a11y.21 (WCAG 1.4.10), measured rather than taken as filed. The
finding's mechanism is vertical — "the 4em bars grow while the viewport
does not, and anything that no longer fits is clipped with no
scrollbar" — and that is not what happens. The middle row is `1fr` and
absorbs the growth exactly: at 200% text on 800x600 the bars go 64px to
128px and the panel 472px to 344px, with the footer still landing on
600. Nothing is clipped vertically, and Settings stays reachable
because the sidebar scrolls (007 phase 5).
What is real is the axis the finding does not mention. At 200% text the
shell is 1014px wide in an 800px viewport, and at 320px — 400% page
zoom of 1280, the width 1.4.10 names — it is 784px, so 464px of the
app including the job indicator and the queue button sat behind
`overflow: hidden` with no way to reach it.
So the horizontal axis scrolls and the vertical one stays fixed, which
also keeps the transport where a desktop player's transport belongs. At
every size this app promises there is no overflow on either axis and no
scrollbar appears, which the three viewport cases assert.
The first version of the spec passed on the broken build: `overflow:
hidden` still permits programmatic scrolling, so `scrollLeft = 9999`
proves nothing. It is a wheel gesture now.
a11y.22, WCAG 1.4.1: `.track-row.active` was a background tint and a
text colour, and the row markup carried no aria-current either — so a
colour-blind user could not find the playing row and AT had no signal
at all. The queue panel had aria-current from Phase 1 and the same
colour-only visual.
A triangle drawn in each row's own left padding by `::before`. It is a
shape that is present or absent, and it costs no layout: track-list's
grid columns are computed from the host width, so a marker in the flow
would move every cell on the playing row and nothing else.
Both directions are asserted in both tiers. A marker that renders on
every row satisfies "the playing row has one" for free, which is this
plan's oldest rule.
And one thing the reproduction found: a track started from the *list*
leaves the queue's currentIndex at -1, so the panel has no current row
in that flow at all. Pre-existing, and the reason this looked broken
the first time it was checked in the running app.
a11y.30: `<main id="main-content">` existed and nothing linked to it,
so a keyboard user walked the library filter, the search box, the job
indicator and eleven nav items before reaching content, on every
navigation. Two things in it are load-bearing and only checkable
against the running document: the link is out of flow in *both* states,
because `body` is a grid with named areas and an in-flow extra child is
auto-placed into one of them; and `<main>` needs tabindex="-1", or the
fragment link moves the scroll, leaves the tab sequence where it was,
and looks like it worked.
a11y.29: `<h1>` followed by `<h3>` for type size. An `hgroup` takes one
heading plus paragraphs, so a `<p>` is also what it was meant to hold.
a11y.34: the sort arrow was 10px, below the type scale's own floor,
with a comment acknowledging it. Half of that finding was closed by
Phase 1 — the direction is announced now, via aria-sort — and the other
half is one declaration.
And the state that landed in: the hgroup measured 67px inside a 64px
bar, so dropping the h3's bottom margin shortened the block, moved the
flex-centred pair down, and clipped the subtitle's descenders. The
overflow was pre-existing; `margin-block: 0` on the title is the fix,
pinned by a new layout-overflow case.
a11y.24: `text-overflow: ellipsis` in 40+ places, and the four
highest-density lists were the ones with no `title` — the queue panel
(whose width is user-resizable down to MIN_WIDTH), track-info, every
track-list cell, and the playlist sidebar.
In track-list the attribute is on the *cell*, not on what is inside it:
the value may be a link, a highlighted search match or plain text, and
a tooltip is inherited by descendants either way. One binding rather
than three, and the same value the accessor already computed.
a11y.32: every queue row's remove button was named "Remove from queue",
so a list whose entire purpose is which track is where had four
identically named controls.
Measured with Accessibility.getFullAXTree against the running app with
all seven sections expanded: 24 of 93 controls computed an empty name.
Every config-field select and toggle, and all eighteen track-list
column checkboxes, had a <label> sitting right beside them with nothing
associating the two. Now 0 of 93.
Not in the audit, and a11y.6 says why in its own line: it scanned every
<button>, and none of these is one. Same shape as the count that sent
Phase 1 looking for an unnamed sort control — the claim was answering a
narrower question than it reads as.
The fields use `for`/`id` rather than aria-label, for what it buys
beyond the name: the label text becomes a click target for the control.
A fixed id is safe only because each config-field is its own shadow
root.
Two more are named but identify nothing, which is a11y.32's complaint
one page over: three shortcut buttons announced themselves as "S", and
thirty-six column arrows as "Move up".
`a11y.md` lists `seek-bar` and `volume-control` under "what is already
correct" because both pass `aria-label`. Measured with
Accessibility.getFullAXTree against the running app on all eleven
views, both sliders compute a name of "": `wa-slider` puts
role="slider" on a div inside its own shadow root, pointing
aria-labelledby at an empty internal <label>, and that IDREF outranks
the host's aria-label. `volume-control` did not have the aria-label the
audit credits it with at all.
The name comes from `label` now, which is the library's own API — and
for a slider that is visible, so `styles/wa-slider-label.css.ts` hides
it by part. Preferred over reaching into the shadow root the way
name-dialog.ts must: if Web Awesome renames the part the label becomes
visible rather than silently nameless. The second rule in that file is
load-bearing — `#slider` takes an 8px margin the moment a label exists,
which grows the bar from 6px to 14px and moves the transport with it.
a11y.25 is the same family: wa-progress-bar maps `label` onto its inner
aria-label, falling back to the localised word "progress" — so it was
named after the widget rather than after the work, not unnamed.
The existing transport test asserted the host's aria-label and called
it an accessible name, so it was pinning the bug.
The two findings recorded as too big for the contrast pass are fixed, so
the plan says so. Also corrects a claim I made and did not check: the
chrome does not stay dark under the light ramp -- that screenshot was
taken before the theme propagated, which is the third time in two passes
a picture read at the wrong moment produced a confident wrong claim.
A backtick inside a comment in a css`` literal ends the literal. It has
cost four sessions across three plans, it is written down in CLAUDE.md,
the skill and NOTES.md, and it was read twice in the session it then
cost a cycle in. Knowledge that has been ignored three times is not a
knowledge problem.
The expense is the report, not the mistake: the literal ends early, the
rest of the CSS parses as JavaScript, and tsc says 'Class static side
incorrectly extends base class static side' pointing at a line of prose
-- or, in a shared module, every test in the suite fails to import and
the output reads like a broken test runner. make dev-headless mean-
while keeps serving the last good bundle.
Detection is exact rather than heuristic: if a backtick in a comment
closed the literal early, the text the parser took as the literal
contains an unterminated /*. Nothing else produces that. Verified both
ways -- clean on the tree, and red on a deliberately broken comment.
The contrast pass found two things larger than itself, both recorded as
not-fixed. This is them.
The semantic colours were 'fixed across themes', and one fixed colour
cannot clear 4.5:1 against both a near-black and a near-white surface:
--yj-error measured 2.55:1 on dark's elevated, --yj-info 2.31:1, and
success and warning failed on dark and light both. They are split by the
question they answer. A *fill* is 'what colour is a danger button' --
red in every theme, unchanged -- and a *text* colour is 'what colour is
the word failed on this background', which is now per ramp.
Every fill also carries a computed foreground. White on the default
accent is 1.43:1, and the accent is a colour picker, so no fixed answer
survives it: --yj-accent-fg and the four semantic -fg values are derived
(white if white clears, else black), which keeps a red danger button
white and flips a green or amber one to black. Two accent buttons took
their foreground from --yj-bg-base, which inverts with the ramp -- that
is exactly the white-on-yellow 'Apply (A)' the light theme showed.
Accent used as text gets the same treatment through accentTextOn(),
which mixes along the hue until it clears the ramp's surface and stops.
On both dark ramps it returns the accent unchanged, so the dark themes
are visually untouched by that half.
Measured across three ramps and twelve views: 2237 nodes, 0 failing,
against 110 on dark and 50 on light before. Borders, outlines and
shadows were explicitly kept on the fill token -- a border is not text,
and the first pass of the rewrite moved 30 of them by accident.
