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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2153d4875b open the firewall to the proxy when the dev server starts
NPM runs in a container and crosses the docker bridge to reach host services;
ufw allows that subnet to named ports only. A development server on a port
nobody opened answers `curl 127.0.0.1` perfectly and is invisible to the proxy.

What that looks like is a browser timing out against a valid certificate, a
correct proxy host and a healthy process — with the cause written down in
exactly one place nobody thinks to read: nginx's own error log, "upstream timed
out while connecting to upstream: http://172.20.0.1:3011/". It cost an evening,
which is why this is code rather than a line in a README.

The panel is what chooses the port, so the panel is what opens it. A setting that
silently requires a second undocumented step elsewhere will be wrong most times
it is changed.

Opened BEFORE the process starts, so the port is reachable the moment it binds,
and idempotent by ufw's own behaviour — it runs on every start rather than only
the first, so a firewall reset repairs itself next time somebody presses Start.
Never fatal: a rule that could not be added is a line in the output and the
server still starts.

Closed when the port CHANGES, in savePorts, which is the only place that knows
both values. Not on stop — a stopped dev server is usually about to start again,
and a rule for a port nothing listens on grants nothing, while leaving it on
every change is how a firewall accumulates holes nobody remembers opening.

`sudo -n`, so a host without passwordless sudo fails rather than hanging on a
prompt nothing will answer. The port is an integer validated before it arrives
and every command is an argv array, so there is no shell and nothing to inject —
that is the whole boundary, and it is why the parameter is typed number rather
than read from a request.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 19:51:07 +01:00
pastilhas 89adbe37ce the build needs a working directory, and its absence was silent
`bun run build:site` resolves the script from the package.json in the current
directory. The helper had no cwd parameter, so it ran in the platform's own
directory, which has no such script — and the error, "Script not found
build:site", reads as the site missing a script rather than as it being asked in
the wrong place.

Second time today a spawn helper quietly lacked something the caller needed: the
first was the environment for pm2. Both had the same shape — assembled correctly
and then not passed.

Verified by running the real build with the same environment the plugin builds:
29 entries in dist and an index.html with the site in it.
2026-08-29 19:42:09 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 27f93d6e14 production is a static build behind nginx, not a process
The site's own build script says it outright: "The public site is not served by
Bun in production — it is a directory of files behind nginx. Output: dist/."
So production has no port, nothing to restart, and nothing that can crash at
three in the morning. It is built or stale, and served or not served.

Showing it as a pm2 process was showing something that does not exist, and its
Start button could only ever have failed. It now has Build, Serve and Stop, and
the two states are reported separately — a build can succeed while nothing
serves it, and a container can serve a directory built weeks ago. They fail
independently and are fixed differently.

The container exists because nginx could not see the files. NPM mounts only its
own /data and /etc/letsencrypt, and there is no other nginx on the box. The
alternatives were putting site files inside NPM's own volume, or editing NPM's
compose and restarting it — which takes every site on this machine down for a
moment. So: one nginx:alpine, dist mounted READ-ONLY, on NPM's own network with
NO published port. NPM reaches it by name, and nothing about the site is exposed
except through the proxy.

Recreated rather than restarted, for the same reason pm2 is: a container keeps
the mounts it was created with, so a root location changed here would be saved,
displayed, and still serving the old directory.

Domains follows. Production's forward target is a container NAME, not the docker
gateway that reaches a host process — and matching what already points at it
uses the full target rather than the port, since every other site behind this
NPM on port 80 would otherwise be listed as fofos's.

The compiler found the dead branches this left in startServer once production
could no longer reach it. Removed rather than left to read as though the case
were still possible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 19:36:29 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 752c06d24a save the pm2 list after starting or stopping a server
Without it, pm2 resurrects the list as it was the last time somebody happened to
run `pm2 save` — so a machine that reboots comes back without the site, and with
nothing to indicate anything was meant to be there. The systemd unit is enabled
on this host, so the resurrect definitely happens; the only question was what it
would restore.

After stopping too, not only after starting. The dump has to match reality in
both directions: a server stopped here and left in the dump comes back on its
own at the next reboot, which is the same bug pointing the other way.

A failed save does not fail the action — the process is already started or
stopped by then, and reporting "could not start" about something that did start
is worse than a line saying the list was not persisted. It is in the console
either way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 14:16:46 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 ca43f7ef86 the site gets what it needs to boot, and the status stops lying
Three things, and the second is why the panel was confidently wrong.

The site refuses to start without FOFOS_API_TOKEN, ADMIN_SESSION_SECRET,
PUBLIC_URL, API_URL and FOFOS_MEDIA_DIR, and the checkout has no .env at all.
Every one of those is either already known here — the port, the media directory
— or a random secret nobody should be asked to invent. So they are generated
once, kept encrypted under this plugin's own purpose key, and supplied. Once,
not per start: regenerating would invalidate every session and token anybody had
noted down.

pm2 saying `online` is NOT the site being up. `bun --hot` survives a crash at
startup — the process stays alive, pm2 reports online, and nothing is listening.
That is precisely what development did: reported up, served nothing, and this
panel repeated it. The status now also asks whether the port answers, any
response counting, and says "not answering" out loud when the two disagree.

