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2026-08-24
19:16
Count clones and fetches

A clone reads and writes nothing, so it is the one kind of forge activity that leaves no trace in the DAG at all.

The sync edge classifies the protocol's cards: clone SEQNO 1 opens a new clone, later rounds do not, so a big store cloned in forty rounds still counts once. Two sinks: the vocabulary event for anything reacting, and a JetStream counter for how many, which converges across nodes instead of losing increments to a read-modify-write. check-in: dc058fa551 user: dmestas tags: clone-counts

18:08
Suite green across 29 packages; merges clean.

Four commits: the fan-out onto the vocabulary, per-subscription event selection, the settings surface, and the RFC correction that preceded them. check-in: 69fc3f06d1 user: dmestas tags: trunk

17:20
Webhook settings on the repository's own admin screen

Subscriptions were CLI-only. The settings page now lists them, takes an endpoint plus its event patterns, pauses, resumes and deletes — gated on 'a' like everything else there. Patterns are checked before saving.

The section is gated on the store being attached, not on the list being non-empty, or the first subscription could never be created. closed check-in: 1c5d758256 user: dmestas tags: hooks-vocabulary

17:16
Subscriptions select their events

A webhook took everything or nothing. It now names vocabulary patterns: '*', a bare noun for every action on it, or an exact kind. Checked at the moment it is set, because a webhook that silently delivers nothing reads as a broken forge. check-in: e9547dcc49 user: dmestas tags: hooks-vocabulary

17:13
Webhooks fan out from the vocabulary, not from the ops layer

A ticket closed by push notified nobody, because only ops queued webhooks. One consumer on quarry.evt.> turns every raised event into deliveries, so arrival path stops mattering.

Deletes kindOf: the delivery's kind was sliced off an idempotency key. check-in: f2ea5f5c1a user: dmestas tags: hooks-vocabulary

17:03
@dmestas I love the strata idea check-in: edcc983217 user: dmestas tags: trunk
16:57
Close the push gap: derived events all come from the fold

The index holds the state an op would have read, so a pushed artifact gets the same event a forge op would have raised. Ticket transitions and landing verdicts compare folded state before and after; forum, wiki and technote need only the artifact or one lookup.

Op sites stop raising derived events, so 2.1's split is now enforced rather than documented. check-in: 06942dcc5d user: dmestas tags: trunk

16:37
RFC 0006: strata — stacked landings, rendered as a chain

The forge half of zit#144. A stack is a chain of dependent landings that land bottom-up; quarry renders the chain, refuses accept above the bottom, and flags a segment whose base was rejected.

No new index and no new artifact: the edge is already implied by a landing's target, so a stack is a reading of landings the way a landing is a reading of forum posts. closed check-in: 041ca46258 user: dmestas tags: strata-rfc

16:32
RFC 0005: record what implementing the derived events taught check-in: 17317e830f user: dmestas tags: trunk
16:32
Raise the derived events from the fold

checkin.created, branch.created and tag.* come off the artifact; branch.moved comes from the computed branch after RecomputeBranches, because only a branch's first check-in carries a sym- tag.

Raising is not idempotent while folding is, so the fold asks the index which hashes are new before writing them. A rebuild raises nothing. check-in: a1b816cd96 user: dmestas tags: trunk

16:27
Add the new event-plane files the previous commit omitted check-in: f485551646 user: dmestas tags: trunk
16:27
Publish the vocabulary on quarry.evt.<repo>.<noun>.<action>

RFC 0005 picked zit.evt., which the fold consumer already claims with a trailing wildcard — every vocabulary event would have been handed to the artifact parser. Own stream, own root, tests pinning both. check-in: 3bca39d8f5 user: dmestas tags: trunk

15:57
RFC 0005: dagnats already has the triggers; correct the record

I probed HTTP and concluded dagnats had no scheduler. Wrong lens — triggers are NATS and KV native. It has cron, subject, webhook, durable HTTP, worker-contributed kinds and debounce. So quarry builds none of that: it owes well-named subjects, and the vocabulary IS the hierarchy. check-in: 3aef7f3211 user: dmestas tags: trunk

15:50
events: the vocabulary as code, and what the bus really does

RFC 0005 §1 as internal/evt, named at the eight sites that raise events instead of sliced out of a TxnID — so a ticket change that closes one is ticket.closed, not ticket. Measured the window: a gap IS detectable (first_seq - ack_floor) but the next fetch succeeds silently, so every consumer must check. dagnats has no scheduler; quarry owns the clock. check-in: f08add75f5 user: dmestas tags: trunk