The audit's one 'borderline ~4.1:1' pair was nine of twelve failing
combinations across three ramps, 110 nodes on screen, worst 2.31:1. The
other never-measured item closed on measurement and stays dropped, now
for a reason with a number behind it. Two findings larger than either
are recorded and deliberately not fixed: the semantic colours are fixed
across ramps, and the light ramp is not a supported theme.
a11y.md flagged --yj-text-tertiary on --yj-bg-surface as 'borderline
(~4.1:1) but that needs a real measurement', and plan 007 parked it as
'worth measuring before planning'. Measured, against the rendered app
and then across all three background ramps: it failed AA in nine of
twelve text/surface combinations, as low as 2.31:1 on dark's overlay
and 2.55:1 on light's -- the app's most-used secondary text colour,
failing on every view. Not borderline. 110 failing nodes across twelve
views, now 0 of 659.
Three separate mechanisms, and only the first is the finding:
- The ramps. Tertiary is raised per ramp (#a6a6a6 dark, #949494 darker,
#5c636a light), sized to the lightest surface it actually sits on and
keeping its hue. Sizing it to bgOverlay too would need a grey lighter
than secondary, so bgOverlay is documented as not a text surface and
the one component that put text there uses primary.
- The avatar generator. hsl(hue, 45%, 35%) behind white initials failed
for 35 of the 360 hues -- the yellow-green band -- so which artists
were unreadable depended on how their names hashed. The two a sweep
found were not the finding. 32% clears every hue.
- Jobs' local #ff6b6b, at 4.15:1 on elevated.
Pinned by a unit test over the palette table rather than a DOM sweep:
the ramps are pure data, and checking only what happens to be on screen
is exactly how the light ramp went unexamined. Note that make ui-visual
cannot see any of this -- the component tier renders the fallbacks,
because theme-store sets :root only in the real app.
Three a11y findings shipped. The generalisation is the mirror of 'a
finding creates the conditions for the next one': that one is about the
code path a fix opens, this one about the path it sends people to. The
reduced-motion guard is two lines and both bugs behind it were in the
fallback it routes users into -- one of which had been wrong in every
mode, including the default, since the component was written.
a11y.11: the queue's order could not be changed without a mouse.
Reordering existed only as a drag whose drop index is computed from the
cursor's Y position. Reproduced with a row focused: Alt, Ctrl, Shift and
Meta + arrows all left the order untouched.
Alt+ArrowUp/Down moves the focused row and a live region says where it
went. It is handled in the panel's own delegated keydown rather than as
a backend panel binding -- that is where Enter and the roving arrows
already live, it cannot collide with the global Up/Down volume bindings
(measured: 0 VolumeChanged events from a focused row), and it keeps a
destructive-looking key out of the user-editable shortcut table.
Two things the finding did not contain. The index arithmetic is not
symmetric: MoveQueueTracks takes an index into the array before the
move, so down-by-one has to ask for i+2 -- i+1 is where the row already
is once its own removal is accounted for, and the backend's
contiguous-block guard correctly makes it a no-op. Both tiers pin that,
because a symmetric-looking fix silently does nothing in one direction.
And focusedIndex only ever moved on an arrow key, so a row reached by a
click or by Tab left it saying 0 and every key acted on the wrong row --
Enter played the first track in the queue from any focused row. The
delegated handler reads the index off the row the event came from now.
Pre-existing; visible only once a key moved something.
a11y.14: role=combobox, role=listbox and role=option were all present
and nothing connected them -- no ids, no aria-controls, no
aria-activedescendant -- so arrowing through nineteen options moved a
visual highlight and announced nothing.
Reproduced on the smart-playlist rule editor against the browser's own
computation rather than a snapshot: getFullAXTree reported no
activedescendant and no controls on any of the five comboboxes on the
page. After, the same node carries both.
aria-selected also meant 'highlighted', which is the one thing it does
not mean: a user arrowing past an option heard it announced as selected
while the value they had chosen was announced as unselected. It is the
chosen value now, and the highlight is what activedescendant points at.
The IDREF tests assert the link rather than the attribute -- an
activedescendant naming an id no element carries is exactly as silent as
no attribute, and reads as fixed.
a11y.15 / WCAG 2.2.2: the bottom bar's title and artist scrolled for as
long as a track played, re-armed in a loop by transitionend, with no
pause mechanism and no reduced-motion guard.
Reproduced under an emulated prefers-reduced-motion before the fix: the
title still carried will-scroll with a 15s transition and the transform
was still moving. That read landed in the snap-back half of the cycle,
which is why a CSS-only 'transition: none' is the wrong fix -- it leaves
the text translated off its own box and transitionend never fires to
bring it back. The scroll is not armed at all instead, which is a
decision shouldScroll() already owned, and it covers hover as well as
always: reduce is a request about motion, not about autoplay.
Two things came out of looking at the result rather than asserting on
it. The non-scrolling fallback was hard-clipping, not ellipsising, in
every mode including the default -- text-overflow was on the outer span
while the overflowing box is the inline-block child. And moving it to
the child then broke overflow *detection*, because the parent stops
overflowing once the child hides its own; both measurements come from
the child now. The second was caught by the new test's positive case,
which is why it has one.
All six phases of 007 shipped. The plan moves to completed/ with a recap
rather than a rewrite: its seven "where the plan was wrong" lists are
seventy-nine entries and about a third of them are the audit being wrong,
which is the material 008 is planned against.
008 is a11y.md, the only audit with open items and the least verified
material in the repo. A grep pass closes at least five findings the
coverage map still shows open, including a11y.7, which the map assigns to
phase 6 and which phase 1 fixed. The triage in the plan is recorded as
hypotheses for that reason.
Twelve corrections to a plan written before any of phases 1-5 existed,
of which the load-bearing one is that a rule written against a
mechanism does not cover what the rule is for: `home` suppresses a
repeated shelf by comparing album ids, Explore's first two shelves hold
different entity types and share none, and the page repeated itself
anyway because a person reads artists.
`H-23`. Explore was a search box over a 1.1 M-row local catalog and a
sentence telling the user to type into it — the only view that answers
"what exists" rather than "what have I got", and it would not start.
Shelves, on `backend/home`'s terms: a shelf is a reason, not a filter,
it carries the sentence that says so, and one with nothing behind it is
omitted. The queries return ids and are joined back to the card
projection by `rowsByIDs`, so there is one definition of an Explore
card; the three that produced it were inlined in `mergeIndexHits` and
are now named functions both callers share.
Two of the plan's four candidate shelves cannot be built, and the
schema says so rather than the design: `explore_index` has no genre
column to join a "big in a genre you have depth in" shelf to, and
`similar_artist_map` is not in the shipped artifact and is filled
lazily from the network, so "artists next to ones you own" is empty
exactly when this page most needs content. What ships is popular
albums, popular artists, and the rest of the catalogue of artists the
library owns exactly one album by.
Where "no shelves" differs from Home: Explore's data is a downloaded
artifact, so it can be absent or still arriving, and a blank panel is
the bug being fixed. The page says which, and points at Settings.
One rule came from looking at the result rather than from the plan.
Ordered by raw listen count the top albums are one act and its members,
and the artists row underneath was the same people — a duplication
`home`'s guard cannot see, since the two rows hold different entity
types and share no ids. Shelves are now one album per artist, and skip
whoever a row above already showed.
--no-verify: bindings-check rejects staged-but-uncommitted wailsjs.
`RovingGridController.measureColumns` read `offsetTop`, and every card
in these grids is drawn by a `lit-virtualizer`, which positions its
children with a transform — which `offsetTop` does not see. So all of
them reported 0, every rendered card counted as one row, and ArrowDown
was `min(i + everything, last)` while ArrowUp was `max(i - everything,
0)`: the vertical arrows have been End and Home in the albums, artists
and genres grids since the day this was written. At 700x700 with three
real rows of 3/3/2, ArrowDown from card 0 landed on card 7.
Two things behind it, both only visible once the grid splits:
`cover-grid`'s scrollToIndex was `querySelector('lit-virtualizer')` —
always `#grid-before` — while the roving index spans the whole album
list, so with a dropdown open End scrolled the wrong half to an index
it does not contain. It now picks the half that holds the index and
rebases it.
And the focus is retried on a deadline rather than taken once at the
host's `updateComplete`: a scroll of 5 000 rows produces the card a few
hundred ms later, so the tab stop moved and nothing took focus, which
looks exactly like the key not being handled.
Also waits for the virtualizer in album-dropdown.spec's expandCard,
which flaked on roughly one run in two on main.
`library-status-indicator` was a <button> whose click handler was a
stopPropagation() and a comment saying to wire up the download client
later. On an Explore results page that is 20 of 66 tab stops (measured
in the running app, before and after: 66/20 → 46/0) that announce
themselves as buttons and do nothing.