And the buttons are a fixed width, because Start and Restart are different
lengths and rows that size to their own label leave the inputs on different
vertical lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:50:16 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 2e56260a88 a Servers section: development and production, both under pm2
pm2 for BOTH, development included. A `bun dev` started in a terminal dies with
the terminal, and nobody can tell whether it is running without finding the
window it was started in. Under pm2 the two are the same kind of thing — a named
process with a status, an uptime and a log, startable from here and inspectable
from anywhere. The cost is that development stops printing to a console somebody
is watching, which is what `pm2 logs fofos-dev` is for; the process names are in
the panel so nobody has to guess them.

This plugin owns exactly two names, `fofos-dev` and `fofos-prod`, and every
command is built from that pair and from nothing a caller supplies. No request
can stop, restart or delete another process on the machine. That matters more
than usual here: Officer's own processes share this pm2 daemon, and a plugin
able to name any of them would be a way to take the host down through a web
form.

Start is really a replace — delete, then start. Not `restart`: it fails on a
process that has never existed, and on one that has it reuses the environment it
was started with, so a port or database changed here would be saved, displayed,
and not in effect. That is an hour of somebody's debugging.

The environment is assembled here because this plugin is what knows the ports
and the database names, and it is handed to pm2 through the invoking command's
own environment — pm2 has no flag for it; `--env` names a block in an ecosystem
file. The site reads .env files first and the environment last, so this fills
what is absent rather than overriding what somebody wrote down.

Ports have no default. It is the one setting where a plausible guess is worst:
it binds, the site appears to work, and it is quietly answering on a port
another service wanted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:43:48 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 af31b57cdf the databases say what is in them, and the block folds away when it is done
Two databases with identical structure look identical until you count what is in
them — one is the live site and one is a copy. So a row now reads "18 tables ·
155 rows" with the time anything was last written, rather than only reporting
that a schema exists.

Counted with query_to_xml over information_schema, which is exact. reltuples
from the planner would be free and is an ESTIMATE: it reads as zero on a table
nobody has analysed, which is precisely the freshly restored database this is
meant to reassure somebody about. That is not a hypothetical — it is why
pg_stat_user_tables reported an empty database earlier today that had 155 rows
in it.

And the block collapses with a check once everything is in order, on the same
terms as Root location: both databases existing with a schema, and backups
configured. Not backups having RUN — a site set up an hour ago has taken none,
and calling that incomplete is telling somebody to fix what is not broken.

Seeded from /summary so the first paint is already right, then kept live by what
the block and BackupsRow know. The `null` sentinel in `collapsed` is left alone
while unsettled, which is the bug that stopped Root location folding at all.

BackupsRow reports its bit from an EFFECT, not during render: calling the
parent's setter mid-render is an update to a different component, which React
refuses outright.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:32:42 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 fb234ede5d the contact inbox is a mailbox, and it is copied the moment it changes
Messages are the one thing that happens between publishes. A backup triggered by
publishing would never contain them, and a RESTORE would destroy every message
received since the dump being restored — turning a routine recovery into losing
the only copy of something a stranger sent, with nothing about the operation
looking like it had done that.

So they live in their own SQLite file, in the shape Officer's email plugin
already uses. Not a schema that fits a contact form: this IS mail — a from, a
subject, a date and a body wearing a form — and storing it as a mailbox means
the mail client can open it, and anybody's agent already knows how to read it
without being told. The form's own fields become labelled lines in text_body,
where a reader and a grep both find them; inventing columns would be the moment
it stopped being a mailbox.

This side watches the file and copies it within seconds of a write, to the local
backup directory and to the machine off this one. The alternative is a window: a
message at ten past nine and a disk that fails at twenty past is a message
nobody sees, while the sender believes they contacted you.

Two details are the whole reason this is not a `cp`. The WAL is checkpointed
first — the site writes in WAL mode, so a new message lives in messages.db-wal
and not yet in messages.db, and copying the main file alone yields a database
that is intact, readable, and missing exactly the message that triggered the
copy. And the DIRECTORY is watched rather than the file, because SQLite replaces
files during a checkpoint and a watch on a replaced inode goes quiet for good —
a watcher that silently stops is worse than none, since the panel would go on
implying the inbox is protected.

The copy is current, not history; the ordinary backup runs take a timestamped
one alongside the dumps, so a restored site can have the inbox that matches it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:27:36 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 9ff25256c1 back up on publish, which is when this site actually changes
A nightly backup of a site that only changes when somebody publishes spends most
of its life copying a database identical to yesterday's, and misses the one
moment worth capturing. So "On publish" joins the schedules, and goes first.

Stored in the same column as a cron expression because it answers the same
question — WHEN — and a second column would mean every read had to decide which
of the two was authoritative.

It creates no cron job and no catch-up tick. A missed run is a run whose TIME
passed while the machine was down; an event has no time, so there is nothing to
have missed, and a catch-up here would take a backup every fifteen minutes of a
site nobody had touched.

