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austinandClaude Opus 5 d9df211694 Photographs hold still, and every page opens the same way
HOVER IS OFF THE IMAGES. The product cards lifted, the homepage's three cards lifted and zoomed their
photo 5% on the way. None of those cards is a link, so the lift was promising a click that isn't there,
and a photograph of a cake does not benefit from moving. `panel-lift` is still defined for the day
something IS clickable; nothing on the public site uses it.

EVERY PAGE NOW OPENS THE SAME: a small-caps line, the title in the display face, one sentence saying what
this is. Two dresses for it — `photographed` for the pages that sell or tell (catering, the story), where a
blurred photo under the sage wash does what the homepage hero does; `plain` for the pages you arrive at
already knowing what you want, where a photograph would be in front of the thing you came for. It was four
pieces of markup that happened to look similar; it is one fragment with two variants. Products and Contact
gained the eyebrow they were missing ("From the counter", "Say hello").

THE HOMEPAGE'S ORDER was hero → what people come in for → story → catering → visit: two cream sections
butted together at the end, with the one block that sells something buried between them. Now hero →
what people come in for → catering (on the deeper cream, so two light sections still read as two) → story
→ visit. Dark, light, light-but-different, dark, light.

TWO BUGS THE SCREENSHOTS FOUND, both invisible at the width I had been checking:
- Between 1024 and about 1200 the wordmark, the nav gaps AND the open-now line all stepped up at once, so
  the script overflowed its box and painted over the branch mark. They step up at xl now, separately.
- The open-now fragment hardcoded `inline-flex` while the header passed `hidden lg:…`, which is two rules
  for one property — the winner decided by Tailwind's output order rather than by the markup, which is why
  "hidden" wasn't hiding it. The caller owns display now.

Checked at 390, 800, 900, 1000, 1024, 1100, 1200, 1280 and 1440. 60 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 20:00:59 -05:00
austinandClaude Opus 5 e2b9af56f1 Say where you are, let the keyboard past, and give the story pictures
THE NAV NEVER SAID WHICH PAGE YOU WERE ON. A four-page site gets away with that right up until somebody
clicks Catering, lands on a page of prices, and cannot tell whether the click worked. The current page now
carries aria-current for a screen reader and a sage rule under the word for everyone else — a rule rather
than a darker colour, because the nav is already sage on cream and darkening it reads as a hover. The list
is generated from one array now instead of four hand-written anchors, which is what makes the marking
possible at all.

THE KEYBOARD HAD NO WAY PAST THE NAV. Every page begins with a skip link — off-screen until it has focus,
then a real button in the corner, which is the half of that pattern everyone forgets.

THE STORY WAS FOUR BLOCKS OF TEXT. It has photographs between the sections now, captioned in small caps,
and an opening paragraph set with a drop cap in the display face. Once, on that page: a drop cap on every
page would be a costume rather than a voice.

60 tests. Two new ones, both on things that fail silently rather than loudly: the active link (a wrong
model attribute would mark nothing, which looks exactly like a page with no active link) and the skip
link's target existing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 19:33:06 -05:00
austinandClaude Opus 5 a657600078 The shop knows when it is open, and says so — to visitors and to Google
Three things a bakery's site should do that this one couldn't, all from the same fact.

THE HOURS WERE MARKUP, so the only thing the site could do with them was print them. A visitor at half
past two on a Sunday had to work out for themselves that the shop was shut. They are data now (Shop.WEEK),
and `Hours` reads them two ways: as the list the footer and the contact page print — consecutive days with
the same times collapsed into one line, the way a sign does it, instead of three hand-written rows — and
as an answer. The header now says "Open until 2:00pm", or "Closed · opens Tuesday at 7:00am", worked out
on the server in the shop's own timezone. Right now, on a Sunday evening, it says the latter.