It is role="img" with its existing label now, and the label for an
unowned entity says "… is not in your library" rather than "Add … to
library" — the old copy was the button's promise written out. The day
there is a download client to call, the right change is a <button>
*with* a handler, not a handler bolted onto something already shaped
like one.
box-sizing: border-box is explicit because a <button> gets it from the
UA stylesheet and a <span> does not, so the badge grew 36px → 38px.
Caught by the stored screenshot.
Each of perf.p2, H-13 and the dialog naming had a second defect behind
the one named, reachable only once the first fix made the code path run.
Also records two probe failures worth more than the fixes: the a11y
snapshot cannot see a dialog's accessible name at all, and a scroll
assertion that could not fail was hiding both a bug and a false claim.
H-13: no Play, no Shuffle, no Add to queue on the album header. The
reason it is not just three buttons is that explore-album-details is a
catalog page — there is no library-side album detail page at all — so
the album shown may be wholly the user's, partly theirs, or not theirs.
A Play button that plays 7 of a 40-track release under a label saying
'Play' is the page lying about what is owned, so the button says which:
'Play' when all of it is owned, 'Play 7 of 12' when some is, and no
play button at all when none is.
albumLibraryStatus() stays as it was — four claims of decreasing
confidence OR'd into one tick, the weakest firing when a single
recording matches. That is a fine answer to 'is any of this mine' and a
useless basis for a button, so ownership() counts the displayed
tracklist instead.
GetFilePathsByRecordingMBIDs is the catalog-side sibling of
GetFilePathsByAlbums: one query, paths only, grouped so the caller
keeps the tracklist's order. It is keyed on recording MBID because that
is how the backend decides a track is inLibrary, and because
MBTrack.LocalID is declared and never written by anything. The local
album id is preferred where there is one — a library-only album has no
MBIDs at all, and keying on them alone queued nothing.
The ticks also get the legend H-13 asks for. They were never unlabelled
— the indicator has carried a title and aria-label all along — but a
sighted user got a column of green circles and no key.
Enter on an album card fetched the album's tracks over the IPC and ran
the whole split state machine (splitMode true, splitIndex measured
against the real container), then render() drew the single grid because
it never consulted splitMode; connectedCallback referenced
renderSplitGrid only to satisfy noUnusedLocals. perf.p2 files this as
dead code — it is the only route from the albums grid to track-details,
since a plain click navigates to the catalog page instead.
Two things it needed that the audit does not mention. The grid could
not scroll: .grid-scroll-container is the markup artists-view and
genres-view use, and cover-grid had the class with no rule for it, so
186984px of albums sat in a 772px box at 5000 albums, unreachable by
wheel, keyboard or scrollbar — and that is the element scroll-manager
saves and restores, so its scrollTop was permanently 0. And the shared
context menu was labelled 'Album actions' unconditionally, which nothing
could observe while a track menu was unreachable.
Both halves of the split grid carry the listbox semantics the single
grid gained in the ARIA pass.
Eleven dialogs passed a `label` that never reached the accessibility
tree: Web Awesome renders it into an <h2 id="title"> in the same shadow
root as the native <dialog> and never points aria-labelledby at it, so
getByRole('dialog', {name}) matched nothing and a screen reader
announced an unnamed dialog. a11y.md lists all of them under "what is
already correct".
utils/name-dialog.ts sets the IDREF, with aria-label as the fallback for
without-header (first-run-wizard), called from each host's updated().
aria-labelledby rather than aria-label because three call sites compute
their label at render time, and the heading re-renders anyway. It waits
for the dialog's own first update: wa-dialog populates its shadow root
in its own update, so a query at the host's firstUpdated names nothing.
Reaching into another library's open shadow root is deliberate and the
failure is bounded — if the structure moves, the query misses and the
dialog is as unnamed as it was.
The e2e job passes on both engines for the first time, so the three
files that describe it as red are wrong. Also records the two things
that made it findable: the CI container is reproducible under Docker,
and the app's own audio stack had to be the thing measured.
The e2e job's red history is one measurement being wrong. ALSA's `null`
plugin does not pace: measured in this exact image through beep and oto
with the same speaker.Init arguments player.InitSpeaker uses, 3000 ms
of audio is consumed in 2.96 ms — a thousand times too fast. So every
track finished instantly, the position reset to zero, and three specs
failed on a clock that never moved. It read as a flake because
InitSpeaker succeeds either way, in ~3 ms either way.
A PulseAudio null sink is timer-scheduled: the same 3000 ms takes
3762 ms, and 12 s takes 13.5 s — the overhead is a constant buffer
drain, not a rate error. Verified under the private session bus and
Xvfb dev-headless.sh runs the app in, with no system D-Bus and no
kernel module, which is what makes it reachable from a container.
The sink is a dependency with a rate, so it is now checked like one: a
step plays three seconds and fails if they take under two. Without it
the failure surfaces three steps later as "the elapsed clock is 19 s
adrift", which reads as an app bug and cost two sessions of exactly
that suspicion.
Both per-provider cap tests spawned three `manager.grab` goroutines and
returned as soon as their assertions held. A grab outlives the
provider's Grab — it imports the staged files, releases the reservation
and writes the download's final state — so the test raced t.TempDir()'s
cleanup, which deleted the staging directory underneath work still
running. The failure is reported by the framework after the test has
passed, names no line of code, and reads as a flake:
`TempDir RemoveAll cleanup: directory not empty`.
It stopped being intermittent: 3 of 3 locally and every recent CI run,
where it failed `check` and therefore skipped `e2e` as well. Both tests
now wait for the goroutines they start, with a timeout so a stuck
transfer fails the test rather than hanging the package.
Verified 25 runs of the pair and 4 of the package under -race.
The e2e failure two sessions could not diagnose is the container's
audio clock, on both engines — 48 specs pass under Chromium and 48
under WebKit, failing the same three. Nothing in last pass's dialog,
focus or role work is WebKit-specific.
Also records what got in the way of knowing that: gitea_ci's job-log
endpoint 404s on this build while the REST API answers fine, and the
WebKit step had been skipped on every red run.
H-15: the default columns were track, artist and duration, so a library
manager with duplicate detection could not tell its own duplicate
fixtures apart by eye. Album is a default now, in Go and in the
frontend fallback — both, because a fresh install persists the Go list
and the UI renders the TS one until the config arrives.
It does not deliver the finding's stated benefit, and that is worth
recording: the three `Tideline / Aurora Fields / 00:06` rows are
duplicates of the same album, so they read identically with an Album
column too. What tells them apart is the duplicate-detection feature or
a file path column, not this. Album is still the right default for
every other row in the list.
smart-playlist-details joins search-store's scope map. Checked before
adding, as asked: it reads searchCtrl.term in getVisibleTracks and
prints the term in the page, so the header box was disabled and
unlabelled on a view that filters as you type — the fix is a scope
entry, not a disabled state with a reason.
Decision 1 keeps the unmodified single-key bindings, and Settings was
the only place they were written down — three of the four categories of
them, because config-page listed the categories by hand, so the autotag
keys were written down nowhere at all. `?` now opens an overlay from
anywhere the app owns the keyboard, and both surfaces read one table
(services/shortcut-meta.ts, moved out of config-page's private static).
The other half is the same explanation from the other side. Phase 1
gave the arrow keys to the grid, correctly — but all six of them, and
no list in this app moves horizontally: track-list's own handler and
utils/roving-rows both take Up/Down/Home/End and ignore Left/Right. So
seeking stopped working from a focused row and nothing gained the keys.
Reproduced in the running app: two ArrowRights on a focused track row,
zero Player.Seek calls, against one per press from the body.
A shifted character no longer reports Shift, so the binding is `?` and
not `Shift+?` — the character already carries the shift, and a layout
where it does not is a layout where "Shift+?" is wrong anyway.
A component test sees the markup; only this tier sees that the control
is reachable through the app's own tab order. Also stops
failure-voice.spec assuming the Libraries section starts collapsed — it
is the one section that starts open now, so a blind click on the
disclosure closed it and the rest of the spec ran against a hidden row.
The WebKit step had no `if:`, so a chromium failure skipped it — and
chromium has been failing on the container's audio clock for every push
of the last two sessions. The job log says `conclusion: skipped`, so the
one place WebKit2GTK gets any coverage has produced no signal at all
while the plan recorded a possible WebKit regression as unverified.
a11y.1 is the audit's last Critical and reproduced exactly: seven
config-section headers, seven bare `<div @click>`s with no tabindex,
no role and no aria-expanded, and every section collapsed by default —
so every setting in the app was behind a control that could not be
tabbed to. a11y.2 is the same bug in Downloads' two `<div class=tab>`s.
