00:10 local: first block

00:10 local: first block

• Status at 00:10 local shows only today's derelict as missing. It normally goes out around 06:00 local, so let the schedule run it rather than posting to Bluesky at midnight. Check again after 06:00 and run it by hand if it is missing.
• Take one phone-shot of the itch store page: one request, no loop, because of yesterday's 429. See whether the task-5 description is live.
• Then draft the 27th's /press/ blocks (weekly r/battlemaps, #spaceshiptember quote) and the Monday r/FoundryVTT post as ready text, not yet on /press/.

Draft for the 27th: #spaceshiptember post (boss's call, goes on /press/ with the weekly pack)

Post as a new post, or as a quote of the weekly-zip post once it is up. 287 characters:

an AI agent built the generator and wrote this post, i just hit send. still doing a spaceship a day: derelict deck plans, each with a note on what killed the crew. this week's five are in one free zip, CC0: https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ #spaceshiptember

Why: the 20th's tag post got our only reposts (2) but carried no link. #spaceshiptember ends on the 30th, so the 27th is the last one. Only one post, never automatic (LEARNED, the 20th: #noai crowd).

Next

• After 06:00 local: confirm today's daily went out (status), and that its ship name comes from the new 74-name list and its page carries the five derelict links.
• The 26th: brief-png / export-png counts vs generates; the Owlbear card; events vs itch views.

Next, after the reload fix

• The same code path has a smaller cousin. A returning visitor with a saved plan who taps "Generate a derelict" on a landing page gets it replaced with no question (the in-editor Generate asks first). Option: keep the old autosave in a second slot and show a toast, "Your previous plan is kept. Bring it back", for one visit. Only worth doing if the 26th's numbers show returning visitors. For now RUM has no returning-visitor signal, so hold it.
• After 06:00 local: the daily check as planned.

00:45 block: where does the path to $12 break?

• clicks.sh since the 17th: which /go/buy/* sources get clicks, set against what the pages show. Fix the weakest source, or log that the numbers are too thin.

02:15 local: overnight read, then the daily

• Since noon on the 24th: 6 page loads (5 GB desktop, 1 US), 2 of them on /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ and 1 on /obr. The Owlbear page already puts the extension first with the manifest and the screenshot. Nothing to change on 6 loads.
• PR #174: still only the reviewer's comment from 13:36 UTC on the 24th. The reply is the boss's to post.
• No remark on the zoo page for the 25th.
• Next, after 06:10 local: npm run status. Confirm today's derelict went out, that its name comes from the 74-name list, and that the day page carries the five derelict links. If it is missing, run daily-derelict.sh by hand.

Next: after the gallery change

• After 06:10 local: the daily check (status, the name list, the five links on the day page).
• The 27th: run weekly-pack. Take the gallery list it prints, pick the lead map by eye (a ship, not the biggest station, since the flair is Vehicle/Ship), and put the title, gallery links and first comment on /press/ as one block.

Next: after the tag read

• 06:10 local: the daily check, as above.
• If the boss says yes to #travellerrpg: change the tail in daily-text.mjs, starting with tomorrow's post. Don't re-post today's.

Next: after the /press/ reorder

• 06:10 local: the daily check.
• At each check, read PR #174's comments through the public API. If the boss has replied, drop task 2 from /press/.

Next: after the daily

• Tomorrow's daily is the first one under the name rule. At the 06:10 check, confirm its name isn't in the used set, and look in the run output for "name used lately".
• The 26th, as planned: brief-png and export-png against generates, the Owlbear card, events and clicks against itch views.

Next: after the Nuketown ask

• If the boss sends it: check the compendium page weekly for our link, then look for nuketown.com in the referers.
• Next block: look for other lists like it, still-maintained pages that invite submissions and rank for "sci-fi deck plans" or "free sci-fi battlemaps". Only ones whose own text asks for suggestions.

Next: after the list search

• Lists are done for now: Nuketown is the one worth an ask, and it's on /press/.
• Later today, when the demo has had a day of traffic: the 26th's reads, done a day early only if there's enough data.

09:10: the 26th's reads, a day early

• events.sh and visits.sh since 2026-09-24T12:00:00Z: generate-derelict against brief-png and export-png; any Owlbear traffic.
• clicks.sh against itch's own view count for the same window. Report only what itch backs up.
• Nothing is deployed before the 06:10 check unless a read turns up a broken thing.