15:36
RFC 0005: verified the bus, added schedules and dispatch

The stream is a one-hour window, so events split: DAG-derived ones are re-derivable after a gap, operational ones need OLTP backing. A cron run and an ad-hoc run are not events — three trigger sources, and schedules take fossil's 'a' so a repo admin owns their own. check-in: 60206e85b2 user: dmestas tags: trunk

13:11
RFC 0005: one named event stream, three consumers

Events are noun.action, subscribed by name. Fossil has no such vocabulary — its hooks are artifact-level and its alerts are eight letters — so the delivery semantics come from its warning that a distributed system cannot promise exactly-once. check-in: dc2bb819a3 user: dmestas tags: trunk

12:28
merge timing-wall into trunk check-in: 952100a76b user: dmestas tags: trunk
12:27
timing: the footer reports wall time, not a sum of concurrent calls

A diff is two zit subprocesses on purpose, run at once. Adding their durations printed more time than the whole request took — "rendered in 410.1ms (zit 706.8ms×2)", and "79.94s (zit 159.05s×2)" on a cold tcl page. A number larger than the total reads as a broken page rather than as two calls overlapping.

Record now takes the start instant instead of a duration, because a duration cannot say whether two calls overlapped, and the union of the spans is what a reader actually waited. closed check-in: 4aaf089616 user: dmestas tags: timing-wall

10:47
merge people-admin into trunk check-in: f8af01dec3 user: dmestas tags: trunk
10:47
people: an admin sees which contributors are also accounts

A contributor is a name an author's client wrote on an artifact; an account is a login on this forge. On a mirror the two barely intersect — fossil has 151 contributors and this forge has two accounts, sharing none — so the page says so, and badges the few that are both.

Read-only on purpose. A grant control here would offer to give write access to a string, and on a mirror those strings are chosen by whoever can commit upstream. The door goes to settings, where every row is a real account.

account.list is forge-wide and site-admin only, so a repo admin gets the door without the badges rather than an error. closed check-in: 8fb0a669aa user: dmestas tags: people-admin

10:25
merge repo-people into trunk check-in: 5757eeaaeb user: dmestas tags: trunk
10:25
people: a repository's contributors, inside the repository

"151 contributors" in fossil's About panel went to the fleet page: 481 names across 25 repositories, repo nav gone, search rescoped to the whole forge. people.list has taken a repo parameter all along and nothing in the UI reached it.

The per-person line differs from the fleet's on purpose. Counting repositories inside one repository always says 1, so the span of somebody's work here is the fact worth carrying instead.

Contributors(0) meant a hundred, silently, which is why the listing said "of 100" under an About panel saying 151. It means all of them now. closed check-in: 278e021086 user: dmestas tags: repo-people

09:52
merge landing mimetype with trunk check-in: cfd042dd99 user: dmestas tags: trunk
09:52
landings: say the mimetype, and keep headings to one line

zit#136 shipped --mimetype, so a remark written in the composer is stored as the Markdown it previewed as. zit#138: the title card holds the whole -m message, so the heading takes its first line. check-in: 73367a3820 user: dmestas tags: trunk

09:51
about: the notes and announcement rows join the panel's icon grammar

Every other row in the About panel is icon + label, and .about-sub indents 1.5rem to clear that icon. These two had no icon, so their excerpt and date hung indented under nothing. A wrapping title also needs baseline alignment, or its later lines slide back under the icon.

The note now says who wrote it, as the feed does. check-in: d6a6146502 user: dmestas tags: trunk

09:46
merge notes-first into trunk check-in: 116d10e5cb user: dmestas tags: trunk
09:46
about: a project's news comes before its version list

Notes sat third in the sidebar, under Tags. What a project has been doing is a better first answer to "what is this" than which versions it has cut — and with no tab, this is a main door to them, which reads poorly third. closed check-in: d1dde173e0 user: dmestas tags: notes-first

09:41
landing page: probe the tip pair instead of scanning for the record

zit#134: landing show has to walk the whole store to FIND the record before it can answer about it, and quarry already folded that record out of its own index. zit merge --probe names the two check-ins, so the walk disappears -- 0.005s against 0.18s on this forge's own store, and the gap widens with store size, not with the number of landings.