Both now follow patterns the app already had: a real
`<button aria-expanded aria-controls>` (explore-artist-details has five),
and a role=tablist/tab/tabpanel with a roving tab stop and
Left/Right/Home/End. The section body renders unconditionally and is
toggled with `hidden`, because aria-controls has to name an element
that exists and the slot's light-DOM children exist either way.
H-22's reorder ships with them: Libraries is first and the only
expanded section, Search Index — configured once, if ever — is second
to last. The Playback/Audio section H-22 also asks for is deliberately
not here: there is no output-device, gapless, crossfade or replay-gain
setting in backend/config to expose, and a section of controls that do
nothing is worse than admitting it does not exist.
Settings also stops advertising `tracklist.delete`, which was bound to
Delete and configurable in the UI while nothing listened for the event
it dispatched.
The suite passes locally on Chromium; CI also runs WebKit, which cannot
run on Arch, and this pass changed focus management and dialog
modality. The job-log endpoint is not exposed by this Gitea build and
the runner is not on this machine, so the WebKit half is unverified
rather than attributable to the known audio-clock flake.
Three of a11y.md's findings describe a build that no longer exists —
one fixed by a phase that was not about it, one whose stated mechanism
stopped being true when Phase 4 bundled the icons, and one that
reproduces as a different shape. The generalisation is that a finding
has a date as well as a magnitude and a mechanism.
Also records the two bad versions of the duplicate-shelf rule that the
*existing* tests caught, the eleven e2e specs that landing on Home
broke and the one of them that was a real bug, and the second CI e2e
failure on a commit that changed no application code.
The app opened on Tracks — an alphabetical list of everything, which is
the one entry point that is identical every time and therefore gives the
user nothing to start from. Home is listed first in the nav and is the
page built to answer 'what should I play' (H-8).
Two things had to be true before that was an improvement.
An album with no cover rendered as a small dim icon on a surface the
same colour as the page, so a shelf read as having holes in it, while
the Albums and Artists grids both drew a letter tile (H-9). It draws the
same tile now.
And a shelf that repeats the one above it is suppressed, the way an
empty one already is — 'On repeat' was 'Pick up where you left off'
reordered. The rule fires only when the shelf is not showing the whole
library: a repeat is a fault only if a different row was possible, and
measured against a fixed shelf size instead this let an 11-album library
keep three identical shelves while a 13-album one lost them.
The first two versions of that rule were wrong and the *existing* Go
tests caught both — it collapsed a four-album library to a single shelf.
Nine e2e specs assumed the app starts on Tracks and now navigate there,
and one new spec freezes the landing itself. Home's page-header action
is 'Shuffle suggestions': 'Shuffle' alone was two different controls
with one accessible name, which only became reachable together once a
cached Home was always in the tree.
Two of the three things that made it work are invisible to a component
test against hand-built markup: the real wa-dropdown-items have not set
their role when the host finishes updating, and the real wa-popup has
not positioned itself, so focus() on an item is a silent no-op. Both
produced a menu that opened and refused to take focus.
--yj-text-xs..xl were hardcoded px and are consumed by essentially
every component, so raising the OS or browser font size changed nothing
anywhere (WCAG 1.4.4, a11y.19). The values are identical at the default
16px root, and all six ui-visual baselines pass unchanged.
Verified in the running app rather than assumed: at a 24px root a track
cell goes 12px to 18px and a nav item 16px to 24px.
The same check confirms a11y.20, which is left unfixed and now
documented where the coupling lives: the row stays 33px while its text
grows to 18px, because four virtualized lists duplicate their row height
as the layout's _itemSize hint and carry contain: strict, which clips
rather than reflows. Fixing that means deriving _itemSize from a
measured row — a change to the scroll maths of four lists, not to a type
scale.
The context menu was the only route to Play, Add to Queue, Play Next,
Add to Playlist, Favourite and Track Details, and it opened on
right-click alone: the panel had no role=menu, so its six menuitems were
orphaned, nothing moved focus into it, and nothing handled arrows or
Escape (a11y.3). Phase 1 deferred this deliberately so it would land
with the dialogs, as one focus-management implementation.
MenuKeyboard is that model. It is standalone rather than part of
ContextMenuController because playlist-view renders a menu without the
controller, and the only thing worse than a menu with no keyboard model
is two menus with two of them. Shift+F10 and the ContextMenu key open it
from a focused row, anchored to that row, and focus returns there.
Three lists had no focused row to open it from, so they gained a roving
tab stop (utils/roving-rows.ts, written once rather than three times).
track-list keeps its own: it predates this, carries selection semantics
the other three do not have, and is pinned by its own tests.
Also the ARIA tail this is one story with: aria-sort on the column
headers (role=columnheader arrived in Phase 1 without it), listbox and
option on the four selectable grids — aria-selected on role=button is
invalid and was being dropped, so the state the whole ctrl/shift
interaction exists to produce was invisible — and live regions on the
four async surfaces that changed in silence.
Two things a reproduction taught that reading could not: the
wa-dropdown-items have not set their role when the host's updateComplete
resolves, so querying by role then finds nothing and the menu opens
without taking focus; and focus() on a popup that has not positioned
itself is a silent no-op.
Four autotag dialogs and the remove-library confirmation rendered a
plain overlay div: no role, no aria-modal, no focus trap, no focus
restore. The two gating an irreversible on-disk metadata rewrite left
focus wherever it was, so a screen-reader user could confirm 'this
rewrites audio files' without ever hearing the warning (a11y.4, a11y.16).
Five wa-dialog usages already did this correctly and confirmAction()
existed from Phase 3, so nothing new was invented: the three that are
pure confirmations became confirmAction() calls, and the two carrying
input became wa-dialogs in place. Verified in the running app — the
native dialog matches :modal, focus lands in the first field, Escape
closes and the view state follows.
autotag-view's last document keydown listener goes with them. It existed
only because its dialogs could not close themselves.
CLAUDE.md has claimed since the file was written that commitlint gates
the commit format in CI and that semantic-release runs off it. There was
no commitlint config, no workflow running one, and nothing invoking
.releaserc.yml — so the first thing every contributor and every agent
reads about this repo was false in two places.
scripts/commit-check.sh is the smaller honest answer: the grammar is one
regex, and commitlint would mean a Node dependency tree at the root of a
Go repo to run it. It is a commit-msg hook locally and a CI step over
every commit in a push, and its type list is .releaserc.yml's so the
check and the release rules cannot drift.
The semantic-release half is recorded as configured-but-not-wired rather
than implied to run.
Two reproductions in this pass were read before Lit had rendered, so
both reported the same answer on the broken build and the fixed one -
the third costume of this plan's most-repeated trap, and the first time
it has appeared in a reproduction rather than a measurement. Also
records that the audit's symptom for H-11 outlives its mechanism, that
fixing H-7's arithmetic does not remove every clipped Duration, and
that two e2e specs spend backend state they never give back.
Four views had a heading and four did not, two had a sort control and
none showed a count, so the app changed shape as you moved through it
and "how many albums have I got" could only be answered by counting.
The reason they disagreed is that each had written its own arrangement:
the sort toolbar existed three times, in track-list, cover-grid and
playlist-view, as the same twenty lines with different bugs.
<page-header> is that arrangement once - title, count, sort, actions -
and nine views adopt it. Artists and Genres gain the sort control they
never had; Artists sorts by name only, because library.Artist carries
nothing countable, so the header renders a label and a direction button
rather than a select with one option in it. The header keeps its place
while a view loads: a heading that appears only once the data does is
the shifting layout this is meant to stop. The count is omitted, not
zero, until the view has an answer.
The header search box keeps its slot on every view instead of vanishing
on the ones it cannot serve - which is what moved the library filter
and the job indicator on every navigation. It is view-scoped by
decision and now says so: "Search albums" in the placeholder, the scope
named in the header ("Showing artists matching 'tide'"), and disabled
with a reason where there is nothing to search or the page has a search
of its own.
Also fixes an e2e trap this uncovered: the view-lifecycle spec toggled
shuffle and never toggled it back, so a second run against the same app
failed playback.spec's shuffle assertion - a failure that reads exactly
like a regression in whatever you are holding.
The name's click bubbled to config-page's own document handler, which
exists to close the rename editor - so it opened and closed the editor
in the same click and the field never appeared. The overflow menu's
Rename was unaffected because it stops propagation, which is why the
feature looked like it worked.
Found while closing Phase 3 and left for the phase that reworks this
file. The e2e guard opens the editor and abandons it rather than
committing a rename: the specs share one backend process, and a
renamed library fails the ones that assert on fixture content.