Next: after the early reads

• The 26th's reads are done. On the 26th, only re-read events if a new source shows up in the referers.
• If the free PNG still has 0 exports across ten or more distinct real visitors, then look at where the button sits after Generate. Not before.

09:30: why the daily post gets 0-1 likes

• A read-only Bluesky search of #battlemap to compare: how many posts the tag carries, the median likes, and what the top posts have in common. Then set our posts against them.
• If there's a cheap change inside the daily's own format (not a new kind of post), make it and measure it for a week.

Next: after the gallery change

• The 26th, 06:10 check: confirm the post has card plus decks (status only checks for "an embed"; open the post URL's record and count the images).
• On 3 Oct: likes on the seven gallery posts against the 0-1 baseline.

10:20: the boss's answers

• Search Console is done and we're mostly indexed: move it to the answered pile on /press/.
• Put the open to-dos in the order given in chat: 1 itch, 2 PR #174, 3 Lost Atlas, 4 Owlbear Discord, 5 Nuketown.
• Hashtags are mine to choose. Swap #ttrpgcommunity for #travellerrpg on the daily. Still no #spaceshiptember: it's an artists' #noai challenge, so tagging an automated post there would be rude, whoever permits it.

10:40: a picture of our scene inside Foundry

• r/FoundryVTT wants Commercial Assets posts to show the content inside Foundry, and nobody here has a licence. Try drawing one scene on the public v14 demo's canvas, as a player, in memory only, with our PNG served to my own browser. Nothing is saved to their world.
• If it works: the image goes on /press/ as task 6 (the Monday post, with the draft from the 24th) and on /foundry/ as proof.

Next: after the Foundry picture

• The 26th, 06:10: the daily check, the gallery post's image count, PR #174.
• The 27th: the weekly pack and the r/battlemaps block on /press/ as task 7, dated for the 27th.
• A vision shot (a token with fog) would be a stronger picture for /foundry/. Try it only if a player-owned in-memory token draws without saving.

12:10: a vision shot in the Foundry demo

• Status at 12:07: all 23 clear.
• Try to draw the same scene with one in-memory token that has sight, so the picture shows Foundry's own vision and fog stopping at our walls. That's the claim the module makes. Local only, as before. If it takes more than one block, keep the lit shot.

Next: after the vision shot

• The 26th, 06:10: the daily check, the gallery post's image count and #travellerrpg, PR #174.
• The 27th: the weekly pack, then the r/battlemaps block on /press/ as task 7.

13:00: put the Foundry proof where Foundry searchers land

• /foundry-dd2vtt/ is our page for "import dd2vtt into Foundry", and it has no picture of the result. Add the vision shot under step 4, captioned honestly about where the scene came from. Check that the importer it names is v14-verified.

Next: after the image fix

• The 26th, 06:10: the daily check (smoke now also checks image shape, so a daily page with a bad image fails loudly), the gallery post's images and tag, PR #174.
• The 27th: the weekly pack and the r/battlemaps block as task 7.

14:00: look for more bugs a status code can't see

• On every smoke page at 390px wide: page wider than the screen, elements poking past the right edge, text smaller than 12px, links or buttons under 24px tall. Fix whatever is real; add the overflow check to smoke if it finds anything.

Next

• 26th 06:10: daily check. Confirm the post has the card plus deck images and #travellerrpg, and that the name wasn't used recently. Read PR #174 comments.
• 27th: weekly pack, lead with a ship. No r/battlemaps post (it bans AI maps, see LEARNED 09-25).

15:10: the Owlbear extension as a shop window

• Two loads yesterday came from inside Owlbear. Look at what the extension shows someone who uses it: can they tell there is a full version, and does the path from the popover to itch work? Fix the weakest step.
• 2 Oct: search "starship deck plan generator free" again; is /deck-plan-generator/ in the top 20?

23:40: who is owlbear.rogue.pub

• Two visits on the 24th came from it. Find out what it is, whether it lists us, and whether anything else like it exists.

00:05 (26th, logged on the 25th's file): are our posts in the Bluesky map feeds?

• Find the TTRPG map feeds, check whether the daily posts appear in them, and if a feed is curated, what it takes to get in.

00:30: the extension at its real size

• Screenshot /obr at the popover size the manifest declares, go through generate and send, and fix whatever a first-time GM would trip on.

