01:07: Derelict itch build: check today's changes, refresh the jam text

01:07: Derelict itch build: check today's changes, refresh the jam text

• Mail check first. The boss submits the itch build to the jam about 24 Oct, and today's changes (challenge links, the how-to-play link, venting) haven't been tried in it. Build it with build-itch.sh and serve it from another origin, the way itch frames it. Check that it loads the ship from the live site, that the How to play link points at the real site in a new tab, and that the result text carries the right link. Look only at the board; no run is sent.
• Then bring app/store/ITCH-DERELICT.md up to date: venting, challenge links, the how-to-play page and the measured new share. Don't upload anything to itch.

02:12: Derelict jam entry ready tonight: rules by ship date, deploy, itch zip

• The boss: "Why don't you just get all that done and I post it tonight". So the submission is tonight, not 24 Oct.
• Mail check first. Venting, one-way doors and welding switch on by ship date (the 20 Oct ship onward), not by deploy, so 19 Oct runs on the board still replay as played and the zip uploaded tonight never needs replacing for a rule change. Bot check one-way doors with the live rules on.
• One-way doors and welding onto the how-to-play page, jam changelog and itch text. Tests, tsc, local board check (an old-rules run still verifies), deploy Bulkhead (well before 11:07Z), check live without posting a run, rebuild the itch zip, check it from another origin, hand it and the text to the boss.

03:07: Does Derelict send anyone to Bulkhead: read the pings

• Mail check first. Derelict exists to sell Bulkhead, and the jam is about to bring players. Before more game work, read the event pings since the Derelict links went live (19 Oct 09:17Z): derelict views, runs, ends, the Bulkhead card on the end screen, and clicks through to the editor and the itch page. Write down the funnel as numbers.
• If the step from Derelict to Bulkhead is where people stop, fix that (wording, placement, a ping where none exists) before the jam traffic comes. Test, and no deploy during the 11:07Z daily.

03:36: Short itch description for Derelict

• The boss: "yeah, give me a shorter version. Nobody reading that". Write a short plain-text one (no markdown, itch shows it literally) that keeps the AI disclosure first, the theme, and links to the rules and the jam changelog. Put it in ITCH-DERELICT.md as the one to paste, with the long one kept below as reference.

03:37: Send the boss the Derelict itch pictures

• The boss: "send me the pictures". Send the cover and the ten screenshots from app/store/itch-derelict/ in the order ITCH-DERELICT.md gives.

03:47: Jamference, a look before answering

The boss sent the Jamference welcome page ("3 days and 3 hours") and asked what I think. Read its public rules and dates (theme, restriction, whether an older game may enter, judging), weigh it against Derelict's AI Jam 5 entry and Bulkhead, and answer with a recommendation. No sign-up, no posting.

03:53: Jamference rules into FACTS, and a yes with a pitch

The boss sent Jamference's theme, ratings and rules, and said a new game would be fun. Write the rules into FACTS.md and what follows from them into LEARNED.md. Then answer: Derelict can't enter, so it would be a new game, and here is one that also sells Bulkhead.

03:56: Jamference due in 3 days, and a community post draft

The boss corrected me: Jamference submissions are DUE in about 3 days, not opening. Find the jam page for the exact deadline and when the build week opened, then fix FACTS.md and LEARNED.md. Read the AI Jam 5 community threads the boss says we can post in, and draft one post in the boss's voice for them to approve. Nothing is posted by me.

04:09: Check the boss's post and the jam entry

The boss said "done". Check the AI Jam 5 community board for the Derelict topic and the entries list for Derelict, and record what is live. Then start on Jamference.

04:33: Skip Jamference; Derelict's first run for the raters

The boss asked whether Jamference is the right move. Facts: 51 joined, and no game has sold a single copy of Bulkhead yet. Record the decision to skip it. Then play Derelict's first run as a jam rater would, on the itch build at phone and desktop size with Playwright. Note where a new player gets stuck, and fix what can be fixed safely before the raters arrive.

04:37: Check the re-upload, then the rest of a first run

The boss said "done" on the re-upload. Check that the itch copy serves the folded briefing. Then play past the opening on a practice ship: first log, first torch cut, a death, the end screen. Note what confuses a newcomer and fix what is safe.

04:47: Bluesky post draft for Derelict's jam entry

The boss asked "maybe a bluesky post?". Draft one in their voice: lowercase, AI named in the first line, no em-dashes, under 300 characters, linking the itch jam page. Pick one picture to go with it. Nothing goes out without their word.

04:49: Post the Derelict jam post to Bluesky

The boss said "go". Post the drafted text word for word, with desk-torch.png and its alt text, from the studio account. Check it on the public feed. Nothing else goes out.

04:50: First read of the Derelict funnel after submission and the post

The daily isn't due until 11:07Z. Meanwhile, read events.sh for Derelict pings since 04:00Z: itch-tagged views, boards, ends and card clicks, plus on-site ones from the Bluesky post. Check the jam rate page for ratings and comments.

05:07: Do the Bulkhead links work from inside the itch frame?

Jam raters play Derelict inside itch's iframe. Check what each end-screen link does there: the Bulkhead card, Get Bulkhead, the map and How to play. Do they open the real site in a new tab, or try to load it in the small frame (or get blocked)? Fix if needed, and test on a simulated itch host.

07:07: Where a Derelict player lands after the card

The card's picture opens /daily/<day>/ and its Bulkhead link opens /. Look at both as someone who just played the ship, at desktop and phone size. Can they open the ship they just walked in the editor in one tap, and is the $9 version clear? Fix the most obvious gap if it's small and safe.

09:07: Derelict's card picture opens the ship in the editor

The end card's picture is "this ship open in Bulkhead", but a click lands on the day's map page, one more tap away from the editor. Point the picture straight at /?open=/daily/<day>/ship.bulkhead.json, after checking that the editor opens that ship with nothing in the way (the welcome box). Keep the "Download today's map free" link on the map page. Test with tsc and Playwright, deploy to the site well before 11:07Z, and add it to the held itch batch; no zip to the boss now.

11:07: 20 Oct daily by hand, then check the new rules live

Crons are paused, so run scripts/host/daily-host.sh in the background as the daily prompt says, then npm run status and check meta.json has today's Bluesky URL. After that, check the first ship with the new rules: venting, welding and one-way doors on today's ship; a challenge link (read only, no test run posted); and the day page's editor button now under the map.

12:28: Derelict's itch analytics next to our own pings

The boss sent Derelict's itch analytics (12 views, 6 browser plays, 183 impressions over 7 days, 1.09% CTR, six referrers). Write those into FACTS.md. Then read our pings since 20 Oct 00:00Z (-itch and card-*) to see what those 6 plays did in the game: boarded, finished, clicked the Bulkhead card. Say which step loses the most people.

12:30: Did Derelict's itch players play a whole ship?

The boss asked: "Can you see if people played a whole ship?" Find out what our data can show: runs boarded against runs ended (out or dead), how long a run took between its pings, and, for daily runs, the score and rescue on the board. Answer plainly, and say what it can't show.

12:37: Derelict's itch batch: run analytics, then one zip

The boss: "Anything else you want to put in it. I'd like to get those analytics in". The batch so far: the practice card's picture falls back to yesterday's ship, and the card's picture opens the editor. Add: one summary ping when a run ends (out or dead, with logs read, rooms entered and steps taken, in buckets), and a "left" ping when the page closes or hides mid-run (with steps and rooms), so a quit can be told from a fail. Same bare GET as now, no ids. Test with tsc, the test suite and Playwright, deploy to the site, check that events.sh reads the new pings, then build the zip and send the boss one zip, saying it is the last one.

13:07: Size it: play a ship you drew in Derelict

• Why: on the first itch day, 0 of 6 players clicked the end card. The card sells an editor to people who came to play. A game player might want to draw their own derelict and play it, or send it to a friend. That would make the editor part of the game.
• Do: find out what the game needs to load a ship from a Bulkhead JSON (the format, rules, airlock, logs and par). Find out what the demo editor lets you save. Find out what that means for the paid version. Write down the cost and a yes or no; build nothing yet.
• Done when: LEARNED.md or plan Next has the sizing, with the files and functions named.

13:37: Play a ship you drew in Derelict

• The boss said "go ahead with your plan" (the sizing in Next).
• Steps: 1. Move the share-link packing into a shared module. 2. Derelict reads #s= as the "yours" mode: not counted, no board, every live rule, pings -yours. 3. The editor gets a "Play it in Derelict" button. 4. The end card offers "draw your own". 5. A shared result carries the ship. 6. Tests.
• Website only; no itch zip.
• Done when: a ship drawn in the editor plays in /derelict/ on the live site, and a result link opens the same ship. Tests, tsc and deploy pass.

15:07: How to play: draw your own ship; first look at today's pings

• Why: jam raters read the how-to-play page, and the "draw your own" feature is only on the end card and in the editor. Someone drawing from scratch has to know the conventions: an airlock in the hull, and "Salvage:" and "Log fragment:" notes.
• Do: - Add a short section to /derelict/how/, from the same source as the rest of the page. - Check that the editor's room-notes box gives the same hint. - Read events.sh since 06:00Z to see whether any new ping has come in yet.
• Done when: the page is live with the section, tests pass, and the pings are noted.

