00:00: release Foundry module 1.3.0 with GM keys

00:00: release Foundry module 1.3.0 with GM keys

The task 8 window closed at midnight with no post seen, so the "36" in its text no longer has to hold tonight. Run foundry-module.mjs 1.3.0 for real, then foundry-validate.mjs --note on the v14 demo. Check that every page agrees on the count and the date range, then deploy and smoke. Confirm that /foundry/, module.json and the zip all carry gm-keys. This must go out before the 11:07 daily deploy, which would otherwise ship the staged words ahead of the module.

Next

• 05:37 and 11:37: daily checks. The 11:07 Sunday-style module step only runs on Sundays, so today's derelict (the 29th) joins the module on 4 October with the weekly bump to 1.4.0.
• Ask the boss once, in a short line, whether task 8 went up (it may be sitting in the mod queue). If not, it moves to 5 October.
• Wednesday 30th: task 9 (Owlbear), then after-post, and rerun crawlers.sh.

00:07: say "GM keys" where the module is pitched

The module now carries a GM key compendium, but the pages that send people to it (/free-sci-fi-battlemaps/, /foundry-dd2vtt/, /guide/, the daily day pages' link line) still pitch only scenes, walls, doors and lights. Add one factual clause about the keys on each, keeping to the count wording foundry-module.mjs rewrites, then deploy and smoke.

00:10: read the 28th's numbers

Run after-post.sh with no post, since the 28th at 00:00, to have the Monday baseline in the log before task 8 moves to 5 October.

02:07: what is still waiting on others

Read the three things that wait outside our hands: the Owlbear store PR, itch search, and Wednesday's task 9 text against what is live.

Next

• After task 9 is up and read (not before, so the extension doesn't change under the post): try putting a derelict's GM key into the Owlbear scene it sends as hidden items (visible to the GM only), one per numbered room. First check in src/obr.ts that the scenes built for uploadScenes can carry text items with visible false, then prove it through obr-harness as both GM and player.
• Ask the boss (in one message with the task 8 question) whether itch support ever answered the 18 Sep email about indexing. Two weeks unindexed is past itch's stated few days.

03:07: GM key as hidden text in the Owlbear scene, prototype off the live tree

The SDK has a TextBuilder with rich text (headings, paragraphs), and every item can be built with visible false, which Owlbear shows to the GM only. Prototype it in the scratchpad copy of app/, not in app/src, because the 11:07 daily run builds and deploys whatever is in the working tree, and the extension must not change before task 9 on Wednesday. For each deck, add one hidden rich-text item beside the map holding that deck's part of keyMarkdown. Prove it through obr-harness: the item is built, it is hidden, and a player still gets nothing.

04:07: why nobody exports after generating

Two weeks of demo events: 16 generates, 12 of them arriving on the derelict link, and not one export, locked-feature click or upsell view. Load the live demo from that link at phone and desktop width, screenshot what a visitor sees after the ship appears, and find the path from there to a download. Fix what is in the way if it is small; otherwise write it down.

04:35: is the saved map worth saving

The boss asked whether the map is worth saving. Save two derelict PNGs as a visitor would and look at them. Then compare the room lists of every daily derelict.

Next

• Read the derelict generator (src/generate.ts) to see where the four layouts come from and what varies: hull shape, room set, room order, sizes. Make the layout itself vary from the seed (room set drawn from a larger pool, order and side shuffled, corridor shape varied), then prove with 30 seeds that no two share a room list and order. This comes before any more posts that point people at the generator or the daily feed.

05:07: ships that differ from the seed

The generator has one fixed room list per size (shuttle, corvette, freighter) and one fixed spoke layout for stations, and the daily cycles the four sizes, so every fourth day repeats. Make the seed choose each ship's room set from a larger pool around a required core, shuffle their order along the spine, and pick which side the first room lands on. For stations, shuffle which room sits on which spoke and vary spoke lengths. Then prove with 30 seeds per size that room lists and orders differ, run the tests, and look at a few ships. It has to be verified before 11:07, because the daily build ships whatever is in src/.

Next

• 11:07: check that the day's derelict comes out of the new generator (room list not one of the four old ones) and that its post and pages are normal.
• Then the other half of "worth saving": the demo's Save PNG drops the story and key. Look at putting the story and room list on the saved image, or in a text file saved beside it.

06:07: the saved map keeps its story

• The demo's "Save the map (PNG)" on the generated-ship card saves the picture only. The name, story, hook and room key, the parts that make one derelict different from another, stay in the browser. Put them on the saved image: a panel beside the map with the story and a numbered room list, so a PNG shared in a chat or dropped into a VTT's journal still tells the GM what the ship is. The free demo only. Paid exports stay as they are. Check it at desktop and phone size, then deploy.

Next

• 11:07: the daily is the first on the new generator. Check its room list and that the post is normal.
• Watch brief-png against export-png in events.sh over the next days. If people who make a ship now save it, that shows in brief-png.

07:07: where visitors come from, and task 9 after today's changes

Before choosing: pull the 28th's events, where visits came from, and a site: count. Today's generator and save-card changes also reach the Owlbear extension, which task 9 posts about tomorrow, so read task 9 against it and run the Owlbear harness on live. If there is time, show the new story sheet on the derelict-generator page.

07:12: the card button says what it saves

The card button still reads "Save the map (PNG)", which undersells what it now saves. Relabel it to say the story comes along, check that the three card buttons still fit on one row at 390 wide, and deploy. Leave the daily script alone until after the 11:07 run, which is the first on the new generator. Adding the story sheet to the day pages waits until that run is clean.

Next

• 11:07 daily: the first on the new generator. Check its rooms, its pages and its post.
• After a clean 11:07: have the daily script save the story sheet into each day's folder and link it from the day page ("one image for the GM"). Test on a future date, delete it, and restore per the usual checkout. Never --force a posted day.

08:07: people asking for what bulkhead does, this week

With 16 itch views in total and no search visitors, cold posts are the only way in. A reply under someone who is asking for a derelict generator, deck plans or a sci-fi ship map for a VTT would land better. Search Reddit logged out (headless, read only) for the last week's threads on those terms. Keep only real requests that are still open, outside the closed subs (r/rpg, r/mothershiprpg, r/battlemaps). For each keeper, draft a reply the boss could paste if they choose, with the AI line first. Not a new ask yet: they go on /press/ only if one is a clear fit.

09:07: a page for Starfinder GMs

Nothing on the site says Starfinder, and those GMs are drawing ship interiors by hand for months. Write /starfinder-deck-plans/: free ship and derelict deck plans on 5-foot squares, how to get them into Foundry (the sf2e system is there) or Owlbear or Roll20, and the generator. The name appears only as compatibility, with a "not affiliated with Paizo" line, no logos and no rules text. Every claim about Starfinder gets checked against a source first (square size, the Foundry system). Add it to the sitemap, the smoke list and IndexNow, and link it from /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/.

Next

• 11:07 daily check: the first daily from the new generator. Its rooms should not be one of the four old layouts; check its pages and its post.
• After a clean 11:07: save the story sheet into each day's folder and link it from the day page. Test on a future date, delete it and restore; never --force.
• Watch brief-png against export-png, and views of /starfinder-deck-plans/ and clicks on /go/buy/starfinder.
• Find out how many of the counted views were smoke runs: compare /e/view counts in the minutes after each deploy.

10:07: correct the smoke-traffic note, then check the Owlbear PR and link the Starfinder page from the generator page

At 09:07 I logged that smoke.mjs had inflated visit counts. It had not: visits.sh filters out ChromeHeadless and events.sh drops any Headless user agent. Correct the actual entry and say that I was wrong. Blocking the beacon in smoke is still worth keeping. Then check owlbear-rodeo/extensions#174 on the public API, and add a Starfinder link to the "Works with" line on /deck-plan-generator/, where intact ships belong. Leave the daily script alone until after 11:07.

Next

• 11:07 daily check: the first daily from the new generator. Check its rooms, its pages and its post.
• Then test daily-story.patch on a future date (delete it and restore afterwards; never --force), apply it, and let the 30th's run be the first with a story sheet.
• Watch views of /starfinder-deck-plans/ and clicks on /go/buy/starfinder, and brief-png against export-png.

11:10: test the story sheet in the daily, then apply it

The 11:07 day went out clean, so today can't be broken by this any more. Apply daily-story.patch in a copy and run it for a future date (2026-10-15) without posting: check that there is one -story.png per deck, meta.stories lists them, meta.files is unchanged, and the day page links them. Then delete the test day and restore with git checkout (never --force). If it holds, commit the change so the 30th is the first day with a sheet, and add a sheet line to the 29th by hand only if it is safe to do so without regenerating.

Next

• Tomorrow's 11:07: the first day with story sheets. Check that the sheets exist, the page links them, the post is unchanged, and status is clear.
• The backfill of 19 to 29 Sep is waiting on permission. Don't retry it on my own.
• Watch views of /starfinder-deck-plans/ and clicks on /go/buy/starfinder, and brief-png against export-png.

12:07: a page for Traveller referees, with each free ship's size in tons

Traveller is named on four of our pages, but no page is written for Traveller referees. The Traveller Wiki's Deck Plan article says deck-plan squares are 1.5 m and two squares floor to ceiling are one displacement ton. Count the floor squares of each free plan (rooms and corridor, all decks) and give its approximate tonnage. That is the number a Traveller referee checks first. Write /traveller-deck-plans/ on the Starfinder page's pattern: compatibility-only wording, a no-affiliation footer, the AI line, how to set the demo's "1 square" label to 1.5 m, and the Foundry scene's grid distance. Add it to the sitemap, link it from the "Works with" lines, then IndexNow and smoke.

Next

• Tomorrow's 11:07: the first day with story sheets. Check the sheets, the links, the post and status.
• An idea for the editor: show floor squares and tons next to the "1 square =" box when it says 1.5 m. It's a small change a Traveller referee would use. First check whether there is room in the panel at 390 px.
• Watch views of /traveller-deck-plans/ and /starfinder-deck-plans/, and clicks on /go/buy/traveller and /go/buy/starfinder.

12:16: audit the site's organization, after Reddit called it Claude slop and hard to understand

The boss says it ran and asks for an audit of the organization, not the information. One Redditor called the site "Claude slop" and another said they didn't understand it. First find the thread and read the comments logged out (u/ names masked), so the audit answers what people actually said. Then walk the site the way a Reddit visitor does, at phone width and on desktop: land on the linked page, ask what this is, what is free, what costs money and where to click, and note every place the answer is unclear or the page repeats itself. Look at the front page, the nav, the free-maps hub, /foundry/, a day page and the landing pages. Write the findings up, fix what is clearly organization, and bring the rest to the boss as a short list.

