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The deletion test
GameRecap and DuelRecap still carried the same state machine twice. Four candidate shells, judged by one question: does deleting it reduplicate the machine back into both callers?
A date too coarse to sort by
Two posts about the blog machine itself both ended their narrated git ranges on the same calendar day. The frontmatter date field had no way to say which came first.
Descriptors, not strings
The PvP lives-teaching hints get their own pure reducer. Four candidate designs, decided on two separate axes, one of them a rule the sync-engine round had already settled.
The design with no second copy
Four candidate shapes for pulling PvP sync logic out of an 898-line Svelte store. Two of them carried a duplicate copy of the game state; the winner needed none.
Illegal states, unrepresentable
An architecture review found both duel pages still carrying the same ninety-line derivation chain by hand. The fix collapses sixteen flat props into one discriminated model.
One parser for every mode
Three near-identical physical-keyboard parsers, one bug that only showed up in duel modes, and a wayfinder map that carried its own execution instead of stopping at a spec.
The image that repaints itself
The daily share image gets real fruit icons, an OG-ratio canvas, and a gold rank line that fills in the moment a leaderboard submission lands.
The game never volunteers that
The Norwegian AI opponent played a profanity as its move. The fix keeps every word valid for players and just stops the game from choosing one on its own.
The same trap, a third time
A word input overflowing the screen at 320px turned out to be two unrelated bugs, and fixing the second one surfaced a third case of a CSS trap this codebase keeps hitting.
One tooltip, anywhere on the page
Detail tooltips reach the fruit on the board itself, and the "only one open at a time" rule stops being a property of the game log and becomes a property of the page.