Next (after 00:30)

• 06:10 on the 26th: daily check. Confirm the first gallery post has the card, the deck images and #travellerrpg, and that the ship name isn't a recent one. Read the PR #174 comments.
• Watch whether Owlbear users now send scenes. There's no way to count this directly, so compare /obr loads against Rogue Store referers over the week.
• 27th: weekly pack, leading with a ship. 2 Oct: rank check. 3 Oct: gallery likes against the baseline.

02:15: find a channel for a zero day

• The 25th had no human page loads. Check whether that's the beacon or real. Then look for a listing channel that needs nothing from the boss, and make the Owlbear channel measurable.

Next (after 02:15)

• 06:10 daily check as planned. Also run events.sh from the 26th and look for obr-send, and see whether the 26th breaks the zero.
• If the 26th and 27th are also at zero, the daily Bluesky post isn't bringing anyone to the site. Then look at what the gallery post changes before touching anything else.

02:35: which Bluesky feeds the daily post reaches

• Check which large TTRPG feeds carry our posts. Also try a search-engine rank check on Bing and DuckDuckGo from here.

Next (after 02:35)

• 06:10 daily check (status, gallery post, obr-send events, PR #174 comments).
• About 12:00Z on the 26th, within an hour of the gallery post: check All things TTRPG and TTRPG Folks for it while their windows still reach it.

00:10 local: first block

• Status at 00:10 local: 4 of 20 failing, all of them today's derelict (page, feed, run, Bluesky URL). Recent dailies went out at 06:07–06:10 local, so today's run isn't due yet. I left it to the schedule instead of posting to Bluesky at midnight. Recheck after 06:00.
• itch store page, one fetch (200, so the 429 has cleared): the description is still the old one. The AI note is the last line ("Built with an AI assistant under human direction"), not the first, and the lead still lists Mothership, Alien RPG, Traveller and others as a string of names. Task 5 on /press/ ("Copy formatted") is still with the boss. No re-ask; it is on the page.
• r/battlemaps: the rules were already read yesterday (rule 4 usable maps, rule 6 no AI images, rule 7 one a day), and the draft handles rule 6. Nothing left to do before the pack exists on the 27th.
• Wrote the second #spaceshiptember draft (in plan/2026-09-25.md): 287 characters, AI disclosure first, no em-dashes, and this time a link. The only post we have that was reposted had no link at all (LEARNED, the 21st).

A reload no longer throws away a ship opened from a link

• Found by reading the code behind yesterday's 12 link-derelict events from one visitor. When the editor opens from /?gen=derelict (the button on every landing page), it skips restoring the autosave and generates a new ship, and ?gen stays in the address bar. So a reload, a reopened tab or a back-then-forward rolled a fresh ship over the one being edited, and the autosave then overwrote it. Some of those 12 were probably exactly that.
• Fix (src/main.ts): once the link has generated its ship, gen is removed from the URL with history.replaceState. Other parameters and the hash are kept, which matters inside Owlbear, where the URL carries obrref. A reload then restores the autosave as usual.
• Checked: local preview (?gen=derelict&x=1#h became ?x=1#h, same ship after reload), tests 34/34, paid file rebuilt and sound, deployed, smoke 35/35 and 28/28. On the live site the URL becomes / and FTV Ember is still FTV Ember after a reload. The Owlbear fake host still passes in GM and player modes.
• Effect on the numbers: from today, link-derelict counts arrivals from a link, not reloads. Compare later days with that in mind.

Buy clicks, looked at one by one

• clicks.sh since the 17th: 10 buy clicks where a page load came first, plus 12 bare hits. Row by row, most don't look like people. There is the iPhone OS 13_2_3 agent, a known crawler string, turning up from KR, JP, BR and the US. There are generic Windows Chrome hits from JO, SA, NP, MX and CL at scattered hours with no demo events. And there is a burst from the US on the 22nd at 02:00 with no user agent at all.
• One looks like a person: the Polish visitor who made 21 derelicts on the 24th opened the $12 link twice at 16:00 UTC, once from the editor and once from the ship card.
• itch, read through the API just now: Bulkhead has 15 views lifetime (the same as yesterday) and 0 purchases; the two free packs have 2 and 6 views. The redirects all return 302 to the store page, and the store page returns 200. So either itch doesn't count that visit or counts it late, and I can't tell which. Per standing rule, these clicks are not reported as buy interest, because itch's view count doesn't back them up.
• Nothing to fix on our side of the link. What that visitor saw on itch was the old description (task 5 still open), which is the boss's to paste.

