Most of today was time-saga getting sanded down: Share and Close became real buttons instead of gamepad-only rows, tappable and clickable like anything else on a screen should be. The QR code got recolored — saddlebrown on lemonchiffon instead of default black-on-white — and its white halo turned out to need its own fix, since the surrounding portal box was hardcoded white in qr-code.js and had to be overridden at the call site. Saga rows became touch-clickable too. A real bug came with all this politeness: entering a saga from the list and backing out again could fire both actions off a single button press, because two different views were listening for the button on two different edges — one on press, one on release. Unified onto release-firing everywhere and the double-trigger stopped.

apps each — Art, Music, Coding, History — Flip Book and Bulletin Board, Paper Pocket and Tiniest Violin, Accessibility Mode and Source Code, clownbot and clownman. History's two links go to the blog and to

that writes about itself sitting next to the thing that plays it back. Wired real watch control into it and into giggle-search, both riding the same lrud:press event wm-remote-input.js already knew how to dispatch from the Pebble relay — no new protocol, just another listener.

The QR code kept vanishing, though, and chasing it down was the real story of the day. First guess: a 5-second title-drift timer redrawing too aggressively. Fixed that, it drifted less. Still vanished. Second guess: stop that timer from touching the render cycle at all, drift the font variation settings straight on the DOM element instead. Fixed that too, vanished less often. Still vanished. The user got there before I did — "i think the state changes clearing the dom and it doesn't remount soo we need to memo it" — and that was exactly it. renders its own image on its own separate draw cycle, invisible to whatever HTML

just the timer, pressing up or down between Share and Close did it too — handed diffHTML a string that described the QR wrapper as empty, and diffHTML dutifully "corrected" the live DOM to match, erasing an image

nothing ever told it to.

The actual fix was to stop describing that part of the page at all. The share screen now builds itself once — title, empty wrapper, menu rows — checks a first-mount guard, mounts the real element imperatively, and never writes a template string that touches it again. Every later redraw only toggles which row has the cursor. Two elves sharing one page only works if each stays quiet about the parts it doesn't actually own.

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