max / makenotwork

Describe the shared Export CSV and blog Delete acts, and write the ruling down 27d5e5b8, ruled (a) by Max: a described fragment inside an Askama page is legitimate at any granularity the vocabulary already names, primitive included, and its glue module is a sibling of widgets/ rather than a member of it. Written into src/quasi/widgets/mod.rs, which is what the next session reads, with the visual cost stated so it is not rediscovered. Then the two things the ruling buys, both of which are shared controls that converted at their own granularity instead of waiting for four screens. Export CSV, Shape 6 step 1 (17050ff5). Five buttons in four templates, each carrying data-action="exportCsvButton" plus the URL and the filename as positional arguments. Now one Action::post(route).saving(name).awaiting(), called from all five and from the described buyer-contacts screen, which had the only other copy. window.exportCsvButton is deleted and the frontend-globals seal goes 114 to 113 -- the wrapper that survived every earlier batch because four unconverted screens reference-counted it, gone without any of them. Blog delete, the first of Shape 8's fifty (b279b9eb). The same button is written twice, in project_content.html and project_blog.html, over the same route with the same prompt. Described once. The hand-written-confirm seal goes 50 to 48. It also gets Tone::Danger, which the templates were saying as class="danger-text" to the stylesheet alone, and which only started working on 2026-08-21 when 35756077 handed the layer back. Two candidates in the same pass were left hand-written rather than approximated: the Remove buttons in partials/link_row.html and partials/tag.html both target hx-target="closest .<class>", and a relative selector is not something Action::replaces can say. Filed as quasicoherent 5aa43815; the tag one additionally reads as an aria-label, which is aad33ecc. The five exports move from .btn-secondary to the design system's .button -- raised rather than sunken, and the app's own padding and text-sm go. That is the ruling's accepted cost, it is live on pages no flag gates, and it wants an eyeball.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-22 14:33 UTC

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Commit: 5e3be3607383de3495d909304cffd44ebda4e52e

Parent: 1ea614c

14 files changed, +274 insertions, -37 deletions

M server/static/actions-tabs.js -5

			@@ -45,11 +45,6 @@
45	45		document.getElementById('license-keys-section').classList.toggle('hidden', !this.checked);
46	46		};
47	47
48		-	// --- CSV export buttons (project_subscriptions, buyer_contacts, user_payments, user_creator) ---
49		-	window.exportCsvButton = function (url, filename) {
50		-	this.textContent = 'Exporting...'; this.disabled = true; var btn = this; fetch(url, { method: 'POST', headers: csrfHeaders() }).then(function (r) { return r.blob(); }).then(function (b) { var a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = URL.createObjectURL(b); a.download = filename; a.click(); btn.textContent = 'Export CSV'; btn.disabled = false; }).catch(function () { btn.textContent = 'Export CSV'; btn.disabled = false; showToast('Export failed'); });
51		-	};
52		-
53	48		// --- project_synckit.html / user_synckit.html ---
54	49		window.syncKitShowSlugFromBtn = function (appId) {
55	50		syncKitShowSlugForm(appId, this.dataset.slug);

M server/tests/frontend_globals.rs +8 -1

			@@ -55,7 +55,14 @@
55	55		/// `static/partial-item-text-editor.js` and left the seal at 115, so the
56	56		/// warning three paragraphs up describes this entry too. Nothing was removed
57	57		/// today; the number was walked down to what the tree already counted.
58		-	const HIGH_WATER: usize = 114;
	58	+	///
	59	+	/// 113 on 2026-08-22, and this one is progress rather than slack: Shape 6 step
	60	+	/// 1 (`17050ff5`) described the five Export CSV buttons through
	61	+	/// `crate::quasi::export_act`, so `window.exportCsvButton` has no call site
	62	+	/// left and is deleted. The wrapper that survived every earlier batch because
	63	+	/// it was reference-counted by four unconverted screens went without waiting
	64	+	/// for any of them, which is what the glue-module ruling (`27d5e5b8`) is for.
	65	+	const HIGH_WATER: usize = 113;
59	66
60	67		/// Every file whose global assignments count: the legacy scripts and the typed
61	68		/// modules that replaced them.

