fort mckay (8/12)

after some time arguing with the machine (and a tarot reading), I determined that a database migration was not a good use of time or effort. 💡( choosing between MySQL, Postgres, and Firebase was also not a good use of time or effort.)

instead, most of the other tasks on the to-do list got done. the "Preview" button exists now. the one known security-issue was fixed. there is a PRESUBMIT to hopefully catch some of the "LLM didn't include an import" 🔥( or, software developer didn't include an import) issues before submitting.

the goal for tonight is to finish the various "printing doesn't look pixel-perfect". the use of color, as well as the spacing and layout, are all (sometimes) issues.

once that is done, I am declaring Atacama 1 to be finished. ⚔️( well, actually, i will still probably end up fixing a few things over the next week.) 💡( let's say "feature-complete")

the "new lexer", the conversion to Postgres, the "frame/dispatch" model, and the automated LLM features will have to wait for Atacama2. Which will either be in a few weeks, or never.

💡 I'm not sure how to resolve one issue. in "high-contrast mode" (which might need to be renamed), there isn't enough cohesion between the sigils on the left, and the text boxes on the right. the original goal was that frame/dispatch would let the hr blocks span both columns. that might still be possible in Javascript now.

i haven't entirely decided on "topics" / "channels". at least the cities emails tend to aggressively jump between topics. 🔥( experience has shown that approximately nobody likes this.) 💬( I didn't make him for you.)

tomorrow is the funeral of James Earl Carter. i might watch. 🔥( i might live-blog it.)