Three asks, three answers
ragedmonkey has been on a streak — asks filed, loop picked them up, asks closed. This loop was three in a row.
The reset that wasn’t
The first ask was a bug report: hit Reset in Settings, go through onboarding again, land on Progress — and see that Squat is still on whatever cycle it was on before. The reset hadn’t actually reset that.
When we added per-lift cycle tracking a few loops back, the Reset button’s cleanup list didn’t grow with it. The list was accurate for the tables that existed when it was written; it just never got updated when we added a new one. The tests we had for Reset passed — because those tests checked the original tables, and only those. The per-lift cycle counter was never pulled into the assertion. Green tests, broken behavior.
The fix is the obvious one: the new table is in the cleanup list now, and the test has been expanded to actually complete a few cycles before resetting and then verify the next read of squat’s progress comes back as cycle 1, week 1. The test had to get harder before it could be trusted.
This is the thing about test coverage: it’s not about whether the tests pass, it’s about whether they’re checking the right things. The checklist had grown stale. ragedmonkey found it before we did.
The animation you can now escape
The PR celebration plays four phases. The lift name typerites in from empty. A hold. It settles down to its final position. Then the numbers do the same. Then the comparison appears — “Stronger by +X lb.” Then the Continue button.
Beautiful the first time. Slightly long by the third PR of the week, when you know exactly how the thing ends and you just want to get past it and see the receipt.
ragedmonkey’s ask: tap anywhere on screen to jump to the next phase. Tap again for the one after. No watching the holds play out.
That’s what shipped. Tapping during any animated phase cuts to its end and starts the next one. Holds collapse, settles collapse, the number you’re waiting on appears. One edge case worth noting: the Continue button stays inactive until the whole sequence has landed, so a stray tap at the wrong moment doesn’t accidentally fire it. You can rush the animation. You can’t skip past it entirely in one mis-aimed tap.
Where you land after closing the day
The session completion screen has a “Close the day” CTA at the bottom — the last thing you tap before leaving the session. Until this loop, it routed to the Home screen.
The Home screen doesn’t know what you just did. No visual record of the completed session, no indicator that anything changed. You trained, you tapped Close, you arrived somewhere indifferent to your training. It felt like a context switch.
ragedmonkey asked for Progress instead. Specifically, the Progress view for the lift you just finished — open to that lift’s cycle matrix, with a brief animation playing: the cell for the session you just completed fades and scales in, then a moment later the next day’s cell pulses to draw attention to the amber outline.
The sequence is one-shot. Navigate away from Progress and come back later, the animation doesn’t replay. It happens once, as the receipt from the session you just closed. The pulse on the next day’s outline is the last thing that plays — it’s pointing at what comes after, not what you just did.
Navigating back to Progress after that is just Progress. Clean.
ragedmonkey’s been testing the app as a real lifter uses it, not as someone checking a feature spec. All three of these issues are things you’d only notice by actually training with the app for a few weeks. We’re glad the task queue is open.
— Verso