17:07: Play it in Derelict on the ships people actually have

• Why: someone who presses the new button probably has the example ship, a generated intact ship, or a ship from a Roll20/Foundry pack on screen, not a derelict. If those board into "no way aboard" or an empty ship, the first try of the feature is a dud.
• Do: check boarding, items, air and par for the example ship, intact ships of each size, and the free pack ships. Fix whatever makes them a poor game, within the game's rules for drawn ships only.
• Done when: every such ship boards and has something to find, or the gap is written down with a reason. Tests pass.

17:59: Derelict zip for the boss's upload, rebuilt with today's later changes

• The boss asked "Are you ready for me to change out the zip". The zip sent earlier today has the analytics, but not the "draw your own" card or the card picture fixes. Since it isn't uploaded yet, rebuild it, check it as itch, and send this one in place of the earlier one.
• Done when: the zip is checked on a local itch origin (card picture loads from the site, links go to the site, pings fire) and sent.

19:07: Pings since the drawn-ship deploy and the new zip

• Mail first. Then events.sh since 16:00Z: is the new itch zip up (run-*-itch pings), and has anyone pressed Play it in Derelict, played a -yours run, or clicked the card link?
• If the zip is up and the pings are sound, write down the baseline for tomorrow's read. If not, find out why from the pings, not by guessing.
• Then, with the time left, take the first open item in Next that needs no boss and no posting.

21:07: The 22 Oct Reddit slot: pick the sub and draft the post

• Mail first. The next Reddit ask is allowed from 22 Oct, and it must read as a post for that sub's readers first, not a product gallery (r/starfinder_rpg removed one under Rule 4).
• Check what LEARNED and FACTS already say about each candidate sub, then read the candidate's current rules on AI-made content and self-promotion with the tools, citing what I read.
• Draft one post for the boss (AI disclosed in the first line, lowercase, no em-dashes) into app/store/, with the sub's rule quoted beside it. Post nothing.

21:53: What the latest Derelict plays show

• The boss asked what I see now that more people played. Mail first, then events.sh since 16:00Z and since the last read (19:07Z): run-* pings (is the new zip up?), how far runs get, quits, shares, card clicks, the drawn-ship pings.
• Answer with what the numbers say and what they don't. Change nothing.

21:59: Pictures for the 22 Oct Greyling post, hosted under /press/greyling/

• Mail first. Make the gallery for the r/Star_Wars_Maps draft: the upper and lower deck GM maps of RSV Greyling and the room key page, as PNGs that read on a phone at Reddit's width.
• Put them in app/public/press/greyling/, deploy (not near 11:07Z, not during a push), fetch each live, and put the links in store/REDDIT-STAR-WARS-MAPS.md.
• Check the one-shot page's links (PDF, open in editor) answer live. Post nothing.

22:08: Greyling post says "made by a vibecoded app"

• The boss: "made by an AI agent" is too much; they are changing it to "made by a vibecoded app". Change the draft's title and first line to match, note it in FACTS, and update my memory so later drafts use it.

22:11: The Greyling post is up: find it and read the first numbers

• The boss: "First one is posted". Note it in FACTS with the time. Read r/Star_Wars_Maps /new logged out to find the post (score, comments, flair, that the pictures and link show). No votes, no replies.
• Read events.sh since the post for /derelict-one-shot/ views, the PDF, and editor opens of the Greyling. Report; change nothing.

22:13: Read the Greyling post from the boss's link

• Open the share link logged out, resolve it to the post, and read score, comments, flair, whether it shows on the sub, and that the pictures and the one-shot link are there. No votes, no replies. Note the post URL in FACTS.

22:25: "The captain's chairs look like toilets": read it, find the glyph

• The boss: a commenter called the captain's chairs toilets, and sent three top posts from the sub (painted, lit battle maps at 46 to 259 points) as what readers are used to.
• Read the comment logged out (masked). Find the chair glyph in the renderer, see it beside a toilet glyph, and work out whether a better chair is a small fix. Write the look gap into LEARNED. No reply on Reddit.

22:36: A devlog for the Derelict upload

• The boss's screenshot: itch says "You recently updated this page ... Consider posting a devlog" (added derelict-itch.zip, 5 images). Draft a short devlog for the boss to paste, in the boss-voice rules with "vibecoded", into store/ITCH-DERELICT.md. Post nothing.

22:56: A picture for the drawn-ship devlog

• The boss asked for a picture for the devlog. Make one from the local build (no live pings): the RSV Greyling in the editor beside the same ship in Derelict after "Play it in Derelict". Host it under /press/derelict/, deploy, fetch it live, give the link.

23:07: Drawn-ship intro stops promising a board

• In Derelict, a ship someone drew opens with "Today's ship has a board…" and then says "it isn't counted". Show the board line only for the daily, and keep "isn't counted" for drawn ships and practice. Add a test, run tsc and the suite, deploy, then check the live page for a drawn ship using a local Playwright run against the live site, with pings and /api/ blocked.
• On the way: read mail/in, and run events.sh since 22:00Z to see whether the Greyling post brought anyone.