r/battlemaps: a gallery, not the contact sheet

• All-time referers: Reddit is still the only outside source that sent people (30 loads, most of them to /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/). Search has sent none yet, and Owlbear's own domain sent 10. So the post on the 27th matters most this week.
• Titles in this week's r/battlemaps top list (RSS; the JSON API and old.reddit are blocked): nearly every map post is one big map with a grid tag, for example "[OC] Pretty sure that voids our spelljammer warranty... [25x25]" or "Frozen Shore [35x45]". Nothing near the top is a small contact sheet.
• Looked at the full-size day PNG for the 24th (3200x1600, 100 px a square, 32x16). It reads well at full size: clean rooms, labels, breaches and numbered pins. The 1200x630 contact sheet shrinks each ship to a smudge.
• Changed the draft for the 27th in plan/2026-09-24.md: the images are now a gallery of the five full PNGs with the best one first, and the title carries a [WxH] tag for the lead map. On the 27th, /press/ gets the five direct PNG links so the boss can save them to the phone before posting.
• weekly-pack.mjs now ends by printing every deck's full PNG URL with its [WxH] grid, largest first. On the 27th that list becomes the gallery links on /press/, with no hand work. Tested the new part alone for the 24th's window, so latest.json and the hub page were not touched: 10 decks, from [35x32] down to [21x14]. The PNG URLs return 200 live.

Where the daily post's hashtags land (04:10)

• Status at 04:07: the 4 daily checks fail because today's derelict is not due until about 06:00. Everything else (Owlbear, the listing, the zip) is ok.
• The daily posts get 0 or 1 like each. Searched Bluesky (logged in, read only) for posts since the 18th, per tag: - #spaceshiptember: 100+ posts, median 17 likes. The top posts are artists' drawings in the #sst26 daily-prompt challenge, and artists there tag #noai. Our one disclosed post got 2 likes and 2 reposts. Don't auto-tag the daily with it. An automated generated ship every day in an art challenge would read as spam to exactly the people it reaches. That one hand-sent, disclosed post is the right amount. - #ttrpg: 100+ posts, about 3 likes each. Crowded and shallow. - #osr: 100+ posts, about 8 likes each. A fantasy-dungeon crowd. - #battlemap: 59 posts from 21 accounts. Mapmakers selling Patreons. A fit, and we already use it. - #travellerrpg: 23 posts from 14 accounts, about 10 likes each, including Mongoose's own ship designs. Small, but the one crowd that plays on deck plans.
• Not changed: the daily's tags. Swapping #ttrpgcommunity for #travellerrpg would change a post in the account's voice, so it's the boss's call. The question is batched below, not sent.
• Question for the boss, next batch: "ok to swap one hashtag on the automatic daily post, #ttrpgcommunity out and #travellerrpg in? a yes or no is enough."

/press/ reordered: the store page and the PR reply first (05:07 to 05:15)

• Looked at the itch store page at desktop width, the way the one real visitor saw it on the 24th. It's one unbroken wall of text with broken link markup (class="redactor-linkify-object") printed in the middle, the file on offer is still 1.17, and the last devlog is 6 days old. All of that is fixed by task 5 as it already stood, but it sat fifth, under four stale asks.
• /press/ now opens with two things. First, the itch upload, description and devlog (the old task 5, unchanged). Second, a reply on PR #174, a new block with copy-paste text, AI disclosed in the first line. Both reviewer points are already fixed on our side, rechecked just now: the description is 126 characters, and the action icon is a white outline on a transparent background. The PR points at our manifest, so only a reply is needed.
• Then "Also open, no rush": Search Console, Lost Atlas, the Owlbear Discord. Pinterest, the old r/battlemaps thank-you, r/mothershiprpg (closed), the scheduler, Foundry (answered on the 18th) and r/traveller (done) are folded into "Old asks". No text was removed; a sorted-line diff against the old page shows only the moves, the headings, the new PR block and the new intro.
• My own slip, caught before it mattered: the first deploy dropped the line that closes the stylesheet, and the page rendered blank on a phone for a few minutes. The phone-shot caught it and the fix is live. The first intro also mentioned buy clicks that itch's views don't back up; I rewrote it to talk about the page, not the clicks.
• Deployed; smoke 35/35 pages, 29/29 links.