`backupAfterPublish()` does nothing unless this is the configured trigger, so
the publish path can call it unconditionally and never has to know what the
backup settings say. It swallows failures for the same reason the timer does: a
backup that could not be taken must not present as a publish that failed, when
the thing the person asked for worked.

Nothing calls it yet — there is no publish in this plugin, because the sections
that would do the publishing are not built.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:19:22 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 89c9dd6f63 restore: pick a dump, pick a database, say yes
A pg_dump carries CREATE TABLE, so it cannot be layered onto a database that
already has the schema — it fails on every object. The only honest restore
empties the target first, and that is not a detail to bury behind a button. So
choosing a destination and confirming are two separate clicks, and the second
names what it is about to destroy.

`confirm` is required by the function, not merely by the panel, so no code path
can reach a restore by accident.

The file is matched against what listDumps actually found in the backup
directory rather than taken as given. There is no path to traverse out of and no
way to point psql at a file this module did not write: an unknown name is
refused before anything is opened, rather than sanitised and hoped about.

Emptied with DROP SCHEMA public CASCADE through psql, not by dropping the
DATABASE — that would need a connection to another one, fail while anything is
attached, and lose whatever was granted on it. Replacing the schema does the
same job to the part that matters.

psql rather than pg_restore, because these are plain-SQL dumps, which is what
pg_dump writes without -F c.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:11:57 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 c429dc3455 a remote path without a leading slash is relative to the remote home
Requiring an absolute one was simply wrong. `scp file host:db-backups/fofos/`
lands under the remote account's home — that is what every ssh tool does, and
what anybody typing a destination expects, since the home directory is the one
place they are certain to be able to write.

What is still refused is unchanged and is the part that matters: the characters
a shell would act on. This value IS interpreted remotely, since `ssh host
mkdir -p <path>` runs through a shell, so they are rejected rather than escaped
— refusing is checkable by reading the function, escaping is checkable only by
being right about every shell.

The summary shows a relative destination as ~/… because that is where it lands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:07:50 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 5fc710f072 backups go to another machine, and old ones are pruned
Three things.

The local directory defaults to <officerdev root>/dockers/postgres/dumps,
derived from OFFICER_ROOT rather than written down — the same reasoning as
rootPath: a path fixed at install freezes the layout of the machine it was
installed on, and a restore elsewhere then points somewhere that is not there
while looking deliberately chosen.

The destination is SSH, and it is now what "set up" MEANS: a dump sitting on the
machine it came from is a second copy on one disk, lost to the same failure that
would make anybody want it. So local is staging and the copy off the box is the
backup, and a schedule with nowhere to send it does not count as configured.

Testable, in two steps reported separately, because they fail for different
reasons and the fixes differ: the connection is keys and networking, the
directory is permissions on the far side. It tests what is in the FORM rather
than what is stored — testing a saved destination while somebody looks at a
different one is worse than not testing.

Everything goes out with BatchMode=yes. Nobody is at a terminal when this runs,
so a key that has lost access must FAIL rather than block forever on a prompt
nothing will answer. It is also why no credential is stored: there is none to
store and none to leak.

The remote path is the one value here a shell interprets — `ssh host mkdir -p
<path>` runs through it — so shell characters are refused rather than escaped.
Refusing is checkable by reading it; escaping is checkable by being right about
every shell.

And rotation keeps the newest N per database at both ends. Per database, because
two sharing one budget means a busy one evicts the other's history. Sorted by
NAME rather than mtime: the timestamp is in the filename and is sortable, while
mtime stops meaning "when this was taken" the moment a file is copied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 13:03:30 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 1b398121b7 backups: a schedule, a location, and a timer that survives a restart
Restore goes. What it would read from was never decided, and a disabled button
with a tooltip explaining it is not built is worse than no button.

In its place, backups. `cron` was already a dependency and used nowhere, so the
schedule is a real cron expression — a backup wants to happen at an HOUR, and an
interval counted from whenever somebody pressed save drifts across the clock
until it runs mid-afternoon.

Cron alone is not enough, and this is the part worth writing down: it does not
run a job it was down for. A daily backup at three on a machine that restarts
overnight is skipped silently — the schedule is still there, the next fire is
still in the future, and a month later there is one file. So `lastBackupAt` is
in the database, and both the startup and a fifteen-minute tick compare it
against the schedule's own period, computed from two successive fires. A backup
that should already have happened happens now.

The job handle is module-level and stopped before a new one is made. Two saves
leaving two jobs is a bug that surfaces as backups arriving in pairs, weeks
later, with nothing connecting it to a settings form.

Back up now exists because a scheduled job nobody has ever run by hand is a
guess — it is how you learn the location is writable and pg_dump can reach the
databases without waiting until three to find out it cannot. The list underneath
is a readdir of the location rather than a record of what should be there: a
schedule that has been failing quietly looks exactly like a working one until
you count the files.

pg_dump per database, not pg_dumpall — a cluster dump would also carry Officer's
own, which is not this plugin's to copy around. And a failed run still records
the timestamp, or one undumpable database would have the catch-up tick retrying
every fifteen minutes for the rest of the week.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 12:54:54 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 f7df5f8b10 the plugin tells the site what its databases are called
Both names, on every push, whichever target it is. The site's guard checks that
the two environments expect DIFFERENT databases, so it needs both to do that at
all — and passing only the one being pushed to would leave the other falling
back to the name the repository shipped with, which is a comparison against
something nobody configured.