M server/tests/handwritten_confirm.rs +14 -1

			@@ -43,7 +43,20 @@
43	43		/// described, and are still live Askama structs because the conversions are
44	44		/// dual-serve while `QUASI_SCREENS` serves nobody. They leave with the templates
45	45		/// when the switch ships, which is task `64b33b26`.
46		-	const HIGH_WATER: usize = 50;
	46	+	///
	47	+	/// 48 on 2026-08-22, and the first two that left without their screens. The
	48	+	/// identical "Delete this blog post?" button in `tabs/project_content.html` and
	49	+	/// `tabs/project_blog.html` is described once in
	50	+	/// `crate::quasi::blog_delete_act` and called from both, which is what the
	51	+	/// glue-module ruling (`27d5e5b8`) bought: a shared act converts at its own
	52	+	/// granularity rather than once per screen. Both take `Tone::Danger`, which the
	53	+	/// templates were saying as `class="danger-text"` to the stylesheet alone.
	54	+	///
	55	+	/// The two Remove buttons in `partials/link_row.html` and `partials/tag.html`
	56	+	/// were candidates in the same pass and are deliberately not converted: both
	57	+	/// target `hx-target="closest .<class>"`, and a relative selector is not
	58	+	/// something `Action::replaces` can say. Filed rather than approximated.
	59	+	const HIGH_WATER: usize = 48;
47	60
48	61		/// Every template, recursively. Walked rather than listed for the reason the
49	62		/// frontend-globals seal walks `frontend/src`: a fence that has to be told about

M server/src/quasi/buyer_contacts.rs +6 -6

			@@ -124,12 +124,12 @@
124	124		/// not, and `layout::Awaiting` takes a measurement rather than a stand-in for
125	125		/// one.
126	126		fn export() -> Node {
127		-	Node::act(
128		-	"Export CSV",
129		-	Action::post("/api/export/contacts")
130		-	.saving("contacts.csv")
131		-	.awaiting(),
132		-	)
	127	+	// Through `export_act` rather than spelled again here. This screen had the
	128	+	// only described copy when it was written; there are five call sites now
	129	+	// (`27d5e5b8`, the glue-module ruling), and one of them is the Askama
	130	+	// fallback for this very tab. Two spellings of one control is what the
	131	+	// conversion is for removing.
	132	+	super::export_act::act("/api/export/contacts", "contacts.csv")
133	133		}
134	134
135	135		/// The buyers who shared an email.

M server/src/quasi/mod.rs +2

			@@ -31,9 +31,11 @@
31	31		use crate::AppState;
32	32		use crate::auth::SessionUser;
33	33
	34	+	pub mod blog_delete_act;
34	35		pub mod buyer_contacts;
35	36		pub mod discover_typeahead;
36	37		pub mod embeds;
	38	+	pub mod export_act;
37	39		pub mod forum_memberships;
38	40		pub mod item_tabs;
39	41		pub mod library_contacts;

M server/src/quasi/widgets/mod.rs +39

			@@ -21,5 +21,44 @@
21	21		//! found a missing primitive on its way through
22	22		//! (`makeover_layout::Image`, 0.21.0), which is the argument for proving one in
23	23		//! an app before it becomes shared.
	24	+	//!
	25	+	//! # A primitive's glue is a sibling of this directory, never a member
	26	+	//!
	27	+	//! Ruled by Max 2026-08-21 (`27d5e5b8`), and written here because this doc is
	28	+	//! what gets read when someone asks where a described fragment goes.
	29	+	//!
	30	+	//! **A described fragment inside an Askama page is legitimate at any
	31	+	//! granularity the vocabulary already names, primitive included.** One `Field`
	32	+	//! qualifies; so does one `Act`. The question was whether that made a single
	33	+	//! primitive a widget, and the answer is that it does not — it makes it a
	34	+	//! primitive with an entry point. So the glue module sits at `src/quasi/`,
	35	+	//! beside `rich_field.rs`, `upload_field.rs` and `export_act.rs`, and this
	36	+	//! directory keeps meaning what the paragraphs above say it means: a name over
	37	+	//! an assembly. The "misuses the word widget" objection is answered by
	38	+	//! placement rather than by declining the pattern.
	39	+	//!
	40	+	//! What it buys is that a shared control converts at its own granularity
	41	+	//! instead of once per parent. `export_act.rs` is the first one taken: five
	42	+	//! Export CSV buttons in four templates, described once. The same applies to
	43	+	//! the shared act rows — `partials/link_row.html`, `partials/tag.html`, and the
	44	+	//! two identical delete buttons in `tabs/project_content.html` and
	45	+	//! `tabs/project_blog.html`.
	46	+	//!
	47	+	//! ## What it costs, stated so it is not rediscovered
	48	+	//!
	49	+	//! A live visual change on a page no flag gates. The templates write
	50	+	//! `class="btn-secondary text-sm"` and a described act emits `class="button"`,
	51	+	//! so the control lands on the design system's button rather than the app's:
	52	+	//! `--surface-raised` and `--bevel-raised` where `.btn-secondary` sets
	53	+	//! `--surface-sunken`, `--shadow-raised` and its own padding and font size.
	54	+	//! That is the swap, it is deliberate, and it wants an eyeball rather than a
	55	+	//! test.
	56	+	//!
	57	+	//! It is not, any more, a loss of the design system's button altogether.
	58	+	//! `35756077` measured that `style.css` is unlayered and outranks
	59	+	//! `@layer makeover` at any specificity, so a bare `button { }` rule was taking
	60	+	//! the surface, the bevel and the tone off every described act. Fixed by
	61	+	//! the `revert-layer` handoff at `style.css:473`. A described act that reaches
	62	+	//! for `Tone::Danger` gets it now, which it did not before 2026-08-21.
24	63
25	64		pub mod carousel;