Daily check, 06:07

• Status at 06:07: the 4 daily checks were failing, and nothing was running the day, so I ran daily-derelict.sh by hand. It posted at 11:08 UTC (06:08 local), one post only, checked on the author feed. Status after: all 23 clear.
• Today is ISV Corvid, and the day page carries the five derelict links (the new paragraph).
• Corvid is a repeat, though: FTV Corvid was the 20th, and Corvid Station has its own map page. The 74-name list still holds the first 15 names, and nothing stopped a reuse. The daily already re-rolls a cause of death told in the last 5 days, so it now also re-rolls when the name without its prefix or suffix was used in the last 30 days, or belongs to one of the 11 hand-finished maps. Tested that part alone against the real metas for tomorrow's date: Corvid, Nimbus and Sable are refused, Gossamer and Kittiwake pass. That leaves 60 of 74 names. Today's post stands as it is; the change starts tomorrow.
• PR #174: still only the reviewer's comment.

Who ranks beside us (06:20)

• Web search, "free sci-fi starship deck plan generator dd2vtt": the home page comes 2nd. First is Frostbyte Books' "Free Starship Resources"; also in the top ten are Nuketown's "Starship Deck Plans Links Compendium", an RPG PUB sci-fi resources thread, and Profantasy's deckplans tag. "bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com deck plan" brings up PR #174, both dev.to posts and the home page. So Bing (which backs this search) has us; the search referers are still at zero.
• Nuketown: first posted 2011, updated 2023-08-31, and the site still posts (the feed's newest item is 23 Jun 2026). It has no tools or free VTT maps section, just deck plan sites. The page asks, verbatim: "If you know of a deck plans site that isn't listed here, please add it in the comments or email me at [email removed] and I'll add it to this list." There's no comment form on the page any more, so email is the only route.
• Frostbyte's list has no invitation to submit, and it's a publisher's own blog. Skipped.
• /press/ task 6 is the Nuketown email: a mailto link already filled in, plus a copy box. It says in its first line that an AI agent built the site and wrote the email, points to the free library and the daily, and mentions the paid editor once so nothing is hidden. It's the boss's to send, from their own mail.
• Deployed; smoke 36/36 pages, 31/31 links. The task is live on /press/.

More lists like Nuketown's (06:40)

• The GitHub "awesome" lists for tabletop tools are dead: hack-and-slash/awesome-tabletop-rpg (73 stars) was last pushed in October 2020, the dcebada copy is a fork with 0 stars, and neovatar/awesome-rpg-resources (8 stars) was last pushed in August 2024, with its three newest PRs closed unmerged. A PR there would go nowhere. Skipped.
• Tabletop Bellhop, "19 Great Free or Low Cost Digital Mapping Tools" (2022, edited 2023-08-14). It says: "Do you know of any tools we missed? Tell us all about them in the comments and I will see about adding them to this post!" The comment form is open, but the newest comment is from April 2023 and the author last answered in February 2023. It has no sci-fi tool. A weaker bet than Nuketown, so it's kept as a candidate and not put on /press/. The boss's list is long enough.
• itch: pack 2 is tagged science-fiction and vtt-battlemaps, and it appears on none of the tag pages for those tags, not even sorted by newest, nor in the search for "deck plans". That's the same new-account indexing queue as on the 21st. Nothing we can do about it; itch's guide says wait and don't recreate pages.
• Other results were creators (Seafoot, Miska's Maps, Czepeku, The Planet Hoppers), not lists. Not channels.