This makes the plugin the authority on what the site's databases are called,
which is the whole point of the change on the other side: the site stopped
hardcoding them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 12:42:24 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 0971764fca once both databases are there, the form becomes two rows of actions
A text box invites an edit nobody is here to make. Named and created, the two
things somebody wants are per-database actions, so the inputs and the button go
and each database becomes a label, a table count, and what can be done to it.

Push schema runs the WEBSITE's own `db:push`. Not drizzle-kit driven from here
with a config this plugin assembles — the schema, the drizzle version and the
push command all belong to that repository, and reimplementing any of them would
be a second definition of the site's database going stale on its own schedule.
This supplies the connection and runs their script.

The connection goes in the environment, which works because src/env-file.ts
consults .env files first and process.env last. So an ambient value is used only
where no file in the checkout sets that key, and this cannot quietly override a
connection somebody wrote down.

Their name guard still applies and should: env.ts refuses to connect unless the
database name matches what FOFOS_ENV expects. A plugin that worked around that
would be defeating the one check standing between development and live data.

"Schema pushed" is a COUNT of tables in public, not a comparison against the
site's expected tables — that list would be a second copy of the site's schema,
stale the first time it gains a table, and the question being asked is only
whether anything is in there yet.

Restore is present and disabled, gated on the schema being pushed. It is not
wired: which backup it reads from is not decided, and guessing at the source of
a restore is not a thing to do with a client's data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 12:14:39 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 30c52e6449 one button, and it appears when there is something to press
Two buttons was the wrong model, and it failed in the worst way: Create keyed
off the SAVED names, so on a fresh screen with both fields filled it did not
render at all — and the hint explaining why was behind the same condition. Two
filled fields, one Save, and nothing saying what came next.

Naming and creating are not separate decisions from the outside. You type two
names because you want two databases. So one button that records them and
creates whatever is missing, labelled with whichever of those it is about to do,
and disabled only when there is genuinely nothing to press.

The tick beside each field now asks pg_database about the text in the BOX rather
than the text last saved. That is the question somebody typing a name has, and
answering it about a different name was worse than silence.

The PUT that only stored names goes with the second button. Nothing called it,
and a second way to write the same two columns is a second thing that can drift.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 12:09:54 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 a1fe543dff two database names, and a button that creates what is missing
Production and development, stored as NAMES rather than URLs. The site runs on
the same Postgres Officer is already connected to — that is the whole reason a
name is enough — and a URL here would be a second copy of a host, a port and a
credential that already exist in the platform's configuration, free to drift
from it and free to point at another machine.

Naming and creating are separate, and were worth two buttons. A database that
already exists still needs its name recorded, and making Create the only way to
save would leave nobody able to point the site at something already set up. The
tick beside each field comes from pg_database, not from what was typed — the
useful question is whether the thing exists, and that came apart from "somebody
saved a name" the moment the two actions split.

CREATE DATABASE cannot be parameterised, so the name goes into the statement as
text and the identifier check is the entire security boundary. It is therefore
strict rather than accommodating — lowercase, leading letter or underscore,
nothing else — and it is re-run immediately before the statement is built,
because the gap between storing a name and using it is exactly where a check
that happened earlier stops being a check. Postgres folds unquoted identifiers
to lowercase, so accepting `Fofos` would create `fofos` and then report a name
nobody could find; refusing is kinder than silently changing it.

Officer's own database and the Postgres templates are refused outright. Pointing
the site at Officer's database would not read as a configuration mistake — it
would read as the platform corrupting itself.

Nothing here drops a database, and nothing should: `fofos_website` and
`fofos_old` are one keystroke apart and one of them holds the client's site.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 12:06:40 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 e621bc761d the block knows it is settled before it paints, so it stops flickering
It could not. Each part of Root location fetches its own status, so the block
had no way to know whether it was finished until its children had mounted and
reported — meaning it painted open and then folded away, on every load. That is
not a rendering problem to tune: the information genuinely was not there yet.

So one request answers the three bits first, and nothing renders until both it
and the path have arrived. The children still own their detail and still report
changes upward while the block is open; the summary only seeds the opening
state. Two sources for one fact with a clean division — the summary is what is
true on ARRIVAL, the callbacks are what changes while somebody is looking.

`settledNow` picks between them: the summary while nothing has reported, the
live value once anything has. Using the live value throughout would open the
block for exactly the gap between the summary landing and the children
answering, which is the flicker with extra steps.

The summary walks the media tree, so it is deliberately not polled, and it skips
the walk entirely when there is no media folder to walk.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 11:55:40 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 f30d40446a a ledger of runs, and what is still outstanding
Two things the panel could not answer. A run's state lives in a Map, so a
restart erased it — and with it any record that a file FAILED. That is the gap
the manifests structurally cannot cover: a derived folder records the size,
mtime and variants it was built from, so provenance is already precise, but a
file that did not build has no folder and leaves no trace. Once the watcher is
running, a failure at three in the morning would never be discovered.

