CHANGE.log

BLIP CHANGE.log
===============

Running log of every change, newest first, with the person who made it.
This file feeds X-POSTS.md. Every post about Blip is written from here.

RULES FOR THIS FILE (Fred, 2026-09-16, standing)
  * Every entry names the person: real name from the commit author, GitHub
    login, and their X account as a link, https://x.com/<handle>.
  * A handle is written only when it is verified: the person published it
    (GitHub twitter_username, GitHub social accounts, or their own site), OR
    the X account's name matches AND its posts tie it to Omarchy/Blip/Fred.
    Checked with `gh api users/<login>`, `gh api users/<login>/social_accounts`,
    their site, then `x user @<handle>` and `x timeline @<handle>`.
  * No verified handle: write "X: none found (checked YYYY-MM-DD)" so the
    lookup is visibly done, never silently skipped, AND ASK FRED EARLY (Fred,
    standing, 2026-09-18: "Always pair the X account, ask me early if you cant
    figure out who they are"). Ask when the gap appears, at merge time, not on
    the day the post is due. He often knows the person or can ask them.
  * Add the entry in the SAME change that merges the work.

PEOPLE (verified handles)
  Jon Kinney        github.com/jondkinney   X https://x.com/jondkinney   (GitHub profile)
  Zach Wilke        github.com/zachwilke    X https://x.com/zachwilke_1  (his site pinefall.dev)
  Brenden Bishop    github.com/bbishdotdev  X https://x.com/bbishdotdev  (his site bbish.dev; X name matches)
  Marshall Huss     github.com/mwhuss       X https://x.com/mwhuss       (X name matches; posts about his Omarchy plugin, replies to @NixFred)
  Jethro Jones      github.com/jethrojones   X https://x.com/jethrojones  (X name matches; app-building and schools, fits his known work) (confirmed by Fred 2026-09-18)
  Damon Janis      github.com/damonjanis   X https://x.com/damonjanis    (confirmed by Damon on #120, 2026-10-07)
  Baden             github.com/badenpiland  X https://x.com/badenpiland  (GitHub profile twitter_username AND social_accounts; X name "Baden"; CORRECTED 2026-09-25: the earlier "github.com/bpiland → @bhp35" line named a GitHub user and an X account that do not exist)
  Danny Cecil       github.com/jefehoser    X https://x.com/jefehoser    (same unique login on X; posts about Omarchy) (confirmed by Fred 2026-09-16)
  Ian Swope         github.com/ianswope     X https://x.com/ianfs        (GitHub profile twitter_username AND social_accounts, found 2026-09-25; @ianfs replies to @NixFred about Omarchy. The dormant @IanSwope is NOT him)
  cjoh              github.com/cjoh         X: none found (checked 2026-09-16)
  Brad Larson       github.com/followbl     X https://x.com/followbl     (confirmed by Brad himself on #113, 2026-09-26)
  Guido Jouret      github.com/gjouret      X https://x.com/gjouret      (GitHub profile twitter_username AND social_accounts; X name matches, 1.4k followers, checked 2026-09-25)
  Kb2uka            github.com/Kb2uka       X https://x.com/StudioXRadio (he said so on #91, 2026-09-18: "@StudioXRadio, tag away")
  Chad Stovern      github.com/chadhs       X https://x.com/chadstovern  (he said so on #124, 2026-09-30)
  Greyforge Labs    github.com/GreyforgeLabs X https://x.com/GreyforgeLabs (GitHub profile twitter_username AND social_accounts; X name matches, checked 2026-10-02)
  Brandon Smith     github.com/bndnsmth     X https://x.com/bndnsmth     (he said so on #134, 2026-10-07)
  Fred Nix          github.com/nixfred      X https://x.com/nixfred

Earlier contributors and their handles: CONTRIBUTORS-X-POST.md.

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LAST X POST: CONTRIBUTORS-X-POST.md (2026-09-11). Everything below the
marker for Post 2 is in the Post 2 draft in X-POSTS.md.