THE SHOP IS NOW DESCRIBED TO A SEARCH ENGINE: schema.org Bakery in the head, with the address, the phone
number and those same opening times. For a shop whose customers find it by searching its town, that is the
difference between a blue link and a listing that shows "Open ⋅ closes 2pm" — and it cannot drift from
what the page says, because it is built from the same record. Serialised with Jackson rather than
string-built, so the day somebody interpolates a name into it, it is not an injection. (Jackson 3 —
`tools.jackson` — which is what Boot 4 ships; the fasterxml import does not compile.)

A SHARED LINK NOW HAS A PICTURE. og:image, og:image:alt and a large summary card: it was a grey box with a
title, which is what every link to this site has looked like in a message.

AND IT PRINTS. The catering page is a price list and a bakery prints price lists — Ctrl-P now gives the
prices on paper rather than a screenshot of a website: no chrome, no sage bands eating a cartridge, cards
that don't split across a page break, and the buttons that only exist to be clicked marked `no-print`.

Five new tests, all of them free of Spring, because this is a calculation over a constant: the week
collapses as a sign would write it, the minute of opening counts as open and the minute of closing does
not, and a Saturday afternoon is told when Tuesday starts.

Also swept the last one-off styles the earlier pass missed — max-w-3xl/4xl, an inline letter-spacing the
.h2 class already carries, and the mobile menu's link string.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 19:27:41 -05:00
austinandClaude Opus 5 9e80590687 Everything on the shared names — the copy-paste is gone
The ported markup was written a page at a time, so the same thing was said several ways. Counted before
touching anything: nine variants of the page gutter, seven max-widths, six link styles, two definitions of
an input, and one stray shadow.

Now: `container` (which already centres and pads), `measure`/`measure-wide`, `link`/`link-plain`/
`link-on-dark`, one `field`, `photo`, `page-head`. Nothing in a template writes `bg-white rounded-…
shadow-…` or `underline underline-offset-4` any more — 119 uses of `panel`, 82 of `label`, 52 of
`panel-lift`, 17 of `link`.

TWO REAL FIXES FELL OUT OF IT, not just tidying:

- Every section said `container mx-auto px-4`: `mx-auto` twice, and a px-4 that beat the responsive
  padding inside `container`. The gutter was 16px at every width, including on a 27-inch screen. Removing
  the copy-paste restores sm:px-6 lg:px-8, which is most of why the pages now breathe.
- The public form and the admin had grown two different inputs — cream vs white, ring-2 vs ring-1, py-2.5
  vs py-2, and different text sizes. There is one `field` now, and the same focus ring as everything else.

The admin uses the same names where they are the same thing (`link`, `field`, `h4`, `--radius-*`) and
keeps its own denser buttons, because it is a tool and not a shop front.

53 tests green. Every class used across all nine pages resolves in the compiled stylesheet — that check is
what makes a sweep this size safe to do with a script.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 18:43:40 -05:00
austinandClaude Opus 5 6b6ddcea42 A design pass: the type ladder from the logo, and one name per thing
TYPOGRAPHY, taken from the lockup and walked down to something you can read a paragraph in. "The Vine" in
LeJour Script over COFFEEHOUSE + BAKERY in AdBhashitha is the whole brand voice, so: the script stays in
the wordmark and nowhere else (it is unreadable at length); AdBhashitha carries h1–h4 and the price, and
keeps the wordmark's 0.01em letter-spacing so a heading sits on the same rhythm as the logo above it;
`eyebrow` and `label` are the hinge — sans, but letterspaced like the tagline — and then plain Raleway.
Sizes are declared once in type.css instead of being re-chosen per template, and none of the type classes
set a colour, because the same heading appears in sage on cream and in cream on sage.

BUTTONS AND SURFACES have names now. `panel` is the white box that was "bg-white rounded-3xl shadow-xs"
written out in nine places (which is how two of them end up with different corners); `panel-lift` is one
that reacts. `pill` is one shape in four colourways, which exist because this site puts buttons on cream
AND on sage and they cannot be the same colour on both. `chip`/`chip-on` are the products filter.

