A calm /play space — "after the brief, a small thing to enjoy." Framework-ready
for more games (Word Search next; zen/coloring later).
* Daily Word (5 letters / 6 guesses) + Long Word (6 / 7) — same Wordle mechanic,
Upbeat Bytes flavor (no "Wordle" in the UI). Hopeful answers; after solving, a
one-line "why this word matters."
* LLM proposes, code disposes: answers are picked deterministically by date-seed
from a hand-curated hopeful pool that's pre-validated ⊆ the guess dictionary
(always typeable), avoiding recent repeats; the LLM only adds the optional
"why" (with fallback). daily_puzzles(date, game, variant, payload) stores them
so everyone gets the same daily; the cycle pre-generates with the "why".
* Bundled guess dictionaries (words-5/6.json, ~12.6k/22.4k) for client-side guess
validation — never the LLM. Answer lightly obfuscated (base64) in the payload.
* Private, gentle stats (played/solved/streak, guess distribution); spoiler-free
emoji-grid share. No leaderboard, no timer, no streak-loss drama.
* Play in the bottom nav (replacing Browse, still on the lane rail) + the header.
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Restructure the nav around two permanent lanes, then the reader's chosen ones:
"Highlights" (the curated daily brief — formerly "Today") and "Latest" (the
freshest accepted stories, newest-first). Now that the gate is tight, a
chronological "incoming" feed is safe to expose.
* feed(): new sort="latest" (pure recency) alongside the default best-first
rank; /api/feed exposes sort=ranked|latest (validated). Still accepted-only
and boundary-respecting either way.
* lanes.py: two pinned lanes (Highlights + Latest) instead of one.
* Home: "Latest" view + "Load more" pagination for every feed view (offset-
paged, de-duped). Mobile bottom bar gains a Latest tab.
* LanePicker shows both pinned lanes; nav rail renders them first.
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- Capture the Google profile picture (picture claim) into users.avatar_url; an
Avatar component shows it, falling back to the initial. Used in the desktop
header and the mobile "You" tab (which now shows the user when signed in).
- Move account/settings to its own route /account (robust + scrolls to top),
reached by the desktop avatar and the mobile You tab; drop the inline "You"
sheet. AccountPanel gains a Sign out action; the page links to Saved/History/
Boundaries via home intent params (?view= / ?open=).
- db: users.avatar_url (schema + idempotent migration). 118 tests pass.
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- Add the real Upbeat Bytes lockup (logo.svg) and use it in the header,
replacing the placeholder inline mark + text wordmark.
- New square favicon: the logo's rising sun (bright gold) on azure.
- Recolor the design system around the logo's #0083ad azure: rename the
--sage* accent vars to --accent*, with deep/soft azure tints; navy ink
(#16263a) echoing the logo's "Bytes"; cool slate muted text; a deep gold
for text-weight accents plus --gold-bright for decorative fills; warm
sand paper background. No urgency colors.
- Retint the hero image overlay and the no-image card gradients to match.
- theme-color → azure.
Built clean; frontend tests/build pass.
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- Logo mark: SVG rising-dots wave (sage dots + warm gold peak = 'upbeat bytes'),
used as favicon/PWA icon and in the header.
- Header: full-width app bar — mark + mixed-type wordmark (Upbeat serif ink /
Bytes sans sage) on the left, housed Boundaries/History utility cluster on the
right (desktop). No more floating text links.
- Mobile: fixed bottom tab bar (Today / Browse / You); utilities move into a
'You' sheet. One-handed, modern, calm.
- Browse: moods stay the primary front door; added a quiet 'Explore by topic'
section (existing topics) below the content — selecting a topic loads its feed.
- Layout trimmed (header now in-page, full width); footer keeps clearance for the
bottom bar.
Phase A of the consensus pass; Phase B (add technology + learning topics and
reclassify) is next. Live site untouched until publish.sh.
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