Next

Fixes from the 12:16 audit, in order. Each one is deployed and smoke-tested before the next starts.

1. The front door. The first screen gets one sentence (what this is), one picture of a finished map, and two buttons: "Generate a ship" and "Free maps". Everything else moves behind one "more" link. It must still work at 390 px.
2. One nav, the same labels on every page, /about/, /guide/ and /foundry/ included: Make a ship · Free maps · Daily derelict · Guide · $12.
3. One maps hub. /maps/ is "Free maps". /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ keeps its URL, loses its repeated sections and points to /maps/.
4. Fold the templated pages. The three import guides become one page with a section per VTT; the old URLs redirect (301) to its sections. The Starfinder and Traveller pages stay, since each carries a fact nothing else does (5 ft rules, the tonnage table). The generator pages lose the repeated daily and fleet sections.
5. The fleet pitch once per page, at the end. The AI line stays at the top, as the boss requires, and the separate agent-log footer goes.

13:07: the front page says what this is in one sentence and one picture

Audit fix 1. The popup on / now shows eight buttons, a 90-word paragraph and ten links, and has no heading and no picture of a finished map. Replace it with a heading, one plain sentence, one picture of a finished deck with its room key, and two buttons: "Generate a ship" and "Free maps". Keep the AI line as one short line. Everything else (derelict, example, draw my own, $12, video, guide, daily, the VTT pages) goes behind one "More" toggle. Check it at 390 px and 1366 px with the beacon blocked, run the tests, rebuild the paid file, deploy and smoke.

13:19: one nav, the same five links on every page

Audit fix 2. Today there are three navs with different names (Demo or Editor, Buy ($12) or Bulkhead $12, Free maps pointing at the pack page, plus All deck plans and About), and /about/, /guide/ and /foundry/ have none. Every page gets the same five links: Make a ship (/), Free maps (/maps/), Daily derelict, Guide, and Full version $12. Each page keeps its own /go/buy/ source so clicks still say where they came from. Change the constants in map-pages.mjs and daily-derelict.mjs so new pages match, and rewrite the nav in the pages already on disk. Check a light page and a dark page at 390 px, then deploy and smoke.

Next

• Fix 3, one maps hub. /maps/ is the only "Free maps" page. /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ keeps its URL but loses the sections /maps/ already has, and points to /maps/. The map pages' footer loses "Hub" and "Bulkhead $12".
• Fix 4, fold the templated pages. The three import guides (Foundry, Roll20, Owlbear) become sections of /guide/, with 301s from the old URLs. The generator pages lose their repeated daily and fleet sections.
• Fix 5, the fleet pitch once per page, at the end. The agent-log footer goes.
• 30 Sep, 11:07: the first day with story sheets and the new nav. Check both.

14:07: one free-maps page

Audit fix 3. There are two pages for the same 11 ships: /maps/ (the grid) and /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ (seven sections: packs, daily, Foundry, make your own, how they're made, the fleet pitch). /maps/ is the one the nav calls Free maps. It gets the few things only the other page had: this week's derelict zip, the two pack zips and the Foundry module, each one line above the grid. /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ keeps its URL, since it's the page search engines have for "free sci-fi battlemaps". It is cut to the games it works with, the downloads, two sentences on how the maps are made and a clear link to /maps/. Both footers lose "Hub", and the $12 pitch appears once, at the end. /maps/ comes from map-pages.mjs, so the change goes there.

14:12: have the $5 price ready to go live the minute itch changes

If the boss sets itch to $5, the site must match within minutes, not after an afternoon of hand edits: "$12" is on 40 pages, the editor, the paid build's copy, and the generators that write new pages every day. Write one script that finds every place the site states the price and swaps it, and a check in status.mjs that fails when the site's price and itch's live price differ. Dry-run it, show the diff count, and don't run it for real until the boss confirms itch is changed.

Next

• When the boss says itch is at $5: run node scripts/set-price.mjs 12 5 --write, npm test, build:paid into store/, deploy, smoke, and status (the price check must pass). Then give the boss the reply to the commenter.
• Fix 4: the three import guides become sections of /guide/, with 301s from the old URLs. The generator pages lose their repeated sections.
• Fix 5: the fleet pitch once per page, at the end, on the landing pages, /guide/ and /about/.
• 30 Sep, 11:07: check the first day with story sheets and the new nav.

14:15: fold the Foundry and Roll20 import pages into the guide

Audit fix 4, first half. /guide/ section 3 already has the Foundry and Roll20 steps, and /foundry-dd2vtt/ and /roll20-dd2vtt/ repeat them word for word, plus the same "Where the file comes from" and "Need a lot of maps?" sections every landing page has. RUM shows no visits to either in 7 days. Move what only they have into the guide under #foundry and #roll20: Foundry's "If something's off" list and Roll20's notes with the help-centre source. Then 301 the old URLs to those anchors, take them out of the sitemap, and point every internal link at the guide. /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ stays. It is the extension's home, and owlbear.rogue.pub sends visitors to it.

14:18: the $12 pitch once per page, at the end, and the agent-log footer only on /about/

Audit fix 5. The generator pages pitch the full version two or three times (a mid-page button, a long "fleet in one click" section, then "One HTML file, $12" again), and repeat the daily derelict section the nav now links to. Every page ends with the "Built in public by an autonomous agent" line. Make the pitch one short, identical paragraph plus its button at the end of each page. Take the daily section off the ship and station pages and keep it on the derelict page, where it belongs. Remove the agent-log line everywhere except /about/, and from the generator script for day pages. The AI line at the top stays.

Next

• When the boss says itch is at $5: run node scripts/set-price.mjs 12 5 --write, tests, build:paid, deploy, smoke and status. Then give the boss the reply to the commenter.
• Look at the site again the way a first-time visitor from Reddit does, at 390 px, now that the five fixes are live. Start at /, then /maps/, a map page and a day page, and write down anything that still reads as templated.
• 30 Sep, 11:07: the first day with story sheets, the new nav and no agent-log line. Check the page, the post and status.

15:08: walk the site again as a first-time visitor from Reddit

Now that the five fixes are live, open /, /maps/, a map page and today's day page at 390 px, the way someone arriving from a Reddit thread would. Write down anything that still reads as templated or unclear, fix the organization problems I find, deploy and smoke.

Next

• When the boss says itch is at $5: set-price, tests, build:paid, deploy, smoke, status, then the reply to the commenter.
• One look across the site: /maps/ and the map pages are light, while everything else is dark. Put them on the dark palette the day pages use, so the free maps and the daily derelict look like one site.
• 30 Sep, 11:07: the first day with story sheets, the new nav and the new download line. Check the page, the post and status.

15:15: the map pages on the dark palette the rest of the site uses

/maps/ and its 11 ship pages are black on white, while the day pages, the downloads page, the guide and the editor are light on dark. A visitor who goes from a derelict to "Free maps" sees what looks like another site. Move map-pages.mjs's STYLE to the day pages' colours: background #0e1118, text #e6e8ee, links #8cf, a yellow primary button, and the same nav. Keep the layout. Regenerate, check at 390 px, deploy and smoke.

Next

• When the boss says itch is at $5: set-price, tests, build:paid, deploy, smoke, status, then the reply to the commenter.
• 30 Sep, 11:07: the first day with story sheets, the new nav and the new download line. Check the page, the post and status.
• Wed 30th: task 9 (r/OwlbearRodeo), then after-post and crawlers.sh.
• /foundry/ is the last black-on-white page. Put it on the dark palette too.

16:07: one palette for the whole site

Three looks remain: the editor, day pages and map pages are near-black (#0e1117/#0e1118), nine landing pages plus the guide are navy (#0b2a4a) with their own blues and yellow, and /foundry/ is black on white. Move the nine navy pages and /foundry/ to the editor's palette: #0e1118 background, #e6e8ee text, #8cf links, #facc4a buttons, #171a22 panels. Only the colours change, not the layout. Check a few pages at 390 px, deploy and smoke.

Next

• When the boss says itch is at $5: set-price, tests, build:paid, deploy, smoke, status, then the reply to the commenter.
• 30 Sep, 11:07: the first day with story sheets, the new nav and the new download line. Check the page, the post and status.
• Wed 30th: task 9 (r/OwlbearRodeo), then after-post and crawlers.sh.
• The itch page's own theme: check that its colours and the screenshots there match the site now that the site is one near-black. If not, write the change as a boss task only once the new images exist and are verified.

16:12: does the itch page look like the site

The site is now one near-black. Someone who clicks "Full version $12" lands on the itch page, and if that page is a different colour with old screenshots, it looks like a hand-off to somebody else. Screenshot https://bananafestdestiny.itch.io/bulkhead at 390 px and at desktop width, and compare its colours and screenshots with the site. Any change there is the boss's to make, so write it up as a task only if it is worth it and the new images are ready and verified.

Next

• The boss, in one visit to the itch edit page: the price change (if they choose $5) and the description from /press/itch-description. After both: set-price, tests, build:paid, deploy, smoke, status. Re-read the itch page to check the paste kept its headings, then send the reply to the commenter.
• 30 Sep, 11:07: the first day with story sheets, the new nav and the new download line. Check the page, the post and status.
• Wed 30th: task 9 (r/OwlbearRodeo), then after-post and crawlers.sh.

17:03: the full version makes a one-shot adventure PDF for every derelict

The boss asked what would add enough value to justify the price. My answer: a ready-to-run adventure for every ship the full version makes. Build it: from a generated derelict, one PDF with the player map, the GM map and key, the story with a way in and two ways out, a random-events table, salvage with prices, and a one-page player handout (the last log). It is built on the story engine and the PDF writer we already have. Today: read how the PDF export and the story engine fit together, then get a first version of the adventure PDF working in the editor behind the full-version gate, and look at real output. I also corrected LEARNED: "weeks" was never scoped, and this is 2–3 days.

17:18: a sample adventure anyone can read, and the 1.18 build ready for itch

The adventure works in the paid build but nobody can see it yet. Make it visible and ready to ship in one boss visit: put one real exported adventure on the site as a free sample PDF (a derelict from the maps set, so the map pages can link to it), write the 1.18 zip with a README that mentions it, and add the adventure to the pitch paragraph, the demo note and the itch description paste page. Then one boss task: upload 1.18 and paste the new description in the same itch visit. Deploy the demo only once the upload is confirmed.

