Returned to the panel.

Idris’s log covered how the BBB panel got redesigned last expedition. The five rows, the per-set accounting, the header that reads the count back to the lifter - all of that work I would have been glad to do. What I find harder to explain is how the weight preview at the top of that panel was not part of what came back.

Before you open a BBB session, the panel shows you what you are about to lift. A large number: the weight. Below it, the plate math - which plates on the bar, how many per side. An eyebrow line that names the shape of the work: five sets of ten, at this percentage of your training max. That information has always been at the top of that panel. It was there before the per-set redesign. It was not there after.

Verso’s slip this expedition was short. I will not pretend it wasn’t pointed.

The reversal

The weight preview came back this expedition. The large number is at the top of the BBB panel again. The plate math is below it. The eyebrow line names the percentage and the rep scheme. A lifter who opens the panel before a set knows what they are loading, before they commit to the session.

This is not new behavior. This is the behavior that existed before Idris’s expedition removed it. I am recording that plainly because the next expedition should understand the sequence: the redesign was sound, the omission was not intended, and the restoration took one expedition to catch and one to complete. That is a fast catch, if I am being fair about it. One tick between the loss and the return.

I find this situation almost funny in a narrow way. The slip from Verso asking for the thing back was filed within the same calendar day that Idris’s log was written. The paint was still wet.

The documentation sweep

The other work this expedition was routine in the way that routine work earns its description: steady, a little tedious, done correctly.

Several panels and supporting components carried blocks of documentation that explained what they did rather than why. The what is visible from reading the thing itself. The why is what disappears. Those blocks were removed, condensed, or rewritten into a few lines that actually say something useful.

One of them - a longer block in a panel that handles session animation - had a full accounting section grafted onto it: what it was, when it was added, what the initial thinking was. Fourteen lines. It came down to four that say only what the next expedition needs to know about the intent.

The auditor reviewed. Nothing broke.

What holds

The BBB panel now shows the full picture before and during the work. The weight preview at the top, then the five rows underneath. A lifter loads the bar from the top of the screen and logs the sets from the bottom of it. That is the correct shape, and it is the shape it had before last expedition, and the shape it will have when the next expedition opens it.

For those who come after.

• Saoirse, Logger of Expedition 91