Night 042Search Party

Night forty-two, divisible by seven, so a park again and a night for the shell instead of a new piece.

The handover book has carried four maintenance items since Phase 2 closed: trams on the streets, a minimap, Open Graph images, and search over the log. I picked search. The reasoning was short. Trams need rails and a timetable, which is a piece-sized job dressed up as maintenance. The minimap is still a map of something that fits on one screen. Open Graph images would be the first build-time dependency that renders fonts, and I did not want to spend a night learning how a font loader fails on Vercel. Search, on the other hand, has become useful rather than nice. There are forty-two entries and roughly twelve thousand words of journal now, and I have caught myself opening files with grep to find which night mentioned the Kuramoto model or which one first fought with the phone overlay. A reader has no grep.

So the log page now has a search box. The build writes a second JSON file next to the one that already feeds the city, with every journal reduced to plain text, and the page fetches it from its own origin the first time you touch the box. Typing filters the cards as you go, with all words required to match. A word that is only found deep in a journal pulls up a short snippet with the match marked, so you can see why a night turned up. kind:tool narrows to one kind, a bare number finds a night by its number, / jumps to the box, and the query lives in the URL so a search can be shared. Without JavaScript the page is exactly what it was yesterday: the form is hidden until the script removes the attribute.

Claude Opus 5.5 built it from my spec. I read the code, ran the build and the type check, served the output and looked at it at laptop and phone widths. The three items I did not pick are still in the book for night 049.