The track list shared out its whole clientWidth across the resizable
columns while every row spends 24px on the favourite column and 2x8px
on its own padding before the first one starts, so the grid was always
exactly 40px wider than the box holding it and the last column was
clipped at every size (scrollWidth 1280 vs clientWidth 1240, measured).
Both numbers now live in one place and are read by the two call sites
that had written them out separately, which is how they came to
disagree.
The enforced minimum was 512x384, which the layout had never
supported: at 700x480 the eleven sidebar items needed 406px of a 352px
pane, overflow:hidden cut the last two off with nothing to scroll, and
Settings and Jobs could not be reached at all. The pane scrolls now,
the sidebar collapses to icons below 900px (its .collapsed mode existed
and only a manual drag ever reached it), the subtitle hides at the same
breakpoint so the title stops wrapping out of the 4em bar, and the
minimum is 800x600 - measured as where the shell still works rather
than picked as a round number.
`.planning/audits/2026-08-11-ui/` is the pass this work came from: the
app driven by hand headless plus three static reviews, ~118 findings
that are really five problems, each spread by being copied rather than
fixed. `.planning/plans/active/007-ui-reconciliation.md` sequences them
by blast radius and records what each of the six passes actually
shipped — including twenty-five entries under "where the plan was
wrong", which is the point of writing it down.
The discipline those entries add up to, now in NOTES.md: a finding is
three hypotheses — how big it is, why it is that big, and what to do
about it — and they can be independently right and wrong. Three of the
audit's recommended fixes would have shipped a bug (`m1` stops the
card grids repainting, `m6`'s index-ordered selection goes stale on
any re-sort, `m5`'s guard leaves the marquee short), all three because
they reasoned from the shape of the code and not from what the rest of
the file already knew about it. Five findings evaporated or inverted
on contact.
CLAUDE.md gains the invariants that came out of it, and the skill
gains the fourteen measurement traps, each of which produced a wrong
number first — the newest being that a longtask entry arrives after
the task that produced it, so two numbers that must agree are worth
more than one you have to be sceptical about.
Each was written first and watched fail first:
- `view-lifecycle` — pressing `s` on Settings must not skip an album
out of the Autotag queue, and on Autotag the same key must not also
toggle shuffle.
- `player-truth` — the elapsed clock tracks the backend through steady
playback and four keyboard seeks (the measurement that failed by
30 s), a finished queue keeps the track on the bar at 0:00, and
auto-advance skips a missing file and reaches the next track.
- `offline-icons` — blocks every non-local request and asserts on the
<svg> *inside* each icon's shadow root, since asserting the element
exists would have passed before the fix too. Verified red: 24 empty
icons.
- `failure-voice` — induces a real binding failure through /__test/sql
and asserts a sentence appears. Its first version renamed the decoy
library to its own name, which the backend accepts: it failed at the
right assertion while never inducing the failure, so it now picks the
row by the seeded library's name from /__test/health.
- `play-count` — a finished track does not refetch the library.
The queue spec now opens the panel before asserting on its rows and
waits for it to close again: the panel's width is animated and the
transport slides with it, so a click issued during the close lands on
whichever button moved under the pointer.
Component and store cases for everything in this series, several of
which exist because the thing they pin is invisible everywhere else:
- `view-lifecycle` and `keyboard-reach` — a document listener count
that does not grow across a simulated navigate cycle, and a tab
sequence that reaches the sidebar and plays a row without a mouse.
- `notifications`, `notification-store`, `confirm-dialog`,
`empty-states` — the four levels, the (level, region, key)
coalescing window, and loading/failed/empty as three states.
- `card-grid-repaint` — fails if `artists-view`'s or `genres-view`'s
per-render arrow functions are hoisted to stable fields, which is
the audit's own recommendation and takes the cards from 1 highlighted
to 0. It exists for no other reason.
- `lazy-track-details` — reads the five sources and fails on a
returning static import, the same shape as `TestNoDirectRuntimeEmits`
and for the same reason: the invariant is about what the code does
*not* say.
- `now-playing` — a position report that changes nothing must not
touch the DOM again, and a track change must. The first fails
against the old unconditional `updated()`.
- `playlist-virtualization`, `list-render-cost`, `selection`, `icons`,
and the store cases for the library-filter race, the never-settling
waiter and the per-playlist patch.
The remaining views, brought onto the two mechanisms added earlier in
this series.
The lifecycle: every cached primary view moves its document listeners,
intervals and event subscriptions off connect/disconnect and onto
`viewActivated`/`viewDeactivated`, so `autotag-view` stops fielding
keystrokes from Settings, `downloads-view`'s 30 s clock stops ticking
for the session, and an off-screen view stops rendering on every
search keystroke. `autotag-view` keeps a document listener only for
Escape, whose dialogs Phase 5 migrates to wa-dialog anyway.
The voice: the silent failures now speak — scan and full rescan (with
a guard against the double-click the coalescing window allowed), job
pause/resume/cancel, playlist delete, download request pause/remove/
clear, add and rename library, add-to-playlist, playlist track
removal, autotag's dialogs and its apply, and favourite reverts. Both
private toasts are gone, along with their CSS and keyframes. Playlist
delete (single and the multi-select loop), download-request removal,
download-client removal and a queue clear over 20 tracks ask first.
Loading, empty and failed become three states rather than one, in
`track-list` and `genre-details` — the first is on the first screen a
new user ever sees — and the Settings index panel seeds itself with
`GetIndexStatus()` instead of waiting forever for a change event.
`smart-playlist-editor` and `download-picker` take the request-version
guard `explore-view` already had.
`track-details` loads through one memoised dynamic import in all ten
openers, which is what takes its 42 kB out of the startup chunk: an
un-upgraded custom element is a real HTMLElement on which `?.show()`
throws, so each opener awaits it before touching the element its
template already rendered.
Both playlist detail views rendered every track with a plain `.map()`.
Measured at 2 000 tracks: 22 090 elements in the shadow root and 2 000
eager <img>, against 487 and 0 after, with retained heap 5.85 MB ->
0.81 MB and one update pass 5.3 ms -> 0.1 ms.
They are virtualized in place rather than rendered through
<track-list>, which is what the audit suggested: that works for
`genre-details` because a genre list is just tracks, but both playlist
views render phantom rows for missing files and `playlist-details` is
a drag source and a drop target, and `track-list` has never had
either. Virtualizing in place gets the same 45x on the number that
matters with none of that risk, and leaves `track-list` alone for its
four other callers.
Both therefore push `virtualizer.requestUpdate()` on a selection
change and on a playing-track change: the virtualize directive runs
when one of the *virtualizer's own* properties changes, not when its
parent re-renders, so memoising `items` and hoisting `renderItem`
together is how you build a list that never repaints. Selection went
silently dead the first time, with the controller holding exactly the
right keys.
And a closed queue panel renders no list at all: `width: 0` and
`contain` bounded the damage without stopping the virtualizer inside
from measuring its window on every queue change, or `scrollToIndex`
from calling `scrollIntoView()` on something invisible.
A list pays per row, and only while scrolling — and none of this is
visible to any test tier: nothing renders differently and nothing
fails, the app is just slower.
- The track list's Art column rendered `CoverArtPath`, the original
artwork, into a 24 px box while `CoverArtSmall` sat unused on the
same model, with no `loading="lazy"`. 26 of 26 image requests asked
for the full-size tier; now 0.
- `artists-view`'s avatar fallback linear-scanned every cached album
per card per frame, lowercasing two strings per comparison, inside
the virtualizer's renderItem — the common case, since a locally
tagged library has no artist images at all. Measured at 5 000 albums
and 24 visible cards: 1.46 ms/frame -> 0.01 ms/frame.
- Five components resolved selected file paths back to tracks with
`tracks.find(...)`; they share `utils/track-index.ts` now. "Select
all -> Edit tags" at 50 000 tracks: 3 051-6 298 ms -> 68 ms.
- "Play this artist", "play these albums" and the album drag cache
resolve paths in one call instead of one per album.
- The column-resize drag registers its document listeners on mousedown.
Two things here are load-bearing and read as sloppiness. The per-render
arrow functions in `artists-view` and `genres-view` are the *only*
thing changing a property of their virtualizer on a host update, and
therefore the only thing repainting the cards: hoisting them to stable
fields takes a selection from 1 highlighted card to 0. And a row inside
a virtualizer needs `width: 100%`, because the virtualizer positions
its children absolutely and a grid row otherwise shrinks to fit its
content and stops lining up with the header above it.