09:10 to 09:20: the 26th's reads, a day early

• Status at 09:15 local: all 23 clear. Today's post is live with its map and link, and the Owlbear listing checks pass.
• Page loads since 12:00 UTC on the 24th: 6 in total, all of them on the 24th (UTC). Of those, 5 were from GB desktops, with /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ opened twice from our own pages. There have been 0 so far on the 25th (to 14:08 UTC), three hours after the daily post. The site is up; the day is just quiet.
• Demo events in the same window: 10 generate-derelict, 12 link-derelict, 1 obr-generate-intact, and 0 brief-png and 0 export-png. Nearly all of them are the one Firefox user in Poland from 16:00 UTC, already noted on the 24th. Without that user there is one generate and one Owlbear generate. That is too few people to call the free PNG button a funnel problem, so I'm changing nothing in the editor on this read.
• itch, lifetime: 16 views, up from 15 yesterday, and 0 purchases. That is one new view on the $12 page. It is the only buy-side number I'm reporting.
• PR #174: nothing new since the reviewer's note on the 24th at 13:36 UTC. Task 2 stays on /press/.
• The web search for "starship deck plan generator" is led by the Traveller blog post on generators, then the Nuketown compendium, then Geomorph Shipyard. The Nuketown ask (task 6) is aimed at the second result for our own category, which is a reason to keep it on /press/.

09:30 to 09:50: the daily post goes out as a gallery

• Read-only Bluesky search, logged in, sorted by latest. #battlemap carries about 8 posts a day (100 posts from the 13th to the 25th), with a median of 3 likes plus reposts. The top five are all hand-made maps or tiles, and three of them attach 2 images. Our daily posts sit below that median: 0, 0, 1, 1, 1 over the last five. Our best post was on the 20th, with 4 likes and 4 images attached. The single-card dailies never got past 1.
• Change: post-daily.mjs now attaches the card and then each deck's full map, up to Bluesky's four images, skipping any over 950 KB. Each deck image gets its own alt text with the grid size and the room names read from the ship file (deckAlt in daily-text.mjs). The text, the tags and the posting rule are unchanged. Dry run on today's derelict: card plus 2 decks (375 KB and 279 KB); the alt text matches what the maps show. Tests pass.
• It takes effect with tomorrow's automatic post. Baseline: the dailies from the 16th to the 25th, at 0 to 1 like each. After seven gallery posts, compare. If the gallery does no better, put it back to the single card; the change is one list.

10:20 to 10:35: the boss's answers

• Recorded in FACTS.md: Search Console is done and we're mostly indexed; the to-dos go on /press/ in the chat order; hashtags are my call.
• /press/ now lists: 1 itch upload, description and devlog; 2 the PR #174 reply; 3 Lost Atlas; 4 the Owlbear Discord; 5 the Nuketown email. Search Console moved to "Old asks, answered or overtaken". A stale "task 8" reference now points at the Foundry note. Deployed; smoke 36/36 pages and 31/31 links; the phone shot renders the whole page; the live headings read 1 to 5 in that order.
• The daily and the weekly pack now carry #travellerrpg in place of #ttrpgcommunity, from the 26th. #spaceshiptember stays off.

10:40 to 11:15: our scene drawn by real Foundry v14

• New scripts/foundry-demo-shot.mjs. It joins demo.foundryvtt.com as a free player seat and builds the scene from our compendium in memory. It adds the same default Level that Scene._preCreate would add on import, then calls canvas.draw. The PNG is served from disk to this browser only. Two v14 methods that try to save region constraints are stubbed out, since an unsaved scene with no regions has nothing to save. Nothing is written to the shared world.
• Three attempts hit a navigation mid-run (the demo is busy), so the script is retried. The fourth drew ICV Halcyon Drift's upper deck with its 165 walls and 6 lights, inside Foundry's own interface.
• One trap worth remembering: new Scene(data) migrates data in place and deletes background, so the source path has to be read first.
• The image is on /press/ as task 6: the Monday r/FoundryVTT post, with the title and body in the sub's template. The caveat now says the picture is from the public v14 demo and that no one has dragged a scene onto a real table. The same image is on /foundry/ above the honest caveat.

12:07 daily check, then 12:10 to 12:35: a vision shot

• Status at 12:07: all 23 clear.
• foundry-demo-shot.mjs <scene> vision now puts one token with sight (40 ft) in the corridor. The token has no actor, so a player seat wouldn't normally see through it. The script tells Foundry to count that one token as a vision source, and only that token. Foundry then computed the line of sight itself: 1 vision source, the corridor visible, and only the wedges of bridge, galley and drive in view through the doorways. Everything else is black. It rendered on the first try.
• The shot is on /foundry/ under the lit one, with the caption "the black is Foundry's own line of sight stopping at the module's walls". It's also on /press/ task 6 as image 2 for the Monday post, and the post's caveat now mentions both pictures.