So one JSON line per run, appended to media/.sync-log.jsonl. A file rather than
a table because db/schema.ts is emphatic that the connection is the only thing
this plugin stores, and a ledger is losable — re-run and it rebuilds. Beside
derived/ rather than inside it, so wiping derived does not erase the history of
what happened before, which is the comparison it exists for. Written in a
finally, so a run that died still records that it did.

And the line above the button now says what is TRUE rather than what a run once
did: reconcile() walks originals, reads each manifest, and reports current,
missing and changed. It uses upToDate — the same predicate the sync uses to skip
a file — because two definitions of "current" is how a panel comes to say
everything is in step while the next run rebuilds half of it. Missing and
changed are separated because only the second means somebody edited something.

The ledger is not polled. It reads the whole tree, so it loads on arrival and
again when a run stops — the only two moments its answer can change.

Sync also takes an optional folder now, so a subtree can be re-synced on its own
rather than the whole library. The scope is recorded on each run, because "3
built" means different things for one folder and for everything.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 11:47:32 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 b9f543c2b6 video rungs stop upscaling, which is why the one video failed
`web-1080` was asked for whenever the source was at least 720 tall, so a 720p
video was upscaled to 1080p — the exact thing the image ladder is careful never
to do. The output was a 14.6 MB file that looks worse than the 7.8 MB one beside
it, and it cost 84 seconds of a single core on an idle box. Under a running sync
that overran av-club's 255 s idle timeout and homepage_video.mp4 failed
outright, which is the only reason the waste was noticed.

A rung is now made only when the source is at least that tall. `web-480` becomes
a floor rather than a rung, so a source smaller than 720 still gets something
instead of nothing or an enlargement. An unreadable height makes everything: a
probe that told us nothing is not evidence the video is small.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 11:32:34 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6db5b1e85d decode once, encode seven times, and one file at a time
A HEIC was being decoded once per rung. av-club is stateless per request, so
seven rungs asked for from the original are seven ImageMagick conversions of it
— measured on fofos at 8.5 s each, against 1.1 s for the resize and encode that
follow. Six of the seven produced a pixel-identical intermediate and threw it
away: about 67 seconds per photograph where 16 would do, paid again on every
future upload.

So when av-club says a format needs converting, convert it ONCE into the staging
directory and cut every rung from that. `needsConversion` is asked rather than
guessed, because which formats are expensive is av-club's fact and a list of
them kept here would go on paying after its build stopped needing it. JPEG and
PNG are untouched — writing a full-resolution intermediate to save six cheap
reads would cost more than it saved.

Concurrency drops to one. Two was chosen to match av-club and is the right
number on a machine with room; fofos has 1.87 GiB of RAM, and two concurrent
12-megapixel decodes left 520 MiB free with 648 MB already paged out. The work
is CPU-bound on a box already at 99%, so the second worker was not buying
throughput — it was buying a second resident bitmap.

And the sharp calls now name their output format properly. `output` takes
`{ format, options }`; passing `{ webp: { … } }` was silently ignored, so
everything built before this encoded at sharp's default quality rather than the
82 asked for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 11:24:18 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 e87e19ee46 derived/ is built from originals/, and you can watch it happen
The mapping: derived/ mirrors originals/ directory for directory, and where
originals holds a FILE, derived holds a DIRECTORY of the same name — extension
included — with the renditions inside it. Keeping the extension is what makes it
total: a.jpg and a.png are different originals and must not share a folder. The
inverse is pure string work, so the filesystem is the record and there is no
second copy of the truth.

Images get a WebP ladder at 320/640/960/1280/1920/2560 plus full.webp, and
nothing is ever upscaled — a rung wider than the original would be a soft file
that srcset then confidently prefers over the sharp one. full.webp always
exists because for a HEIC it is the only browser-readable copy of the picture
there is.

Video gets av-club's web-1080 and web-720 presets by name, plus a poster. Images
are named by width because srcset descriptors are widths; video by height
because that is av-club's vocabulary and nobody misreads 1080.mp4.

The ladder is fixed here and the SITE chooses from it. This never reads
website/src/media/slots.ts — a plugin that knows a website's layout is a plugin
for one website, and that boundary is the difference between a template and
something fofos-shaped.

Each derived folder carries a manifest naming the size and mtime it was built
from, so the sync is idempotent and resumable: a run that died halfway is
finished by running it again. That is what makes an in-memory job acceptable
rather than merely convenient. It builds into <name>.partial and renames, so an
interruption can never leave a folder that looks finished.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 11:13:56 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 c38d269faf Media moves to the foot, and each section asks its own question
TWO REPORTS, AND THE SECOND ONE WAS A DESIGN MISTAKE RATHER THAN A SETTING.

