There was no way to get everything out — only one entry at a time, by
hand. A diary you cannot leave is not a diary you can trust.
The archive is entries/ as one markdown file per entry named by its day,
media/ with every embedded file under its real name, and a README. Media
links are rewritten to relative paths, so the entries render in any
markdown reader with no help from this application. Names are restricted
to characters that need no escaping inside a markdown link.
It is built on the blocking pool into a temporary file and streamed, so a
diary with photographs in it never has to fit in memory.
Only Ctrl-S and :w ever wrote. A closed laptop, a crashed tab or an
expired session took the draft with it, and clicking another entry in the
list silently discarded unsaved work without so much as a prompt.
Every change now goes to localStorage immediately and to the server two
and a half seconds after typing stops. Opening an entry that has a stash
newer than the server's copy restores it and says so, the way vim reports
a swap file; :e! and :q! discard it. Switching entries flushes the
outgoing draft first.
The save response carries the entry's excerpt, so a save patches its list
row in place instead of re-reading the whole list — which autosave would
otherwise have done every few seconds.
media.entry_id modelled ownership as one entry per file, but link_to_entry
reassigns it on every save. Embedding the same image in a second entry
therefore moved the claim, and deleting that second entry deleted the file
out from under the first — a broken image in the entry and a 404 on its
share link.
A join table replaces the column. Deleting an entry now removes only the
files no other entry embeds, and link_to_entry runs in a transaction so an
entry is never briefly attached to nothing while its share link is being
read.
Adds :today, :next/:prev, :first/:last, :random, :clear, :reload, :copy,
:export, :stats and :theme, plus bangs on :w, :wq and :e. Every command now
declares a group so :help can lay them out under headings.
The help sheet flowed its columns wider than the sheet and clipped the
descriptions; it is newspaper columns now, and it lists the ! variants.
CodeMirror's base theme styles panels for a light editor with selectors the
app stylesheet cannot outrank, so the vim `:` prompt rendered black on black.
Those rules move into the editor's own theme, which does win, and the theme
declares itself dark so the light defaults stop applying at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01476ZKdB4k3rPDwvVhXcnDg
CodeMirror injects its own `.cm-cursor` rule after our stylesheet, so the
equally specific override lost and the caret painted black on a dark
background. Qualify the selector, same as `.cm-activeLine`.
`:q!` reached the command table as the literal name `quit!`, which nothing
matched. Commands now carry an optional `bang` variant, and `runCommand`
splits a trailing `!` off any head before looking it up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01476ZKdB4k3rPDwvVhXcnDg
Mocha with the palette's red as the accent is now the default; the old
green scheme moves to `:set theme=green` alongside amber and ice.
Two readability fixes in the editor:
- The vim block cursor paints the character inside itself in that
character's own syntax colour, so an accent-coloured glyph — a
heading's `#`, a link — vanished against the accent-coloured block.
The glyph is now forced to the background colour.
- CodeMirror injects its own `.cm-activeLine` rule after this stylesheet,
so the equally specific override never applied and the current line
rendered as a bright blue box. Qualified the selector and toned the
band down to a faint tint of the foreground.
Insert mode also gets a 2px bar instead of the browser hairline caret.
Single-user diary served as one Rust binary with the Svelte frontend
embedded.
- axum 0.8 + SQLite (sqlx), migrations run at startup
- stateless HMAC session cookie; credentials from .env, compared in
constant time
- FTS5 full-text search, user input rewritten into quoted prefix terms
- media uploads linked to entries by scanning bodies for /api/media/<id>,
which scopes share-token media access and entry deletion
- unguessable share links (192-bit token) serving a public read-only page
- vim keybindings via CodeMirror plus a modal browse layer and : command
line; disabled on touch devices
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