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2026-10-12  #141 Seven fixes from a whole-project review: a muted chat stays out of the badge when its rows leave the window,
                 old codes and already-read links are not offered after a long sleep, a repeated "ok" is not resolved by the earlier
                 one, file names with a tab or newline reach the Mac intact, blip-setup stops cleanly with no terminal, and a toast
                 click on a phone-number chat opens it. Larry & Fred, github.com/nixfred, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-10-07  #139 A tapback failure is shown even if Blip closed while it ran (the run lives in the bar widget); on macOS 27 an
                 older message is refused before Messages comes forward. Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-10-07  #138 Tapbacks work on a macOS 27 gateway: consent asked of macOS without a prompt (no TCC.db there), the
                 Tapback Picker on the newest message, label-checked before any press. Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope,
                 X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-10-07  #137 notified always answers 'opened', so its reply no longer reveals whether a chat is unread.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-10-07  #136 Clicking a message notification opens its conversation, with automation=off too (new scoped IPC 'notified').
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-10-07  #135 The documented deploy line copies icons/, so the conversation menu has its icons. Ian Swope,
                 github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-10-06  #134 The sidebar keeps the open conversation selected in split view, independent of hover and the keyboard cursor.
                 Brandon Smith, github.com/bndnsmth, X https://x.com/bndnsmth
2026-10-06  #133 A read push survives a locked Mac (per-chat intents never dropped) and imsg-read says the screen is locked;
                 read-sync tests isolated from a running blip-bridged. Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-10-04  #131 imsg-send waits 150 s for the Automation prompt (was 15 s). Cherry-picked; Windows tray declined for this repo.
                 David Benedic, github.com/daveyb, X: none published (asked on the PR)
2026-10-04  #83 blip-bridged keeps the Mac channel warm: 18 ms vs 166 ms per query on gus, self-heals in 30 s.
                 Zach Wilke, github.com/zachwilke, X https://x.com/zachwilke_1
2026-10-04  #122 Pin and Hide Alerts in the conversation menu, verified on the Mac. Damon Janis, github.com/damonjanis,
                 X https://x.com/damonjanis
2026-10-04  #127 imsg-react never presses in the pass that scrolled (wrong-message tapback fix). Erik Fillipsveen,
                 github.com/Fileri, X: none found
2026-10-04  #128 A monitor that sleeps off DisplayPort no longer crashes Hyprland a second way. With every output gone,
                 Hyprland reports its workspaces with no monitor, and moving the Blip window home onto one of them
                 segfaulted Hyprland 0.56 (null monitor in moveWindowToWorkspace, reproduced in a nested Hyprland).
                 The return move now runs only while a real output exists and the target workspace sits on one; when
                 the monitor comes back the window goes home as before. 716 tests, door two-way. Brad Larson,
                 github.com/followbl, X https://x.com/followbl (his second: #113 guarded the map, this guards the move)
2026-10-02  #126 Search keeps sender-aware self echoes: your "yes" and another group member's "yes" in the same second are two
                 hits again, and a note to yourself is attributed to you whichever copy the Mac returns first. Search now
                 reuses dedupeSelfEcho. Our follow-up feeds outgoing rows first, so a self-thread message iCloud re-synced
                 as 3 or 4 incoming copies is one hit (query "test" on Fred's Mac: 340 hits before, 286 with the PR, 196
                 with the follow-up; every other conversation unchanged). Greyforge Labs, github.com/GreyforgeLabs,
                 X https://x.com/GreyforgeLabs (first Blip PR)
2026-10-02  #116 #117 Outbound tapbacks from Linux, behind tapbacks=on (closes #69): pick one of six in the message menu,
                 the Mac performs it on the exact bubble through Accessibility and chat.db confirms it. Groups refused, no
                 new consent prompt. Our 1fbc737 fixed a later-day same-time twin taking the reaction. Erik Fillipsveen,
                 github.com/Fileri, X: none found
2026-10-02  #121 Mark as Unread / Mark as Read in the conversation menu (right-click, or U). DMs go to the Mac through
                 Messages' own menu item and count only when chat.db agrees; groups stay local. Deployed gus, vic, fnix bridge.
