so it re-queued finished work; the log correctly refused it.
Nothing to fix in the flow: the pipeline card now counts PENDING jobs
(queue rows minus what the log completed) for both to_add and
to_update, reports outstanding failures rather than every failure ever
logged, and when everything queued is already applied it says so and
names the cause. Documented under "BGG's collection export lags the
site" so the next person doesn't chase it as a bug.
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The last unverified flow failed on its guess — the collection row has no
link named "own"; the edit affordances are icon anchors with no text. The
site offers something far better, now verified: the row's VERSION CELL
carries its own collid in an onclick, and the inline editor it opens is a
radio list whose values ARE version ids.
So an update addresses the copy by collid and the edition by version id —
no name matching, no pagination, no dialog, and structurally incapable of
creating a duplicate entry (it sets one field on one collid). Clicking
the radio fires CE_SaveData itself; there is no Save button, and the save
has landed when the cell stops reading "Editing". A version id the editor
doesn't offer aborts with the entry untouched.
The class docstring's UNVERIFIED list is now empty but for the
second-copy add, which --verify already reports as a copy-count
shortfall.
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Sleeping Gods and Gloomhaven "vanished on the second pass" because the
second pass began wherever the first ended: closing and reopening the
version sub-view does NOT reset it to page 1 (Angular keeps the scope),
so the rescan started mid-list and never revisited the earlier pages
holding the row. Verified against the live picker.
The second pass now clicks the visible numbered "1" anchor first — and
so does the initial scan, since paging state can outlive anything. The
reopen is gone entirely. Docs record both this and the has_text
whitespace trap.
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Munchkin Big Box and Tang Garden hung 30s each on a "First Page" anchor
that exists but is invisible: BGG renders every paging control twice,
and the First/Prev pair lives only in the mobile set
(<li class="visible-xs-inline">). A desktop viewport can never click it.
Paging now selects the first VISIBLE match, and returning to page 1
closes and reopens the sub-view (which always opens on page 1) instead
of reaching for a control that isn't there. A test proves no hidden
control is ever clicked — the fake picker raises if one is.
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Five games uploaded; two landed version-less. Neither was the picker's
fault: paging is an AngularJS <ul class="pagination"> of anchors, not
buttons named "next", so the old guess found no control and quit after
page one — and BGG's API version names carry printing qualifiers the
picker omits ("English edition 2018-2" vs "(English edition) (2018)").
_select_version now scans the WHOLE list (verified selectors: rows are
<li>s with a thumbnail; a[title="Next Page"] advances; the parent <li>
disables at the end), collects every candidate, then decides: one exact
match wins; failing that, one match after stripping a trailing year
qualifier wins and says so; several matches are refused outright rather
than guessed, and the reason reaches upload_log.csv. Both call sites
carry the reason through.
docs/bgg-upload-flow.md records what the live site actually does —
including that every login-gate selector the doc called "verified" was
wrong, while the "unverified" dialog structure was right.
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Queue from to_add/to_update minus upload_log.csv (append-per-attempt,
so runs resume); per-game failure isolation with 2-4s pacing;
--dry-run/--verify/--retry-failed/--limit; stub-fixture marker blocks
real runs, dry-run warns. Headed browser by default: live recon showed
Cloudflare Turnstile hard-blocks headless, and BGG never reaches
networkidle. Login selectors verified anonymously; version-picker
pagination and the collection-row update flow remain unverified until
real data exists. Client collection fetches gain a refresh passthrough
so --verify sees the live collection, not cache.
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