While v45 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich put a flight on the board.
landed as “The sharpest aim on the board, off a flight that lasted two minutes” — 30 August 2026
what changed
Six buttons on a phone, and for the first time one of them shoots.
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David Friedrich30 August 2026 · 18:49
what happened
The touch pad had been asking for 499 pixels since the day it was written, which is wider than any phone anybody has made, so everyone who opened the cabinet on a phone found four buttons, a clipped fifth, and no way at all to shoot. It fits now, down to a 320-pixel screen, thumbs still in their corners. On the way past, the picture a shared link unfurls stopped being a screenshot of the wrong shape and became a wave with a kraken in it.
landed as “Six buttons, and on a phone you can reach all of them”
the numbers
- 4sectors touched
- 30lines aboard
- 5jettisoned
- 18:49on the clock
- 0days after v44
- 40thversion by David Friedrich
the commit, drawn
meanwhile
While v45 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich rewrote the notes on the cabinet.
landed as “The front page stops saying forty-four” — 30 August 2026
While v45 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.
landed as “Six records that had nobody reading them” — 30 August 2026
The rules themselves were altered: each of these is a check the rules already claimed was being made and was not. GR10 now reads the change rather than the directory, so an untracked note in the root stops turning every rules commit into a finding. GR11 reads the guard where the game reads it, on disk, on any commit, the way GR12 already read the ledger. GR16 reads a board row against its own evidence, and refuses rather than warns, because a row that disagrees with the flight under it is one somebody typed. The generated paths are walked against .gitattributes, which is how docs/pilot-*.html went a commit without a merge line and cost the next two branches three conflicts nobody had written.
Drop a coin in this one: git checkout 44238ee5