devlog 006: This session closed out the zone layout work and pushed the project to a shippable state.
Zone capacity enforcement went in first. Zones now auto-expand their column count when a widget is dragged into a full row rather than rejecting the drop, capped at 4 columns before overflow gets pushed to the next zone. The reverse case also got fixed: when a widget is dragged back out of a zone that had auto-expanded to fit it, the zone shrinks back down and the remaining widgets fill the space instead of leaving a gap. That required tracking which zones were auto-expanded versus manually set in Settings, so a shrink never undoes an intentional user choice.
The palette shifted from dark sepia to a lighter parchment tone this session, then got a second pass after the first attempt left text nearly unreadable against the new light background. Text colors moved to near-black warm browns, and cards got a soft brown drop shadow to give them separation from the background.
A zone count mismatch between the dashboard and settings panel turned out to be two different code paths reading from two different sources of truth instead of one shared value. Fixed by routing both through the same localStorage key.
The bulk of the session was a full release pass. Every feature got audited end to end, name capture and time-based greetings were added to onboarding, collapsible help sections were added explaining how to get a Canvas token and Google OAuth credentials, and the first production build shipped as an unsigned .dmg since there’s no Apple Developer account. The README got rewritten from scratch for a stranger with zero context, including the exact Gatekeeper workaround steps for opening an unsigned app on macOS.
Two issues surfaced immediately after: saved checklist and widget data wasn’t rendering on launch, only appearing after new input was added, which turned out to be an initial-fetch-versus-render-on-add gap rather than a data problem. The Spotify widget also got flagged as visually heavy and is being replaced with a minimal cover-art-and-title player using Spotify’s oEmbed API instead of the full iframe.
v0.2.0 is in progress to address both before the next release.