Next

• Done on the site: the board line shows on the daily only. The itch zip still has it, and it goes in the next batch with the chair.
• BUILT and live 20 Oct (see the entry above). From 21 Oct, read play-derelict (the editor button), -yours pings and card-bhDraw with events.sh. The zip rebuilt 20 Oct 17:59 has the new card and the hand-drawn mode; drawn ships open on the website, not in itch. Sizing as it was:
• Sized 20 Oct: "play a ship you drew in Derelict". Verdict: yes, on the website first. About 2 hours. The itch zip waits for the next real batch. - The game already plays any Bulkhead ship. It does new Game(deserialize(json)). - Boarding: boardingPoint boards at the first airlock door on the hull, or else at a hull breach. With neither it throws 'no way aboard', so show "add an airlock in Bulkhead" instead. - Items: placeItems reads the room key. Note lines starting "Log fragment" become logs and "Salvage:" lines become salvage. Lockers and crates add loose salvage, at most 6. - Hazards come from "Hazard:" notes. Par, air, survivor, drone and so on are worked out from the ship itself. - A ship drawn with no notes still plays, but with only loose salvage and no logs. - The hand-off already exists in the editor (src/main.ts ~1070): share links put the whole ship, deflated, after #s= (a daily-sized ship is about 3.7 KB of URL). The paid file:// edition already sends share links to the hosted site. - To build: 1. Move b64url/inflate into a shared module. 2. Game: loadShip reads #s= as a fourth mode, "yours". It isn't counted, has no board and no vs link, and uses every live rule (rulesFor(null)). Pings: -yours. 3. Editor: a "Play it in Derelict" button next to Share, opening /derelict/#s=.... 4. Derelict end card: the offer becomes "Draw your own derelict in Bulkhead and play it here, or dare a friend with the link". It opens the editor on the day's ship, as the picture does now. 5. Result share: carries the #s= link, so a friend plays the same hand-made ship. 6. Test: a hand-drawn deck with one airlock and two notes plays and scores; no airlock gives the message. - Why yes: on the first itch day 0 of 6 card clicks; jam players don't want a VTT map, but they might want to make a level. It gives them a reason to open the editor, where the $9 upsell is. It is also a jam feature before rating opens on 31 Oct. Not a direct sale: GMs are still the buyers, and the paid files (VTT, PDF) don't change. - Check after: the end card's clicks (go/ pings) and -yours plays in events.sh.
• Itch batch sent 20 Oct (one zip, the last for now): practice card fallback, card picture opens the editor, and the run analytics (run-<how>-s<steps band>-r<rooms entered>of<rooms>-l<logs read>of<logs>, run-left for a quit mid-run, share and share-vs). From 21 Oct read them with events.sh; until the boss uploads, itch plays still send only the old pings.
• From 21 Oct: read the Derelict funnel in events.sh, on the site and in the itch frame (-itch): view, board (a run started), out/dead, card-* (bhOpen, bulkhead, mapLink, buy, how). Since the Derelict links went live (19 Oct 09:00Z to 20 Oct 03:00Z) there was no human /derelict/ view at all, so the jam entry is the first real test. Which card link gets clicked decides what to change on the end screen.
• When a daily ship switches on welding or one-way doors, add them to /derelict/how/ in the same commit.
• After the 20 Oct daily deploy: check a challenge link live. GET /api/board/<day>?vs=<callsign> answers, the title-card line shows; no test run posted to the live board.
• Done 19 Oct: Chronicles card and share tags are live; docent mailed.
• Venting is switched on in the working tree (committed 19 Oct). Do not deploy Bulkhead before the 20 Oct 11:07Z daily, which ships it with the new ship; after it, check a live practice run and the board.
• Jam share 19 Oct: about 53.5% by the JAM-NEW measure, too thin. Next game block: a venting room. A hull-breach room drags you one square toward the breach as you enter or cross it, costs air, and makes a cut or a sealed door matter. Put it behind static venting = false like the 18 Oct switches, so today's board replays don't change. Build it with a test and a bot fairness check, draw it, then switch it on with a daily ship (deploy between 11:07Z runs, never during). Add it to DERELICT-JAM-NEW.md with a fresh measure. Aim for at least 60% before the boss submits (target 24 Oct).
• Derelict links went live 19 Oct 09:17Z (home, nav, /daily/, every day page; noindex dropped). Read real derelict-board and derelict-out pings on 21 Oct against 0 before.
• 18 OCT DAILY (11:07Z): set engine.ts lines 422, 425, 430 and 435 to true (dry-run again 18 Oct 09:xx with the drone fix: 134/134 on and off). Run tests and commit, then the daily. Verify live, rebuild and redeploy the itch zip, then tell the boss they can submit. Then node scripts/media-daily.mjs 2026-10-18 for the docent.
• From 18 Oct: read brief-vtt against generate-* in events.sh (LEARNED 17 Oct, where the editor loses people).
• JAM THEME IS TORCH (17 Oct). Item 1 of the new half is a cutting torch: limited fuel, cut a sealed door or cut through a wall into the next room as a shortcut, a new move letter so replay stays exact, and a lit circle drawn around you. Size the fuel with the bot. Then a survivor and the rest below, fitted to torches where it's true to the game.
• JAM NEW HALF (from 17 Oct 03:00Z; the host wants 50% new content made during the jam, LEARNED 17 Oct). Don't let the boss submit until app/store/DERELICT-JAM-NEW.md clearly outweighs the pre-jam game, aiming for about 24 Oct so there is a week of votes. Candidates, theme permitting, biggest first: (1) a survivor aboard: some ships hold one crew member you can find and walk out (slower, uses air), worth more than any cache, and the logs say where they hid; (2) new ways the ship fights back: power cuts that hide the plan, venting rooms that push you, a door that only opens from one side; (3) four new causes of death, each with logs and room changes; (4) the leaderboard, only if the boss says yes. Fit it to the theme once it's out. Rewrite the step 5 devlog from the JAM-NEW list.
• Jam (17 to 31 Oct, submissions open 03:00Z today): the boss makes the itch page and submits, using /press/derelict. When the theme is announced, read it and work it into Derelict. Competition check on 25 Oct, target top 20.
• Leaderboard: asked the boss 16 Oct. It needs the Cloudflare token confirmed as rotated, or a KV namespace the boss creates. Build nothing until they answer.
• Daily run after 11:07Z if today's derelict is missing.
• AI Browser Game Jam 5 (17 to 31 Oct, https://itch.io/jam/ai-jam-5): a reason to start Derelict on 17 Oct instead of waiting for the 22 Oct decision. Bulkhead is shipped and for sale, so RULES allow app two. Put it to the boss; the boss would join the jam and submit the page.
• Fourteen Ships itch page: handed to the boss 15 Oct. Once it is live: check the page, add it to Bulkhead's page and the site, IndexNow. Compare its views against the free packs (16/11) on 22 Oct.
• Chair fix (20 Oct, live on the site): still old in the itch zip (next real batch), the paid 1.18 file (next release.mjs run, with the rest of the next src batch), the Greyling PDF and /press/greyling/ pictures (remake when the PDF is next rebuilt), and the free packs. Don't send a zip for it alone.
• GREYLING POST UP 20 Oct 22:11Z (r/Star_Wars_Maps, FACTS). Read it at 24 h, about 22:00Z 21 Oct: score, comments (masked), events.sh for /derelict-one-shot/, the PDF and ?open=/adventure/ editor opens. The next Reddit ask is a week on, not before 27 Oct.
• 22 Oct Reddit slot: draft ready in app/store/REDDIT-STAR-WARS-MAPS.md (r/Star_Wars_Maps, DECK PLAN, RSV Greyling as a Halloween one-shot). Pictures hosted 20 Oct (links in the draft). On 22 Oct: check the one-shot page live, then ask once, on 22 Oct, for 14:00 to 17:00 UTC.
• 22 Oct baseline, read 20 Oct 19:1x with scripts/itch-stats.sh (my-games counts): bulkhead views 44, downloads 4, purchases 0; pack 2 views 12, downloads 1; free pack views 18, downloads 3; derelict views 18. Bluesky 9 followers. Fourteen Ships is still not on the itch profile (handed over 15 Oct).
• 22 Oct, decision point (set 15 Oct): when the sale ends, read itch views, downloads and purchases. If Bulkhead still has 0 sales after the kits bundle and the Owlbear listing have had their chance, stop pushing it as the main work: keep the daily running, and pick app two. Pick it for a market where an AI-made tool is welcome (check each store's and community's AI rule before building), and with a channel that reaches buyers on day one.
• ROLL20 AND DRIVETHRU CLOSED (15 Oct): DriveThru Partners wrote that no standalone artwork "generated in whole or in part by AI" is accepted on any Roll20 or DriveThru marketplace, and that AI-touched titles must carry the Contains AI-Generated Content filter. The packs are made by AI-written code, so they do not go there in any form. Do not resubmit, do not change the Creation Method, do not send the drafted question. The seven drafts can stay in Drafts. The pack kits and store/roll20/ stay as they are (a possible itch bundle, see below).
• Re-plan the paid bet (16 Oct): itch (Bulkhead $9 on sale to 22 Oct, then $12) and the Owlbear store. Facts first: itch views and buys since the sale began, which pages bring the visits that become itch views (events by referrer, sittings). One candidate to weigh: put the ten ready ship kits on itch as a paid map bundle beside Bulkhead, stated plainly as procedurally generated by AI-written code (itch allows that when tagged; check itch's current AI disclosure rule first). No new free packs.
• r/starfinder_rpg is closed: the 15 Oct post was removed under Rule 4 (low effort). Do not ask the boss to message the mods or repost. The next Reddit ask is still not before 22 Oct, and it must read as a post for that sub's readers first (a question, a how-to, a free map), not as a product gallery.
• 22 Oct, after 22:00Z (DECIDED 19 Oct, see LEARNED): Bulkhead stays $9 and does not go back to $12. The boss changes the itch base price from $12 to $9 once the sale has ended; the site already says $9 everywhere, so no set-price run. Then check status (itch $9, site $9) and that the buy button lands on $9.
• When the boss says pack 2 is submitted: take its press/r20 folder down (back it up to the scratchpad first), deploy, and check for 404. Then pack 3 (RSV Umber) the same way, one at a time, to stay under any weekly cap. The page generator is scratchpad/r20page.py; copy it to app/scripts/roll20-page.py if it gets used again.
• The itch page is fixed as of 15 Oct (no video, 3 screenshots, new sample, see-through line, devlog 1.19). From 16 Oct, watch itch views and purchases daily against the 15 Oct baseline (36 views, 3 downloads, 0 purchases), and look at the itch.io/devlogs feed and the referrers in itch analytics if the API shows them.
• When the boss says "devlog": check /bulkhead/devlog lists it, and that it shows on itch.io/devlogs or the tag pages. With each future release, write the devlog in the same turn and put it next to the upload task, so it doesn't get lost again.
• When the boss says "pictures": load the itch page at phone width with Playwright. Check there is no video, there are 3 screenshots with the ship first, there are 10 tags, and the see-through line is in. Then re-run the itch searches ("deck plan", "starship", "map editor") to see whether the new tags show us.
• After the boss posts task 12: read the thread logged out about 2 h and 24 h later, names masked. Draft answers only, nothing goes out without them. Log points and comments in LEARNED.
• Decided 15 Oct (boss asked how anyone pays): no new free packs or free giveaways. The daily derelict stays as the one free hook. Roll20 packs are the main paid bet (buyers already pay $4.99 there and never see our free things). The $12 editor stays, sold on what the free versions don't do: fleet, adventure PDF, print PDF, .dd2vtt, no watermark. The Owlbear extension stays free, as promised in its own text and to the store reviewer.
• itch is indexed (15 Oct). After the boss uploads 1.19: re-read the itch tags and the description's first lines for itch search, and add the see-through line.
• Check PR 174 in a few days: has the label come off, and has a review been requested?
• Next Owlbear panel change: bump manifest version (1.17.2) so the Rogue Store re-reads store.md.
• Ask the boss to post the reply on PR #174 (needs response label). Text is in the chat at 17:07. Put it first in the batch.
• Next lever is reach for the editor, not more Roll20 products: put this week's Reddit slot in the next batched ask (not stacked), after the GitHub token.
• Ask the boss for a new GitHub token (fine-grained, contents read/write on walkertbrown/bulkhead only), to go into .git-credentials. Then push the local commits.
• bulkhead-1.19.zip is built, passes paid-check and pack-check, and is deployed in the rel folder. Batch ask for the boss: on itch, upload 1.19 and delete 1.18 (or I give them the link). Once the uploads API shows 1.19, add the see-through line to itch-description.html for the boss to paste.
• Roll20 one-ship products: add a theme loop (#style: blueprint, dungeon/parchment, print) to roll20-pack.mjs. That's a scripts-only change, no src. 3 themes x GM/player x grid/gridless = 12 images per deck. A space or transparent background would need a src change: render.ts paints t.bg into the void and also uses it to erase hull edges, so it can't just be skipped. Do that after the daily, with tests.
• Roll20: pack 2 onward should be one ship per product ($4.99), with more variants: a space background, a transparent background, emergency lighting. Before building, check whether roll20-pack.mjs can get those from the editor. Give the boss a paste list of image names and tags in upload order. Ask the boss (batched): can image names and tags on a submitted product still be edited in Item Management?
• (done 13 Oct, pack 1 built) Roll20 first product: ships that aren't free anywhere, as good as the application samples. Render each deck at 140 px per square as JPG: GM labeled and player unlabeled, each gridded and gridless. Check that grid lines bisect walls. List each deck's size in squares for the uploader. Write the listing text with the code-drawn and AI-agent disclosure, and price it at least $4.99. Verify it in a real Roll20 page if the boss can (one ask, once it's finished). Then give the boss one link and paste-ready fields.
• The Roll20 batched ask (ticket #491430) is answered: approved. Drop it from the batch.
• 27 Oct: re-read sittings.sh since 2026-10-04T20:00:00Z for saves per web Generate sitting (13 Oct: 3 of 9), intro-pic sittings (13 Oct: 0) and desktop one-press exits (13 Oct: 2 of 6). Act only once there are 20 or more web sittings.
• Late October (Halloween, 31 Oct): a derelict one-shot angle for a Reddit slot after this week's, once the last post went okay (at most one a week). A GM on r/Starfinder2e wanted a ship for a Halloween one-shot. Draft it from the free adventure pages, facts checked, and give it to the boss as a choice. Landing page: /derelict-one-shot/ (RSV Greyling, horror tone, free 8-page PDF, 5 ft squares), checked live 12 Oct. Earliest slot: about 26 Oct, if a post goes out this week and went okay.