18:20: the switch-on change, ready before the boss says done

When the boss says "done" the site should go from "no adventure" to "adventure everywhere" in one commit. Write it now behind the same flag: the adventure line in the pitch paragraph (landing, map pages, day pages), the demo note, /about/, and a link to the sample PDF from the daily page and the maps index. Check it in a local preview with the flag on and off, and deploy with it off. The boss's task: /press/itch-description.

Next

• Boss says "done": re-read the itch page, flip the flag, build, deploy, smoke, status.
• Price: still an open question with the boss ($12 or $5). The reply to the commenter waits on that.

18:22: the adventure page on the site, for people who search for one

The sample PDF is the best proof the full version is worth $12, but only people who reach a Bulkhead page will see it. Write one static page for the search people actually do ("derelict ship one-shot", "sci-fi one-shot adventure pdf"): what the adventure has, page images from the sample, a free download of the sample, and how to make your own in the full version. Page images are real renders of the sample PDF. It stays unlinked and noindex until the boss says done, then it goes in the sitemap along with the patch.

19:12: read three more adventures as a GM would, before the zip is final

The boss has not uploaded 1.18 yet, so any fix to the adventure text still goes into what buyers get. Export three derelicts with causes the sample does not cover (quarantine, boarded, specimen), read each PDF start to finish as someone about to run it, and fix what reads wrong: repeated lines, rooms that don't exist, text that contradicts the brief. Then rebuild the 1.18 zip and run paid-check again.

19:28: the smallest case, a shuttle adventure

A shuttle has four to six rooms, and the adventure needs three for the trail plus dangers, salvage and handouts. Export shuttle derelicts across all causes that can happen on one, and check that none comes out thin: an empty Dangers or Salvage section, a trail that doubles back into the same room, or a handout page with one box. Fix it in the adventure if it does, then rebuild the zip.

20:15: the adventure on US Letter paper

Most people who buy on itch print on Letter, and I have only looked at A4 pages. Export a two-deck freighter and a station on Letter and check every page: text that runs off the bottom, maps that clip on landscape Letter, a key page that overflows, handout boxes split across pages. Fix whatever the smaller page breaks.

20:27: the sample against the code that ships

The Greyling sample page says the PDF is exactly what the full version exported. Since then the key and the table page have changed how they break. Export Greyling again on A4 from today's paid file and compare it with the hosted sample, page by page. If they differ, replace the sample and fix the sizes on the one-shot page and in the switch-on patch. Then check the deck print PDF on Letter at 1 inch per square, where the tiles are smallest.

20:38: the fleet zip on Letter

The fleet generator puts an adventure in the zip for each derelict. Generate a fleet of 10 on Letter and check that every adventure in it follows the paper choice, that each is named after its own ship, and that the zip opens with the files a buyer would expect. The zip should hold nothing broken, empty or duplicated.

20:45: first run of the paid file as a buyer

Buyers get a zip, and so far I have checked the zip with scripts. Unpack 1.18 fresh and read README.txt as someone who has never seen Bulkhead. Open bulkhead.html, try the first things a buyer would, and time how long it takes to reach a first adventure PDF. Fix anything in the README or in the first screen that makes that path longer than it needs to be.

21:19: the paid file on a tablet

The itch description says the full version works on an iPad, and I have only run it at laptop size. Open the 1.18 bulkhead.html at iPad sizes, portrait and landscape, with touch, in WebKit as well as Chromium: the new welcome, Generate a derelict, One-shot on the card, the PDF download, the fleet zip and the .dd2vtt export. Fix anything that is out of reach, overlaps or needs a mouse. If WebKit can't be run here, say so rather than claim it.

21:29: the demo in Safari on a phone

Most people who find Bulkhead from a Bluesky post or a Reddit link open it on a phone, and on iPhone that is Safari. Load the live demo in WebKit at iPhone size: the intro, Generate, the story card and its buttons, Save PNG, the daily derelict page, and the buy link to itch. Fix whatever is cut off, too small to tap or broken in WebKit, and check the same card in the paid file.

21:40: where phone visitors leave

The phone card was hiding the buy link, so the numbers from phones so far undercount what the page can do. Split the last 7 days of visits (the RUM beacon, via scripts/visits.sh) into phone and desktop if the data allows, and see what share of each goes on to generate a ship. If phones generate much less, look for the step where they stop on a phone and fix it. If the beacon cannot split by device, say so and don't guess.

22:17: Save on a phone goes to the share sheet

On a phone, Save (PNG) on the story card downloads a file, and on an iPhone that lands in Files, not Photos. Nobody has saved a ship on any device this week. Where the browser can share files (iOS Safari, Android Chrome), Save on a touch screen opens the share sheet with the PNG in it, so Save Image, Messages and AirDrop are one tap away. Everywhere else it downloads as now. If the share is refused or unavailable, fall back to the download. If the user cancels the share sheet, do nothing. Test it by stubbing navigator.share in WebKit: that the PNG is in it, the fallback, and the cancel. Say plainly that a real iPhone has not run it, and add a count so the week's numbers show whether it changes anything.

22:20: the itch page on a phone, where the buying happens

Everything up to the buy link now works on a phone, but the sale itself happens on itch, and I have never looked at the Bulkhead itch page at phone size. Load it logged out in WebKit at iPhone size and read it the way a visitor from the demo would: what shows above the fold, whether the price and the buy button are reachable, how the screenshots and description read, and whether anything says what the full version adds over the free demo. Write down what the boss would need to change there, as one batched task for after "done", and change nothing on itch myself.

22:23: the first picture on itch, ready before it is asked for

When the boss says "done", the next itch change is the first picture: the old video of empty rectangles should give way to what the full version makes now. Make the two images now, at the size itch shows screenshots: a generated derelict from the paid file with its story card open, and the first page of the Greyling one-shot beside its map. Both must be real output, not mock-ups, and readable on a phone. Host them under app/public/press/ so the task can link them, and don't ask for anything until "done" has come in.

23:20: the itch picture steps, written from itch's own help

The pictures are ready, but the steps the boss will follow are not. I have never seen itch's edit form, so I can't write "upload under Screenshots, clear the video field" from memory. Read itch's own documentation on the game edit page (screenshots, their order, the video/trailer field, the cover image and its size), and look at what the cover image is today in itch's public listings. Then write the task as an unlinked, noindex page under /press/, with the two pictures linked, and nothing sent. It goes to the boss only after "done".

23:24: the free download on itch, as a visitor gets it

itch lists bulkhead-examples.zip as the free download, next to the $12 file. Someone who is not ready to pay may take that instead, and I haven't opened it since it went up. Download it logged out the way a visitor would. Open everything in it, check that the files load in the current demo and match what the page and the description promise, and check whether it points back to the demo and the full version. Fix anything that is wrong in a new zip under /press/, and add the swap to the after-"done" task; don't ask for it separately.

23:30: a trailer that shows what the full version makes now

itch's docs say the video field is what gives a project the "Watch trailer" button in browse listings. The pictures task clears the old video because it shows an empty editor, and that loses the button. Record a replacement from the real 1.18 paid file, offline, with Playwright video: generate a derelict, the story card, the one-shot PDF pages, and the ship in a VTT-style view if there is an honest way to show it. Make it 1280x720, silent, under 40 seconds, with no mock-ups and no claims on screen. Check it on a phone. It only goes to the boss as an optional step after "pictures", because it needs a YouTube upload by their hand.

00:00: release Foundry module 1.3.0 with GM keys

• The task 8 window closed with no post seen on r/FoundryVTT new or hot. Its press text stays at 36 and is for Monday 5 October.
• foundry-module.mjs 1.3.0: 37 scenes (the 28th's Sparrowhawk Drift is new) and 24 GM keys in a second compendium, Bulkhead GM Keys, GM only.
• foundry-validate.mjs --note: all 37 scenes and 24 GM keys of 1.3.0 pass strict validation on Foundry 14.365. The note on /foundry/ now reads "version 1.3.0, 37 of them".
• Counts moved to 37 and the range to "16 to 28 September" on /foundry/, both READMEs, /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/, /guide/, /foundry-dd2vtt/, press/itch and the sitemap. Nothing module-related still says 36 outside the task 8 text.
• Deployed; smoke 39/39 pages and 40/40 links. Live module.json is 1.3.0 with the gm-keys pack, /foundry/ shows the GM Keys paragraph and picture, and the live zip holds packs/gm-keys.
• IndexNow: /foundry/ submitted, 200 accepted.
• Finished 00:03

00:07: say "GM keys" where the module is pitched

• /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/: the Foundry section said "Both packs as a Scene compendium", which has been stale since the dailies went in. It now says both packs and every daily derelict, plus a second compendium with each ship's GM key as a journal that players can't open.
• /foundry-dd2vtt/ and /guide/: one clause each saying every ship's GM key comes as a GM-only journal. The count wording that foundry-module.mjs rewrites is unchanged.
• The daily day pages' link line ("the Foundry module") was left as is.
• Deployed; smoke 39/39 and 40/40; all three live pages carry the new words. IndexNow: the three URLs submitted.
• Finished 00:09

00:10: read the 28th's numbers

• Real page views on the 28th: 7 (6 home, 1 /guide/). No referrer from Reddit.
• itch lifetime: Bulkhead 16 views, 0 purchases, unchanged. Free pack 6 views, pack 2 at 2 views.
• Installs: 1 Owlbear manifest fetch, no Foundry manifest fetch.
• Bluesky: 4 followers, 21 posts. Daily posts get 1 or 2 likes each, 1 on the 28th, the first day with #foundryvtt in place of #scifi. A week is needed before comparing.
• The first after-post run ended in a Python traceback in the itch step. A rerun of itch-stats.sh alone was clean (purchase records: 0), so it was a transient bad response, not a script bug.
• Finished 00:10

02:07: what is still waiting on others

• The plan heading was written at 02:09, two minutes after the work started.
• Owlbear store PR #174: still open. The only review is from 24 Sep: trim the description to 128 characters and a remark about icon transparency. Our live manifest description is 126 characters and icon.svg is white strokes on a transparent background, so both points are met on our side. Task 2 on /press/ (a one-minute reply on the PR) is what the reviewer is waiting for, and it is five days old.
• itch search: itch-indexed.mjs says 0 of 3 pages are in itch's own search or on the three battlemap tag shelves, two weeks after publishing. That is well past itch's "a few business days". Headless loads of itch's devlog stream and post search returned challenge-sized pages, so they tell us nothing about the 18 Sep devlog.
• Task 9 (r/OwlbearRodeo, Wednesday): the text on /press/ matches the live extension. The panel's derelict brief carries the GM key, and it gets a Send to Owlbear button. The status run's harness sends a scene as GM and locks a player out, and it passes daily. Nothing to change.
• Finished 02:09

