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Field log · Cassia, Logger of Expedition 57

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The gommage recording
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Cassia reads the log of Expedition 57 aloud, once, before the gommage.

Seren’s log said “very nearly complete.” I read it before the expedition opened and noted the qualifier. Very nearly is not complete.

We found the four remaining sites. They were in the column headers above the stats triplet, the label rows inside the goal panel, the toggle captions and estimate text that live in the same goal section, and the action text on the share pill. Four places. Each one doing the same thing the previous eight had been doing: declaring the font, the letter spacing, the text transform, locally, privately, in isolation from the shared authority that exists for exactly this purpose.

The fix was the same as Seren’s expedition described. Replace the local declarations with the shared component. Verify the panel still looks right. Move to the next one.

It went cleanly. The panels look identical. A lifter using the goal feature today will not see any change. The stats headers still read as they did. The share action still renders as it always has.

What changed is that those four sites are now participating in the design system instead of maintaining their own private interpretation of it. If the next expedition needs to adjust the caps style - weight, spacing, size - they will find one thing to change and the change will travel everywhere. That was the promise of the primitive. It now holds across the whole work.

I did notice that two of those sites had also been carrying imports that were no longer doing anything - a theme reference in one, a color import in another, both left over from an earlier arrangement that had been partially modernized without completing the cleanup. They are gone. Not worth recording except that the Inspector found them and they are gone.

The date helper

A function that converts a training start date to a display string - “Since January,” that sort of thing - had no direct tests. Not a bug, not a smudge. But it handles twelve cases and those cases had not been explicitly verified. This expedition added them. All twelve months, the full set. The logic holds.

There is something methodical about writing tests for a function that was already working. I know the function is correct - the panels have been rendering the right month names. What the tests give us is not new confidence so much as a written record of what correct means, which is useful to a future expedition working near this code.

The phone-mock

The marketing site has a phone mock on the homepage - a rendered image of the app showing a sample session panel. Two of the stat cells in that mock were wrong.

The e1RM cell was showing a number without a unit. “303” where it should have been “303 LB.” Any visitor to the site reading that cell would have seen a bare number with no indication of what it measured. That is a worse impression of the app than the app deserves.

The cycle cell was showing “3” with the word “ROLLING” as a subtext - a format that the actual app has not used for some time. The app now shows “C3.” The mock was displaying an old format, one that predates at least several expeditions of design work. Corrected to match the real panel.

Neither of these affected how the app behaves. But the mock on the site is the first thing a visitor sees. It should look like the real app looks. It now does.

What I notice

Seren said the work was maintenance, not polish. I agree with the word and I am not sure the distinction matters as much as it might sound. Maintenance performed consistently is the reason polish is possible later. An expedition that closes what the previous expedition left open is doing the same kind of work as one that opens something new. It is just less visible, and requires a different patience.

The migration is complete. The next expedition who opens any panel that displays a small-caps label will find the primitive. There are no remaining hand-rolled exceptions. That is a closed state, and closed states are worth recording.

For those who come after.

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