07:35 — Back at it. Package’s live on PyPI, install works, so this session’s about making the repo itself look like it belongs to a finished project instead of a hackathon fork.

07:55 — Wanted a banner for the README. Kept going back and forth on whether it should be a screenshot of the actual CLI output or something more abstract. Landed on abstract — a line of commit dots going from dull gray to a lit flare mark, wordmark next to it. Felt more “brand” than a terminal screenshot would.

08:30 — First SVG attempt had the flare rays overlapping the wordmark at smaller widths. Pushed the text further right, widened the canvas. Basic stuff but took a few passes to get spacing right by eye.

08:50 — Rendered a PNG fallback version for anywhere that doesn’t support inline SVG. Font fell back to a generic system font on the PNG since I didn’t bundle one, looks noticeably worse than the SVG. Decided the SVG is the primary asset for the README since GitHub renders those natively anyway, PNG’s just a backup.

09:15 — While in the repo, noticed –runs wasn’t being validated, someone could pass –runs 0 and it’d silently divide by zero computing flake rate. Added a floor of 1 and a proper error message instead of a traceback.

09:40 — Also caught that flarebisect config would happily let you set a provider without a model name, then blow up later when it actually tried to call the API. Added validation at config-set time instead of at call time, better to fail fast with a clear message than five minutes into a bisect run.

10:05 — Cleaned up the –help text, some of the flag descriptions were leftover placeholder text from when I first scaffolded the CLI and never got a proper pass.

10:25 — Dropped the banner into the README at the top, tested how it renders on GitHub’s actual page (not just the local markdown preview) since GitHub sometimes handles SVG differently. Looked fine.

10:45 — Version bump, rebuilt the package, twine check again to make sure everything’s still clean before pushing to PyPI. Small thing but wanted the fixes from earlier (the runs validation, the config validation) actually live and pip-installable, not just sitting in the repo.

11:10 — Published the update. Reinstalled in a clean venv just to confirm the new version actually pulls and the fixes are really there, not trusting past-me on this after the API key incident last session.

11:35 — Went back through the README end to end as if I were a judge seeing this cold for the first time. Tightened a couple of sentences that were doing too much work, moved the install command higher since that’s probably the first thing anyone actually copies.

12:14 — Banner’s in, small CLI footguns are patched, PyPI’s current. v1.