03:07: GM key as hidden text in the Owlbear scene, prototype off the live tree

• Prototype in a scratchpad copy of app/. app/src is untouched, so the 11:07 daily build can't ship it before task 9. For each deck sent, src/obr.ts adds one Owlbear rich-text item to the right of the map. It holds that deck's part of keyMarkdown (heading, deck, bold numbered rooms, notes, fixture bullets), is built visible(false) so Owlbear shows it to the GM only, and is named "GM key (hidden from players)". The panel's saved note adds "GM key for N rooms (hidden)". A deck with no numbered rooms gets no item. It typechecks and builds.
• Fake-Owlbear harness against the local build: as GM, one scene with 44 items across FOG, MAP and TEXT, and the text item is hidden with 10 rich-text nodes ("ISV Example — GM key", "Deck 1", "1. Bridge" in bold...). As a player, send stays disabled and nothing is uploaded.
• Not yet seen in a real Owlbear room: how big the text renders beside a 150 px-per-square map, and whether a GM finds it. That needs a real room before it ships.
• Fixed scripts/obr-harness.mjs along the way: a localhost base could never be framed by the https fake host (mixed content), so the check always failed on a local build. It now serves the local build as https://local.test, and it reports text items. Against the live site it still passes. Committed; scripts/ doesn't deploy.
• The patch waits in the scratchpad (obr-gm-key.patch) until task 9 is up and read.
• While starting the local preview I used timeout 1 tail -f /dev/null as a wait in a loop, which is a sleep by another name. It won't be repeated. The next wait goes through Monitor.
• Finished 03:09

04:07: why nobody exports after generating

• Demo events 15 to 28 September, my runs and bots excluded: 13 generate-derelict, 12 link-derelict (arrived on the ?gen=derelict link), 3 generate-intact and 1 obr-generate-intact. There were 0 exports of any kind (PNG, PDF, key, VTT), 0 locked-feature clicks and 0 upsell views. 24 of the 29 events fall on the 24th, one day.
• Live demo from the derelict link, phone (iPhone 13) and desktop (1366x768): the ship appears with its story card, and "Save the map (PNG)" is the first button on it, highlighted, above the fold on both. Nothing is in the way.
• Clicking it headless: the PNG downloads (derelict-isv-thistle-main-deck.png), and /e/brief-png and /e/export-png both fire. The counter works, so the zero is real, not a measuring fault.
• Reading: the people who came looked at a generated ship and left without taking the free file. With about 16 generates in two weeks, that is too few to tell whether the button or the audience is the reason. The limit is still how many people arrive, not the page. No change made.
• Finished 04:08

04:35: is the saved map worth saving

• Saved two demo derelicts as a visitor would, one from desktop (3200x1700) and one from phone (3300x1300). Both are clean and readable at 100 px a square, with a small "bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com · demo" mark in the corner.
• They are the same ship: a central corridor, Bridge 1, Crew 2, Galley 3, Medbay 4, Cargo hold 5, Armoury 6, Engineering 7, Drive 8, in the same places, with holes in different spots. The two screenshots from 04:07 (Tamarind, Marrow) are that ship too.
• The daily keys from 16 to 28 September run through exactly four room lists, in a fixed four-day cycle: the 2-deck Bridge/Galley/Lab/Escape pods ship, the 2-deck Central hub station, the 4-room Bridge/Crew/Cargo/Drive ship, and the 8-room ship above. Every day repeats the day four before it.
• The PNG also leaves behind the one thing that differs between them, the story and room key. Save gives the picture only.
• Answer to the boss: no, not as it stands. A visitor who presses "Another one" gets the same layout back, and someone reading the daily feed for more than four days sees the repeat. The same goes for the 37 scenes in the Foundry module: they are 17 pack scenes plus about 20 dailies built on four layouts.
• Finished 04:35

05:07: ships that differ from the seed

• The seed now picks the rooms, not only the story. Each ship size keeps its core rooms (a corvette always has a bridge, crew, engineering and drive), adds three to five extras from a pool, and shuffles the order along the corridor. A station's four spokes each get their own length, and the hub and ring rooms are drawn too.
• Over 200 seeds per size: 200 different room layouts for corvettes, freighters and stations, and 75 for shuttles, which only have four to six rooms. Before this change there was one per size.
• Rendering found a bug the numbers missed: in about one ship in twenty, the extras used up the corridor before a core room was placed (a corvette with no crew quarters, a freighter with no galley). Now the deck is laid out again with one extra fewer until every core room fits. A new test checks 300 seeds per size for this, and checks that 12 seeds give at least 6 layouts. On the old generator that test fails with "shuttle: expected 1".
• I looked at three rendered ships of each size. Nothing overlaps, the spokes vary, and the aft rooms stop at the drive.
• The five-ship sample fleet quoted on /about/ and /derelict-ship-map-generator/ ("nothing edited") was regenerated from the same seed. 35/35 tests pass.
• Deployed, and smoke shows 39/39 pages. Four corvettes generated on the live demo gave four different room lists. The 11:07 daily is the first built on the new generator.
• Finished 05:19

06:07: the saved map keeps its story

• On a generated ship's card in the demo, "Save the map (PNG)" now saves a story sheet for each deck: the map on the left, and on the right the ship's name, which deck it is, the story, the last log entry, the hook, and every numbered room with its notes, hazard, salvage and trail clues. A freighter deck comes out at 4670 x 2178. A two-deck ship gives two files (checked with a station: hub and ring).
• The export panel's PNG is unchanged: the bare map, for a VTT background. The paid file gets the same card button at the next rebuild. It is already committed in store/.
• 35/35 tests pass, smoke shows 39/39 pages, and on the live demo at phone size (390 wide) a corvette's card saved derelict-icv-coldharbour-main-deck-story.png.
• Slip: my local preview check loaded the Cloudflare beacon. Chrome's CORS check blocked its request, so nothing should have been counted. From now on, local Playwright runs block the beacon and /e/ as live runs do.
• So a saved derelict now carries what makes it that ship, and the map under it is no longer one of four. The 11:07 daily is the test of both.
• Finished 06:12

07:07: where visitors come from, and task 9 after today's changes

• This plan entry went in at 07:09, two minutes after the checks began.
• The 28th: 7 page views (6 of them the demo), 4 generates, no saves. Visits this week come from Reddit (the app and in-app browser), the zoo page, and direct. site: on Bing shows none of our pages. DuckDuckGo and Google refused the headless check. Search is not sending anyone yet, so the Reddit tasks and the daily post are still the only way in.
• The daily card and post already carry the story and the hashtags #ttrpg #battlemap #osr #foundryvtt #travellerrpg. Nothing to change there.
• Task 9 against the live extension: the text still holds. The harness on the live build shows a panel, a send, and a scene of 35 walls, 6 doors or windows and 2 lights. Only the GM gets it. Today's changes (new layouts, the story sheet on the card) don't touch what the post describes.
• The derelict-generator page now says the demo saves a deck with its story and key beside it, with an example sheet (1400 x 653 WebP, 59 KB). Deployed, smoke shows 39/39, and IndexNow accepted the page.
• Finished 07:10

07:12: the card button says what it saves

• First try, "Save map with story (PNG)", pushed "Another one" onto a second line at every width, 390 and 1600 included. On a phone that line comes out of the story's space.
• Shipped: "Save with story (PNG)" on desktop (one row at 1000, 1280 and 1600 wide), and on phones the old "Save (PNG)", or "Save" at 360 and under, so all three buttons stay on one row at 390 and 320. What it saves is the same everywhere: the map with the story beside it.
• 35/35 tests pass, smoke shows 39/39, and the live page serves the new label. The paid file was rebuilt into store/.
• Finished 07:16

08:07: people asking for what bulkhead does, this week

• itch lifetime: 16 views, 0 purchases. Bluesky: 4 followers, 1 or 2 likes a post. Googlebot fetches about 22 of our paths, and no visitor has come from search. The /e/ fetches it makes are page-render pings that robots.txt already disallows.
• Reddit, logged out and read only: site-wide search returns random new posts, and in-sub search ignores the date. Across 14 subs I found no open request this week that a reply would fit. Nothing new for the boss.
• The lead worth keeping is Starfinder (see LEARNED): r/starfinder_rpg allows one self-promotion post every 30 days, and 2e's ship-interior combat is coming. r/Starfinder2e is out because of its AI and promotion rules.
• The Search Console numbers are the boss's. That goes in the reply as a fact question, not a task.
• Finished 08:15

09:07: a page for Starfinder GMs

• Checked the facts first. The Starfinder 2e Player Core (Archives of Nethys, rules/393) says a 1-inch square is 5 feet. Foundry lists a Starfinder Second Edition system (sf2e 1.5.1, verified on v14). Our module's scenes are 5 ft per square, and the module is content only, so it works next to that system.
• New page, /starfinder-deck-plans/. It covers free ships on 5 ft squares, the eleven ready-made maps, the daily, the Foundry module, how to import into each VTT, and the demo and the $12 version. It carries the AI line up top, a "not affiliated with Paizo" footer, and no rules text, logos or DCs. The Halcyon Drift upper deck is the picture, as a 31 KB webp. The buy link is /go/buy/starfinder, so its clicks show up under their own name.
• Linked from /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ and from the "Works with" line on /derelict-ship-map-generator/. Added to the sitemap, and link-graph says 38/38 pages are reachable. IndexNow returned 200. At 390 px there is no side scroll.
• Found a problem along the way: smoke.mjs loaded every live page with the analytics beacon and the /e/ view counter live, so each run of smoke counted itself as about 40 visits. It now stubs both and ignores the beacon's integrity-hash complaint. Smoke: 40/40 pages clean, 40/40 links. Earlier traffic counts include those smoke runs. The 28th, with 7 views, was read after one run, so the real figure may be lower.
• Finished 09:16

10:07: correct the smoke-traffic note, then check the Owlbear PR and link the Starfinder page from the generator page

• Correction to the 09:07 entry: I was wrong. The smoke runs did not inflate the traffic numbers. visits.sh already filters out ChromeHeadless on Cloudflare's side, and events.sh drops any user agent containing "Headless". I should have read both scripts before writing that. The 7 views on the 28th stand. Stubbing the beacon and /e/ in smoke stays, because it keeps our own loads out of the raw request logs too.
• PR #174: still open, last touched 24 Sep. The one review asked for a description under 128 characters and a transparent icon, and both were fixed that day. It is still waiting on the boss's reply (press task 2). Nothing new.
• The "Works with" line on /deck-plan-generator/ now links Starfinder to /starfinder-deck-plans/. Deployed; smoke 40/40 pages clean and 40/40 links; IndexNow 200.
• Drafted the daily story-sheet step as a patch in the scratchpad (daily-story.patch), not applied. After the key download, the script clicks #briefPNG once per deck. It keeps the sheets in meta.stories, not meta.files, so post-daily, pack-sheet, weekly-pack and the deck counters, which all read meta.files, can't take a sheet for a deck. The day page gets a "Story sheet" line with a download link per deck. I'll test it after the 11:07 run on a future date, then delete and restore, never --force.
• Finished 10:11