• r/starfinder_rpg DRAFT v2 (12 Oct, after Tech Core). Waiting on the boss to pick it over task 8. Not on /press/. Flair: Ad. Images: upper deck, then lower deck, from public/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/. - Title: "[free] ICV Halcyon Drift, a two deck ship map for tech core starship combat, 5 ft squares, png and foundry walls" - Line 1: "an ai agent built the tool that drew this ship, and it wrote this post. i'm the human who posts it." - Line 2: "tech core says every crew should make a starship map showing where each battle station is (p. 167), so here is a free one." - Line 3: "upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, galley, medbay, cargo, armoury, engineering and the drive. lower deck is a hold where something has been nesting in the crates, a machine shop, life support with pump 2 failing, and four escape pods, two showing green." - Line 4: "one way to place the stations: pilot's console and scanners on the bridge, generator in engineering, gunnery in the armoury and the cargo hold, drone console in the machine shop downstairs. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/starfinder-deck-plans/"; - Line 5: "free and cc0: a png and a .dd2vtt per deck with walls, doors and lights, a print pdf and the room key. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/"; - Line 6: "no image generator. the decks come from dice tables in code that runs in your browser. the editor has a free demo and a $12 full version, which is why it's flaired ad." - Facts checked 12 Oct: the p. 167 quote and the station names are from AoN (LEARNED, 12 Oct); the stations layout is word for word from the live /starfinder-deck-plans/; the files (2 png, 2 dd2vtt, pdf, key .md) are linked on the live map page; the rooms are from the key; sizes and lights are as checked on 6 Oct. Dropped the Foundry importer and sf2e detail to keep it short.
• 19 Oct: views of /starfinder-deck-plans/ and Starfinder queries in Search Console. If any appear, consider a battle station marker (pilot's console, gunnery, generator) in the editor (src, with full tests).
• About 10 Oct: once Tech Core is out, find whether its starship combat sets a scale or size for the ship battle map, or ships sample maps (reviews, Archives of Nethys). If it does, match /starfinder-deck-plans/ to it. 19 Oct: Search Console queries containing starfinder.
• This week's one Reddit slot, waiting on the boss: task 8 (r/FoundryVTT, already on /press/) or r/starfinder_rpg for Tech Core week (draft in plan/2026-10-05.md Next, verified 6 Oct 01:07). If they pick r/starfinder_rpg, put it on /press/ with one URL and copy-paste text, then read the thread back logged out 24 h later.
• 8 Oct: RUM against the pings again (visits.sh vs events.sh since 5 Oct). If RUM is still 0 while the pings have 10+ views, put one line in the batch: does the Web Analytics dashboard show visits after 4 Oct? Until then, count visits with events.sh.
• 6 Oct after the 11:07 daily: the first daily built by the lights-count script. Read its page's "carries …" line against its .dd2vtt light count.
• Batch ask candidate, after task 3 and task 1 (LEARNED, 5 Oct): FoundryMods. Ask the boss to sign in to foundrymods.com and say whether a module that isn't on foundryvtt.com can be added. If yes, list Bulkhead Deck Plans by its manifest URL. Facts only; it is an alpha site.
• 19 Oct: /foundry/ in Search Console (query,page filtered to foundry, --fresh). Its title changed on 5 Oct to lead with "Free sci-fi starship maps for Foundry VTT v14". It had no rows before the change. Re-inspect it too, so we know Google has crawled it since 5 Oct.
• From the texttotabletop read (LEARNED, 5 Oct): one search, one page, tied to a moment. Candidate for Tech Core week: put "Starfinder 2e" in /starfinder-deck-plans/'s title and h1, which is true (5 ft squares per the 2e Player Core, and the sf2e system was checked on 29 Sep), and say nothing about what Tech Core contains. First, at the 9 Oct inspect, see whether Google has the page at all. If it's still "Discovered", a title change won't matter yet. Don't write a blog-style page per topic until one page shows clicks.
• After r/starfinder_rpg (so the week of 12 Oct at the earliest), and only if task 8 didn't go bad on the AI line: an r/Star_Wars_Maps post (LEARNED, 5 Oct). [DECK PLAN] flair, or [Self Promotion] if it links the $12 page. One derelict's decks as PNGs with the size in the title ([WxH]), like the makers there do. AI line first; the creator's one rule is to say when AI is used. Second line: the maps come from dice tables in the page. Link a free map page, not the store. Not a Star Wars ship, and no Star Wars names. Before writing it, check the sub's sidebar again and look at the last 2 weeks of [DECK PLAN] posts.
• Foundry validation ran on 14.365 because foundry-validate.mjs runs on demo.foundryvtt.com, which is on that build. Stable is 14.368. That isn't ours to move: the demo will catch up. Each Sunday run's log line names the core it used. If it ever goes back to 13.x, the v14 claim on /foundry/ needs a look.
• Owlbear page, from 4 Oct: 7 views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ since 1 Oct 12:10, and 0 obr-copy, 0 obr-rogue. At 20+ views with still 0 copies, make the store link the page's first button above the manifest URL (one press, nothing to paste), then count obr-rogue again.
• r/starfinder_rpg, the week of Tech Core (out 7 Oct). Write it on Tue 6 Oct, after task 8's first day shows how r/FoundryVTT took it, and give it to the boss for Wed 7 or Thu 8. Shape: a gallery post with the Ad flair (the page links the $12 version), three to four deck PNGs at 5 ft squares from one ship, and the first line saying an AI agent made the maps and the post. Second paragraph, from the 30 Sep lessons: the maps come from dice tables in code that run in your browser, with no image model and no server. Never call Generate optional. A free .dd2vtt per deck for Foundry's sf2e system, and a link to /starfinder-deck-plans/. Don't claim Tech Core has starship rules: neither source says so. No staged replies. If task 8 goes negative on the AI line, hold this one and say why. - The ship is chosen (4 Oct): ICV Halcyon Drift. Images: the upper deck (3600x1700, 233 kB) and the lower deck (2700x1700, 151 kB), both from public/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/. The link is /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/, so the post also tests a map page's opens and downloads directly. Tuesday adds only the text. - DRAFT (5 Oct, from the key on disk; Tuesday adjusts it, then re-check every fact against the live page before /press/). Flair: Ad. Images: upper deck, then lower deck. - Title: "[free] ICV Halcyon Drift, a two deck starship on 5 ft squares, png and foundry walls (36x17 and 27x17)" - Body, line 1: "an ai agent built the tool that drew this ship, and it wrote this post. i'm the human who posts it." - Body, line 2: "no image generator here. the decks come from dice tables in code that runs in your browser, laid out room by room on a 5 ft grid." - Body, line 3: "upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, galley, medbay, cargo, armoury, engineering and the drive. lower deck is a hold where something has been nesting in the crates, a machine shop, life support with pump 2 failing, and four escape pods, two showing green." - Body, line 4: "free and cc0: a png and a .dd2vtt per deck (walls, doors and lights, imports into foundry with the universal battlemap importer, works under the sf2e system), a print pdf and the room key. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/"; - Body, line 5: "the editor that made it has a free demo and a $12 full version, which is why it's flaired ad." - Facts used: sizes from the page (36x17 upper, 27x17 lower, 100 px per 5 ft square). Rooms are word for word from icv-halcyon-drift-key.md. sf2e is from the 29 Sep check (sf2e 1.5.1, verified on v14). Checked 5 Oct: the PNGs are 3600x1700 and 2700x1700, and the .dd2vtt files say 36x17 and 27x17 at 100 px, with 19 and 8 portals and 6 and 3 lights.
• Batched asks, after task 1 (facts only): did [email removed] ever answer ticket #491430 (Roll20 Marketplace application, 15 Sep)? If it answered, what did it say? If it is silent past 13 Oct (4 weeks), the boss can reply on the ticket. Roll20's forum says that helps. If it was approved, rebuild store/roll20/halcyon-drift-pack.zip from the 1.18 build before uploading, because the current pack was rendered from 1.12.2. Better: build it from a ship that isn't free on /maps/, because Halcyon Drift is CC0 there and is the r/starfinder_rpg ship.
• 11 Oct: /maps/ opens again (events.sh since 1 Oct 12:10, 'view /maps/<slug>/'). It was 0 of 12 on 4 Oct, and the screenshots showed no fault. At 20+ views with 0 opens, try a direct download link on each card.
• 16 Oct, when The Last TTRPG Jam opens (theme on its page): re-read the rules, then make a one-sheet derelict boarding game on A4. The press is app/scripts/one-sheet.mjs (ship json, side-two HTML, out PDF); generate a fresh one-deck derelict on the day. Write all game text on or after 16 Oct; the jam says no pre-released content. Side one is a Bulkhead-generated derelict GM map with its trail. Side two is rules, a d6 of what goes wrong, a clock and the theme. The first line says an AI agent made it, and the map line credits Bulkhead. CC0, free. Only when the PDF is finished and checked, give the boss one /press/ step: a new free itch project and the jam submit. Next jam re-check is 17 Oct.
• When the boss says "pictures" or task 1 is done: fetch the itch page, check the screenshot order, that the video is gone and the tags, and that the demo file is the 816 kB examples zip (by size; never print md5s).
• 9 Oct inspect, also: /derelict-one-shot/ (unknown on 3 Oct; sitemap resubmitted and Bing-submitted 09:2x) and the four still-Discovered landing pages. On 3 Oct /deck-plan-generator/ had moved to indexed (crawled 1 Oct).
• 9 Oct, with the Google re-inspect: count bingbot hits since 2 Oct 07:16 on the 20 paths sent with bing-submit (/, the 7 keyword pages, /maps/ and the 11 map pages), against the 26 Sep week, when IndexNow alone left bingbot reading one page. If Bing still hasn't read them, bing-submit is as empty as IndexNow, so stop spending turns on it.
• Real-room batch, after task 1: in Owlbear with Dynamic Fog, check that a bridge "Window" (now sent closed) stops a token and that the GM can open it with the door tool. The source says yes. This is just to see it.
  • (Dropped 5 Oct, 08:2x: Scene Importer's own parser, run in node on our zip, imports 0 scenes because v11+ packs keep walls as separate keys. See LEARNED. Not a room test.)
• If a GM ever reports a room with no way in on a derelict: it opens on a hole (the 13:09 guard test proves it). Check how a breach draws at small sizes and in the PNG before touching the generator.
• itch support follow-up: it's task 3 on /press/ (a reply in the 18 Sep thread). After task 1, a 1.18 devlog replaces the unpublished 1.17 draft. Devlogs get indexed even while the page isn't. Once indexed: add the ttrpg tag and re-run itch-indexed.mjs.
• /maps/ from 4 Oct: Free maps is the intro's second visible button now. Count sittings that go / → /maps/, and whether they open a map page or come back and press Generate (before: 8 of 9 /maps/ sittings came from /, and none opened a map page). If it only pulls people away from the derelict, move it under More.
• Owlbear funnel, 4 Oct: bash scripts/installs.sh 2026-09-20T00:00:00Z against 34 listing / 25 manifest / 10 icon / 6 panel (3 Oct). If the panel count rises while the listing count holds, more people who add Bulkhead are finding it.
• Owlbear path, from 4 Oct: views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/, then obr-copy and obr-rogue (counted since 1 Oct, 12:10), then obr-view, then obr-send, in events.sh. If people view the page but nobody copies, the page is what to fix. If they copy but nothing opens the panel, look at the install step in Owlbear. After each daily, run the switch check on a worktree.
• Phone Generate sittings after the room key fix (deployed by 07:17): per sitting, do phones now press Another one, Save or Link? Also per sitting: intact or derelict, and where it started (intro-derelict / intro-intact are counted from 2 Oct, about 05:12; the demo intro has led with the derelict since 05:00). Before, by app/scripts/sittings.sh 2026-09-28T00:00:00Z 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z: 5 of 29 web sittings saw a derelict, 1 saved or linked, 9 pressed more than once (the 04:54 count of 3 of 22 was off; see the 08:08 actual). Run the same script from 2026-10-02T05:12:00Z for after. 25 Sep to 1 Oct counted 103 intact presses against 13 derelict, but one phone made 58 presses on 1 Oct. If real sittings mostly stay on intact (the select's default) and never see a story, try derelict as the first press, then measure saves. Group by hour, country and device as on 1 Oct (a temporary script in app/scripts/, removed after). Read from/ alongside it.
• Batch question after task 1, on the same Android phone: download bulkhead-1.18.zip from /press/, unzip it, and open bulkhead.html. Does the editor run, and does Generate work? Then the same on an iPhone if there's one to hand. The file itself runs from disk in WebKit and in Chromium as a phone, even with storage blocked (the 2 Oct 18:07 actual); what's unknown is whether the phone opens it in a browser at all. If it doesn't, the itch page and the demo's upsell must say "for a computer" before anyone pays.
• Batch questions after task 1, all in one real Owlbear room. First, the .dd2vtt export from the panel on an Android phone: does a "downloaded" notice show, what is the file called in Downloads (it should end .dd2vtt), and does a two-deck ship bring up a "download multiple files?" prompt? (BR, 30 Sep: three presses, then a desktop save 25 min later. No sandbox on the frame and ~1 s to the download, checked 09:07.) Then a hex send and dragging in a -WxH PNG.
• Before task 1: after any src fix a buyer would get, run release.mjs 1.18 (it runs pack-check), --fix stale pack PDFs, re-make the Greyling by hand if it is flagged, bump ?v= on /press/ and itch-description, deploy, read every changed file back. Since 19:2x on 3 Oct: 1.18 zip ?v=1004b (since 21:2x on 4 Oct, with the short-phone card fix and the Global Illumination README lines), pack ?v=1018 (since 20:2x), examples zip and Greyling ?v=1004. From the upload on, pack ships don't change.
• Old .dd2vtt walls: done on 1 Oct (the daily archive, the weekly zip, Foundry 1.4.0). The /maps/ pages and both free packs (store/ = public/packs/; store/ is what I prepared for itch, but I can't see itch's uploaded files, so this is an assumption) already had the right walls, so the itch free packs need no re-upload. Drop that from the after-task-1 batch.
• Task 1 is now the file swap (the switch went live on 3 Oct). When status shows "itch sells the current" ok for both files, take the paid zips off /press/, drop the pack from the zip check, and paste the 1.18 devlog (store/DEVLOG-1.18.md) as the next ask.

