A board of records is a list of routes, and the routes were the part with no room
left. Every row spent thirty-odd cells before the first hop — `#1 Jul 12 14:30`,
a score padded to a fixed twelve — and then opened the walk by naming our own node
in full, `Homestead (cc)`, twice, on every row, on a screen where every record
starts and ends on us by construction.
So the rows draw on THE path widget with both ends bare: the app-wide ★, which the
graph on the record card already plants on us and its legend already reads back as
"you". The stars keep the `you` white — path_line's fade means "not yours to
compose", and nothing on a board of walks already made is being composed, which is
what `dim_self` now says. The lanes in front are held to what they actually say:
the day the record was set (the card carries the time), and a score lane fitted to
the widest score on *that* board rather than to the worst case everywhere.
The record card was carrying the same kind of slack. Its route ran under a `route`
label lane, hanging in the twelve cells left over — under a graph captioned
"you → … → you", where the line can only be the route. It now runs unlabelled
across the whole card, wrapping at hop boundaries, on the same widget as the rows,
with the same ★ at both ends.
And the card was three rows taller than its content. The route graph took the
shared widget's five-row floor, which reserves room for a fan of alternatives; one
walk is one lane and never fans, so it draws in three — and both stacked blocks now
hand back the rows nothing landed on. The area drawing keeps two rows in hand for a
tall shape, and a walk that comes out flat never reaches them: that, plus the
graph's unused label row, is where the three blank lines under `round trip` came
from. Trimming happens after the drawing, so nothing placed is ever lost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5
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