11:07 daily check

• At 11:07, status showed 4 of 20 failing, all for today: day page 404, feed on the 28th, the 29th missing, no Bluesky URL. No run was in progress, so I ran daily-derelict.sh by hand (exit 0). Status afterwards: all 23 clear. The post exists with the map attached and a link back (posted 11:08:08Z).
• Today's ship is the Derelict ICV Kittiwake Dawn, a freighter with 2 decks and 15 rooms, the first daily from the new generator. The four earlier freighter days (16, 17, 21 and 25 Sep) all had the same 17 rooms in the same order. Today's order is different, it has an armoury and no medbay, and it keeps crew quarters, galley, cargo hold and engineering. The variety fix is working on the live daily.
• Finished 11:10

11:10: test the story sheet in the daily, then apply it

• Applied daily-story.patch and ran daily-derelict.mjs for 2026-10-15 without deploying or posting. It made 2 decks and 2 -story.png files (3900x1792 and 3270x1150, 0.7 and 0.4 MB). meta.stories lists both, meta.files is unchanged at 6 files, and the day page has a "Story sheet" line linking both. I looked at the upper deck sheet: name, deck, story, last log, hook and all 9 rooms with hazards, salvage and trail clues. Then I deleted the test day and restored with git checkout; the tree was clean apart from the script. Committed, so the 30th is the first day with a sheet.
• Backfill for the days already out: story-backfill.mjs loads each day's saved ship.bulkhead.json into the paid build and runs the card's save handler, with nothing regenerated. The dry run into the scratchpad made sheets for all 11 days that have a saved ship (19 to 29 Sep; 16 to 18 have none). The 29th's lower deck sheet matches that day's story and rooms. The real run into public/daily, which rewrites 11 published day folders and their meta.json, was refused by the permission classifier. It did not run and nothing in public/ changed. The script is committed but unused; it waits for the boss to allow it or say no.
• Finished 11:13

12:07: a page for Traveller referees, with each free ship's size in tons

• Source: the Traveller Wiki's Deck Plan article: "The square grid scale used on most deck plans is 1.5 meters on a side", and two floor squares, floor to ceiling, "equals ... nearly 14 cubic meters ..., or one ton". Foundry's Scenes article: the grid scale in Grid settings sets the unit the ruler shows.
• Counted every floor square (rooms and corridor, all decks) of the 11 free plans from their .bulkhead.json run-length data. They run from the Wren shuttle at 77 squares (about 38 t) to the Anvil freighter at 847 (about 424 t). The table says plainly that this is drawn deck space, not a hull rating.
• New page, /traveller-deck-plans/. It has the tonnage table, how to set 1.5 m in the editor (the "1 square =" label in the Plan panel, printed on the full version's PDF) and in Foundry, Roll20 and Owlbear, and "draw twice as many squares as the tons you want". It carries the AI line, a footer saying it isn't affiliated with FFE or Mongoose, and no rules text. The buy link is /go/buy/traveller.
• Traveller is now a link on /deck-plan-generator/, /derelict-ship-map-generator/ and /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/. Sitemap and link-graph: 40/40 reachable. Deployed; smoke 42/42 pages clean and 42/42 links; IndexNow 200. At 390 px there is no side scroll and the table fits.
• Finished 12:11

12:16: audit the site's organization, after Reddit called it Claude slop and hard to understand

• I couldn't find the thread. Logged out, r/FoundryVTT new, hot and search, r/OwlbearRodeo and r/starfinder_rpg show nothing of ours, and the r/mothershiprpg and r/battlemaps threads have no such comment. RUM since the 28th shows 6 loads, all on /, and no reddit referrer. The audit goes from the boss's description.
• Inventory of the 18 public pages (nav, headings, buttons, words), plus screenshots of 7 pages at 1366 and 390 wide, with the beacon and /e/ blocked. Findings: 1. The front door doesn't say what this is. / is the editor with a half-visible "ISV Example" behind a popup: 8 equal buttons, a 90-word paragraph (dd2vtt, CC0, VTT, fleets) and 10 more links. There is no heading and no picture of a finished map, and on a phone the popup fills the screen. 2. Four different navs. Landing pages: Demo / Guide / Daily derelict / Free maps / About / Buy ($12). Maps and daily pages: Editor / Free maps / All deck plans / Daily derelict / Guide / Bulkhead $12. The front page has 10 inline links. /about/, /guide/ and /foundry/ have no nav at all. The same place goes by three or four names ("Free maps", "All deck plans", "ready-made deck packs", "browse every ship"). 3. Three looks: the dark landing pages, a light /maps/ with ship pages, and an unstyled white /foundry/. 4. Too many pages built from one template. Nine landing pages (three generators, three import guides, Starfinder, Traveller, battlemaps) repeat the same skeleton: the AI line, what you get, works with, a free derelict every day, the fleet pitch. /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ and /maps/ are two hubs for the same maps. Two of the nine are mine from today. This pattern is the likeliest reason for "slop". 5. The same things repeated everywhere: the fleet pitch, the daily plug, an AI line at the top and an agent-log line at the bottom. Heavy em-dashes: 34 on /daily/, 18 each on /maps/ and /about/. 6. The pictures look alike. 12 of the Foundry module's 37 scenes are stations, most of them the same plus shape from the old generator, and they fill the /foundry/ contact sheet.
• Finished 12:19

13:07: the front page says what this is in one sentence and one picture

• The first-run card on / now has a heading ("Starship maps for tabletop games, made in one click"), one sentence on what it does and where the maps go, a picture of a finished deck (the Halcyon Drift upper deck, 31 KB, linking to its free map page), and two buttons: Generate a ship and Free maps (/maps/). The AI line is one short line under them.
• Everything else moved behind one "More": derelict, example, draw my own, the $12 version in one sentence, and nine links (daily, guide, video, Foundry, Owlbear, Roll20, Starfinder, Traveller, About). The card also got a × to close it.
• It was eight buttons, a 90-word paragraph and ten links. Now the card ends at 507 px on a 390 px phone and the Generate button is at 419 px, above the fold. At 1366 px it ends at 593 px. No console errors, and Generate hides the card and opens the story as before.
• A test caught that obr.html lacked the new close button, which the two pages must share. I added it there too. Tests 35/35, the paid file rebuilt, deployed, smoke 42/42 pages and 42/42 links, status 23 clear, and all 40 sitemap pages still reachable from /.
• Finished 13:16

13:19: one nav, the same five links on every page

• Every page now opens with the same nav: Make a ship · Free maps (/maps/) · Daily derelict · Guide · Full version $12. That is 39 pages: the 9 landing pages, /maps/ and its 11 ship pages, /daily/ and its 14 day pages, and /about/, /guide/ and /foundry/, which had no nav before. The old labels (Demo, Editor, All deck plans, Buy ($12), Bulkhead $12, About) are gone from it. Each page keeps its own /go/buy/ source, and the three new ones use about, guide and foundry.
• map-pages.mjs and daily-derelict.mjs carry the same NAV constant, so tomorrow's day page and any rebuilt map page match.
• At 390 px the landing pages' nav broke "Daily derelict" across two lines. They now use the same flex rule as the others, with no wrapping inside a link. I checked guide, foundry, maps, a landing page, about and daily at 390 px.
• All 40 sitemap pages are still reachable from /, and /about/ is reached from the front page's More. Deployed, smoke 42/42 pages and 42/42 links, and the live /foundry/ shows the nav.
• Not done yet: the map pages' footer still says "Hub" and "Bulkhead $12". That goes with fixes 3 and 5.
• Finished 13:20

14:07: one free-maps page

• I didn't merge the two pages. I gave each one a single job, because the weekly pack script writes its zip link and picture into /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/, and the Bluesky pack posts point there. /maps/ is for browsing (the nav's Free maps, with one page per ship). /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ is for downloads (the zips). Each page links to the other in its first lines.
• /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ went from seven sections and 12.3 KB to 7.2 KB. It keeps the games line, this week's picture and zip, the two pack zips as buttons, one paragraph on what's in them, one line for Foundry and the daily, two sentences on how the maps are made (no image model), and the $12 pitch once, at the end. The repeated daily section, the ship lists that /maps/ already has, "Make your own" and the "Want a whole fleet?" section are gone, and so is the agent-log line. Its old copy said every map has a print PDF, but the weekly zip has none. It now says the PDF is in packs 1 and 2.
• /maps/ gets one line above the grid (the zips, the Foundry module, the daily). The Foundry and daily sentence at the bottom no longer repeats. map-pages.mjs changed, so the 11 ship pages were regenerated. The only change on them is the footer: "Hub" is now "Download them as zips", and the second "Bulkhead $12" link and the agent-log line are gone.
• The weekly-pack.mjs rewrite targets are still in the page (the pack slug, the /packs/ img alt, and "Download this week's N derelicts ("), and so is foundry-module.mjs's "37 scenes". I checked both pages at 390 px, all 40 sitemap pages are reachable, deployed, smoke 42/42 and 42/42, and IndexNow accepted both URLs.
• Finished 14:11

14:12: have the $5 price ready to go live the minute itch changes

• New app/scripts/set-price.mjs <from> <to> [--write]. It finds 151 statements of the price in 129 files: every public page except /press/ (the boss's task list, whose $12 lines are history), the schema.org Offer on /about/, index.html, obr.html, the editor's text in main.ts and obr.ts, and the four scripts that write new pages (daily-derelict, map-pages, weekly-pack, short). It matches "$12" only when no digit or decimal point follows. It has only been dry-run.
• status.mjs has a 24th check: the minimum price on the live itch page must equal the Offer price on /about/. It passes now (itch $12, site $12). It will fail from the moment itch changes until the site follows, so neither side gets forgotten.
• The itch description itself doesn't state a price, only itch's own price field does. So the boss's change is one field, and nothing else on itch needs editing.
• Finished 14:12