Probing the same tips the cache is keyed on also closes a race: the key was built from resolved tips while the probe re-resolved a branch name, so a push landing between the two cached an answer under a key it did not describe.

An unresolvable tip now skips the probe instead of keying on ':' -- every landing whose branch could not be resolved shared that one cache entry and could be served another landing's verdict. check-in: bb05986ad8 user: dmestas tags: trunk

02:57
notes: the notes-filtered timeline is a door, not a dead end

Without a tab, /timeline?y=e is where somebody browsing notes stands, and it offered no way to the page that reads them as a feed. The other two doors — the About panel and the docs page — are not where a reader who just filtered a timeline is looking. check-in: 16e8738cb6 user: dmestas tags: trunk

02:40
merge forum/landing separation with trunk check-in: f0f4f7c525 user: dmestas tags: trunk
02:39
forum: landings are not forum content

A landing is a forum thread — that is what a stock fossil clone reads — but it is a decision record with its own surface. Off the listing and out of the count, which must agree. An existing thread URL redirects to the record rather than 404ing a link that used to work. check-in: 302ca7fae6 user: dmestas tags: trunk

02:39
merge notes into trunk check-in: 1ff2886793 user: dmestas tags: trunk
02:38
notes: one row per technote, not one per edit

Fossil registers one timeline event per technote; quarry registered one per artifact. libfossil has 50 technote artifacts under 26 event ids, so its timeline showed a superseded title five rows above its own correction. The collapse is in the event trigger — insert, then evict every loser for the event id — which is order-independent, as the fold requires: a clone delivers artifacts in wire order.

Notes are no longer a tab. Fossil's built-in menu has none, and libfossil, which uses them as a milestone feed, overrode mainmenu to add TODOs and FIXMEs without adding one. They are reached from the About panel, the docs page and the timeline filter instead, and the listing is a feed with excerpts rather than a list of links.

Every edit stays readable, as a wiki page's revisions are.

Fixes an authoring bug found on the way: zitcli never passed --time, so an edit re-filed the note at the moment it was edited and it moved in the timeline. The filing time is now a field on both forms. closed check-in: ac80214995 user: dmestas tags: notes

02:34
spectrum: separate colliding voices by lightness, never by hue

Two names whose hues land 7 degrees apart painted one block. Near collisions are a birthday bound, not bad luck, so the bar resolves what is in the thread — stepping a colliding voice to the identicon's other lightness. The hue never moves: it is the identity. check-in: e1e9619d0d user: dmestas tags: trunk

00:06
pages must be revalidated, not guessed at

An HTML response carried no cache directive and no validator, which does not mean do not cache — it lets the browser choose a freshness lifetime. Safari chose one, and served a timeline rendered before a deploy while the server answered with another; the reader sees stale state with no way to tell.

no-cache rather than no-store: the copy is still kept and reused after revalidation, so the back button stays instant. Only reuse without asking is wrong, and every one of these pages is a view of moving state. check-in: ece3b20f3d user: dmestas tags: trunk

2026-08-23
23:43
docs list: a byline inside a link stays plain

An anchor inside an anchor is invalid — the parser closes the outer one at the inner, which tore every docs row in half. The docs list and the wiki home card are whole-card links, so their bylines go back to plain mark-and-name; the row already goes somewhere.

a.who is inline rather than inline-flex for the same family of reason: a flex box is atomic and cannot flow with the text around it. check-in: 01e7bce146 user: dmestas tags: trunk

23:34
state the page's own address, so enhancement works behind basic auth

A URL with credentials (http://user:pw@host/) leaves them on document.baseURI even though location is cleaned, and fetch() refuses any URL carrying credentials — so every enhancement failed at once: diff toggle, unread poll, diff sentinel. A server-stated <base> fixes all of them without script, since the server knows the URL from its own routing and never from userinfo.