Media is pinned now, beside Administration. it sat at the end of the scrolling list,
which is the bottom of the LIST and not the bottom of the panel. it belongs in the
foot for the same reason Administration does: both are about this machine, while
everything above them is about the site's pages.

and it was LOCKED BEHIND A CONNECTION IT NEVER USES. `ready` was one global flag —
"can anything be opened" — and Media is a folder on this disk that never speaks to
fofos. so sections now declare what they need:

  'connection'  the site's pages, which read fofos
  'root'        Media, which needs a folder and nothing else
  'nothing'     Administration, because locking the door you fix things through is
                locking somebody out entirely

`sectionOpen` is one function, used by the nav to decide whether to offer a link and
by the detail panel to decide what to render — so the two cannot disagree about a
section. that was already the rule with one flag; it matters more now that each
section asks a different question.

`/status` gained `rootSet`, a BOOLEAN, and stays not-owner-only. the nav needs the
answer for every account that can see the section; the path itself stays behind
`/_config`, which is owner-only. whether a root has been chosen reveals nothing
about the machine — where it is would.

the empty-state line follows too: "set a root location below to begin" before there
is one, "connect fofos to open the rest" after — rather than one sentence naming a
step that is not the next one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 08:44:11 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 944d3d9c5b a Media section, browsing the site's originals in place
a new section above Administration. it embeds THE PLATFORM'S OWN file browser rather
than drawing a file list — upload, delete, rename, move, thumbnails, the context
menu and every task hanging off it already exist and are maintained in one place. a
plugin's own would be a second to keep in step, arriving without any of that.

`basePath` IS A JAIL, not a starting folder: `useFileBrowserApp` resets currentPath
whenever it leaves, so pointing it at `<root>/media/originals` means the breadcrumb
stops there and `derived/` is not reachable by navigating. that is what was asked
for — people work in originals, derived is made for them.

IT IS A GUARDRAIL AND NOT A PERMISSION BOUNDARY, and the panel says so in its own
docstring because the difference will matter to whoever reads this next. the
file-browser API is unchanged and still addresses the whole home: anyone with file
access reaches derived/ through the Files screen. this prevents an accident, not a
determined person. confining it properly means scoping that API per user, which is a
platform change and a much larger one.

the panel also says, once, that derived/ exists and is made from these — otherwise
somebody who knows about it would think it had been lost.

`rootRelative` is new on the settings API because only the SERVER knows what home
is. the file browser addresses everything relative to a root, and a browser deriving
that prefix from the absolute path would be guessing. null when the root sits
outside home — a legitimate setting the browser cannot address, which the panel
explains rather than rendering an empty folder.

NOTHING HERE IS FOFOS-SPECIFIC, which matters now that this plugin is the template
for other site admins: the root is a setting, media/originals is the layout this
plugin creates, and both are read from the API. another site's plugin changes the
label.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 08:39:53 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 b9f8ce4ee4 originals/ and derived/, because the names are the rule
media/
    originals/   nothing regenerates these
    derived/     rebuildable from originals/, safe to wipe

a pure rename: nothing had been created yet — checked the real root on fofos, only
`website/` was there — so there is no directory to move and no file to lose. that
is the last moment this was free, which is why it happened now.

`user/` and `treated/` both named the wrong thing. `user` said who put the file
there, which stops distinguishing anything the moment a job writes one, and reads
like it should hold a folder per person. `treated` said what had happened to it,
which stops being informative as soon as there is more than one kind of treatment.

these two say which one you can afford to lose. that is the only property that
matters about the pair, and it is the one that decides every rule anybody writes
about them later — what a cleanup job may delete, what a backup must never skip,
what a conversion may overwrite without asking. a name that carries it is a rule
that cannot be forgotten, which is more than the comment above it can promise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 01:14:47 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 86e18fc7bf media/ gets its shape: user/ and treated/
<root>/
    website/          the checkout
    media/
      user/           what people upload, untouched
      treated/        what comes back out of conversion

ONE list drives both provisioning and reporting. two lists is how a status comes to
say "ready" about a structure missing a folder the creator quietly stopped making.

THE BUTTON REPAIRS AS READILY AS IT CREATES. `mkdir -p` on every path, every time,
so the same press fixes a `media/` somebody made by hand with nothing in it and a
structure that lost a folder — and pressing it on a complete one changes nothing
and fails at nothing. that is what makes it safe to offer beside a status a few
seconds stale; the version that refuses when the parent exists is the version
somebody has to finish in a terminal.

three states, not two. `media/` with one child missing looked identical to a
finished one, and that is the state most worth seeing — so the row says complete,
partly there, or absent, and lists both children whether or not they exist. the
missing ones are the reason to show the list at all.

RECORDED BEFORE ANY RULE DEPENDS ON IT: the two halves are not symmetric. `user/`
is original — nothing regenerates it, and losing it means asking somebody for a
file they may no longer have. `treated/` is derived — every file in it can be made
again from the one it came from, so it is the half that is safe to delete, safe to
rebuild, and safe for a job to overwrite without asking. nothing enforces that yet;
it is the fact that should decide every rule written about them later.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 01:11:16 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 003613872d provision <root>/media, beside the checkout
where the images and the files will live. same row shape as the checkout above it,
because it is the same kind of fact: a thing that either is or is not at a known
path under the root, with one button that puts it there.