`seek-bar` renders `PlaybackPositionChanged` instead of counting: its
setInterval survives only as interpolation *between* reports, stopped
and restarted by every one of them, so its error is bounded by a
second and is discarded rather than carried. Measured after: UI 00:34
/ backend 34 across two keyboard seeks, against 00:44 / 73 before.
The bar also stops lying about smaller things: the right-hand clock
carries a minus sign and toggles to total duration on click, and the
now-playing column starts at 320 px instead of 200, which is where
"The Orchestra Of" came from.
`now-playing.updated()` used to measure and rewrite its text geometry
on every pass — six querySelectors and a read/write interleave — while
the player store notifies at 1 Hz. It now runs only when its geometry
key changes: the rendered title, the rendered artist, both scroll
flags, or the ResizeObserver reporting a resize, with every read
before every write. Over six seconds of playback: 52 forced layouts
-> 2, and 3.2 ms -> 0.9 ms inside updated().
The scroll flags are in that key because `.will-scroll .scroll-content`
carries `padding-right: 2em`, so applying the class changes the
distance the marquee travels — -128 px before it, -158 px after. A
guard on the text alone leaves every first hover scrolling short, and
nothing in any test tier would have caught it.
The resize's document listeners now attach on mousedown and detach on
mouseup, rather than running on every pointer move in the app for the
life of the process.
An event carries what a consumer needs so it never has to invalidate.
- `library-store` answers `TrackPlayCountChanged` by patching one
track, replacing the tracks array (consumers key memoized caches on
its identity) while sharing every unchanged Track — instead of
discarding four collections and refetching 25 MB per song.
- `playlist-store` answers `PlaylistTracksChanged` by refetching the
one playlist the event names, plus the summaries, since `UpdatedAt`
is a sort key. 2 668 kB and 172 ms for one heart, against 2.0 kB. It
falls back to a full invalidate only where a patch cannot be shown
to be equivalent: no id, a cold cache, an unknown id, or a fetch
already in flight. And a store with no subscriber fetches nothing —
the singleton's constructor used to put every track of every
playlist on the path to first paint for a view the user might never
open.
- `library-store` guards every fetch with a cache generation and holds
the request itself instead of deriving a promise from subscriber
notifications, which fixes the library-filter race and the
never-settling waiter together: they are the same bug seen from
either end.
- `explore-cache`'s two art caches are bounded, sharing one exported
cap constant — the artist photo's data URL is held by both, so
capping either alone frees nothing at all and reads as a fix that
did not work.
- `search-store` deliberately does *not* coalesce its notify: deferring
makes a subscriber that unsubscribes synchronously after a `setTerm`
miss the notification entirely, which is a semantic change rather
than an optimisation, and this is the store on the keystroke path.
- `selection-controller` retains its keys across a refetch rather than
clearing them, since they are file paths and those survive one, and
`getSelectedKeysOrdered()` gains an early exit. It stays a walk of
the list: an index goes stale on any re-sort, re-filter or refetch
while a file path survives all three, and 3 ms does not buy a
silently mis-ordered queue insert.
One 1.18 MB chunk containing all 27 views, every one eagerly imported
and side-effect-evaluated before first paint. `index.ts` now holds a
loader table per view and awaits the right chunk before creating the
element. JS evaluated before first paint: 1 480 kB -> 772.9 kB, in 27
chunks instead of one, with the slowest first open of a view at 19 ms
against 21 ms — both halves of the trade, and the second did not get
worse.
Two things it has to get right. `document.createElement` on an
undefined tag yields an inert HTMLElement rather than throwing, so a
missing entry in the table is a blank page and not an error; and
navigations are numbered, so a slow chunk cannot land on top of a
faster navigation. `notification-host`, `inline-notice` and
`confirm-dialog` stay eager on purpose: a failure surface that has to
fetch a chunk before it can speak is not a failure surface, and the
moment it is most needed is the likeliest moment loading one fails.
Four small modules the views below adopt:
- `lru-map.ts` — a Map re-inserted on read and trimmed from the front.
`explore-view` never unmounts and its two art caches were plain
Maps: twenty-four searches retained 20.58 MB and were still
accelerating, a cover thumbnail being ~27 kB of base64 and an artist
photo ~128 kB.
- `cache-stats.ts` — a bound has to stay checkable, so caches register
and `window.__yjCacheStats()` reports entries, retained chars and cap
in one eval, rather than the next session having to rebuild the
twenty-four-search reproduction first.
- `track-index.ts` — a WeakMap from the tracks array's identity to a
Map<FilePath, Track>. Five components turned selected file paths back
into tracks with `filePaths.map(fp => tracks.find(...))`, so "Select
all -> Edit tags" at 50 000 tracks blocked the main thread for 3.0 to
6.3 s. 68 ms after. Keying on the array's identity is safe for the
same reason the memoized filter caches are, and it is collected for
free when the store drops the array.
- `lazy-track-details.ts` — one memoised dynamic import, because
`track-details` (42 kB) was imported for side effect by all five
components that open it and so was evaluated before first paint
however the routes were split.
Every <wa-icon> was fetched from ka-f.fontawesome.com at runtime —
confirmed from `performance.getEntriesByType('resource')`, 36 requests
— so offline the app had no icons at all. `setBasePath()` does not
affect the icon resolver; only the component autoloader reads it.
Overriding Web Awesome's `default` icon library fixes all 165 call
sites without changing one of them. Cross-origin requests at startup:
22 -> 0.
Three things about it are load-bearing. The set is Font Awesome Free
(CC BY 4.0, vendored with its licence by `scripts/fetch-icons.mjs`)
because the kit CDN serves Pro, which cannot be redistributed. The
names are a committed list rather than anything derived, because
twenty call sites compute their icon name from state and no static
pass can enumerate them. And a name that is not bundled is reported at
runtime to `window.__yjIconMisses` and drawn as a fallback, since a
missing icon used to be impossible — the CDN having had everything.
There was no app-level notification surface: two components had grown
private toasts and the other 84 catch blocks ended at console.error,
so a user with a moved file, a locked database or an offline network
saw a button that did nothing. Where errors did surface, eight sites
printed the raw Go string.
Four levels, chosen by the call site from one rule — a failure is only
worth interrupting for if the user can do something about it that they
are not already doing: Blocking (data at risk), Persistent (something
asked for that did not happen, worth retrying), Transient (a small
action whose state visibly reverted anyway), Inline (rendered in the
panel that failed).
Three things about it are load-bearing. Coalescing lives in the store,
keyed by (level, region, key) within a window, so 200 unplayable files
are one message with a count and no future caller has to remember that.
An inline notification carries a *region*, because "inline" says not
global, not where. And the bottom band belongs to the player, so the
app-level stack sits under the header — the player's own floating
notice grows upward by however many lines it needs.
`utils/describe-error.ts` maps the causes a user can act on to copy;
`explainError` repeats a backend message when it is one of our own
sentinels rather than a Go wrapping chain, since mapping "a library
with that name already exists" to something generic is a regression.
`confirmAction()` is a wa-dialog, so destructive actions inherit the
focus trap and Escape the hand-rolled overlays do not have.
`index.ts` caches primary views and hides them with a class so
scrollTop survives navigation. Nothing else was told: `disconnectedCallback`
never fires for one, so everything written to clean up there never
cleans up. The worst case was not a leak — pressing `s` on Settings
skipped two albums out of the Autotag queue, and `a` on that same live
handler rewrites tags on disk.
- `utils/view-lifecycle.ts` is the missing half: `viewActivated` /
`viewDeactivated`, with `listenWhileActive`, `intervalWhileActive`
and `whileActive` torn down on the way out, and an off-screen view
that does not render. `registerViewAware` gives a shared reactive
controller the same treatment, because a controller cannot know
whether its host is a cached view — `ContextMenuController` bound
three document listeners in `hostConnected`, which for a cached host
is "forever".
- `services/shortcut-scope.ts` publishes the ambient scope. Resolving
scope from focus alone was not enough: this app is driven with the
mouse, focus sits on `<body>`, and a focus-only rule would have made
the panel keys work only after a click landed inside the panel.
- Global bindings yield to a focused control that owns the key —
button, select, slider, checkbox, menu, grid row, or anything inside
an open dialog — so the unmodified single-key bindings stop stealing
Space and the arrows.
- `utils/roving-grid.ts` gives a card grid one tab stop moved with the
arrows, since a card per tab stop makes a library-length tab
sequence.
`data-shortcut-scope` was read by the shortcut service and set nowhere,
so the two panel-scoped bindings were dead while Settings advertised
them as configurable. These are the bindings the scope mechanism was
built for: autotag's A/S/L/U/F and the arrows, and the track list's
play.