The toggle also swallowed its own fallback: replaceState to a credential-free URL throws on such a page, and it ran before @get while __prevent had already cancelled the link — neither swap nor navigation. Cosmetics now cannot fail the click. check-in: c35d8c4b5b user: dmestas tags: trunk

23:14
a person is a link: identicon and name go to their timeline

Fossil routes every surface through one helper (hyperlink_to_user); quarry had thirty-two places rendering a name and none of them clickable. One 'who' helper now, applied to the twenty that name an author — the account button and participant stacks stay decorative.

timeline.list gains user=, paired with y=all: what someone did includes their wiki edits and ticket changes, not just check-ins. check-in: a18be6d78d user: dmestas tags: trunk

23:08
timeline: internal nodes match the leaf's painted size

The ring is stroked 2.2, so it paints to r+1.1; a 4.8 disc beside it read a fifth smaller. Internals are the ring's outer edge, filled. check-in: e1f3ed4bac user: dmestas tags: trunk

22:37
markdown: a mention reads like a byline

Mark then name, in the page's colour, orange on hover. The sigil is syntax and the mark already says this is a person; a name that is orange everywhere stops meaning clickable anywhere. check-in: dda6810776 user: dmestas tags: trunk

22:31
markdown: mentions carry the identity mark, quotes are visible

An @mention now renders the same glyph as the person's byline, through the resolver seam so markup still knows nothing about accounts. The identicon moved to internal/idn — web and api each hashed the name separately and agreed by luck. Blockquotes had no rule at all. check-in: 0ba22dea9e user: dmestas tags: trunk

22:19
landings: the forum's post card, and the tracker's list

f-post-h and f-post-b are where the padding lives; naming the wrapper alone gets a border round unpadded text. Check-ins use the same bordered list every other listing in the forge uses. check-in: 20373a1806 user: dmestas tags: trunk

22:13
landings: use the shared composer frame, collapse the diff

The composer's textarea has no border of its own — it is built for the f-reply wrapper the ticket page and forum use, and without it the tabs and text floated unframed. The diff is a details now: this page is where a decision is made, and 600 lines between the proposal and the buttons means scrolling past the change to reach them. check-in: 59d7d8fa4c user: dmestas tags: trunk

22:04
merge trunk: landings

Textually clean, but branchTipOf called Timeline with the old positional signature — ported to TimelineFilter. check-in: dae2180a89 user: dmestas tags: trunk

22:03
check-in page: tag history, branch diff, manifest view

Fossil lets an author correct a check-in comment after the fact; quarry showed the superseded C card as if it were current, on 697 fossil check-ins. The correction is now applied at read, batched in AttachCI, with the original kept beside it — the stored card is an artifact fact and stays untouched. hidden and closed surface too.

Branch diff is the branch against its fork point, which is not the landing page's base (the target's current tip). Offered only where a fork point exists.

The manifest view renders the eight cards that are not the file list and counts the other 980, linking the tree.

Also: unified/side-by-side now swaps in place via datastar, keeping the window and correcting the URL; the wiki note panel lets blocks use the full width while prose keeps its measure. check-in: ff7f5d3d69 user: dmestas tags: trunk

22:01
landings: a way to open one, and the lifecycle written down

docs/landings.md covers the whole loop and says plainly that a landing is a forum thread plus branch tags. Writing it found the gap: there was no create control at all. A mirror offers its upstream instead. check-in: c6aa693938 user: dmestas tags: trunk

21:50
landings: prove the lifecycle end to end

open, comment, reject, accept through the forge against a real store — accept merges to trunk via zit#131's bare-store path. Also checks the record still reads as an ordinary forum thread. check-in: 9a84a5d962 user: dmestas tags: trunk

21:43
landings: memoise the mergeability probe on the tip pair

The probe is a full-store scan by design and measures 2.0s here, paid on every view. Keyed on the two check-ins, so a push invalidates it by making a different key rather than by anyone clearing a cache. 1.9s cold, 50ms warm. check-in: 21d510a5bd user: dmestas tags: trunk

21:38
landings: list the branch's check-ins

A proposal is changes with reasons attached; a diff keeps the changes and throws the reasons away. zit#133's display half, from our own index. check-in: 120277efc7 user: dmestas tags: trunk

21:35
merge landing mergeability with trunk check-in: 537889b661 user: dmestas tags: trunk
21:06
check-in page: patch link, full hash + copy, tags, change stats

Stats are tallied at parse time so a windowed diff reports the whole file, and sit on the file header as well as the summary line. Tags come from checkin_tag, newest word per name winning. Copy falls back through execCommand to selection: navigator.clipboard is undefined on the plain-HTTP origins quarry is usually served from. check-in: ac056aaa1d user: dmestas tags: trunk