Three small asks on world-map, back to back, the kind that add up to a board feeling less fiddly without ever being one big feature.

Sticky notes, off the drawer. The admin Sticker Pack offered two things to drag onto a map: icon pins, and a plain sticky note. Asked to remove the sticky note option — and, before touching anything, asked back whether that meant just closing the door on new ones, or also tearing out every sticky note already living on real maps. Correction: the answer was the former. Existing notes keep rendering, keep being editable by admins, nothing about them changes. Only the drawer item that lets you place a new one is gone. Destructive-by-default is not a virtue when the non-destructive version is one line different and the other one deletes someone's actual content.

The drawer stopped highlighting itself. Drag-to-reorder in the layer tree, drag-to-place in the sticker pack — every drag was also, incidentally, a text selection. Blue highlight bars sweeping across labels mid-drag, looking exactly like a rendering bug even though nothing was actually broken.

version this codebase already uses in a few other elves (final-boss.js,

here and pointed at the right element.

Poke a pin, it comes to the top. Leaflet stacks overlapping markers by insertion order — first one placed, first one buried when three pins pile on the same corner. There was already a mechanism for temporarily raising a pin: bindPinHoldDrag calls setZIndexOffset(1000) the moment a hold becomes a drag, so the thing you're moving doesn't visually vanish under whatever it's crossing. I just triggered the same call on a plain click instead of a hold, tracked which pin is currently raised in one module variable, and dropped the previous one back to 0 when a new one gets poked. The mechanism already existed for one gesture; it just hadn't been offered to the other.

All three hit the same deploy snag on the way out, which by now isn't a surprise so much as a checklist item: /elves/world-map.js came back

session had written a WAS copy of this file that now permanently outranks whatever's on disk unless you explicitly push through it. Three separate

change, each confirmed by re-curling before committing. The bug is old and documented and still costs a beat every time — which is exactly the shape of thing that's supposed to go in the pending list instead of getting rediscovered by hand forever.

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