Eric asked whether the shelf work was documented — the guide and Help
described the launch version, not the three audit rounds and design
passes since. Both now cover the physical wall rendering, the
suggestion doctrine (♥ reunification, remaining-room honesty, tightest
fit, honest empties), descriptions at both furniture levels,
row-clamped reordering, grid continuation on existing units, chained
containment, and the fill-bar epistemics. The tour gains a Shelves
entry with a screenshot of the drawn Kallax, and four documents stop
claiming the app has seven pages — Shelves made it eight.
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Five blind reviewers over the day-old shelves layer, ~28 verified
findings — plus Eric's screenshot catching the biggest one live: the
generic .card is flex (built for review's photo-beside-ballot layout),
so unit headers shared a row with their grids and unshelved rows
flowed horizontally off the page. Shelf cards are now .card.stack.
The model fixes. Containment chains resolve recursively with a cycle
guard — minis inside an insert inside a big box live where the big box
does, instead of vanishing from every list; the stored-in endpoint
walks the whole chain when refusing cycles, and clears the newly
contained game's own shelf spot (one box must never consume capacity
in two openings). Contained games are listed residents but occupy no
shelf space: only physical boxes are stacked and fit-checked — the web
report now agrees with the dims report about the same opening. A
location pointing at a vanished opening (hand-edited or reverted
store) SURFACES as unshelved with a "shelf gone" chip in the app and
counts as homeless in the CLI, instead of hiding the game from every
list while the page declares everything has a home.
Honest edges. Opening dimensions are all-or-none everywhere (a
half-sized opening silently became limitless; the CLI report crashed
formatting it); a second grid on a unit continues the row letters so
labels stay unique and label-addressed CSV imports keep working, and
row letters survive past Z; CSV re-imports preserve hand-entered
notes; the ambiguity reject names the fix that actually works;
corrupt furniture/locations stores speak a 500 instead of a raw
traceback; the dims help text stops saying Kallax; DIM_AXES gets one
home in models.py instead of three drifting copies; the new stores
join CLAUDE.md's commit registry.
The page behaves. Custom-dims fields hide unless the custom preset is
chosen (typed values were silently discarded); the sheet is a real
dialog (role, aria-modal, Escape, focus return, one layer at a time);
backdrop close requires press AND release on the backdrop (a text-
selection drag out of the search box no longer dismisses); refresh
goes through changeGate and stops wiping the search mid-interaction;
the prompt() chain is an inline per-unit form with client-side
all-or-none validation; unit-create only toasts success after the
openings actually land, recovers from its own half-failures, and
guards against double-submit (a click retried against the re-rendering
DOM built a second grid — caught live in a Playwright run); warnings
speak (aria-labels on ⚠ and overfull in the fill bar's label);
unmeasured boxes are visible in cells and sheet rows; the library's
unshelved filter matches the Shelves page's definition; reorder
buttons have names; the detail locform wraps at phone width.
Eight new regression tests from the seats' sketches; 380 total.
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Eric's spec, all nine points. Two committed local-only stores follow
the local_games.json pattern — furniture.json (units of openings with
interior dims; a dimensionless opening is a virtual spot like a travel
case) and locations.json (game key -> opening + note). Shelf layouts
are nobody's data but the owner's; nothing touches upload.
The Shelves page builds furniture without hand-editing JSON — the
acceptance bar (two double-wides above three rows of four cubes, two
bookcases, a travel case) is a TEST, driven entirely through the
endpoints the UI calls. Presets for Kallax/Billy/custom/virtual,
grid creation with A1-style labels, openings editable/deletable/
reorderable. Units render as grids: zone, count, fill bar (stacked
thinnest-axis vs interior height), ⚠ on overfull or any resident that
can't fit. Openings open as a modal — a bottom sheet at phone widths,
search-first with thumb-sized targets for the moving-day loop.
Unshelved games list alongside with one-tap suggestions (only openings
they verifiably fit, with room).
Containment composes: a game stored inside another box inherits its
container's location, rides along in the opening's resident list
(marked), and refuses direct assignment naming its container. The
detail page's where-it-lives card gains the picker (openings grouped
by unit, each labeled fits / doesn't fit / can't verify) plus virtual
notes ("lent to Sarah, June"); the Library list shows a location line,
filters by unit or unshelved, and search matches location text and
zones.
bggpipe dims drops its hardcoded Kallax for the user's actual
furniture: per-opening capacity, overfull and misfit warnings,
unshelved count. bggpipe shelve --import loads a name,opening CSV
(ids or labels), rejecting — never guessing — unknown names, ambiguous
copies, unknown/ambiguous openings, misfits, and contained games.
Ten new tests incl. the acceptance flow, inheritance, CSV rejects,
and a phone-sheet smoke; 372 total.
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Eric's brief, implemented to the letter. BGG keeps physical dimensions
on VERSIONS, not games, so enrich runs a second cached pass over
thing?versions=1 (same batching, token, rate limit, and cache as every
call). A game with a chosen version takes that exact version's numbers
(source "version", mirrored onto its version dict); a versionless game
gets numbers only when every printing with data agrees within 0.5" per
axis (source "unanimous", keeping the MAX per axis — the planning
question is "will it fit"); disagreement stores nulls as "conflicting"
— never a guess — and BGG's 0 parses as "never entered", not a real
dimension. rpgitems and local games are "absent". Read-only: upload
untouched.
The new offline `bggpipe dims` reports coverage by source, the ten
biggest footprints, and a Kallax fit check (13.2" square opening,
15.4" deep; a box fits if SOME orientation puts two axes through the
opening within the depth) — naming every misfit and every game whose
dimensions can't be verified, because can't-verify ≠ fits. Trusted
numbers surface on the Library detail page as a "box" row.
First real run: 54 version-exact, 16 unanimous, 39 conflicting, 27
absent; three genuine misfits (Bugs in the Kitchen's 17" box, History
of the World and Risk LotR both over the 15.4" depth).
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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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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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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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