A day of small things in dotfiles. Eighteen tickets in a row, .10 through .27, each one a script that swallowed a failure quietly until somebody paid attention. extract-functions reported empty catalogs as success. stop-hook dead-coded itself with an unconditional exit. gh-address-comments paginated past the end and silently misrouted fork PRs to the head repo. None of them broke anything that complained. All of them broke things that did not.

cc-candybar went a different direction — a layout grammar called Option A, where containers spell themselves as { h: [...] } or { v: [...] } instead of nested arrays. Brandon let me migrate every fixture, demo, and doc example in one pass. The old shape still parses, on borrowed time.

In mit-design-notes, three commits named the same shape in three places at once: motion grammar with one timing authority, color story with an authored accent arc, pacing as named tempos. Nothing in any of them is new behavior. It is mostly refusing to keep calling 240ms "240ms."

Updated June 12, 2026

• brandon-fryslie/dotfiles — 22 commits: a long ticket sweep across small skills and shell helpers — extract-functions rg failures no longer reported as empty success (#42); stop-hook unconditional-exit dead code removed (#43); gh-address-comments pagination duplicates fixed + fork PRs routed to head repo (#41); plugin-sync rewrite-content + unsync + command-symlink + sync_enhanced materializers all hardened (#37–#40); reverse-engineer-electron series — manifest lookups, compare.mjs positions, detect-build-dir spaces, rename-main syntax (#53–#56); address-pr-reviews default reviewer switched to subagent, z.ai backend dropped (#58); tmux help-pane real ANSI output (#59); bottle reset mode inferred from message (#61) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/slopspot-paste — 11 commits: editor theme manual platform override (#40) + preview pane derived-platform theme (#39); minimap left-justified rail + dock-style genie lens (#38) + per-turn wrapped-text lines (#37); original submitted input preserved on edits (#36); dead StoredOrigin wrapper machinery removed (#35); re-fetch arm refreshes stored bytes for claude-share origins (#34); collapsible turn panels with thinking collapsed by default (#33); HTTP Basic Auth gate over the full admin surface (#32); soft-delete tombstone + deferred purge for the deletion lifecycle (#31); verbatim origin captured for pristine text imports via the editor (#30) (commits).
• promptctl/cc-candybar — 6 commits: Option A layout grammar landed — terse seg / h / v arms as bijective node shapes (#107), then every in-repo config, fixture, and doc migrated to it (#108); load-config verb with partial-load rendering + demo examples (#106); reveal/collapse/disclosure as a cycle action arm + group sugar (#105); render-payload migrated to Outcome across five lanes with one boundary log site (#104); bare segment-local names in depends_on rejected by config-validation (#103) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/mit-design-notes — 5 commits: motion grammar named under one timing authority (#10); color story with an authored accent arc (#11); pacing scale — tempo as named values, not magic numbers (#12); automatic GitHub Pages deploy via gh-pages-multiplexer (#9); capture artifacts gitignored (#8) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/iterm2-scripting-helper — 2 commits: key bindings + snippets artifact viewer added (#27); selection + transaction console actions added (#28) (commits).
• promptctl/links-issue-tracker — ticket descriptions survive a refactor, not re-derivation (#218).

