Clicking a resident (or aiming the walk/fly crosshair at one and
pressing E) selects them: they stop walking, glow pink with a wider
halo, get a name tag above their head, and the sidebar shows a resident
ID card instead of code. The card has a drawn head-and-shoulders
portrait (eyes and hair in their colours), name, sex, age, occupation
and employer, eye colour, hair colour, blood type, where they were last
seen, an ID number and a barcode.
people.js generates identities deterministically from the repository
name and resident index using nymshift's England/Wales names and
taxonomy tables, so the same resident is always the same person.
Picking projects each figure to the screen and ignores residents
hidden behind buildings. Tested for stability, table membership and
sex/first-name consistency.
The stripes were 45deg with a 14px period, which repeats every 19.8px
horizontally, but the background tile and animation step were 28px, so
every tile cut a stripe and the loop visibly jumped. Stripe spacing is
now 28/sqrt(2) so the horizontal period is exactly 28px, painted once
on an untiled layer 28px wider than the bar and slid by one period with
a transform. Verified by comparing rendered frames: the end of the loop
is pixel-identical to its start.
Error and warning states now use a data-tone attribute (solid red or
yellow, no stripes) instead of inline backgrounds.
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.
After a GitHub snapshot loads, the viewer's code scanning and Dependabot
alerts are fetched and grouped by file. In the city, affected buildings
smoke, and those with a critical or high alert also burn: GPU particles
whose age derives from time and seed, so emitters upload once. Hazard
tape runs diagonally across every wall, yellow DEPENDABOT ALERT rising
and red CODE SCANNING ALERT falling, crossing as an X when a file has
both; the tape tiles a striped label cut to the wall's diagonal.
The minimap marks alert buildings, the coverage panel shows the alert
count (or why none could be loaded, e.g. signed out or no permission),
and a selected file lists its alerts with severity and GitHub links.
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.
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