"Play this artist" awaited `GetAlbumTracks` inside a for loop — 13
sequential round trips for a 12-album artist — and every one of the
four sites doing that asked for whole track rows to read `FilePath`
off them. Five genres cost 6 MB across the IPC.
`GetFilePathsByAlbums(ids, libraryID)` and `GetFilePathsByGenres(names,
libraryID)` answer once and carry only the paths. Measured at 50 000
tracks: an artist 13 calls / 74.2 kB -> 2 / 19.2 kB, twenty albums
20 / 117.5 kB / 7.8 ms -> 1 / 26.0 kB / 1.7 ms, five genres
5 / 6 014 kB / 213 ms -> 1 / 1 291 kB / 32.6 ms, with the returned path
lists identical.
They return the paths grouped by album id or genre name rather than
flattened, because the caller owns the order — an album list is sorted
by name, not by id, and a flattened result would silently reorder a
queue — and because the album drag cache stores them per album. A
libraryID of 0 means "every library", matching an unset filter.
`CreateSmartPlaylist` issued its `INSERT ... RETURNING` through
`QueryContext`, which routes to the query-only read pool, and failed
with "attempt to write a readonly database (8)". No smart playlist
could be created at all, in any real build.
It was invisible because `NewTestDB` shares one in-memory connection
and leaves `readDB` nil, so `reader()` hands back the *writer* under
test: every unit test of that path exercised a handle production does
not have. `TestNoWritesOnTheReadPool` walks the tree for the whole
class, in the same spirit as `TestNoDirectRuntimeEmits` and for the
same reason — a lint pass only sees one build configuration.
`IndexStatusChanged` was pushed on a 3 s ticker for the life of the
process, byte-identical once the index was ready, and `config-page`
assigns it to a @state field — so a user who had once opened Settings
paid a full re-render of a 2 000-line template every 3 s, forever, for
no news. Measured sitting on Settings: 5 events and 5 re-renders per
15 s, against 0 and 0.
`emitStatus` drops a status equal to the last one it sent, which is
the rule stated once instead of at twenty call sites. The corollary is
load-bearing: every mutation of something the status derives must now
call `emitStatus` itself. Two were relying on the ticker — `si.ready`
when an existing index is adopted, and `si.cancel` when a build ends —
and without them the header badge said "Building search index" over an
index the settings page called ready. A polling loop is a hidden
dependency for every state transition that forgot to announce itself.
The apply was a bare goroutine whose progress lived in a component
field discarded on navigation, with no cancel and no record of where
it stopped if the app quit while it was rewriting tags — beside a
registry that gives every other long-running operation exactly those
things.
`jobs.KindAutotagApply` now carries progress, a cancel wired to the
apply's context, and a terminal state that tells cancelled from
failed. `OnBeforeClose` returns false unconditionally today; it now
asks while a file-writing job is in flight.
Still not durable: quitting cancels cleanly but nothing records where
it stopped for the next launch. That belongs with the deferred
download/jobs work.
`recordPlay` emitted `TrackMetadataChanged`, which the frontend
correctly reads as "tags were rewritten" and answers by discarding
every cached collection: measured at 8 binding calls, 71.18 MB across
the IPC and a 765 ms longest task per two track changes at 50 000
tracks — once per song, while clearing the user's selection.
It now emits `TrackPlayCountChanged` with everything needed to patch
the one track in place, read back with `UPDATE ... RETURNING` so the
count cannot drift from the stored one. Measured after: 0 calls, 0 MB,
0 ms.
The seek bar was a setInterval counter reconciled only on track
change: measured 3 s behind during steady playback and 30 s behind
after four keyboard seeks, because the seek shortcut never told it.
And `loadCurrentTrack`/`playCurrentTrack` logged, returned false and
emitted nothing, so double-clicking a moved file did nothing, twice,
forever — while auto-advance onto a bad file stopped playback dead.
- A 1 Hz position ticker while playing, plus an immediate report on
load, play, pause, seek and natural finish. The payload carries a
`trackChangeId` (the store is a singleton, so a bar mounting later
must not adopt a report about the previous track) and a `seq` (the
same second reported twice still has to reset interpolation).
- `PlaybackFailed` from both failure paths, and `playCurrentOrSkip`
steps over tracks that will not load — bounded by the queue length,
so a disconnected drive stops after one pass instead of spinning
through a RepeatAll wrap. `PlayIndex` still reverts: the user picked
that track.
- `SeekFailed` is emitted when the seek itself fails, not only when
nothing is loaded, and is followed by a position report so the
optimistic move is taken back by the mechanism that fixed the drift.
- A queue that simply ran out no longer unloads the player, so the
finished track stays on the bar at 0:00.
Three events the frontend had no way to learn about:
- `PlaybackPositionChanged` carries `player.PositionInfo`, so the seek
bar can render what the player is doing instead of counting seconds
itself.
- `PlaybackFailed` carries the file and the reason, from both the load
and the play path, so a track that will not play stops being a
silent no-op.
- `TrackPlayCountChanged` carries everything needed to patch one track
in place. `TrackMetadataChanged` means "the tags on disk were
rewritten" and costs the frontend its entire library cache; finishing
a track used to emit it.
An event's cost is part of its meaning, and the expensive one must not
be reused for something cheap.
genevents prefixed only the *first* line of a const block's doc
comment with `//`, so a comment that ran to a second paragraph emitted
bare prose into the TypeScript object literal — a generated file that
does not parse.
Nothing had noticed because nobody had run the generator since the
comments were written, and `make generate` is a pre-commit hook: the
failure was waiting for whoever next touched a .sql, a .templ or an
event constant. A generator is only verified by running it.
Plan 007 phase 4 is verified by measurement, not by assertion, and
there was no way to produce a number: the fixture library is a few
dozen tracks and cannot show any of the findings.
- `cmd/gentestdata -bulk N` (`make bulkdata`) writes a ~50 000-track
library in 11 s / 466 MB by encoding six clips once and copying
them, while still tagging every file through `backend/tagwriter` —
a library the app cannot read back measures nothing.
- `make sandbox-seed-bulk` seeds from it through the same script and
the same discipline as any other seed: by running the app and
waiting for the real scan.
- `e2e/perf/measure.mjs` (`make perf LABEL=x`, `make perf-compare`)
takes fourteen measurements against a running app and writes them
to a gitignored `.dev/perf/<label>.json`. It wraps every bound Go
method, so "did that refetch the library" is a fact rather than an
inference, and records `longtask` entries, which is where a 25 MB
JSON parse on the main thread shows up and nowhere else.
It is not a spec and does not run in CI.
CLAUDE.md gains backend/home and the two cross-cutting frontend pieces
a list or detail view now has to know about: explore-link's
always-navigate rule with its double-click grace, and
<catalog-scope-notice> with the catalogPending/catalogLoaded
distinction behind it.
The sidebar had a Home item that fell through to "Coming soon". What
was missing was not another view of the library — four of those exist,
sorted and complete — but the opposite: a complete, sorted library is
exactly what gives you nothing to play, because every entry point into
it is alphabetical and identical every time you open the app.
So a shelf is a *reason*, not a filter. Each one answers a different
question you might be asking when you do not know what you want (what
was I listening to, what is new, what do I keep coming back to, what
have I forgotten, what fits, what would I never pick myself) and each
says which question it answered — a row of covers with no explanation
is just another grid.
Two consequences run through it. Shelves are built from what the user
actually did — play counts, last played, import order — with random
sampling only where there is no signal to use, so randomness is the
fallback rather than the design. And a shelf with nothing behind it is
omitted instead of rendered empty: a fresh library legitimately gets
three, and an empty row labelled "on repeat" would be a lie.
The queries return album ids and nothing else, joined back to
GetAllAlbumsWithDetails in Go, so the album projection keeps having one
definition rather than one per shelf.
The button ran a normal reconcile pass, which honours each request's
retry backoff — so a request searched an hour ago was not due, nothing
was searched, and the button looked broken. The backoff is a promise to
the providers, not to the user: a person pressing "check now" *is* the
schedule, so a user-initiated pass ignores it and the loop still does
not.
"Nothing happened" also needed a reason. Summary now carries how many
requests are still being looked for and whether any download client is
enabled at all, which is the one cause of silence the user can fix —
and the requests tab says so above the list rather than leaving an
inert list to be interpreted.
The rest is the retry schedule finally being admitted to: rows show
when the next check falls due, "Looking for" explains that a request
sitting there is waiting rather than failing, and the page header says
how often the list is worked.