01:07: Derelict itch build: check today's changes, refresh the jam text

• Itch build checked from another origin (python server on 127.0.0.1:8793 serving dist-itch, Playwright, /api/ blocked): the 19 Oct ship loads from the live site, How to play opens the real site's /derelict/how/ in a new tab, the copied result carries the ?vs challenge link and the button says "Copy result and challenge". No page errors. derelict-itch.zip 164 KB, 13 files. Nothing uploaded to itch.
• app/store/ITCH-DERELICT.md Description brought up to date: venting rooms bullet, a "Challenge a friend" paragraph, the how-to-play link, the made-during-the-jam list now ends with venting, challenge links and the how page, and the share is "about 58%" (19 Oct, said to include one-way doors and welding, which are written but still off). The paste note now says paste after the 20 Oct daily and rebuild the zip first.
• app/public/derelict/jam/index.html (the public changelog) had stopped at the 17 Oct logbook. Added: the 19 Oct measure, venting rooms, one-way doors and welding as built but off, challenge links and how to play, each with the measure from store/DERELICT-JAM-NEW.md (checked line by line: 53.5, 54.9, 56.9, 57.6, 58.6%). It goes live with the 20 Oct daily's deploy, along with the features it describes. No deploy now.
• Finished 01:10

02:12: Derelict jam entry ready tonight: rules by ship date, deploy, itch zip

• Venting, welding and one-way doors now switch on by ship date: rulesFor(day) in engine.ts, on for the 20 Oct ship onward and for practice; judge(ship, moves, day) and the worker pass the day, the page calls it once the ship is loaded. Old daily ships keep their rules.
• One-way door fairness bot with every live rule on: corvette 40/40 and freighter 40/40, off and on.
• The full suite caught one failure: the tap-walk test's reference walk went through one-way doors from the latched side, which the game doesn't allow. The reference now skips them (the real route was right to go round). New board test: a 19 Oct run judged under the old rules while the new ones are on. tsc clean, 140/140.
• Local board (fresh wrangler dev, after stopping two leftover wrangler processes from earlier that had answered the first try): an old-rules 19 Oct run scored 15, the same as the page; an unfinished run turned away.
• Deployed 02:32Z. Live, /api/ blocked: the daily is the 19 Oct RSV Peregrine with the old torch line, practice says "or weld a plate over a hole in the hull", /derelict/how/ has welding (2 air, from the engine) and one-way doors, /derelict/jam/ has the 20 Oct entry, board GET 200, no page errors.
• Itch zip rebuilt (164 KB, 13 files) and checked from 127.0.0.1:8793: live ship, How to play opens the real site in a new tab, practice has welding, no errors. Zip and description sent to the boss to submit tonight. Jam share about 58.9% (2766 of 4698).
• Finished 02:33

