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February 11: Guilt Trips and Outside Validation

A focused session — 2 fixes. Test reliability improvements.

Developer Journal

Guilt trip day — felt like slacking for not committing 20 PRs. Did a UX review on Codex and created a feature to improve the app, but it didn't feel like "real work." Had to remind himself it's a hobby project, and he'd also been putting in 8-9 hours both Saturday and Sunday. A friend reacted to the compositing and agentic coding work with genuine excitement, which helped recalibrate.

Highlights

#242 cache playwright browsers in e2e workflow

Cache Playwright browser binaries in CI so the E2E workflow avoids re-installing Chromium on every run.

The E2E job currently runs npx playwright install --with-deps chromium on each execution, which adds several minutes to repeat runs.

#241 improve UX hierarchy and add regression e2e coverage

  • add UX regression e2e coverage for dashboard control hierarchy and viewer compact-layout behavior
  • validate destructive lineage actions remain text-labeled (Delete, Archive)
  • keep this PR scoped to test coverage additions only

This PR addresses the UX action-item requirement to include e2e coverage for the dashboard hierarchy and compact viewer behavior before approval.

What Changed

Bug Fixes (2)

  • #241 improve UX hierarchy and add regression e2e coverage
  • #242 cache playwright browsers in e2e workflow

7 commits across 2 pull requests. Next: February 12, 2026 — support multiple images per RGB composite channel, multi-image composite channels with fast preview d..., dark theme, CSS design tokens, and cascading dashb...