                 Damon Janis, github.com/damonjanis, X https://x.com/damonjanis
2026-10-02  #120 Read state syncs through a durable, verified queue: every read is saved before any Mac call, retried with
                 backoff, and retired only when chat.db confirms it; replaces #103. Merged 10-01 (Fred's OK), deployed 10-02
                 with the new Mac bridge (read_state.py). Watcher-alive poll restored to 60 s; snapshot cost and blocking
                 Mac calls tracked in #125. Damon Janis, github.com/damonjanis, X https://x.com/damonjanis
2026-09-30  #124 blip-setup no longer drops every 2, 7 and x from bridge.conf values (tr has no \xHH escape, so host=you@192.168.x
                 came back as 19.168.x and was written back broken). Chad Stovern, github.com/chadhs, X https://x.com/chadstovern
                 (he said so on the PR)
2026-09-30  #123 Up/Down/Home/End in the compose field keep the selected history bubble (closes #118). Erik Fillipsveen,
                 github.com/Fileri, X: none found
2026-09-30  #119 CLAUDE.md contact-review bullet reads as one sentence again. Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-30  (direct)  CI green again: imsg_test.py's fixture lacked the uti column a131ae5 reads; main was red 26-30 Sep.
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-29  (direct)  Code autofill no longer crashes when the accessibility bus is unreachable. libatspi aborts the helper
                 (SIGABRT, 10 cores on gus in one day) if it cannot connect, so otp-desktop.py now probes the bus first,
                 with backoff for 30 s, and exits 75 instead. OtpAutofill.qml respawns a dead helper (5 s doubling to
                 60 s), so autofill comes back without a shell restart. Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-27  (direct)  Install tested end to end on a fresh exe.dev Omarchy VM against the real Mac. blip-setup no longer
                 exits 1 at the very end of a scripted run (the smoke test's ssh ate the queued answers), no longer needs
                 `hostname`, prints only the packages you are missing and flags ffmpeg/mpv for voice messages. README step 1
                 gains --yes. Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-26  (direct)  A re-keyed group's pin stays in Favorites: the Mac's pinning plist kept LMT under iCloud group ids
                 that match no chat row any more, so Blip dropped it while the phone still showed it pinned. imsg now
                 resolves pin ids through chat.db's chat_lookup (iMessageGroupID), the table Messages itself uses.
                 gus and vic both show all 9 pins in the phone's order. Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-25  #115 Opt-in glide for mouse-wheel notches: smooth_scroll=on in bridge.conf animates a notch 180 ms OutCubic,
                 retargeted (a notch mid-glide moves the target, never restarts the easing), cancelled by any other contentY
                 write; touchpads never animate. The PR shipped it ON by default behind a shell.json setting and rewrote the
                 "never animate wheel scroll" invariant; Fred chose opt-in, default OFF, bridge.conf key: the invariant came from
                 his MX Master, whose one click is four notches, and Guido tested on a plain wheel plus an offscreen harness
                 only. Default flips on Fred's hand, not on a harness. Merged with the change, 632 tests, deployed key-absent.
                 Guido Jouret, github.com/gjouret, X https://x.com/gjouret
2026-09-25  (direct)  scroll_gain= and touchpad_scroll_gain= in bridge.conf (0.05-10, default 1, re-read on save, shown by
                 `status`). One physical click of an MX Master 4 is FOUR notches (raw evdev: bursts of 4,4,4,3 in 0.13 s), so
                 even at Guido's 1:1 one click was 480 px in a 609 px window; gus and vic run 0.25 (~120 px per click).
                 FOUND WHILE VERIFYING: the #113 deploy on 23 Sep left nixfred.blip.bak-113-<ts> inside
                 ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/ on both hosts; PluginRegistry scans plugins/* in glob order and the last manifest
                 id wins, so the pre-#113 backup was what actually ran on gus AND vic until today, through three deploys
                 that reported healthy=true. #113 and #114 are live as of 25 Sep. Backups now go to
                 ~/.local/state/omarchy/plugin-backups/. Fred judged 0.25 by hand the same evening: keeper.