03:07: Does Derelict send anyone to Bulkhead: read the pings

• Mail: none. events.sh since 19 Oct 09:00Z: about 20 page views on the whole site, 14 intact generates, 1 derelict generate, 2 derelict-board-practice, 1 intro-derelict, and no human /derelict/ view at all. The funnel can't be read yet: there is next to no Derelict traffic, and the jam entry is about to be where it comes from.
• Found two blind spots for that traffic. In the itch frame count() and the view ping returned early (hostname not ours), so jam players would have been invisible. And none of the five Bulkhead links on the end-screen card was counted (only /go/buy, which events.sh doesn't read).
• Fixed in src/game/main.ts: in itch's frame (itch.zone, itch.io, hwcdn.net) the pings go to the site, no-cors, marked -itch, with a view ping /e/view/itch/derelict/. Each card link sends card-bhOpen, card-bulkhead, card-mapLink, card-buy or card-how. A local copy of the site at 127.0.0.1 still sends nothing.
• Checked with Playwright, pings caught and never sent. With the zip served at a fake html-classic.itch.zone: view, board-practice-itch and all five card-*-itch, no errors. Live after deploy (03:09Z): view/derelict/, derelict-board-practice, derelict-card-buy-practice, untagged. tsc clean; the tests don't touch main.ts.
• Rebuilt zip (164 KB, 13 files) sent to the boss to use instead of the 02:3x one. Next: read the funnel from 21 Oct.
• Finished 03:09

03:36: Short itch description for Derelict

• Wrote a 205-word plain-text description (from about 640): AI disclosure first, the hook, TORCH, four bullets, the how-to-play and jam changelog links, one line on how it was made and the Bulkhead link. It's in ITCH-DERELICT.md as the one to paste; the long one stays below as reference. Given to the boss in chat.
• Finished 03:36

03:37: Send the boss the Derelict itch pictures

• Sent the boss the cover (cover-630x500.png) and the ten screenshots in ITCH-DERELICT.md's order, from app/store/itch-derelict/. None of them show venting, welding or one-way doors yet; a shot of those can follow once the 20 Oct ship is out.
• Finished 03:37

03:37: Send the boss the Derelict itch pictures

• The boss asked for 3 to 5. Looked at them and sent five: torch, fire, survivor, drone (the busiest map), phone. Left out desk-end (the pre-jam end screen, no medals or challenge button), desk-log and desk-hazard (pre-jam), and terminal and blackout (less to see at a glance). Recorded in ITCH-DERELICT.md.
• Finished 03:39

03:47: Jamference, a look before answering

• Mid-turn the boss sent the AI Jam 5 submit form for Derelict, which asks "AI Tools Used" (required). Gave them a two-line paste matching the description: Claude Code for code, text and sound; OpenAI gpt-image-1 for the cover and end-of-run pictures. Saved it in store/ITCH-DERELICT.md.
• Jamference: answered from its welcome page only (one week, a theme up front, a surprise restriction at the start, a week of rating after). I haven't read its full rules yet, so I don't know whether an older game can enter. My view: don't decide until Derelict's first AI Jam 5 numbers show whether a jam sends anyone to Bulkhead.
• Finished 03:47

03:53: Jamference rules into FACTS, and a yes with a pitch

• The rules are in FACTS.md; what follows from them is in LEARNED.md. Derelict is out under rule 3 (no existing projects), so it would be a new game started after the bell. Rule 4 allows reusing Bulkhead's own code.
• Told the boss yes and pitched Shipwright: a crafting game where you build your own starship from salvage, and the ship you make is a real Bulkhead deck plan you can open in the editor.
• Finished 03:54

03:56: Jamference due in 3 days, and a community post draft

• The boss corrected me: Jamference submissions are due in about 3 days (about 23 Oct 07:00Z), so the build week opened about 16 Oct. FACTS.md and LEARNED.md are fixed. Derelict began about 15 Oct, so it is still out. A web search found no public Jamference page, so I'll ask the boss for the link.
• Read the AI Jam 5 community board: 19 topics. Entrants post showcase topics, and the honest design write-ups read best (CARRY). Drafted one for Derelict in the boss's voice: lowercase, AI named in the first line, no em-dashes. It's in store/ITCH-DERELICT.md for the boss to post. I posted nothing.
• Finished 03:57

04:09: Check the boss's post and the jam entry

• Both are live. The jam has the entry: the rate page is /jam/ai-jam-5/rate/5193908, and the jam shows 88 entries. The community topic is posted with the draft text; WebFetch's cached copy missed it, but a fresh curl found it. Written into FACTS.md.
• Next: Jamference. I'm waiting on its link for the exact deadline.
• Finished 04:09

04:33: Skip Jamference; Derelict's first run for the raters

• Jamference skipped. The boss gave the fact (51 joined) and the reasoning is in LEARNED.md.
• Played a first run on the live site at phone size and at itch's 820 x 760 with fresh storage (board, counters and the analytics beacon blocked). The opening briefing was about 180 words and took half the screen at itch size; on a phone it ran off the panel.
• Fix in src/game/main.ts and game.css: the briefing now shows two lines up front (the goal, par, and the distress signal or ship condition if there is one) and folds the rest under "What else is aboard". Checked on the dev server at both sizes: the map gets the space back, the fold starts closed and opens on a tap (158 words inside). tsc is clean. The tests don't cover main.ts.
• Deployed at about 04:35; the live bundle has the change. Rebuilt the itch zip (164 KB, 13 files, has the change) and sent it to the boss to re-upload, since raters play the itch copy.
• Finished 04:35

04:37: Check the re-upload, then the rest of a first run

• The re-upload is live: loaded the itch page in a browser, and the game frame's code has the folded briefing.
• Wandered a practice ship as a newcomer until the air ran out (desk and phone). The tips come one at a time, each when it applies, and read fine. The real find was on the end screen: the Bulkhead card, which is Derelict's whole job, was the last thing on it, about 2360 px down. That's three screens in itch's 760 px frame, below Earlier ships and the story.
• Moved the card (image, $9 line and links, ids unchanged, so the card-* pings still work) to right under the result buttons. On the daily's end screen it now starts at about 290 px, inside the first screen. tsc is clean.
• Deployed; the live page has the new order. Rebuilt the itch zip (164 KB, 13 files, new order) and sent it to the boss with a screenshot. The re-upload is theirs.
• Finished 04:41

04:47: Bluesky post draft for Derelict's jam entry

• Drafted it: 261 characters, lowercase, AI in the first line, no em-dashes, linking the itch jam page (ratings there are what the jam counts). Picture: desk-torch.png, sent to the boss with alt text. Saved in store/ITCH-DERELICT.md. Nothing posted.
• Finished 04:47

04:49: Post the Derelict jam post to Bluesky

• Posted on the boss's "go", with app/scripts/post-derelict-jam.mjs (a copy of the Chronicles one: prints the post without --yes). It went out word for word: 261 characters, one link facet, desk-torch.png with its alt text.
• Checked on the public feed: it's the newest post (04:50Z), with the image and a working link. The URL is in store/BLUESKY.md. Nothing else posted.
• Finished 04:50

04:50: First read of the Derelict funnel after submission and the post

• events.sh since 04:00Z (my headless runs excluded): 2 views of the itch frame; one daily run from itch that got out; one practice run from itch that died. On the site: 2 views of /, 1 of /space-station-map-maker/, 2 generates and 1 ship link. No card-* clicks yet.
• It's too early to read anything into this. The itch plays line up with the boss's own checks after uploading, so I've asked them.
• Bluesky post: 0 likes, reposts or replies so far. The rate page shows no counts while rating is open.
• Finished 04:50

05:07: Do the Bulkhead links work from inside the itch frame?

• Played a practice ship to its end inside the real itch frame. Every end-screen link opens the real site in a new tab (_blank): the card picture, Bulkhead, the free map, Get Bulkhead (/go/buy/derelict) and How to play. The card sits at 290 of 760 px, so the boss's second upload is live. Nothing was clicked, and /e/, /go/ and /api/ were blocked.
• Found a gap: on a practice ship the card's picture and link used today's date. Before about 11:07Z that day's /daily/ page and editor.png are 404, so the picture was hidden and the card was text only for about half of every day. Now it tries today's ship and falls back to yesterday's. Checked on the dev server at 05:0x: it loaded the 19 Oct picture (1600 px wide), and the link goes to /daily/2026-10-19/. tsc is clean.
• Deployed (the live bundle has it). The itch zip is rebuilt but held back: under the batching rule it goes to the boss with the next round, not now.
• Finished 05:08

07:07: Where a Derelict player lands after the card

• The card's picture (this ship open in the editor) leads to /daily/<day>/. There the "Open it in the free editor" button sat under the story: off the first screen on a phone (390 x 844) and on a desktop (1280 x 900). The $9 offer is fine: "Full version $9" is in the top menu at both sizes.
• Moved the button in the day page template (scripts/daily-derelict.mjs) to straight under the map. Checked on a patched copy of the 19 Oct page: the button is on the first screen at both sizes.
• No deploy: the daily rewrites every day page and goes live at about 11:07Z, so the change ships with it. No itch zip needed.
• Not done: the card picture could open the editor directly, but that is a change inside the game bundle, so it waits for the next itch upload batch.
• Finished 07:10

09:07: Derelict's card picture opens the ship in the editor

• The editor already handles /?open=<file>: it hides the welcome box and shows the ship's story card, with "$9 on itch.io" on it. So the card's picture (src/game/main.ts) now links to /?open=/daily/<day>/ship.bulkhead.json. That works for practice runs too, including the fallback to yesterday's ship. The "Download today's map free" link still goes to the map page. Clicks are still counted as card-bhOpen.
• Checked with tsc and Playwright on the dev server. A practice run was left at the airlock. The end card showed its picture with href /?open=/daily/2026-10-19/ship.bulkhead.json. That link, opened on the live site, showed the RSV Peregrine with its story card and no welcome box. All 140 tests pass.
• Deployed to the site at 09:17, and the live Derelict code carries the new link. On itch it waits for the next upload batch, with the practice picture fallback. No zip went to the boss.
• Finished 09:17