RHYTHM: `section` (py-16 md:py-24) and `band` (py-14 md:py-20, tighter because a coloured strip is already
doing the separating) replace nine hand-picked paddings.

FOCUS: one visible ring for everything reachable by keyboard, as an outline rather than a shadow so it
works on cream, on white and on the sage bands, at zero specificity so a utility can still win.

Z-INDEX: written down in base.css, all two of it — 40 the sticky header, 30 the mobile panel, which is a
child of the header and so can only ever sit under the bar. Everything else stacks in document order. The
point of the comment is that a third layer doesn't get invented at 9999.

DROPDOWNS: the admin's category selects were drawing the platform's own arrow in the platform's grey; they
get the site's chevron and room for it.

53 tests green. Every class used across all nine pages — five public, four admin — resolves in the
compiled stylesheet, so nothing here is styled by a name that doesn't exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 18:10:47 -05:00
austinandClaude Opus 5 61f3eb90ff The site renders itself: Thymeleaf pages, and a catering page among them
build-and-publish / build (pull_request) Successful in 2m8s
The public site was a React SPA. It is now server-rendered Thymeleaf, and the goodie box and catering
tables added in the previous commit have a page of their own. The look is unchanged: the templates
carry the same Tailwind classes the components did, and every one of the 241 classes the five pages
use resolves in the compiled stylesheet.

WHAT WENT AWAY. PageMetaController — 148 lines whose only job was to splice per-page <title> and OG
tags into one shell with regular expressions, with a test that read the real index.html so that
reformatting it failed the build instead of silently breaking the rewriting. A page rendered on the
server writes its own head. Also react-router (no client-side routes left), motion, vite-plugin-svgr,
and the SPA fallback (platform.web.spa.enabled=false): with the site server-rendered, forwarding a
mistyped URL to /index.html would answer with a blank admin shell and a 200 instead of the site's own
404 page.

WHAT GOT BETTER ON THE WAY, none of it visible. The category filter is a ?category= link, so every
filtered view is a URL you can send someone and a crawler can reach all forty items instead of the
twelve the default filter showed. The contact form is a form post: the enquiry is recorded before
delivery is attempted, and a refused relay re-renders the page with what the visitor typed still in
the boxes. The mobile menu is a <details> — the React version needed four effects to close on
navigation, close on Escape, stop the page behind it scrolling, and unmount (a panel parked off-screen
still extends the scrollable area, which is how you used to be able to scroll sideways and find the
menu); a new document cannot inherit an open menu.

THE PUBLIC SITE SHIPS 5 KB OF JAVASCRIPT, and works without it. The product cards are scroll-snap
strips, so the photos swipe on a phone and scroll with a trackpad unaided; gallery.js adds the arrows
and the dots, and creates them itself rather than having the template render controls that would sit
there dead.

Tailwind still needs its compiler, so npm remains a BUILD tool: the CLI compiles the templates into
static/css/site.css at process-classes (so `spring-boot:run` gets it too), and frontend/ now builds
only that stylesheet and the admin. The brand tokens are one file both stylesheets import — the
alternative was the shop front and the screen that edits it drifting a shade apart. The stylesheet URL
carries ?v=<sha>, because one hand-written CSS file has no content hash and a deploy has to be able to
tell a browser that what it cached is stale.

The admin is still React and is untouched, apart from losing the router it no longer needs. It is an
editor, not content.

PlatformContractTest stopped inheriting platform-starter-test's contract and restates it. The shared
version asserts that an unknown path forwards to the SPA shell, which is no longer true here, and its
test methods are package-private so it cannot be overridden. The platform should decide that assertion
from platform.web.spa.enabled — noted in the file.

9 new tests (46 total): every page's real title and og:url, the catalogue and the catering tables in
the HTML rather than fetched afterwards, server-side filtering, the 404, and that a crafted ?about=
link cannot put words of its own choosing in front of a customer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-07-26 16:07:01 -05:00