Field Notes — August 5, 2026

August 5, 2026

38 public commits · 3 public repos · 151 private commits

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work24594shell2the avatar drawswry host compilesplacement compileswry hostmove is a mode

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souveraine 23 changes
- the avatar draws: serve the rig over loopback, not the opaque scheme
  10:14 p.m. · 3d3eb2c
- unlocking closes a keyboard nobody asked for
  9:55 p.m. · a5f0fad
- the wry host is optional through the whole pipeline; it must not block sessiond
  9:29 p.m. · 269c151
- wry host compiles: tao 0.36 event loop, Cow bodies, app id is the program name
  9:00 p.m. · d4f9213
- placement grades a covered sensor instead of gating on it; squeeze test follows the fix
  8:23 p.m. · 620c7d3
- the rig ships with the repo; it is self-hosted
  8:11 p.m. · fe48bb7
- the face stays quiet when the rig is not staged; add stage-face.sh
  8:11 p.m. · 8e3120c
- the backdrop is the input region, so it owes the way out
  8:10 p.m. · bb81781
- dock is home's alone; the pill stops riding above it
  8:04 p.m. · 1ac33af
- placement compiles: one field per snapshot, and it deserialises
  7:59 p.m. · 425693a
- a refused subscribe stays refused; it was re-arming its own retry
  7:50 p.m. · b71f9c9
- split chooser names its windows and brings the pick to the zone
  7:45 p.m. · 9b470b8
- wry host: sites as apps, the rig as a face; join loads the expression skill
  7:39 p.m. · 9ec031c
- two swipes, one progress; home is zone 0; pocket is a belief
  7:16 p.m. · d7965a5
- the sheet scrims its own window, not the screen
  4:43 p.m. · 6c0730a
- the app scales into multitasking; pill has two destinations
  4:34 p.m. · 0e7dec5
- dock lives on zone one; short swipe multitasks, big swipe goes home
  4:17 p.m. · 277a0d2
- move is a mode: grab, drag, done
  3:35 p.m. · c3f998f
- split chooser, home reaches the compositor, idle-inhibit comment was backwards
  2:52 p.m. · b0688bc
- hold power for a device menu; usb-c state shown, not faked
  2:37 p.m. · f7eba9f
- three-finger tap opens a window sheet, not the overview
  2:12 p.m. · bf8bc01
- shell: intent wins the settle window, and a swap is a request for a keyboard
  7:41 a.m. · 3aea839
  Two gaps in the owner-change handling, both found on device.
- shell: an owner change is not a visibility event
  7:34 a.m. · d7a04f2
  sm.puri.OSK0 is a name, not a process. Boot, a crash-restart and an osk-switch swap each put a fresh keyboard behind it, and the visibility monitor mirrored the newcomer's opening claim into oskOpen as though the user had asked for a keyboard. Measured: shell up 03:03:38, self-showed at 03:03:43, nobody near the phone.
souveraine-viewtop 9 changes
- subscribe pushes the strip; float and gamma verbs
  7:16 p.m. · 4d53abc
- workspaces reports focus, app_id and title
  6:02 p.m. · 8e6700b
- pose actually scales the content, not just its origin
  4:49 p.m. · 2d0ffdc
- workspaces reports window geometry
  4:42 p.m. · 72b7ed6
- one membership entry per window, not two
  4:34 p.m. · bbffc63
- grabbed windows swallow the finger; CSD shadows no longer shift the paint
  4:25 p.m. · 0858f66
- ci: publish on green main; a passing run shipped nothing before
  3:34 p.m. · 875e97e
- three fingers only open the sheet; grab replaces the carry; home zone stays clear
  3:32 p.m. · bac4177
- gesture: tap carries its window; add kill
  2:12 p.m. · 9e898dd
SouveraineOS 6 changes
- compositor pushes the strip; float, gamma
  7:16 p.m. · 1aa6103
- 59: phase 1 passes on hardware, ~58fps with the rig drawing
  4:10 p.m. · ec552a8
- 59: licences, the mobile blocklist, and the naming problem
  4:00 p.m. · 6792300
- 59: ship the reference rig; 55: what actually landed
  3:51 p.m. · 60d903a
- 59: her face on the glass
  3:48 p.m. · db72947
- 55: sheet, split chooser, power menu; viewtop ships by pacman
  2:53 p.m. · 2e77529