11:07: 20 Oct daily by hand, then check the new rules live

• The daily ran by hand at 11:07. Today's ship is Wayfarer Station; /daily/2026-10-20/ is published, and the Bluesky post went out at 11:08 with the map and a working link. npm run status: all 31 checks clear. The run committed and pushed itself ("Daily derelict 2026-10-20").
• The run still exited 1. Every page and outbound link was clean; the failure came from the link graph, which reads public/ and so called /derelict/ "a link to nothing" and /derelict/ and /derelict/how/ orphans. Those two pages are built by Vite from app/derelict/, like / and /obr/, and they answer 200 live. The same false alarm hit on 19 Oct. Fixed in scripts/lib/pages.mjs, so the next run should exit 0: fileFor now knows those two pages. node scripts/link-graph.mjs exits 0, with 62/62 sitemap pages reachable from /.
• New rules on the first ship that has them: the engine places a one-way door on today's ship and turns welding on. On 19 Oct's rules the same ship has neither. No venting rooms today: this station died of a power cascade and has no hull breach, and venting only comes where there is one.
• Challenge link, read only: GET /api/board/2026-10-19?vs=<day.Name-Name-NN> returns the challenger's score and rescue. Their moves come back only once you have your own run on the board, as intended. Nothing was posted. /derelict/how/ answers 200.
• The day page's "Open it in the free editor" button is now straight under the map on the live 20 Oct page.
• Jam check, from Derelict's rate page: rating opens only when submissions close on 31 Oct, at 03:00Z, and only for entrants. So there is nothing for the boss to rate yet. 299 joined, 97 entries, 21 community topics, no comments on Derelict yet. Added to LEARNED.md as a correction.
• Finished 11:13

12:28: Derelict's itch analytics next to our own pings

• The boss's itch analytics are in FACTS.md: 12 views, 6 browser plays, 183 impressions over 7 days, 1.09% CTR. The referrers were the community topic, newest web, the jam feed, the newest science-fiction and procedural tags, and Bluesky. The boss also said "I haven't tested it", so every play is a real player.
• Our pings from the itch frame since 08:00Z: 33 loads, 31 runs boarded (25 practice, 4 daily, 2 archive), 22 out, 6 dead. Since 04:00Z: 0 card-*, 0 challenged, 0 buy.
• Which step loses the most: the end screen. About 28 end screens since 04:00Z and no click on Bulkhead. The players who start play several ships each, so the game holds them; they just aren't the people who buy a tabletop deck-plan editor. Second leak: the listing thumbnail turns 183 impressions into about 2 clicks.
• Written to LEARNED.md. Nothing changed in the game.
• Finished 12:29

12:30: Did Derelict's itch players play a whole ship?

• The game sends three pings per run: board, out and dead. Read minute by minute with country and device from Cloudflare (a temporary script, deleted after). About 6 players, matching itch's 6 plays: 2 boarded the daily and left without finishing; 3 finished the daily in 2 to 6 minutes; one GB desktop player played for about 1h40, with 4 dailies or archive ships and then about 25 practice ships of 1 to 2 minutes each.
• The boards against par: the 19 Oct ship (par 290) scored 385 and 275 with the survivor, and 210 without; the 20 Oct ship (par 315) scored 105 with the survivor and 26 air left. So yes, some players played a whole ship: two runs were at or above par with the survivor out.
• Not visible: logs read, rooms entered, where people quit. That needs a richer end ping, which is a change inside the game and so waits for the next zip batch. Details are in LEARNED.md.
• Finished 12:31

12:37: Derelict's itch batch: run analytics, then one zip

• Added three kinds of ping to Derelict (app/src/game/main.ts): - At the end of every run: how far it got. This is run-<out|dead>-s<steps band 1/5/20/50/100>-r<rooms entered>of<rooms>-l<logs read>of<logs>. - When someone quits mid-run: run-left-..., the same fields. It fires on pagehide or when the tab is hidden, at most once per run, and not from the title screen or a replay. - When someone presses share: share or share-vs, so asking a friend is counted, not only a friend opening the link.
• Checked on the itch build served locally as test.itch.zone: - A practice death sent run-out-s1-r0of5-l0of3-practice-itch. - Hiding the tab mid-run sent run-left-s5-r0of8-l0of3-practice-itch. - A direct pagehide sent run-left-s1-r0of8-l0of3-practice-itch, and a second pagehide sent nothing. - Pressing share sent share-practice-itch.
• tsc ok; vitest 140/140 (492s).
• Deployed; the live /derelict/ JS has the run and share-vs pings.
• Rebuilt the zip (164 KB, 13 files; it has the pings too).
• Sent the zip to the boss as the last one for now. It also carries the practice-card fallback and the card picture opening the editor.
• Store doc and plan Next updated.
• One caveat: if a player hides the tab and then comes back and finishes, the run sends both a left and an out/dead ping. Count a left as a quit only when that run has no end ping.
• Finished 12:50

13:07: Size it: play a ship you drew in Derelict

• Read loadShip (src/game/main.ts), the Game constructor, boardingPoint and placeItems (src/game/engine.ts), and the editor's share links (src/main.ts ~1070).
• Finding: nothing new is needed on either side to carry a ship. The editor's #s= share links and the game's deserialize + new Game already fit together. A hand-drawn ship needs an airlock to board and "Log fragment" or "Salvage:" notes to have anything to find.
• Sizing and build steps written into plan Next: yes, on the website first, about 2 hours, no itch zip until the next real batch. Built nothing.
• Mail: none.
• Finished 13:08

13:37: Play a ship you drew in Derelict

• Built and live: - Editor: a "Play it in Derelict" button under File (index.html and obr.html). It opens /derelict/#s=<the ship, packed>; the paid file opens the hosted game. Ping: play-derelict. - Game: a "yours" mode from #s=. It is not counted, has no board, medals, bounty or logbook, uses every live rule and the plain suit. Pings end in -yours. - The title card says who drew it. If the ship has nothing to find, it says how to add "Salvage:" and "Log fragment:" notes. - With no airlock, the game says to put one in the hull, and links back to the editor. A damaged link says so. - The result share carries the same #s= link. - End card: now leads with "Draw your own derelict", and a link (bhDraw) opens the ship in the editor with ?play. The editor then says where the Play button is. - The share-link packing moved to src/pack.ts, shared by both sides.
• Two card bugs found on the way: - .bh img { display: block } beat the hidden attribute, so a picture that failed to load showed as broken alt text. Fixed in CSS. - With that fixed, loading="lazy" on a hidden picture never loads. Dropped lazy; the src is only set when the end screen opens anyway.
• Tests: - New: test/yours.test.ts, a hand-drawn two-room ship through pack, unpack, board, take both, out; and no airlock throws 'no way aboard'. - First full run: 140 pass; the two entry-pages tests failed because obr.html lacked the button. Added it; those pass, and nothing else changed after that run. - tsc ok.
• Browser checks: - Dev: the whole path, desk and phone card screenshots. - Live after deploy: editor, Play, game, "You made it out.", the share link, practice unchanged. The editor shows the toast from a card link (the first check waited past it).
• Jam list and /derelict/jam/: new section. Measure, same base and files: 2824 added, 99 removed, of 4750 lines, about 59.5%.
• No itch zip (website only).
• Mail: none.
• Finished 13:54

15:07: How to play: draw your own ship; first look at today's pings

• /derelict/how/ has a new section, "Play a ship you drew" (derelict/how/index.html). It covers: - where the button is; - that the link and the copied result carry the ship; - an airlock in the hull to board; - a room needs a number (the Number tool) to have notes in the key; - "Salvage:" and "Log fragment:" lines; - lockers and crates; - which Hazard words cost air (sealed, radiation, live wiring); - never counted, no board, no medals.
• Live, checked on a phone at 390 wide: no sideways scroll.
• Editor: the room-notes placeholder now says that "Salvage: …" or "Log fragment: …" lines put things in the room in Derelict. It's in the live bundle.
• Found while writing it: the game reads only rooms that are in the key, so an unnumbered room has nothing to find. The page says so.
• Pings since 06:00Z (events.sh), all from itch: - 49 views; - boards: 36 practice, 4 daily, 3 archive; - practice: 25 out, 10 dead; - daily: 2 out. - No run-, share, card or play-derelict pings yet: the new zip is not up or not played yet, and the website feature went live about an hour ago.
• tsc ok; entry-pages and yours tests 9/9.
• Mail: none.
• Finished 15:08

17:07: Play it in Derelict on the ships people actually have

• Survey with every live rule: - The example ship: 6 salvage, 0 logs, air 74, par 80. - Intact ships, all four sizes, seeds 1-3: 2-6 loose salvage each, 0 logs. Air 28-149, par 20-85. - A blank ship: no way aboard. The game already says so and links back to the editor. - All board; none has a story.
• Fix: a drawn ship with salvage but no logs now says so on the title card. It says how to add a "Log fragment:" note, or to roll with the generator set to Derelict. Checked in the browser: editor, Load example ship, Play.
• New test in test/yours.test.ts: the example ship and 12 intact ships all board with something to find.
• Full suite 143/143 (446s); deployed. The live game has the line.
• Not checked: the Roll20/Foundry pack ships. They are derelict-generated, the same as practice ships.
• Mail: none.
• Finished 17:16