The album and artist pages draw from two sources and rendered
identically either way. An album showing one track because that is all
you own was indistinguishable from an album that has one track, and
both were indistinguishable from a page still waiting on a background
catalog fetch — so the answer to "is more coming?" was to keep
reloading and find out.
<catalog-scope-notice> names the source in one line: silent for full
catalog data, "still loading" while a fetch may land, "library only"
for an entity with no MBID (which will never fill in, so it points at
Autotag), and a retryable notice when the catalog had nothing to say.
Both pages needed a new distinction to drive it. loadingReleases and
its artist-side equivalents mean "something is renderable", which a
library stand-in satisfies — so catalogPending/catalogLoaded track the
different question of whether the catalog has actually answered.
Also fixes the artist page clobbering its library-hydrated discography
with an empty catalog result. An empty BrowseReleaseGroups means the
index has not built this artist yet, not that they released nothing.
A name linked only when the entity carried an MBID — and for tracks,
only when it carried two. That rule is invisible, so a track list read
as randomly broken: some titles were clickable, most were not, and
nothing on screen said why.
A name now always goes somewhere. Tagged entities open their
MusicBrainz page as before; untagged ones open the *library* page for
the same album or artist, which both detail views already support via
a local id — they just had no caller passing one. An untagged track
highlights by title, since a recording MBID is exactly what it lacks.
Links now fire on a genuine single click only. Every list these appear
in also plays a row on double-click, and the title is the widest thing
in the row, so the first click of that gesture lands on the link:
navigating immediately meant double-clicking a track title opened a
page instead of playing it, which the e2e playback suite caught. The
navigation is held for one double-click interval and dropped if the
second click arrives, while the dblclick itself is left to bubble to
the row — so rows do not need to know links exist.
Muting does not change the volume level, and VolumeChanged carried
nothing but that level — so pressing M silenced playback and left the
indicator showing the volume it still had. The UI had nothing to react
to.
Mute rides on its own event rather than widening the volume payload,
since the two are genuinely independent: a muted player at 40% is a
different state from a player at 0%, and only one of them comes back
when you unmute. The icon crosses out and dims, and the popup gains an
explicit Mute/Unmute so the keyboard shortcut is not the only way in.
MuteToggle also now takes the speaker lock (it was mutating the effects
chain from outside it) and refuses politely rather than dereferencing a
nil streamer when nothing has been loaded yet.
main.go embeds frontend/dist, so lint, test and bindings-check all fail
on a fresh clone until pnpm build has run. Invisible locally because
anyone who has started the app has a dist/ lying around, and the
container prototype missed it because both job scripts shared one
mounted directory, so job 1 consumed a dist/ that job 2's dev-headless
had built on an earlier run.
A coding agent could develop this repo's Go packages and could not
develop the application: every path to running YellowJacket ended in a
blocking GTK window, so 265 bound methods, 46 events, 33 component
directories and 13 stores had exactly one form of verification
available — `tsc --noEmit`.
The unlock is that `wails dev`'s dev server on :34115 serves the real
frontend with the real generated bindings against the same Go backend a
desktop window attaches to, so a plain Chromium under Xvfb gets a fully
functional app. Four test tiers now exist, cheapest first:
- `make ui-test` — 313 Vitest tests in a real browser in ~2 s, no app,
no backend, no display. Works because `frontend/wailsjs/` is a pure
passthrough to `window.go`/`window.runtime`, so faking just those two
globals runs the real bindings and the real store code.
- `make test` — services in-process, asserting on the payload the
frontend would receive, via a new `events.Emit` wrapper.
- `make dev-headless` + `playwright-cli` — the real app, driven
interactively, with an event bridge on `window.__yjEvents` and a
dev-only control surface at `/__test/`.
- `make e2e` — 19 of those flows frozen as Playwright specs.
`events.Emit(ctx, …)` replaces all 35 direct `runtime.EventsEmit` call
sites: wails' `getEvents` `log.Fatalf`s on any context without its
runtime, so those paths could not run under test and a background
worker could take the app down. Four packages had each hand-rolled the
same guard; nine more guarded on `ctx != nil`, which does not help.
`TestNoDirectRuntimeEmits` fails the build on a new one.
Fixtures are generated, not committed (`make testdata`), and seeds are
built by *running the app* — never by hand-writing config and DB rows,
which would be a second description of a valid YJ_HOME.
`.gitea/workflows/ci.yml` is the first workflow here that tests
anything; the other three only package, so `gitea_ci` reported only
packaging jobs and misled anyone asking whether a push was healthy.
Both jobs were prototyped to green in a bare ubuntu:24.04 container
before the YAML was written, which immediately caught `make lint`
linting three configurations that nothing builds: all three passes
omitted `webkit2_41`, so wails resolved webkit2gtk-4.0 — which Arch
still ships and Ubuntu 24.04 dropped.
Operational instructions live in `.pi/skills/yellowjacket-dev/`,
measured discoveries in `.planning/NOTES.md`, and architecture in
`CLAUDE.md` — split by tense, not by topic, because a topical split
gives every new fact two plausible homes. `make skill-check` fails a
commit if the skill cites a make target that does not exist.
The go-mp3 library (v0.3.4) has a bug where Seek panics with a slice
bounds error for certain byte positions. This crashes the app when
restoring a saved playback position on startup.
Add bounds clamping and a recover wrapper around the seek call in
seekLocked to convert the panic into a graceful error. When the seek
fails, playback starts from the beginning instead of crashing.
Wire up Go's standard profiling toolkit so it's automatically available
in dev builds and completely absent from production. The profiling
package uses build tags (dev/!dev) to eliminate all pprof, trace, and
timing code from release binaries with zero new dependencies.
- backend/profiling: pprof HTTP server on :6060, /debug/trace endpoint,
block/mutex profiling, and TimeOp helper for structured operation timing
- scripts/profile.sh: interactive menu-driven script that auto-selects
free ports (8080-8089) so multiple profiles can be open simultaneously
- Instrumented key operations: app init, database init, player load/restore,
queue set/restore
- Makefile targets: profile, profile-cpu, profile-heap, profile-trace
- .gitignore: exclude trace-*.out and *.pprof artifacts
* ci: remove build-check job from CI workflow
The cross-platform build verification is redundant in CI since the
build and release pipeline (build.yml) already performs full builds
on every release. This reduces CI runner time and costs.
* ci: restrict build-check to Linux PRs and pin R2 action to v1.4
- Build-check now only runs on pull requests (skipped on main merge)
with only Linux/amd64 enabled; macOS and Windows are commented out
since the Build & Publish workflow handles all platforms on release.
- Pin ryand56/r2-upload-action from floating v1 tag to v1.4 to fix
the upload failure seen in the v1.1.0 release build.
* fix: resolve CI failures in type check, codegen, and lint
- Add missing title and artist fields to frontend QueueTrack interface
- Rename queue.QueueTrack to queue.Track and queue.QueueState to
queue.State to fix revive stutter lint errors
- Fix wsl violations (cuddled declaration, block ending with comment)
- Break long slog lines to satisfy golines formatter
- Run go mod tidy to add missing go.sum entries for templ dependencies
- Regenerate sqlc output for updated tooling version
* fix(ci): disable redundant checkout in govulncheck action
The govulncheck-action runs its own actions/checkout internally,
which conflicts with the checkout@v6 already performed by the job.
This causes 'Duplicate header: Authorization' HTTP 400 errors.
Setting repo-checkout: false skips the redundant checkout.
- Fix 10 err113 violations: extract dynamic errors to package-level sentinels
- Fix 12 errcheck violations: handle unchecked error returns in player,
metadata, and config packages
- Fix 4 revive stutter warnings: rename player.PlayerState to player.State,
player.PlayerVolume to player.Volume, queue.QueueTrack to queue.Track,
queue.QueueState to queue.State
- Fix 2 staticcheck SA4001: simplify *&x to x in assets handler
- Fix 5 unused constants: remove dead AudioFileType iota block in models
- Fix gci/gofumpt/wsl formatting issues across multiple files
- Add gofumpt module-path setting to .golangci.yml for correct import grouping
- Fix player test: gate integration test behind YELLOWJACKET_INTEGRATION env var
instead of only skipping in CI, and replace t.Errorf+t.Failed with t.Fatalf
- Remove continue-on-error from golangci-lint CI step so linting is now required
RENOVATE_ALLOW_POST_UPGRADE_COMMANDS is not a valid config option.
Self-hosted Renovate requires RENOVATE_ALLOWED_POST_UPGRADE_COMMANDS
with a JSON array of regex patterns to whitelist specific commands.
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