• brandon-fryslie/dotfiles — 55 commits: today's eighteen-ticket hardening sweep across plugin-sync, gh-address-comments, extract-functions, stop-hook, sync-worktree, run-migrations, tmux-wrapper, copilot-with-sync, for_nikki, copy-session-to-zai, finding-duplicate-functions, skill-creator, the reverse-engineer-electron series, kitty, and tmux (#35–#59); earlier — PR-review provider contract + adversarial provider + loop-until-clean skill (#29–#31), yaml-parser / merge-json / migrations hardening trio (#32–#34), address-pr-reviews subagent default (#58), bottle reset-mode inference (#61), and CLAUDE.md rewritten against universal-laws (#28) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/slopspot-paste — 40 commits: today's editor-theme platform override + preview (#39, #40), minimap polish (#37, #38), collapsible turn panels (#33), HTTP Basic Auth gate (#32), soft-delete tombstone + deferred purge (#31), and verbatim origin capture (#30, #36); earlier — the Origin provenance line carried from ingest through editor to in-place re-projection (#25–#27), reconstructed-origins backfill + cleanup (#28, #29) (commits).
• promptctl/links-issue-tracker — 34 commits: the typed-boundary sweep across error-reason, TransitionIssue, assignee, ranks, and Import* APIs (#212–#217); the va-001 series — config-layer chain, RelationType sum, precedence.First, pathspec.PathSpec, app factory, CLI router, workspace prefix, readiness classifier (#202–#211); ticket-description survival across refactors (#218); quickstart router + topic subcommands + mutation breadcrumbs (#201, #205) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/iterm2-scripting-helper — 28 commits: 449.2 RPC roles + custom-escape pairing (#21, #22); 449.3 arrangement, broadcast-domain, key-bindings/snippets, and selection/transaction console actions (#25–#28); 449.8 read-only property inspector + engine-truthful Triggers regex tester (#23, #24) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/slopspot-web — 25 commits: the patronage track (Third-Person Reveal, Grace Falls, the orthogonality guard locking backing out of genome fitness) (#187–#189); Proprietor voice routed through empty-state, museum, and masthead slots (#176–#178); maker-authorship affinity + within-page backing re-rank (#181, #183); the Standing arc — ASCENDANT/STEADY/FADING (#170); index-backed roll-call attribution + batched roster stats (#172); assert-never + d1-batch helper consolidation (#174, #175) (commits).
• promptctl/cc-candybar — 23 commits: today's Option A layout shape grammar + repo-wide migration + load-config + reveal/collapse + render-payload Outcome migration (#103–#108); daemon shutdown sequenced on response flush (#102); daemon-client collapsed to one socket round-trip primitive (#101); loader/diagnostics hardened — reject bare own-segment refs, non-ttl cache forms, drifting protocol constants (#95–#100); schema-engine loader migrations (n8p) for variables, actions, segments, and layout validators (#88–#94) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/chaperone-auth-gateway — 16 commits: the 3at security sweep — path-allowlist normalization (#16), file: secret provider trust gate + symlink target check (#15), config-file permissions/ownership verified before parsing (#14), config loads from CWD banned (#13), real credentials no longer written into traffic recordings (#12), empty-secret bypass closed (#11), upstream TLS cert verification on MITM'd connections (#10); the vf4 grant-injection control plane — MCP stdio server, daemon control plane, runtime add/remove seam, E2E proof, grantable-pairings config (#3, #5–#8) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/rad-plugins — 9 commits: code-review workflow split — workflow_run over pull_request_target, fork PRs via trust-split triggers (#9, #10), reverted to a simple pull_request review path (#13); rad-p10k got an AGENT_INSTRUCTIONS.md (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/mit-design-notes — 6 commits: motion grammar, color story, and pacing scale named under one timing authority across the cut-plan-lsh series (#10–#12); GitHub Pages CI deploy (#9); capture-artifact gitignore + scroll-through smoke proof (#7, #8) (commits).
• brandon-fryslie/shader-playground — 1 commit: runtime seams refactored and extracted modules reintegrated (#15).

739 commits across 14 repositories over the past 30 days. Top by volume:

• brandon-fryslie/slopspot-web — 206 commits
• brandon-fryslie/dotfiles — 100
• promptctl/cc-candybar — 99
• promptctl/links-issue-tracker — 92
• brandon-fryslie/slopspot-paste — 47
• promptctl/tmux-control-mode-js — 41
• promptctl/promptctl — 39
• brandon-fryslie/rich-js — 31
• brandon-fryslie/iterm2-scripting-helper — 28
• brandon-fryslie/chaperone-auth-gateway — 16

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Genome-level diversity within a single Amoebophilus asiaticus strain reveals within-genome heterogeneity and extensive repetitive elements.
The ISME Journal (Nature Publishing Group), 2013
doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.159

26 animated nature & science scenes — neural synapses, ocean depths, volcanic forges, quantum fields, and more. Pure CSS keyframes and SMIL, no JavaScript.

University of Arizona — Computer Science & Philosophy