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-25  #114 One wheel notch scrolls one notch. The conversation and the thread list multiplied every wheel event by 4.5
                 (a standard notch, angleDelta 120, moved about 540 px) and touchpad deltas by 3, on top of the scroll factor
                 Hyprland had already applied, so Blip alone scrolled 4.5x faster than every other app. Both handlers now
                 apply the delta 1:1 through two BlipView properties (wheelMultiplier, touchpadMultiplier, default 1.0). The
                 4.5 dated from the 1.3.4 fix and was never measured against another app. Fred chose 1:1 and judges by hand;
                 a bridge.conf key is the next step if it is too slow. On gus the MX Master 4 goes 540 -> 120 px per notch and
                 the Elan touchpad (scroll_factor 0.4) 1.2 -> 0.4 px per px. Not verified by hand: touchpad feel (he has none).
                 Guido Jouret, github.com/gjouret, X https://x.com/gjouret
2026-09-23  #113 Turning the only monitor off with the Blip window open no longer crashes Hyprland. Qt swaps the lost output
                 for a nameless 0x0 placeholder screen, Omarchy builds a bar on it, and Blip's widget there crowned itself
                 leader and mapped the app window with no output, a null dereference in Hyprland 0.56.2's floating layout.
                 The leader rule now lives in screen-leader.ts and nobody leads while no real screen exists. Verified in
                 Test Drive with an instrumented build: the placeholder is ["",0,0] and got leader=false; the segfault itself
                 was not reproducible there because Hyprland stands up a FALLBACK output in the same event.
                 Brad Larson, github.com/followbl, X https://x.com/followbl
2026-09-22  #111 CLAUDE.md's deploy recipe copies otp-desktop.py and names all five shims, including contact-save. Following the old one
                 had left vic's autofill helper at 2.5.0 and contact-save missing on gus and vic; both fixed with the merge.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-20  (direct)  Follower bars forward to the shell that is ACTUALLY running (Quickshell.shellDir), not the hardcoded
                 /usr/share/omarchy/shell. Under `omarchy dev link` every forward exited 255 "No running instances" while the
                 shell's summon still reported ok, so a second monitor's icon and hotkey did nothing, silently. Found verifying #109.
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-19  #109 Manual window moves stick, and the popout opens on the screen whose icon you clicked: the window's 0x-prefixed
                 address never matched Hyprland's bare-hex event, so every deliberate move was undone as a stray remap; and a
                 follower bar's click now carries its screen (toggleon/openon) so the panel re-anchors there, including SUPER+CTRL+<n>.
                 joshhattan, github.com/joshhattan, X: none found (checked 2026-09-19, asked on the PR)
2026-09-19  #110 The security code fills in Zen and Firefox: Gecko reports success from set_text_contents and writes nothing, so the
                 helper re-reads the field and types the code through the same Hyprland key path Chromium already uses.
                 joshhattan, github.com/joshhattan, X: none found (checked 2026-09-19, asked on the PR)
2026-09-19  1b148f8  The app window opens where you are: only a deliberate move claims a home workspace, and a home that no longer
                 exists is ignored instead of recreated (Super+M flew the window away under plonk).
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-18  #108 A read push counts the whole conversation cluster, not one chat row (fixes #107): an unread on an alias silently never pushed.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-18  #91  Save a NEW contact to the Mac from a conversation: create-only, confirmed, duplicate-refusing, verified by read-back.
                 Kb2uka, github.com/Kb2uka, X https://x.com/StudioXRadio
2026-09-18  #106 A group read in Blip clears it on the Mac too, through Messages' imessage:open?groupid= deep link.
                 Jon Kinney, github.com/jondkinney, X https://x.com/jondkinney
2026-09-18  #105 Per-conversation spawns route through a source-id seam; stock Blip still resolves to the one Mac bridge (closes #70).
                 David Reinecke, github.com/dreinecke, X: none found (checked 2026-09-18)
2026-09-18  #104 One Linux-shim line in the shape diagram, listing all four shims.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-18  4134bbf  Exact-card details and vCard export honour bin_dir; the guard test that missed it is widened.
                 Found by Kb2uka, github.com/Kb2uka, X https://x.com/StudioXRadio. Fixed by Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-17  #96  prefer_imessage=on keeps a mixed 1:1 on iMessage instead of going green after one RCS inbound. Opt-in, off by default.