17:59: Derelict zip for the boss's upload, rebuilt with today's later changes

• Rebuilt app/derelict-itch.zip (164 KB, 13 files) with everything since the morning zip: run analytics, the end card's "Draw your own derelict" link, the picture fixes (hidden picture no longer shows alt text; no lazy load), and hand-drawn ship play.
• Tests 143/143, tsc ok. Itch-origin check (served as test.itch.zone): end card picture loads from the live site, the editor link opens the day's ship with ?play in a new tab, pings board-practice-itch, out-practice-itch and run-out-s1-r0of6-l0of3-practice-itch fired.
• Sent to the boss as the replacement for the earlier zip, and the last one for now. ITCH-DERELICT.md build note updated.
• Finished 18:01

19:07: Pings since the drawn-ship deploy and the new zip

• Mail: one from docent (thread vesper-key). Its check said the Vesper room key is linked from nothing. It is linked: the map page's "Whole ship" line has "room key (text)", and the other map pages do the same; only the sitemap leaves the .md files out, on purpose. Replied with needs_reply: no and moved the message to mail/read.
• Pings since 16:00Z: 49 itch loads, 46 practice boards (42 out, 2 dead), 1 daily board, 0 run-* pings, 0 play-derelict, 0 -yours, 0 card clicks. The boss hasn't uploaded the new zip yet; the itch frame still sends only the old pings. The site's drawn-ship button has had no presses so far (5 home views since 16:00Z).
• Itch counts now (itch-stats.sh): Bulkhead 44 views, 4 downloads, 0 purchases; pack 2 12/1; free pack 18/3; Derelict 18 views. Written into Next as the baseline for the 22 Oct decision. Fourteen Ships is still not on the profile.
• Finished 19:07

21:07: The 22 Oct Reddit slot: pick the sub and draft the post

• Mail: none.
• Past subs (FACTS, LEARNED): r/rpg and r/mothershiprpg closed by the boss; r/starfinder_rpg removed ours; r/swrpg and r/LancerRPG ban AI. On 5 Oct r/Star_Wars_Maps was the best next place.
• Read r/Star_Wars_Maps logged out, 20 Oct: the rules are the same three (all sci-fi welcome; no downvote without a comment; the creed), with no AI rule. Top of the month: a home-campaign DECK PLAN at 170 points, "Saturn-class defense platform" at 65, an interactive galaxy map tool at 72, Czepeku battle maps at 28 to 83.
• Drafted the post in app/store/REDDIT-STAR-WARS-MAPS.md: RSV Greyling, the free one-shot, as a Halloween game night (a GM asked for a ship for a Halloween one-shot on 12 Oct). AI in the first line, lowercase, no em-dashes, the paid tool named once at the end. The rule texts are quoted beside it. Nothing posted.
• Rendered the adventure's eight pages to look at; the key page reads well as a picture. The pictures aren't hosted yet; that is in Next, before the ask.
• Finished 21:08

21:53: What the latest Derelict plays show

• Mail: none. The new zip is up: the run-* pings began after 19:00Z.
• Since 19:00Z, all practice in the itch frame: 32 runs (28 out, 3 dead, 1 left mid-run), 35 loads. Steps: 12 runs in the 20-49 band, 16 in 50-99, 3 at 100+, 1 under 20. Median run entered about half the ship's rooms; 3 runs entered every room. Logs: 9 runs read none, 9 one, 10 two, 4 all three. Ship sizes 4 to 17 rooms.
• 0 share, 0 card clicks, 0 play-derelict, 0 -yours, no editor visits since 19:00Z.
• All of 20 Oct in the itch frame: 115 practice boards, 8 daily, 3 archive. The frame opens on the daily, and the daily counts once per browser, so 8 daily boards means about 8 new players (an estimate; pings carry no id). That is about 14 practice runs each on average; it may be a few people playing a lot.
• Reading: the few who come stay and replay; practice is survivable (88% get out) and players leave early with half the rooms; about a quarter skip the logs, which are the story and 25 points each. Nobody leaves the game for Bulkhead. Changed nothing.
• Finished 21:53

21:59: Pictures for the 22 Oct Greyling post, hosted under /press/greyling/

• Mail: none.
• Rendered pages 3, 4 and 5 of the Greyling adventure PDF at 220 dpi, trimmed the white margins: upper deck GM map (2401 x 843), lower deck GM map (2401 x 900), room key (1346 x 1994). Looked at the maps: the labels and room numbers read; the lower deck's long empty corridor is how the ship is drawn.
• Saved under app/public/press/greyling/ and deployed. All three answer 200 as image/png at the local sizes. The one-shot page, the PDF (?v=1004) and the ship's editor file answer 200.
• Links, order and alt text are in app/store/REDDIT-STAR-WARS-MAPS.md. Nothing posted; the ask goes to the boss on 22 Oct.
• Finished 21:59

22:08: Greyling post says "made by a vibecoded app"

• Draft title now ends "(free, CC0, made by a vibecoded app)"; the body's first line is "heads up, this was made by a vibecoded app. the app drew the ship and wrote the adventure text". The boss's words are noted beside the sub's AI rule, and in FACTS.
• Memory updated so later boss-voice drafts use that wording.
• Finished 22:09

22:11: The Greyling post is up: find it and read the first numbers

• Mail: none. Noted the boss's word in FACTS.
• r/Star_Wars_Maps /new, logged out, at 22:12Z: newest post shown is from 17 Oct, so the Greyling post isn't visible yet. Logged-out /new has lagged by hours before (LEARNED, 28 Sep); a new account's post can also sit in the spam filter or mod queue. Asked the boss for the link.
• events.sh since 21:55Z: no views, no events.
• Finished 22:12

22:13: Read the Greyling post from the boss's link

• The share link resolves to r/Star_Wars_Maps/comments/1xb5s7t, posted 22:11Z. Logged out it shows: DECK PLAN flair, image post, 1 point, 0 comments, not marked removed. The body has the one-shot link (the only link). The vibecoded-app line is in the title; the body starts at "two decks".
• Post URL in FACTS. Read it back at 24 h (about 22:00Z on 21 Oct), with events.sh for /derelict-one-shot/ views, the PDF and Greyling editor opens.
• Finished 22:13

22:25: "The captain's chairs look like toilets": read it, find the glyph

• The comment, logged out: "The bridge has two toilet on it." The boss answered it in the thread as OP. FACTS has both, with the boss's screenshot (163 views, 2 points, 2 comments, about 22:30Z).
• The chair stamp (src/stamps.ts) was a circle under a bar. Drew three versions side by side at map and PDF size (old, an armchair, a pilot seat with headrest). The armchair (seat, two arms, wide back, no circle) reads as a chair at both sizes, so it is the one in.
• Checked it on the Greyling in the local editor: bridge, galley and medbay chairs read as armchairs. tsc ok; tests 143/143. Deployed; the live generate chunk carries the new chair. It is one drawing, so the editor, PNG, PDF, VTT render and Derelict all use it.
• LEARNED: the look gap. The sub's top posts are painted, lit maps; ours is a line drawing for print. Next Reddit ask goes where the use is the point. A code-made richer look is a candidate for the 22 Oct decision.
• What still has the old chair is listed in Next; no zip for it alone.
• Finished 22:34

22:36: A devlog for the Derelict upload

• Drafted the devlog in app/store/ITCH-DERELICT.md: "Play a ship you drew", the airlock and note rules from /derelict/how/, not counted, the end card's editor link and the picture fix. First line "made with a vibecoded app". Nothing posted.
• Finished 22:36

22:56: A picture for the drawn-ship devlog

• Made the devlog picture from the local build, no live pings: the RSV Greyling upper deck in the editor on top, and the same ship four steps into a Derelict run after "Play it in Derelict" below. 1280x990 PNG, labelled "1. draw a ship in Bulkhead" and "2. press Play it in Derelict and walk it".
• Live at https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/press/derelict/devlog-play-your-ship.png (200, image/png, same size as the local file).
• Seen on the way: the Derelict intro for a drawn ship still says "Today's ship has a board…", then "it isn't counted". That reads as a contradiction; it goes on Next and isn't fixed here.
• Finished 23:01

23:07: Drawn-ship intro stops promising a board

• mail/in was empty.
• The board line on the Derelict title now has an id, and main.ts hides it unless the run counts (counted(): today's ship, with no ?practice or ?day). A drawn ship, practice or an archive day now goes straight from the torch line to its own "isn't counted" / practice line.
• New test in yours.test.ts: every element main.ts looks up exists in derelict/index.html (49 ids, none missing). tsc ok; full suite 144/144, exit 0.
• Deployed. Live check with Playwright (pings and /api/ blocked): the board line is hidden on the Greyling opened through "Play it in Derelict", shown on the daily, and hidden on practice.
• The itch zip still has the old line. It goes in with the next real batch (with the chair), not a zip of its own.
• Greyling post, about 1 h in: events.sh since 22:00Z shows one view of /derelict-one-shot/ and no editor visits. The 24-hour read is tomorrow.
• Finished 23:16