13:00 to 13:20: /foundry-dd2vtt/ gets the picture

• foundryvtt.com/packages/dd-import: Universal Battlemap Importer 6.1.1, "Verified 14". The page's steps still hold; it now says so in one line.
• The vision shot sits under step 4, with a caption saying it's our deck in v14's public demo, taken from the free module, which is built from the same .dd2vtt rather than through the importer. The sitemap dates were updated (3 corrected), then deployed, then IndexNow for the page.
• Found while checking that page: an old bug. On 7 pages, every screenshot has been drawn about 4.5 times too tall, on phones and desktop, since the 14th. The pages are /about/, /guide/, /deck-plan-generator/, /foundry-dd2vtt/, /space-station-map-maker/, /roll20-dd2vtt/ and /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/. The cause: each <img> carries width and height attributes, and the CSS set max-width:100% without height:auto. So the width shrank to the column while the height stayed at 1080. The editor screenshot on our search landing pages, the one meant to sell the tool, was a tall smear.
• Fix: height:auto on all seven pages. smoke.mjs now compares every image's drawn shape with its real shape on every page. Run against the live site before the fix, it failed exactly those 7 pages (29/36). After the deploy it's 36/36 pages and 32/32 links. IndexNow was sent for the six other pages.

14:00: look for more bugs a status code can't see

• Checked all 36 smoke pages at 390px wide. None is wider than the screen, nothing pokes past the right edge, so no overflow check was added to smoke.
• Real finding: the nav links on /daily/ and on every day's page were under 24px tall, which is hard to hit with a thumb. Gave them 5px of padding in daily-derelict.mjs and in the eleven pages already built. Re-checked: clean. Deployed; smoke 36/36, 32/32 links.
• The editor's 10-11px toolbar captions sit under icons; they look fine on a phone shot. Left alone.

14:40: prepare Sunday's r/battlemaps post, and ended up dropping it

• The traffic floor for the 24th was 16 page loads. Two came from inside Owlbear Rodeo (owlbear.rogue.pub referer), so someone is using the extension. PR #174: no change; it's still waiting on the boss's reply (press task 2).
• Before drafting, I read r/battlemaps' own posts through RSS. A mod wrote "except AI maps, those can go rot in a swamp", and mapmakers tag titles [No AI]. Since our posts disclose AI in the first line, that sub is a removal waiting to happen. Dropped the planned press task 7. Written up in LEARNED.
• Then found my own /press/ page recording that we did post there on the 21st (Nimbus Station). Still up, three kind replies, but its body says "a browser tool i made for my own table", written before the AI-disclosure rule. Added press task 7: an optional one-sentence edit, with the removal risk stated plainly. LEARNED corrected.
• Audited every open draft on /press/ for the first-line AI disclosure. All passed except the Owlbear Discord post (task 4), which opened "made a deck plan editor". Rewrote it. Also fixed task 4's stale line claiming the store PR had nothing to fix.

15:10: the Owlbear extension, then where we rank

• The extension already pitches the paid edition honestly ("not for this"). That was a deliberate call, so I left it alone.
• Searched our own terms. "bulkhead deck plan editor": we're on page one, and so is the Owlbear PR. "starship deck plan generator free" and "sci-fi battlemaps dd2vtt free": we're not in the top 10. Two link lists that rank for the first (frostbytebooks "Free Starship Resources" and a Traveller blog roundup of generators) have no contact or submission route. Skipped them.
• /deck-plan-generator/ is titled for that exact query, but only 3 pages linked to it. The 11 daily pages and 12 map pages now credit Bulkhead's "starship deck plan generator" with a link there, both in the page builders and in the pages already out. Deployed, smoke 36/36, 23 URLs to IndexNow (200).
• Check on 2 Oct whether the page shows up for the query.

16:40: rehearse tomorrow's gallery post; one hook rewritten

• Bluesky baseline, 18th-25th: 0-2 likes each, no replies or reposts, one image each. Today's post went out before the gallery change, so the 26th is the first gallery post.
• Dry run of post-daily.mjs on today's ship: card plus two deck PNGs (215, 375 and 279 KB, all under the 950 KB cap), alt text on each, #travellerrpg at the end, link and tag facets land on the right bytes. It will work tomorrow.
• Reading today's hook alone, it made no sense: "Tamura's suggestion about what comes after a third is written down, and it was carried out" leans on a log fragment the post never shows. Rewrote it to stand alone: "Rations went to half, then to a third, then Tamura made a suggestion. The galley log says it was carried out." Skimmed all ~70 hooks; the rest read fine without context. Text only, so the seeded rolls are unchanged. Tests 34/34, deployed, smoke 36/36, status 23/23. Today's page keeps the old wording; the paid zip gets the new one in the next release.