                 Baden, github.com/badenpiland, X https://x.com/badenpiland
2026-09-17  #101 A read dot no longer returns while the badge says zero: the poll no-op check follows the model, not a stale cache.
                 Damon Janis, github.com/damonjanis, X https://x.com/damonjanis
2026-09-17  #102 A read push is reported done only when the Mac's unread count reaches zero; partial or unverifiable is now a failure.
                 Damon Janis, github.com/damonjanis, X https://x.com/damonjanis
2026-09-17  #98  One never-opened unread no longer slows every poll: per-chat catch-up, measured 1.8 s to 0.63 s here.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-17  #99  CLAUDE.md records rank-then-size for contact sources, matching b5cafc2.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-16  (direct)  Blip's Mac-side fixes upstreamed as claude-on-mac v2.0.0; contact names rank the owner's book first, then the
                 largest source within a rank (reconciles claude-on-mac #5). tcc-check says 2 minutes, not 60s.
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-16  (direct)  A waiting Send Later message shows "Scheduled for <time>", not sent; never the newest
                 message, never moves a read mark. Found checking fnix after its macOS 27 upgrade.
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-16  #92  Offer a security code beside the focused field (opt-in, otp_autofill=on).
                 AT-SPI insert on click, digit boxes included; code never on argv, clipboard or disk.
                 Brenden Bishop, github.com/bbishdotdev, X https://x.com/bbishdotdev
2026-09-16  #94  Right-click a message: Quote and reply, Copy message; a link: Open, Copy, Share.
                 Danny Cecil, github.com/jefehoser, X https://x.com/jefehoser
2026-09-16  #93  Super+M only ever touches the real Blip window (exact title, not a prefix).
                 Danny Cecil, github.com/jefehoser, X https://x.com/jefehoser
2026-09-16  #95  A message already read on another device never toasts on wake (fixes #89).
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
                 Reported by Marshall Huss, github.com/mwhuss, X https://x.com/mwhuss
2026-09-15  #80  Timestamps cross the bridge as UTC; local time is display only (fixes #86).
                 Zach Wilke, github.com/zachwilke, X https://x.com/zachwilke_1
                 Reported by cjoh, github.com/cjoh, X: none found
2026-09-15  #82  A message carries every dropped or pasted file, caption on the first, capped at ten.
                 Zach Wilke, github.com/zachwilke, X https://x.com/zachwilke_1
2026-09-15  #81  Animated GIFs arrive as their own bytes and animate.
                 Zach Wilke, github.com/zachwilke, X https://x.com/zachwilke_1
2026-09-15  #87  The app window stays on its workspace after idle.
                 Danny Cecil, github.com/jefehoser, X https://x.com/jefehoser
2026-09-15  #88  Conversation list builds only rows near the viewport; panel fade no longer freezes (441-627 ms stalls measured).
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-15  #85  Docked to extra monitors, follower bars stop firing one toast per screen.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-15  #76  No toast for the conversation you already have open.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-15  #75  A 3-4 digit carrier short code (611, 2536) is a DM you can reply STOP to, not a group.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-15  #84  Docs: outbound tapbacks are half possible on macOS 26, not impossible.
                 Zach Wilke, github.com/zachwilke, X https://x.com/zachwilke_1
2026-09-15  #77  README allowlist and mutelist examples now parse as strict JSON.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-15  481e555  blip-setup copies only regular files to the Mac, so __pycache__ cannot abort it.
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-13  2.5.0 released.
2026-09-13  4bad82d  Contact photos stop reloading on every window open (one batch, host cache; ~45 s to instant).
                 Fred Nix / Larry, X https://x.com/nixfred
2026-09-13  #54  Sending a link no longer opens the share sheet.
                 Jon Kinney, github.com/jondkinney, X https://x.com/jondkinney
2026-09-13  #71  blip-setup passes ssh -n, so its Enter prompts no longer hit EOF.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-13  #74  README says how to remove Blip and what it leaves behind.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-13  #72  Every Text sink declares PlainText, so none can fall back to rich text.
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs
2026-09-13  #73  A copied security code reaches wl-copy on stdin, not the environment (/proc leak).
                 Ian Swope, github.com/ianswope, X https://x.com/ianfs