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Weekly Review: May 20-26, 2026

Review window: Tuesday, May 20, 2026 through Tuesday, May 26, 2026 Repository: seed-hypermedia/seed

Executive summary

This week leaned heavily into editor UX polish, draft lifecycle reliability, and frontend infrastructure. Main themes:

  • Hardening the editor: media block selection, code blocks, image widths, heading drag, prose alignment, formatting toolbar.
  • Cleaning up the draft lifecycle: removal of the draft preview route, metadata refresh, placeholder publishes, autosave anchor preservation, stale data.
  • Fixing comment behavior: deleted-comment flash during peer sync, duplicate comment draft editors.
  • Expanding web app capabilities: document creation menu, daemon auth error mapping, private documents.
  • Extending layout/panel behavior: panel actions inside active tab, breadcrumb section navigation, embed card click behavior.
  • Investing in infrastructure: @shm/reactive package WIP, contributor orientation docs, push/workflow error telemetry, lucide-react migration in Explore.

Highlights by theme

Editor UX

  • Preserved responsive image widths across renders in PR #641.
  • Handled pasted local media in web editors in PR #646.
  • Showed the drag handle for selected headings and restored full-block selection for covered headings in PR #660.
  • Aligned editor prose rendering and code block behavior in PR #661.
  • Kept the document editor focusable below content in PR #678.
  • Fixed code block cursor + backspace handling in 86ff4c3df.
  • Stopped the link type dropdown from bubbling clicks in d0c5a806d.
  • Preserved math textarea focus after insertion in 82f1b5b6f.
  • Sync formatting toolbar hides with the style popover in PR #684 (open).
  • Restored full-block selection for side-menu dragging in a3eb9cff1; earlier disabled full-block selection in 04311905f.

Drafts and document reliability

  • Removed the draft preview route and its actions in PR #679.
  • Refreshed draft-backed document metadata in PR #672.
  • Supported local web draft placeholder publishes in PR #663.
  • Cleaned up removed draft cards on commit in 88056a489 / 1c9f62f3f.
  • Unified desktop draft document routing in 347a4a0d2.
  • Preserved draft anchors on autosave in 22e93580c.
  • Fixed stale draft data in 05f57569d.
  • Focused inline draft title after slash insert in 03d5edc15.

Comments

  • Avoided deleted-comment flash during peer sync in PR #682.
  • Prevented duplicate comment draft editors when opening the side panel in PR #648.
  • Fixed comment tests in 35fa7d427.

Web app

  • Added a document creation menu in 2cbccf770.
  • Mapped daemon auth errors in 9eae36bdd.
  • Fixed private documents on web in 43c2a1eaf.
  • Moved document creation into the options menu in 9da919879.
  • Restored the unreferenced documents section in d432d2ef2.

Desktop and platform

  • Restored the system theme option in 12147e6c2.
  • Unified desktop draft routing in 347a4a0d2.
  • Added missing useEffect import in the desktop resource page in 797c20285.

Layout, navigation, embeds

  • Placed right panel actions inside the active tab in PR #685.
  • Fixed breadcrumb section navigation in c3a9e8e1e.
  • Improved document embed card click behavior in 2f9439953.

Frontend infrastructure and docs

  • Reported caught push and workflow errors via telemetry in PR #686.
  • Added text size, family, color, and highlight annotations and renamed color to value in 11f353a0a (landed via the editor formatting toolbar feature on main).
  • Migrated Explore icons to lucide-react and added the @shm/ui dependency in PR #627.
  • Fixed check-ts-directives to skip generated code and count net change in PR #633.
  • Ignored Python bytecode caches and removed a stray __pycache__/devcpython-313.pyc in PR #634.
  • Started a @shm/reactive package with LIBRARY slice 1 and DISCOVERY slice 1.5 in be955e8ad (WIP, not yet on a PR).
  • Drafted contributor orientation guides in PR #652 (open, +853/-79).

Main-branch commits authored by Horacio in this window

~60 commits across editor, web, desktop, drafts, comments, and infrastructure. Largest pieces by LOC:

  • @shm/reactive WIP (+1260 / -8, 22 files) — unmerged
  • Contributor orientation docs (+853 / -79) — PR #652 open
  • Comment draft dedup (+523 / -71) — PR #648
  • Web document creation menu (+507 / -13)
  • Editor prose + code block alignment (+444 / -185) — PR #661
  • TextSize / TextFamily annotations and color → value rename (+434 / -39)
  • Push / workflow error reporting (+362 / -18) — PR #686

Follow-ups

  • Land or close PR #652 (contributor orientation guides). It is large and easy to bit-rot.
  • Decide whether the @shm/reactive WIP (LIBRARY + DISCOVERY slices) should be split into reviewable PRs or continue as a long-running branch.
  • Watch PR #684 (formatting toolbar / style popover sync) and verify the editor formatting toolbar feature that landed on main does not regress with the new toolbar mark types (text size, family, color, highlight).
  • Keep an eye on draft lifecycle after the cluster of fixes (#663, #672, #679) — placeholder publishes, metadata refresh, removed preview route — and confirm no regressions for local web drafts.
  • Verify the report caught push and workflow errors telemetry from PR #686 is producing useful signals and not spamming the backend.
  • Confirm desktop draft routing unification in 347a4a0d2 did not break any deep-link or inline-draft flows.