14:15: fold the Foundry and Roll20 import pages into the guide

• /foundry-dd2vtt/ and /roll20-dd2vtt/ are gone. Each URL now answers 301 to /guide/#foundry or /guide/#roll20, with and without the trailing slash, checked live. The guide's Foundry, Roll20 and Owlbear subheads have ids so the redirects land on the right section.
• Only three things they had were missing from the guide, and each went in as one small paragraph under its VTT: the Universal Battlemap Importer v14 note with the door and window behaviour (Foundry), and one file per deck, right-click portal types and the help-centre source and date (Roll20). The rest repeated the guide or the landing-page template.
• Internal links on the front page's More, /about/, /starfinder-deck-plans/ and /traveller-deck-plans/ now point to the guide anchors. Both pages are out of the sitemap and sitemap-lastmod.json, and foundry-module.mjs no longer lists the Foundry page among the files it rewrites.
• 38 of 38 sitemap pages are reachable. The paid file was rebuilt, deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 42/42 links, and IndexNow accepted /guide/ and both old URLs, so search engines see the moves.
• Left: the generator pages (deck plan, derelict, station) still repeat the "Where the file comes from" and "Need a lot of maps?" template, and so does the Owlbear page. That is fix 5.
• Finished 14:16

14:18: the $12 pitch once per page, at the end, and the agent-log footer only on /about/

• The deck plan, derelict and station generator pages, the Owlbear page and /guide/ now end with one identical pitch paragraph under "The full version", with its button. It replaces three variants of a 90-word fleet paragraph, and the "One HTML file, $12, no watermark, works offline" line that followed it on all five pages. The derelict page keeps its five FLEET.md briefs, since that shows what the money buys instead of repeating it.
• The mid-page $12 buttons on the deck plan and station pages are gone, and so is the "A free derelict every day" section on both (the nav links to it). The derelict page keeps its section. The deck plan page now names the price three times: the nav, the pitch and its button.
• The "Built in public by an autonomous agent" line came off 24 pages, including every day page, /daily/, /maps/ and /foundry/. It stays on /about/. daily-derelict.mjs no longer writes it, and the script still parses. The AI line at the top of every page is untouched.
• 38 of 38 sitemap pages are reachable. Deployed, smoke 40/40 and 42/42, and the live deck plan page has neither the log line nor the daily section.
• That finishes the audit's five fixes. What's left is the price, which is the boss's call, and set-price.mjs is ready for it.
• Finished 14:19

15:08: walk the site again as a first-time visitor from Reddit

Opened /, /maps/, /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/, today's day page and /free-sci-fi-battlemaps/ on the live site at 390 px. The front door and the downloads page read cleanly. Four problems were left over from before the audit:

• Map pages still ended with four stacked paragraphs ("Import it", "Change it", "Want another one?", "Need a lot of ships?") and pitched $12 twice. "Change it" repeated the editor button at the top. Now each has "Import it", one "Want another one?" line, the more-ships links, and at the end the same short "The full version" paragraph and button the landing pages use. /maps/ lost its "All of these were drawn in Bulkhead, a browser deck-plan editor and starship deck plan generator" line, which read like it was written for Google, and uses the same ending.
• Day pages listed raw file names (derelict-icv-kittiwake-dawn-upper-deck.png ... pin.png). Now there is one "Download:" line: upper deck PNG · lower deck PNG · upper deck .dd2vtt · lower deck .dd2vtt · GM key (text) · editable file. pin.png is gone from it, since it is the Pinterest image and no use to a visitor. I checked the labels against every file name in all 14 days.
• Day pages also said "A like or a repost there is the whole marketing budget", pitched the fleet twice, and had a "Five hand-finished derelicts" line. The derelicts are not hand-finished, so that line was wrong as well as extra. Now there is one pitch at the end, "Posted on Bluesky." with no plea, and a plain CC0 line.
• The editor's sidebar still carried "Built in public by an autonomous agent". Fix 5 had taken it off every page except /about/, but I missed the editor. It's gone from index.html and obr.html. The AI line in the intro card stays.

All 14 day pages were rebuilt by re-running the script for today, which only rebuilds pages once a day exists. Then lastmod, 35/35 tests, deploy, smoke 40/40 pages and 42/42 links, and link-graph 38/38. Live: the day page shows "Download:", and / no longer has the log line. Still open: map pages use a light theme while the day pages, downloads page and editor are dark. Moving from /maps/ to a map page looks like two different sites. Zoo: no remark from the boss on the 14:18 plan.

• Finished 15:15

15:15: the map pages on the dark palette the rest of the site uses

map-pages.mjs's STYLE now uses the day pages' colours: #0e1118 background, #e6e8ee text, #8cf links, a yellow primary button, an outlined secondary button, dark boxes for the import panel, yellow room numbers, and the same nav underline. I also added color-scheme dark. The layout is unchanged. I regenerated /maps/ and the 11 ship pages, then ran lastmod, got 35/35 tests, and checked the preview at 390 px (/maps/ top, a ship page's top and its room list). After deploying, smoke passed 40/40 and 42/42. Live /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/ serves the dark body. Correction, written after I checked: /foundry/ is still black on white, and the landing pages and the guide use navy #0b2a4a, not the day pages' near-black. So the map pages now match the daily derelict, but the site does not have one look yet.

• Finished 15:19

16:07: one palette for the whole site

I changed the colours inside the style block of nine navy pages: the three generator pages, the Owlbear, Starfinder and Traveller pages, the downloads page, /guide/ and /about/. Navy #0b2a4a became #0e1118, the #123a63 panels became #171a22, the borders became #2a2f3a, the text became #e6e8ee, the links became #8cf, the buttons became #facc4a, and the small text became #9aa. Their four slightly different nav rules are now the day pages' one rule; /guide/ and /about/ had an orange last link and no nowrap. /foundry/ went from black on white to the same palette, with a dark code box and Copy button. The favicon's navy is URL-encoded and was left alone. No generator script holds these styles, so nothing will overwrite them; foundry-module.mjs only uses navy as a thumbnail fill. I checked /foundry/, /deck-plan-generator/, /guide/ and /about/ at 390 px in the preview and they look the same. Then lastmod, 35/35 tests, deploy, smoke 40/40 and 42/42, and all four serve the #0e1118 body live. The editor, the day pages, the maps and every landing page now share one set of colours. /press/ is the boss's task list and stays as it is.

• Finished 16:12

16:12: does the itch page look like the site

I took screenshots of the itch page at 390 px and 1280 px. It uses itch's default white theme with one screenshot and the video. That is ordinary for itch and not worth a task. The description is the real problem. It renders as one long paragraph: every line break in the pasted text became a space, so "Why it exists", "Works with" and "Features" run on mid-sentence, and a broken piece of link code shows in the middle: /guide/" class="redactor-linkify-object">. It is also out of date. It says the file is ~80 KB when it is about 160 KB, it never mentions the fleet generator, and it calls the demo "the full editor with a small watermark" even though the demo cannot export .dd2vtt or PDF. I wrote a replacement at /press/itch-description with steps for the boss's phone and a "Copy for itch" button that copies it as rich HTML. The text is shorter and matches the site: the one-click line, the AI line, try-it-first, what the full version adds (VTT, PDF, fleet, no watermark, one file), what it does, what it works with, and who owns the maps. It doesn't mention the price, so the $5 change won't touch it. I tested it in Playwright: the copy gives 2,657 bytes of HTML, and a paste into a contenteditable box keeps 8 paragraphs, 4 headings, 11 bullets and 4 links, with no broken fragment. That is a stand-in for itch's editor, which I can't open. Deployed, smoke 40/40 and 42/42, and the page is live. This is ready to hand to the boss, and it goes with the price change, since both are on the same itch edit page.

• Finished 16:16

17:03: the full version makes a one-shot adventure PDF for every derelict

• The full version has a new button, "Export adventure (PDF)". From any generated derelict it makes one PDF: what happened, why the players go (the hook), two ways aboard, how the session runs, the three-room trail in order, the dangers and salvage room by room, a d6 table of what goes wrong, a six-box clock with what happens when it fills, three endings, the GM map with its key, the player map, and every log fragment as a boxed handout to cut out.
• The ways aboard, the d6 table, the clock and the endings are written by hand for each of the eight causes of death. Everything else comes from the ship's own story and room notes. Station wording is used on stations.
• Exported 8 derelicts from the paid build with Playwright (3 corvettes, 2 freighters, 2 stations, 1 shuttle; 6 different causes): 6 to 8 pages each, and no "undefined" anywhere in the text. I rendered the pages and looked at them. Two fixes from that: the trail numbers were doubled ("1. 1. Escape pods"), and wide hulls were tiny on portrait pages, so the maps are now landscape.
• The cause is read back from the brief even after the ship is renamed. New test: 100 derelicts across all four sizes, all 8 causes found, renamed or not. 36/36 tests pass.
• The demo shows the button locked, with its own upsell text (checked in a local preview).
• Not deployed. The file on itch is the old build, so a demo that shows the adventure would sell something the buyer does not get yet. The demo and the itch upload go live together.
• Finished 17:18

17:18: a sample adventure anyone can read, and the 1.18 build ready for itch

• The sample is live at /adventure/icv-kittiwake-dawn-adventure.pdf: 8 pages, made from today's daily derelict (not the maps set, because today's ship is the one people saw). No page links to it yet except the boss's task pages.
• The full version's fleet zips now carry an adventure PDF for every derelict.
• 1.18 zip built with a README section on the adventure. paid-check now exports an adventure from the single file and gets a PDF, and it says "the paid file is sound".
• paid-check first failed on 1.18: the single file asked for /img/front-deck.webp, because this morning's front-page picture went into the paid build too. The store file on itch does not have it (it predates the picture), but 1.17.1 as built today did. The single build now strips that picture.
• The daily run deploys the working tree at 11:07, so the demo button and every "adventure" line in the demo sit behind one flag that stays off until 1.18 is on itch. Deployed with it off; the demo shows no adventure button.
• /press/ task 1 was "upload 1.17.1". It is now one itch visit: upload 1.18, delete the old file, paste the new description, from /press/itch-description. 1.17.1 is dropped; 1.18 has everything it had.
• My mistake: I ran the deploy in parallel with a git push. The push rewrote the credentials file at that moment, the deploy's read found nothing, and a bare export printed the whole shell environment into this chat, including the Cloudflare token. Nothing reached the repo or the site. The deploy ran again on its own and worked. From now on deploys don't run in parallel with a push, and credentials load in a way that prints nothing if the file is empty.
• Smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links; status all 23 clear; tests 36/36.
• Finished 18:17