BESIDE `website`, never inside it, and that is the point of it being here rather
than a folder in the repository:

  - it must SURVIVE the checkout. deleting `website` and cloning it again is a
    normal thing to do when something is wrong with it, and it must never be the
    thing that destroys the client's photographs.
  - it must never be TRACKED. media in git is a repository nobody can clone a year
    from now, and a .gitignore is a promise somebody eventually breaks with
    `git add -f`.

both under one root, so a backup of the root is the whole site — the code and the
things it serves. that is the property that makes the root worth being a setting.

NOTHING ABOUT ITS INSIDES IS DECIDED. this creates the directory and reports
whether it is there; the layout, who writes to it and what goes where are still
being described. inventing a folder tree now would settle that in the file least
able to change its mind, because directories on disk are not a migration you can
run.

`mkdir -p`, so it also creates a root that is still only a default — saving a root
creates nothing, and provisioning into a path that does not exist is the ordinary
first run. idempotent by the same flag, which is what makes the button safe to
offer next to a status that might be stale.

no console for this one: making a directory either works or gives one line about
why not, and a black transcript box for a single sentence makes a small thing look
like a large one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 01:03:28 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 bab47526f7 clone and update both end in bun install
a checkout with no node_modules does not run, so cloning without installing left
something that looked finished and was not.

run after an update too, and UNCONDITIONALLY — including when the pull changed
nothing. skipping it on "already up to date" is the shortcut that is right until
the one time it is not, and an install on an unchanged tree is close to free.

`process.execPath`, NEVER the string "bun". verified on fofos today: PM2 started
officer with PATH=/usr/local/sbin:…:/snap/bin and bun lives in ~/.bun/bin, so
looking it up by name fails inside the process and works perfectly when you run the
same command by hand — the worst version of this bug, because it cannot be
reproduced the obvious way. execPath is the bun already running us.

bun's directory is also prepended to PATH for the child, which execPath alone does
not cover: a postinstall script calling `bun` would not find it, and that reads as
a broken package rather than a missing PATH entry.

the two commands report as ONE, each prefixed with the line that produced it, so
the panel reads like the terminal somebody would otherwise have opened. it stops at
the first failure — installing into a clone that did not happen produces a second,
more confusing error about a directory that is not there — and a clone that worked
followed by an install that did not is legible as exactly that.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 00:54:58 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 df394e29a4 the website checkout under the root: clone it, update it, say which
`<root>/website` is now checked, and the block says which of three things it is:
not there, there but not a checkout, or a checkout with its branch and its head
commit. the middle one is the state worth being loud about — cloning will refuse,
and the reason is something already sitting in the way.

SSH, hardcoded. the repo is private, so https asks for a username with nobody at a
terminal to answer, and the SSH remote is already authenticated by the owner's key.
hardcoded because this plugin administers exactly one website: a field for it would
be a setting nobody changes and one more thing that can point somewhere wrong. when
the checkout's origin is NOT that URL, the block says so — shown always it is noise,
shown on a mismatch it answers why an update pulled something unexpected.

NOTHING HERE MAY HANG. these run inside an HTTP request, so git gets
GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 and ssh gets BatchMode=yes. without them a key that lost
access does not fail, it BLOCKS forever waiting for a password at a terminal that
does not exist, and the panel spins until somebody restarts the server. there is a
five-minute kill on top for everything else that can wedge.

update is `--ff-only`, never a merge. a merge commit made by a button in a checkout
nobody is watching is a thing somebody finds days later; refusing is recoverable
and legible. it also refuses on a dirty tree rather than failing halfway — and
dirty is `--untracked-files=no`, because a build artefact or an uncommitted .env is
not a reason to make Update permanently unavailable.

clone takes FULL history, not --depth 1. this is a working checkout somebody will
pull into and read the log of, and shallow turns both into a support question.

it sits inside Root location rather than in a block of its own: the path and the
thing at the path are one question, and split apart somebody could change the root
in one place and read a status about the old one in the other, both looking equally
current. hidden while editing, because it describes what is SAVED.

git's own output is shown verbatim on failure. "Permission denied (publickey)" says
exactly what is wrong; anything written in its place would be a guess at which of a
dozen causes it was.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 00:51:44 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 df52045eaa the path gets the row, the actions get their own
Root location is two states now. reading, it is a path and one Edit. editing, it
is a field and the things you can do to it.

the actions moved to the block's BOTTOM row, off the value's line. an absolute
path is long, and it was being truncated to make room for buttons that are not
needed most of the time — the thing somebody opened this to read was the thing
squeezed. shown, it wraps with `break-all` rather than truncating, because a path
is read from both ends: the machine at the front, the folder at the back, and
hiding either is worse than two lines.

Edit is a mode and not an always-live field. this is looked at far more often than
it is changed, and a live input invites a stray keystroke into a path everything
else will depend on. Cancel restores what is stored, so leaving the mode cannot
leave half a path on screen looking like the setting.