23:07: daily check, then itch

• npm run status: all 23 clear. Today's derelict and post are out.
• itch: still absent from its own search and three tag pages, 13 days after going paid, though the same pages return other projects to a script. The API said can_be_bought: False for Bulkhead. I checked the real purchase page before saying anything: $12 card checkout, working. So it was a false alarm; written into LEARNED so it isn't raised again. Nothing new for the boss; task 1's devlog is still the lever.
• Looked at adding structured data to the tool pages and dropped it: software rich results need ratings we don't have.

23:40: who is owlbear.rogue.pub

• It's "Owlbear's Rogue Store (unofficial)", a community extension index. It has listed Bulkhead since the 20th with our full README and screenshots; the 24th's two visits came from it. The other directory I found (the OBR Extensions Guide) is D&D-only and dormant since July 2025. Skipped.
• /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ now says the official store is still queued and links our Rogue Store entry, so an unofficial manifest looks less like a random URL. Deployed, smoke 36/36, links 34/34, IndexNow 200.
• Result: we're in both TTRPG map feeds through #battlemap (TTRPG Maps: all 3 of our posts in its window; Fantasy Maps, the most-liked one: 10 of 59 posts since the 19th are ours). No tag change needed. In LEARNED.

00:30: the extension at its real size

• At the popover size (1100×720), the extension opened with the web demo's intro: "exports carry a small watermark" and a "Full version, $12" button. That's the upsell the extension promises not to show. After a generate, the card's main button was "Save the map (PNG)", and Send sat below the fold in the side panel.
• Fixed in src/obr.ts. The intro now says it draws deck plans and sends them into this room with walls, doors, windows and lights for Dynamic Fog, free, and the $12 button is hidden. For the GM, the generated-ship card leads with "Send to Owlbear" (all decks), with PNG next to it. Players get no card button.
• Tested with the fake-Owlbear harness against a local preview. It needs Chrome's local-network check off, because an https host can't iframe localhost otherwise. GM: the card button delivered the scene (83 items, fog and map layers). Player: no button. npm test 34/34. Deployed. Smoke 36/36, links 34/34. Live harness passes GM send and player lock. Status 23/23.

02:15: find a channel for a zero day

• The zero is real. RUM on the account records every other host and our own headless runs hour by hour, and the demo injects its beacon from main.ts. There were no human loads on the 25th. The 24th had 16. The events on the 24th were 11 derelict generates, 12 derelict links, 1 generate inside Owlbear.
• GitHub "awesome" lists for TTRPG, Foundry and VTT: the only relevant ones last moved in 2020 (Awesome-FoundryVTT, 5 stars; awesome-tabletop-rpg, 73 stars). Not a channel. Skipped.
• PR #174: the reviewer's only comment is the 24th's (description over 128, icon transparency). Both were already fixed and the reply is press task 2. The Rogue Store copy is current (1.17.1, new description). itch search still doesn't list us.
• The Owlbear extension now reports /e/obr-send on a saved scene, /e/obr-send-slow on the SDK's 5 s timeout, and /e/obr-send-fail on an error. Until now nothing told us whether an install ever put a map on a table. Tests 34/34, deployed, live bundle checked, GM and player harness pass, smoke 36/36, links 34/34.

02:35: which Bluesky feeds the daily post reaches

• Search engines from a script are no use. DuckDuckGo returns its anomaly page, and Bing returns unrelated results (Braves baseball for a site: query). The 2 Oct rank check has to be done by hand or by the boss.
• Feeds: our daily post is in TTRPG No D&D (87 likes, the 25th's post is there), TTRPG Maps (all 3) and Fantasy Maps. It is not in Non-WotC & Paizo TTRPGs (111 likes), which I paged back past our 11:08 post and found none of ours. For All things TTRPG (335), the feed only serves back to 17:50 on the 25th, so it's unknown. TTRPG Folks (256) returned 502 errors, also unknown. In LEARNED. No change to the tags.