M server/templates/partials/tabs/buyer_contacts.html +1 -4

			@@ -8,10 +8,7 @@
8	8		</p>
9	9		{% if !contacts.is_empty() %}
10	10		<div class="mb-section">
11		-	<button class="btn-secondary text-sm"
12		-	hx-post="/api/export/contacts"
13		-	hx-swap="none"
14		-	data-action="exportCsvButton" data-arg="/api/export/contacts" data-arg2="contacts.csv">Export CSV</button>
	11	+	{{ crate::quasi::export_act::html("/api/export/contacts", "contacts.csv")\|safe }}
15	12		</div>
16	13		<div class="scroll-x">
17	14		<table class="data-table contacts-table well">

M server/templates/partials/tabs/project_blog.html +1 -5

			@@ -34,11 +34,7 @@
34	34		<div class="blog-post-actions">
35	35		<a href="/p/{{ project_slug }}/blog/{{ post.slug }}" class="btn-secondary small">View</a>
36	36		<a href="/dashboard/project/{{ project_slug }}/blog/new?post={{ post.id }}" class="btn-secondary small">Edit</a>
37		-	<button class="btn-secondary small danger-text"
38		-	hx-delete="/api/blog/{{ post.id }}"
39		-	hx-target="#post-row-{{ post.id }}"
40		-	hx-swap="outerHTML"
41		-	hx-confirm="Delete this blog post?">Delete</button>
	37	+	{{ crate::quasi::blog_delete_act::html(post.id.to_string().as_str())\|safe }}
42	38		</div>
43	39		</td>
44	40		</tr>

M server/templates/partials/tabs/project_content.html +1 -5

			@@ -212,11 +212,7 @@
212	212		<div class="item-actions">
213	213		<a href="/p/{{ project_slug }}/blog/{{ post.slug }}" class="btn-secondary small">View</a>
214	214		<a href="/dashboard/project/{{ project_slug }}/blog/new?post={{ post.id }}" class="btn-secondary small">Edit</a>
215		-	<button class="btn-secondary small danger-text"
216		-	hx-delete="/api/blog/{{ post.id }}"
217		-	hx-target="#post-row-{{ post.id }}"
218		-	hx-swap="outerHTML"
219		-	hx-confirm="Delete this blog post?">Delete</button>
	215	+	{{ crate::quasi::blog_delete_act::html(post.id.to_string().as_str())\|safe }}
220	216		</div>
221	217		</td>
222	218		</tr>

M server/templates/partials/tabs/project_subscriptions.html +1 -2

			@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@
90	90		<p class="muted m-0">{{ subscriber_count }} active member{% if subscriber_count != 1 %}s{% endif %}</p>
91	91		</div>
92	92		{% if subscriber_count > 0 %}
93		-	<button class="btn-secondary text-sm"
94		-	data-action="exportCsvButton" data-arg="/api/export/subscriptions" data-arg2="members.csv">Export CSV</button>
	93	+	{{ crate::quasi::export_act::html("/api/export/subscriptions", "members.csv")\|safe }}
95	94		{% endif %}
96	95		</div>
97	96

M server/templates/partials/tabs/user_creator.html +3 -2

			@@ -124,8 +124,9 @@
124	124		{% endif %}
125	125		</p>
126	126		{% if follower_count > 0 %}
127		-	<button class="btn-secondary text-sm broadcast-export nowrap"
128		-	data-action="exportCsvButton" data-arg="/api/export/followers" data-arg2="followers.csv">Export CSV</button>
	127	+	{# broadcast-export and nowrap are this page's layout, not the control's,
	128	+	so they stay on a wrapper the description does not own. #}
	129	+	<span class="broadcast-export nowrap">{{ crate::quasi::export_act::html("/api/export/followers", "followers.csv")\|safe }}</span>
129	130		{% endif %}
130	131		</div>
131	132		<form hx-post="/api/broadcast" hx-target="#broadcast-result" hx-swap="innerHTML"

M server/templates/partials/tabs/user_payments.html +2 -6

A server/src/quasi/blog_delete_act.rs +90

A server/src/quasi/export_act.rs +106