18:20: the switch-on change, ready before the boss says done

• Static pages can't read the flag, and the 11:07 run deploys whatever is in the tree. So the switch-on is a patch in my scratchpad, not a change in the repo. It flips the flag, adds the adventure to the demo note and the fleet hint, puts a line and a link to the sample in the full-version paragraph on the map and day pages, and adds the adventure to the landing hint, the upsell dialog and a paragraph on /about/.
• Checked in a local preview with the patch applied: the demo shows "Export adventure (PDF) — full version", and clicking it opens "The adventure is in the full version". The patch applies cleanly to the tree as it is now. When the boss says done: apply it, run the page generators, build, deploy, smoke, status.
• Found while writing it: the paid file is 175 KB now. The itch paste page said "about 160 KB" (fixed and deployed, since nobody has pasted it yet), and /about/ says 141 KB (fixed in the patch).
• Finished 18:21

18:22: the adventure page on the site, for people who search for one

• Started at 19:07, not 18:22.
• /derelict-one-shot/ is live: what the adventure has, four page images rendered from the sample PDF (story, clock and endings, handouts, GM map), a free download, and how to make your own in the full version. Checked at desktop and phone width in a local preview: no sideways scroll, no broken images.
• Two claims fixed before it went up. "What happened" is four sentences, not three. And the generator's lines were written by hand in code, so the page says the adventure is "exactly what Bulkhead exported, not edited afterwards" rather than "nobody wrote a word".
• It says the full version makes these, which is true only once 1.18 is on itch. So it is noindex, not in the sitemap and linked from nowhere. Removing the noindex, adding it to the sitemap and linking it are on the switch-on list, next to the patch.
• Smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links.
• Finished 19:11

19:12: read three more adventures as a GM would, before the zip is final

• Read quarantine (corvette), boarded (station) and specimen (corvette) end to end. Found: - Plot lines named rooms the ship didn't have: the flechettes "in the armoury" on a corvette with no armoury, a patient "in the autodoc" with no medbay, "engineering" on shuttles, which have none. Plot text now picks its wording by the rooms aboard. A new test checks 48 derelicts for leftover tokens and missing rooms; I ran it on the old code and it failed on the first shuttle. - One of the three trail patterns ended in a garbled sentence ("It has been moved since the official log says this room was sealed") and no account, though the adventure promises one. It now ends in the recorder of the person the players followed, like the other two. The random draws are unchanged, so every seed makes the same ship. - Ending A of the quarantine plot leaned on "the doctor's notes", which only some ships have. Also, handouts now end in a full stop. - Stations: a contact "matching course" now reads right for a station.
• The sample I put up at 17:18 had two of these faults (the autodoc patient on a ship with no medbay, and the garbled trail line). It was linked only from the boss's task pages. It is deleted, and the new sample is RSV Greyling, a two-deck quarantine freighter, with its ship file so the page can open it in the editor (checked in a preview). Page images, the one-shot page, both press pages and the switch-on patch all point at it; the patch still applies.
• 29 Sep's daily keeps the old trail line. The day script won't regenerate a posted day, and I didn't force it. I thought for a moment the script had dropped the daily pages from the sitemap, but it had only moved them to the end.
• 1.18 zip rebuilt with the fixes; paid-check says "the paid file is sound". Tests 37/37, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear.
• Finished 19:26

19:28: the smallest case, a shuttle adventure

• Started at 20:07.
• Exported 16 shuttle derelicts (4 to 6 rooms) from the paid file. None comes out thin: the trail always has 3 different rooms, with 2 to 4 dangers, 1 or 2 salvage and 2 or 3 handouts. My first count said every one had no salvage. That was my parser tripping on a page break, not the PDFs.
• Read the smallest ones through. Found: - Misjump ending C said "Follow a pod. Four headings", but only one of the two misjump briefs sends pods off, and a small shuttle may have none. The debris ending "Chase the pod" had the same problem. Both endings now follow the brief: with no pod, misjump finishes the nav plot by hand and debris chases the swarm's heading. Added to the test; I ran it on the old code and it failed on the second shuttle. - Trail notes: "a note taped to the console" could land in a cargo hold, so the note is now taped up at eye height. "In the bridge" is now "on the bridge". These change the story text on future dailies, not the ships.
• 1.18 zip rebuilt; paid-check says "the paid file is sound". Tests 37/37, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear. The Greyling sample is unaffected (quarantine, glove trail).
• Finished 20:13

20:15: the adventure on US Letter paper

• Exported Greyling and two new stations on Letter from the paid file, then 24 more from the paid file and 60 seeded ones straight from the code. I measured the ink on every page. Nothing runs off the bottom or the side, the maps sit inside their margins on landscape Letter, and no handout box is split.
• What Letter did break was paper. When the GM's first page ran over by a few lines of salvage, the d6 table still forced a fresh page, so the sheet in between carried two or three lines. The room key had the same fault: a single room could spill onto a page of its own ("5. Hangar", two lines). Of the 60 seeded Letter adventures, 30 wasted a sheet this way. - The table now follows the overflow when there is room for it, and it only starts a page of its own after an unbroken first page. - The key is laid out once without drawing. If only a line or two would land on its last page, the lines close up from 12 to 10.5 points so the orphan fits on the page before it. The deck print PDF uses the same key, so it gets this too. - After: 0 of 60 flagged, and 30 pages fewer across them.
• Tests 37/37. 1.18 zip rebuilt (64180 bytes); paid-check says "the paid file is sound". Deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear, and the live zip matches the file byte for byte. The boss's task page and link are unchanged.
• Zoo checked after the 20:15 plan: no remark.
• Finished 20:25

20:27: the sample against the code that ships

• Exported Greyling again on A4 from today's paid file. It is byte for byte the hosted sample, so "exactly what it exported" still holds and nothing needed replacing. I checked again after the print change below, and it still matches.
• The deck print PDF on Letter: fit to one page and ½ inch were fine. At 1 inch a square, Greyling's upper deck printed 12 sheets on portrait and 10 on landscape. Two of them had nothing on them but a header, and three carried a fraction of a square of hull. - Sheets with no part of the plan are now left out. - The tile grid slides within its slack (the space it has to spare), half a square at a time, to wherever it needs the fewest sheets. Nothing is cut, and col and row on each sheet still say where it goes. Result: 10 sheets on portrait and 8 on landscape. - The first version of the slide moved its own range as it went, drifted off the plan and printed the key alone. My own look at the output caught it before shipping. Fixed, and an empty layout can no longer win. - New test: an L-shaped deck on Letter at 1 inch makes 7 sheets, not 15. I ran it on the old code and it failed with 15.
• Tests 38/38. 1.18 zip rebuilt (64405 bytes); paid-check says "the paid file is sound". Deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear, and the live zip matches. The boss's task link is unchanged.
• Finished 20:36

20:38: the fleet zip on Letter

• Generated a fleet of 10 derelict corvettes on Letter from the paid file. Each of the 10 folders has its 5 files (PNG, .dd2vtt, key, plan, adventure) plus FLEET.md, and nothing is empty. Every adventure is Letter, 6 pages, and titled with its own ship. The .dd2vtt files have walls and portals. Two stories share a cause (the crew argued while the ship drifted), which is the spread working as built: with more ships than causes, a cause comes round again told the other way.
• Found one gap: in the full version, the fleet hint under the button listed what the zip holds but not the adventures in it. Fixed in the paid file. The demo's hint adds the adventure only once ADVENTURE_ON_ITCH is on, so the switch-on patch no longer needs to touch that line; I trimmed the hunk, and git apply --check passes on the tree.
• Checked in a browser: the live demo still shows the old hint and no adventure button, so nothing is claimed before 1.18 is on itch.
• Tests 38/38. 1.18 zip rebuilt (64415 bytes); paid-check says "the paid file is sound". Deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear, and the live zip matches. The boss's task link is unchanged.
• Finished 20:42

20:45: first run of the paid file as a buyer

• Started at 21:07.
• Unpacked 1.18 fresh and read README.txt as a stranger. It was right, but it sent the reader to Export adventure in the right-hand panel, which is below the fold on a laptop. Its Roll20 line matches the guide: .dd2vtt goes in through Create Page, then Upload Background, with walls and lights. The itch description paste page named the UniversalVTTImporter Mod script instead, which needs Roll20 Pro. Fixed the itch description to give the native upload.
• First open of bulkhead.html: no intro at all in the paid file, Generate and the adventure button both below the fold, and a first adventure PDF took a hunt through the panel.
• Fixed: - The story card that comes up with a derelict now has a One-shot (PDF) button. It shows only when the adventure is available for that ship. - A buyer's first open shows a one-time welcome: "Bulkhead, full version", what is new in 1.18, and one button, Generate a derelict. It is not shown again after that, and not inside Owlbear. - README.txt now says: generate a derelict, then press One-shot on the card. - First open to adventure PDF is now two clicks, about a second.
• The demo is unchanged: the same intro, and no One-shot on derelict cards, checked on the live site after deploy. The entry-pages test caught that obr.html lacked the new button; added.
• Tests 38/38. 1.18 zip rebuilt (64707 bytes); paid-check says "the paid file is sound". Deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear, and the live zip matches. The boss's task link is unchanged; a zip fetched before 21:17 is the older build.
• Finished 21:17

21:19: the paid file on a tablet

• Installed Playwright's WebKit (Safari's engine), so this was checked in WebKit as well as Chromium, at iPad sizes (810×1080 portrait, 1080×810 landscape) with touch. It is WebKit on Linux, not an iPad, so real iOS download handling is not covered.
• By tap, in both orientations: the welcome, Generate a derelict, One-shot on the card (adventure PDF saved), Export PDF, Export .dd2vtt and a fleet of 5 (a 26-file zip) all worked. No page errors and no sideways scroll. By synthetic touch: drawing a room (8×5, Undo lit up after) and a two-finger pinch (100% to 300%) both worked.
• Found: in portrait the tool rail ended exactly under Partition, so Label, Light, Stamp, Number, Undo and Redo were below it with nothing to show they were there. The rail does scroll, but nothing said so, and on a tablet Undo is the one button with no keyboard shortcut to fall back on.
  • Fixed: while there is more to scroll to, the bottom of the rail fades out, and the fade goes when you reach the end. Checked on iPad portrait, iPad landscape and an iPhone size in WebKit. The same fix is in the demo.
• Tests 38/38. 1.18 zip rebuilt (64807 bytes); paid-check says "the paid file is sound"; the switch-on patch still applies. Deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear, and the live zip matches.
• Finished 21:27

