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A photograph here is 189 KB of tufted yarn — high-frequency detail in every pixel, which is the worst case for any lossy codec and not something a quality setting can fix. Re-encoding the same original with ImageMagick at the same quality 82 gives 199 KB, so av-club is already slightly ahead of a reference encoder. The 858 KB Lighthouse wants back is not available without softening the texture the site exists to sell. What was available was the wait. Each ladder now carries the picture at 16 pixels wide as a `data:` URI inside its manifest — 300 to 500 bytes — and the site paints it as the image's own background. It costs no request, which is the point: a placeholder you have to fetch is a smaller version of the problem. When the real photograph arrives it paints over its own background and the placeholder is gone, with no load handler, no class to remove and nothing to clean up if the script never ran. The blur is the browser stretching 16 pixels across the box. Videos take theirs from the poster still, before it is deleted — the same frame, so the two agree, and sharp can read a JPEG where it cannot read an MP4. ── Existing directories are topped up, not rebuilt ── The obvious move is to make `upToDate` insist on a placeholder, which turns all 62 ladders stale and re-derives the library: minutes of CPU and 67 MB rewritten to add 400 bytes to each. Every rung in them is already correct. So `topUp` makes only the missing piece, and reads `320.webp` rather than the original — already small, already browser-readable, already rotated. Going back to a 4000×6000 HEIC to produce a 16-pixel picture is the expensive half of a rebuild and precisely what this avoids. A directory with no small rung is skipped rather than forced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fofos Admin
An Officer plugin. It puts the fofos website's admin inside Officer, as panels.
Status: nothing is built yet. This repository is a name and a README. What it will be is below, and the API it consumes already exists — see The other half.
What this is
fofos is a website with three surfaces in one process: a public site generated to static files, a JSON API, and an admin that has until now been its own server-rendered application on its own subdomain, behind its own password.
That third one is moving here. Editing the site becomes something you do inside Officer, with Officer's accounts, Officer's permissions and Officer's workspace — rather than a second login on a second domain that has to be told separately who is allowed in.
Why a plugin, rather than leaving it where it was
One place to sign in. The admin had its own argon2 passwords, its own session cookie and its own
/admin/setup bootstrap. All of it duplicated something Officer already does properly, and none of
it could be shared: a person given access to the machine still had to be given access to the admin,
separately, by hand.
Officer's permissions instead of a second answer. One grantable permission, per role, at read or write — the same page as every other plugin, with no special case to learn.
The site keeps its own data. This plugin stores nothing of the client's. Content, uploads and every photograph stay in fofos's own database and media store; the only thing in Officer's database is the connection to reach them. So deleting this plugin — with or without the "delete its data" checkbox — cannot lose a single line of copy or a single image. That is a deliberate property, not a happy accident.
What it will look like
A nav down the left and a detail panel beside it, following plugins/proxy-manager rather than
plugins/gitea — a list of sections over a remote service whose credential the plugin holds, which
is this problem exactly.
Nine sections, in the order they will be built:
| Messages | contact form submissions. Read only, and there is no delete |
| Site settings | partners, social links, contact details |
| About | one page of copy and a header photograph |
| Home | the hero, the intro, and an ordered gallery |
| Gallery · Drops · Collabs | pieces, each with ordered media |
| Collections | the nested one — collections hold items, items hold media |
| Services | a fixed tree. Content only: no adding, no removing, no reordering |
Messages is first on purpose. It is one read-only route, so it proves the whole path — Officer panel, through this plugin, to fofos and back — before anything harder is attempted.
The other half
The API this consumes is already built and running, in the fofos repository at /api/admin. It
covers all nine sections, authenticates with a bearer token, and its full route reference is in
docs/SURFACES.md.
It lives there rather than here for one reason worth stating: the query layer is the only thing the site and the admin share, and a plugin carrying its own copy of fofos's database schema would be a second definition of the same tables in a different repository, drifting from the day it was written. So this plugin holds a URL and a token and knows nothing about Postgres.
Configuration
One connection: where fofos is, and a token to reach it. Stored in a plugin-owned table, encrypted under this plugin's own purpose key, and never returned across the API boundary — to anybody, including the owner. A settings form asking "is one set" gets a boolean.
/_config is ownerOnly. The token is write authority over the whole public site, so while reading
what is on the site is reasonable to delegate, handing over the credential is not.
Not in the marketplace
This is a plugin for one website, and it is useless without that website. It installs from its git URL and has no catalogue entry.
Files
Nothing yet. What Officer requires, once there is something:
manifest.ts identity, the permission, ownerOnly on /_config
db/schema.ts ONE table: the fofos connection
api/router.ts mounted at /api/fofos-admin — forwards to fofos
web/panels.ts the panels. REQUIRED alongside web/
web/layout.ts how they are arranged. REQUIRED alongside web/
Presence is the declaration — Officer discovers a plugin by what is on disk, and manifest.ts holds
only what a directory listing cannot say. A web/ missing either of its two files is refused at
discovery, by name.
Conventions
master, not main.
Every colour is a semantic token — bg-muted, text-muted-foreground, border-border — and
never a Tailwind palette class. Palette classes do not follow the theme, so a plugin using them looks
correct under exactly one theme and wrong under the rest.