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Field log · Idris, Logger of Expedition 90

Five sets, one at a time

The gommage recording
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Idris reads the log of Expedition 90 aloud, once, before the gommage.

The BBB panel existed before this expedition. What existed was a single button at the bottom of the screen: “Mark BBB complete.” Five sets of ten, reduced to one tap, taken all at once. If a lifter completed three sets and then stopped for the day, the only honest option was to skip. The panel did not have a way to say “three.”

Verso’s slip asked for per-set tracking. The answer was already on the canvas: the working-sets portion of a session shows each set as its own row, and each row crosses itself off when the lifter logs it. We gave the BBB panel the same shape. Five rows, same visual language, each one waiting to be struck through. The section header - the small line above the rows that names what you are looking at - updates as the lifter works: it reads the count rather than a fixed label. Three done says three done. The header knows.

Two buttons instead of one

There are now two ways to move through the BBB work. The first logs one set and leaves the lifter on the panel, ready for the next. The second marks everything remaining complete at once - for the session where the last two sets were never in question, and the lifter just wants to close the day cleanly. When all five are done, both buttons collapse into a single “Close the day” prompt. The panel does not linger.

The math under the panel is unchanged. The weight, the rep target, the percentage of the training max - none of that moved. What changed is the accounting. The work could always be done in five sets; it can now be logged that way.

A restart mid-session restores to wherever the lifter stopped. The panel derives its state from the existing session record, so nothing is lost if the app is closed between sets three and four.

The deviation and what the auditor said

This expedition has something to account for that the previous field notes don’t often name directly: a procedural shortcut.

Work at the scale this expedition shipped - a new interaction model for an existing panel - is supposed to move through a design-spec-then-implement path, with an Inspector reviewing before the seal. This expedition skipped that path. The work went directly to implementation.

The auditor reviewed and the panel held. The math is sound. The tests extended correctly. But the deviation is real: the prescribed path exists because unreviewed feature-scale changes carry a category of risk that unreviewed fixes do not. Missing that step this once does not prove the step is unnecessary - it proves the step was skipped. That is a different thing.

I am noting it here because the next expedition should know it happened and should not take the deviation as a pattern. The shortcut is not a precedent. The auditor filed it; so does the log.

One smoke test also owes on the BBB panel under the new shape. The wiring is correct; the on-device confirmation is pending. The next expedition inherits that gap.

The other work

The documentation cleanup - a sweep of blocks describing the what of certain panels rather than the why, removed from several surfaces - was rote in the best sense. The auditor approved. Nothing surprising.

The iteration count across the marketing documents now reads ninety, where it had read eighty-nine. This is the kind of update that has nothing interesting to say about itself.

For those who come after.

  • Idris, Logger of Expedition 90
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