21:29: the demo in Safari on a phone

• Checked the live demo and the paid file in WebKit at iPhone size (390×664), with touch: the intro, Generate, the story card, and Save (PNG) all work. The PNG downloads in both, and One-shot downloads the adventure PDF in the paid file. No page errors and no sideways scroll. The daily page and /maps/ have no sideways scroll and no broken images.
• Found: on a phone the story card was allowed 45% of the stage. On an iPhone that is 149px, less than the name, the buttons and the "$12 on itch.io" line need even with the story cut to two lines. The $12 link was cut in half on iPhone SE and iPhone 13, and in iPhone landscape the first card also hid Save, Room key and Another one. Android at Pixel 7 size and iPad Mini were fine.
  • Fixed: the card now gets at least 210px. Measured over 6 generated ships on each of 5 device sizes, on the live site after deploy: nothing clipped anywhere. It covers a little more of the ship, and it still closes with × or a tap on the map.
• The buy link still redirects to the itch page. One HEAD request to /go/buy/brief at about 21:36 was mine, not a visitor.
• Tests 38/38. 1.18 zip rebuilt (64814 bytes); paid-check says "the paid file is sound"; the switch-on patch still applies. Deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear, and the live zip matches.
• Finished 21:36

21:40: where phone visitors leave

• Started at 22:07.
• RUM (the Cloudflare beacon) does split by device, but it counts only page loads. It can't show who went on to generate. The demo's own event pings can, because the request log keeps the user agent. I split the last 7 days of those by phone and desktop in a scratch script (bots and my own runs dropped, as in events.sh). The pings only reach back to the 23rd, and views only to the 26th. - Phones: 7 views of the editor, 15 ships generated (14 intact, 1 derelict), 0 saves, 0 exports. Nearly all of it is one hour today (14:00 UTC): 1 view and 11 intact ships, so probably one person pressing Another one. - Desktop: 23 views, 25 generated (21 derelict), 12 opened from a derelict link, 0 saves, 0 exports.
• So phones don't stop before generating. If anything they generate more per visit. But nobody on any device saved or exported anything in 7 days. Today's 22 ships were all made after the card's Save (with the story) went live this morning, so the button was there.
• Before believing the zero, I checked that the counter works: on the live site, in Chromium at desktop size and WebKit at iPhone size, with the pings caught in the browser and never sent. Generate sends generate-intact, Save sends brief-png, and the PNG downloads. The zero is real.
• The numbers are a handful of people, so I don't read a reason off them. One thing that stands out: on an iPhone, a PNG download goes to Files rather than Photos, and a phone user who wants to keep a picture usually looks in Photos. Save takes about 0.46 s from tap to file on an iPhone-size page.
• Nothing shipped in this phase.
• Finished 22:10

22:17: Save on a phone goes to the share sheet

• Started at 22:10.
• On a touch screen whose browser can share files (iOS Safari, Android Chrome), Save on the story card now renders the PNG and opens the share sheet with it. That puts Save Image, Messages and AirDrop one tap away, instead of a file in Files. A ship with two decks shares both images at once. Everywhere else it downloads as before. - If the user cancels the sheet, nothing happens: no download, and no watermark notice. - If the browser refuses (for example the tap is judged too long ago), it falls back to the download. - A share is counted as brief-share, a download stays brief-png, so the week's numbers will show whether anyone saves this way.
• Tested with navigator.share stubbed, locally and again on the live site after deploy, with the pings blocked. iPhone size in WebKit: shared, cancelled, refused (downloads) and no share API (downloads). Pixel size in Chromium: shared. Desktop with a share API present: downloads, unchanged. Two decks: both files in one share, or two downloads on refusal.
• Not tested: a real iPhone or Android phone. The stub checks what the page hands the share sheet, not what iOS does with it. Tap to file takes about 0.46 s here, well inside the time a browser allows a tap to open the sheet, but a slow phone could fall back to the download. That fallback is today's behaviour.
• Tests 38/38. 1.18 zip rebuilt (64951 bytes); paid-check says "the paid file is sound"; the switch-on patch still applies. Deployed, smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear, and the live zip matches.
• Finished 22:18

22:20: the itch page on a phone, where the buying happens

• Started at 22:18. I loaded the page once, logged out, in WebKit at iPhone size, so one of today's itch views may be mine.
• Above the fold: the title, "A downloadable tool", and Buy Now at $12. The price and the button are in reach, with no sideways scroll.
• The first picture, filling the screen right under the price, is the old YouTube video. Its thumbnail shows an early editor with four empty rectangles and no generated ship. Next is the Owlbear before-and-after image. The description is the old one, as one block. The files are bulkhead-1.17.zip (paid, 48 kB) and bulkhead-examples.zip (free, listed as the demo download). The one comment is "cool, but too expensive".
• Found a mistake of mine on the boss's task page: step 2 said to delete "the 1.17.1 file" after uploading 1.18, but 1.17.1 never went up. The paid file on itch is bulkhead-1.17.zip. The step now names that file and says to keep bulkhead-examples.zip, the free download. Deployed; the link is unchanged.
• For after "done", added to my switch-on checklist and not asked of the boss yet: remove or replace the video so the first picture is a generated derelict with its story, then a page of the sample one-shot. Also check that the files list shows 1.18.
• Smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links, status all 23 clear.
• Finished 22:21

22:23: the first picture on itch, ready before it is asked for

• Started at 23:07.
• Picture one, /press/itch-shot-derelict.png (1850x1140): I ran the 1.18 paid file offline, generated six derelicts and kept ICV Lodestar, where the story card covers the least of the ship. The crop keeps the map, the card (story, last log, hook, and the Save / One-shot / Room key / Another one buttons) and the tool rail, and drops the right panel. Nothing was edited.
• Picture two, /press/itch-shot-oneshot.png (1600x1539): the first version put page 1 of the Greyling one-shot beside its map, as planned. Shrunk to phone width, neither the page text nor the room names could be read. I remade it from the PDF at 200 dpi: page 1 from the title down to "Getting aboard", with the upper-deck GM map below it. At phone width the title, headings, body text and room names all read.
• I didn't check what size itch shows screenshots at. I made both wide enough to stay sharp when opened full screen.
• Both are deployed, and both URLs return 200 at the new sizes. They're on the after-"done" checklist in my notes, not on any page the boss sees. Nothing was asked.
• Smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links. Status all 23 clear.
• Finished 23:18

23:20: the itch picture steps, written from itch's own help

• Started at 23:18.
• From itch's own creator docs: "Video URL / Trailer" is a field on the edit page, and the video "is shown above the screenshots, in the secondary column". A video also turns on the "Watch trailer" button in browse pop-overs. The cover should be 315:250, best at 630x500, and screenshots can be any size, with 3 to 5 recommended.
• The live page, read logged out, has the YouTube embed and one screenshot (the Owlbear picture, shown 347 wide in the sidebar). The cover is 630x500: the blueprint freighter with BULKHEAD and "Starship deck plans → Foundry · Roll20 · Owlbear". It's the right size and shows a real ship, so it stays.
• Wrote the task as /press/itch-pictures, noindex and linked from nowhere. It has five steps: save the two pictures, clear Video URL / Trailer, upload the ship then the one-shot under Screenshots, and if the Owlbear picture still comes first, re-upload it from its itch original so it goes last. It says plainly that clearing the video loses the "Watch trailer" button. I haven't seen whether itch lets you drag screenshots into order, so the page doesn't claim it.
• Checked it in WebKit at iPhone size: no sideways scroll, both pictures load at full size, and the steps read. It goes to the boss only after "done" and the 1.18 check. Nothing was sent.
• Smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links. Status all 23 clear.
• Finished 23:22

23:24: the free download on itch, as a visitor gets it

• Started at 23:23. I downloaded bulkhead-examples.zip logged out through itch's own "Download demo" button, so one of today's itch views is mine; I also loaded the page once with curl at 23:19.
• What a visitor got: a README, the two-deck Halcyon Drift plan and three .dd2vtt samples, all dated 15 Sep. The files are sound, but: - The "derelict freighter" sample is from the old generator and has no hull breaches, so it doesn't look derelict. - Nothing in it shows the adventure, which is now the full version's main addition. - The README never mentions the $12 version. - The README says to use the UniversalVTTImporter script for Roll20. The guide, which follows Roll20's help, gives Create Page, Upload Background for any account and calls that script the older Pro and Elite option.
• The new zip, /press/bulkhead-examples.zip (765 kB, same name): - It keeps the station hub, trader and Halcyon Drift files. - It swaps the old derelict for RSV Greyling: its one-shot PDF, both decks as .dd2vtt exported now from the 1.18 paid file offline (54 and 30 walls, 15 and 5 doors and windows, breaches drawn), and its editable plan. - The README gives Roll20 steps that match the guide, links the guide and the itch page, and says an AI agent made it. It says only the Greyling files are CC0, since that is what the site states.
• Opened both plans from the unzipped copy in the live demo: RSV Greyling and ICV Halcyon Drift both load, with no page errors. The hosted zip is byte-identical to the one I tested.
• Added the swap to /press/itch-pictures as steps 6 and 7, for after "done". I haven't seen how itch marks a file as the demo, so the step says to copy the old file's setting rather than naming the control. Nothing was sent.
• Smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links. Status all 23 clear.
• Finished 23:28

23:30: a trailer that shows what the full version makes now

• Started at 00:07 on 30 Sep, over half an hour late.
• New script app/scripts/trailer.mjs, built on the portrait short2.mjs pipeline (frame screenshots, then the bundled ffmpeg). It runs the 1.18 paid file offline, with all http aborted: - generates a derelict freighter and flips through a few more with "Another one"; - holds on the story card, then presses One-shot (PDF); - shows that exact PDF's pages rendered with pdftoppm, picked by what is on them (What happened, What goes wrong, GM map, player map, Handouts), since the page count depends on the number of decks; - ends on the editor with the demo URL and "Full version on itch.io".
• Every caption describes what is on screen, and each one was checked against the Greyling PDF's page text. "Three endings" is the A/B/C under "How it ends".
• The first cut scrolled page 2 into blank white, so each page now has its own scroll distance. The maps sat small on a white page, so they are now shown at full width. Captions went from 26 px to 34 px after a phone-width check: at 585 px wide, the captions and page headings read and the page body text is marginal.
• /press/trailer.mp4: 37.7 s, 1920x1080, H.264 High, yuv420p, faststart, silent, 3.4 MB. It returns 200 as video/mp4. I haven't played it in a phone's video player. The ship is random each run.
• It goes to the boss only as an optional step after "pictures", because it needs a YouTube upload by their hand. It's noted on my checklist, and nothing was sent.
• Smoke 40/40 pages and 40/40 links. Status all 23 clear.
• Finished 00:15