Replaces the gradient, frosted-glass look with flat warm ink, hard
black edges and offset shadows, a clashing lime/pink/sky/tangerine
palette, and self-hosted Archivo Black, Atkinson Hyperlegible and Space
Mono (Inter is gone). Stickers, slight tilts, a marker-style heading,
a barber-pole progress bar, wiggling icons and chattier copy give it
some restless energy; reduced-motion users get none of the animation.
Toolbar buttons are now labelled chips in consistent groups (Open;
2D/3D/City; Fit/Layers/Code/palette; Lines/Refs), and the city bar is
one even row: Heli, Walk, Fly, then Tour and Copy link with shortcuts,
help text underneath and the address moved to the top right. Copy link
feedback no longer wipes the button's icon.
A tab half way down the sidebar's left edge (or [) folds the sidebar
away and back, remembered per device. The local folder option is
hidden unless the server reports it enabled. Canvas text, posters and
signs switch to the new fonts once loaded, and the city's ground, fog,
grid, pavements and wall are warmed to match.
Coming back from GitHub sign-in, cancellation or app installation now
opens the Open codebase dialog automatically with the outcome at the
top (signed in as whoever, access updated, cancelled or failed). A
repository the visitor was trying to open is filled in with Explore
focused, so it is one keypress to continue, instead of loading it
silently in the background. The ?github= parameter is removed from the
address bar and any shared-place fragment is kept.
Little glowing green stick figures, in the spirit of Darwinia, stroll
the streets: each walks toward a random reachable point in plain sight
on the navigation grid, pauses, and about a third of the time heads
toward a nearby resident instead, so they gather in small crowds. They
are camera-facing sprites drawn procedurally in the fragment shader
with a walk cycle, flicker and halo, grown with altitude so crowds stay
visible from the helicopter, and fogged like everything else.
About one resident per 2,500 m² of city (40 to 600), spawned only on
the city's own streets. Because they keep the city animating, Settings
has a City residents switch (saved with the other preferences). The
simulation is seedable and tested to keep everyone on walkable ground.
Touch: in walk and fly the left thumb drives a virtual joystick while
the right thumb looks around; pinch zooms in every view (and climbs
when flying); help text switches for coarse pointers.
Tour (T or the Tour button) flies the helicopter over the six largest
districts with captions of their file and line counts, circling each
before moving on, and stops on any input.
Copy link encodes the GitHub repository, view, city camera and selected
file in the URL fragment. Opening such a link loads the repository
(including through GitHub sign-in for private repos) and restores the
place. Fragments are validated: only github.com repositories and finite
camera values are accepted. Helpers are unit tested.
Adds walk and fly cameras alongside the helicopter view, switched with
1/2/3 or the city toolbar. Walking uses mouse-look with pointer lock
(or drag), WASD, Shift to run and circle-vs-footprint collision with
sub-stepping so long frames cannot tunnel through buildings; flying
follows the view pitch with Space/C for altitude and clears low roofs.
Double-clicking a street drops you there with an animated descent,
facing the longest open street. A crosshair names the building ahead
(E or click inspects it), the address bar shows the folder you are in,
and a minimap shows your heading and teleports on click.
city.js lays the directory tree out at human scale: top-level folders
become districts separated by 18 m avenues, nested folders become
blocks with narrower streets and raised pavements, and files become
buildings whose footprint follows their lines and whose height follows
their complexity. The squarified treemap moves into city.js and is
shared with the landscape.
The renderer gains a second instance layer with per-instance kind,
code-atlas rectangle and selection flag, a helicopter camera in metres,
screen-to-world rays, and geometry lookup per mode. City mode supports
orbit, pan, dolly, ray picking, focusing a building and district names.
Node tests cover layout invariants, heights, ray/box hits and the
spatial index.
Deep blue-black theme with a violet-to-cyan accent, frosted floating
panels, self-hosted Inter, a welcome screen with a call to action, a
card-style inspector, accent tabs and toggles, animated progress, and
a restyled open dialog. In 3D the WebGL walls are now lit per side
with a darker foot so buildings read as solids, and the canvas clears
to transparent over the new background. Renamed to CodeNavigator.
The load dialog shows the GitHub account state with sign-in, sign-out
and repository-selection links. A clone that needs authorisation shows
a Sign in with GitHub or Grant repository access button, and the
repository is resumed automatically on return from GitHub.
Implements the API routes (jobs, progress events, snapshots, search,
entities, source delivery with release) to net/http and serves the
static frontend from the same binary on the same origin.
Andy Dixon