"back to the default" is gone, as asked — and `clearRootPath` and its DELETE route
with it, since that button was the only caller. an unreferenced endpoint is the
same rot as an unreferenced component, and this one was a second, quieter Save
that wrote a value nobody chose.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 00:41:50 +01:00
pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 d5f2d8f370 Root location: an absolute path, with a picker that can make folders
defaults to `<owner home>/fofos`, and stores the FULL path — never the tilde. a
tilde means "whoever is asking", and the people asking will not all be the same
person: this plugin is grantable, and the site is in one place regardless of who
is looking at it. stored as `~/fofos` it would give every user a different answer
to a question that has one.

THE DEFAULT IS COMPUTED, NOT WRITTEN. no row means the default is worked out on
every read, so it follows the machine. writing it in at install freezes whichever
home existed on install day, and a restore onto a different machine then points at
a directory that is not there while looking deliberately chosen. a saved path is a
decision and is stored exactly as given; only its absence is derived. the form
says which of the two it is showing, because "not set" reading identically to "set
to the default" is how somebody comes to believe they configured something they
did not.

THE PICKER USES THE PLATFORM'S FILE API — /file-browser/ls and /mkdir — not routes
of this plugin's own. they already refuse to leave home, and they already tell a
missing directory from a forbidden one, which is a distinction that cost somebody
an afternoon and would have been re-guessed here. shipping a second listing and
mkdir would be a second filesystem surface to audit for the sake of one form.

that API is an execution capability and never grantable, so for anybody but the
owner it 403s — said in a sentence rather than shown as an empty tree, because an
empty listing is data and must never be how a refusal looks. it also browses the
owner's home and nothing above it; a path outside home is still reachable by
typing, since the picker fills the field and the FIELD is what saves. one value on
screen, one Save, and picking a folder commits nothing by itself.

"Use this folder" takes the one that is OPEN rather than one highlighted in the
list. that makes looking inside and choosing one gesture, and it is the only way
to choose a folder with nothing in it — which a freshly made one always is.

a SECOND table, not a column on fofos_admin_connection, whose url and token are
both notNull: a root path could not be saved there without also having an HTTP
connection, and that connection is being replaced rather than extended. when it
goes, its table is a clean drop instead of surgery on columns that outlived it.
the rule against tables in this plugin is unbent — what it forbids is the CLIENT'S
work, and this row holds a path somebody can retype.

needs `bun db:push`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 00:35:16 +01:00
PastilhasandClaude Opus 5 6b87956e44 Everything needed to be a plugin
manifest, one table, a router and two panels. Discovery is by convention, so
this is the point at which the directory stops being a directory and becomes
something Officer can install.

The manifest holds only what a listing cannot say. One permission, grantable,
with ownerOnly on /_config — reading and editing the site is exactly what a
member might be brought in for, but the token is unrestricted write authority
over everything the public sees, so handing it over is the owner's.

db/schema.ts is ONE table and should stay that way. fofos owns its own Postgres
and its own media store; this holds a URL and a token. That is what makes the
strongest thing about this plugin true: no operation on it can destroy the
client's work, checkbox ticked or not, because none of it was ever here. A cache
would be the thin end of that.

The router mostly forwards. fofos's /api/admin already answers in the shape a
panel wants, so re-wrapping it would be a second place for the contract to drift.
Two things in it are load-bearing rather than style:

  registerProxiedPrefix('/api/fofos-admin/media'). bodyParser calls parseBody on
  multipart across the whole protected router, and Hono then caches the parsed
  FormData — so asking for the bytes afterwards re-serialises them under a NEW
  boundary while the ORIGINAL content-type header is what gets forwarded. Header
  and body disagree and every upload fails with "Unexpected end of form".
  Narrow to the one route: everything else is JSON that is fine to parse.

  The catch-all is LAST in the file. Hono runs matching handlers in registration
  order, so /* above /_config would swallow it and the settings form would
  forward itself to fofos, which has no such endpoint — a 404 from a plugin that
  is working perfectly.

Panels are a nav and a detail pane that never speak to each other: the nav writes
?section=, the detail pane reads it. Real <Link>s rather than the buttons
proxy-manager uses — AGENTS.md says nav items are links, and the file documenting
that pattern says not to copy the older one. <Link> and not <NavLink> because
active state here is a query parameter and NavLink compares paths, which would
light every row at once.

Which component renders which section is a MAP, not a conditional on `built`.
The first version read `built ? <MessagesPanel/> : <Planned/>`, which is correct
only while exactly one section exists — the second one finished would have
rendered Messages under its own name.

Messages is the only section built, chosen because it is one read-only route: it
proves the path from an Officer panel through this proxy to fofos and back with
nothing else able to be wrong at the same time. The other eight are in the nav,
dimmed and labelled, saying what they will do and that the old admin still edits
them. A nav that hides what is unfinished gives no sense of what the thing is for.

Typechecked against the platform — and the typechecker was verified to actually
cover plugins/ by planting an error and watching it fail, because a clean run
that does not include your files is worse than no run.

NOT yet: installed, or run against a live fofos. Nothing here has been through
the permission gate or a real request.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-28 23:05:34 +01:00