Two reports from a fresh install without a cable:
(a) No way to see the WiFi password being typed. Every password field in
the app was a bare type=password input. PasswordRevealInput is the
reusable fix — masked by default, one-tap eye toggle, v-model and
enter pass-through — first applied to the WiFi prompt in ServerModals
so a long key typed from across the room can be verified.
(b) WiFi settings are undiscoverable with no wired internet. New
OnboardingNetworkCallout floats over every onboarding step when the
node has NO physical link at all (no ethernet up, no WiFi associated
— polled from network.list-interfaces, self-dismissing the moment a
link exists) and deep-links 'Connect to WiFi' to
/dashboard/server?open=wifi, which Server.vue consumes by popping the
WiFi picker on arrival. Deliberately scoped the other way too:
Archipelago is offline-first, so 'no internet' never nags — only 'no
link at all', only during onboarding (the wrapper hosts /login too;
the callout is restricted to /onboarding/* routes), and a failed probe
stays silent. The query is consumed via history.replaceState so a
KeepAlive tab-return never re-pops the modal, and Server.vue keeps
reading it from the real URL rather than vue-router — its
KeepAlive-mounted tests have no router context to give.
Verification: full frontend suite 1023/1023; type-check clean; production
build clean with both new strings confirmed in the emitted bundles
(OnboardingWrapper + Server chunks).
fc98c1d8 replaced the five-minute timer with "stays until seen", but
kept "seen" in component state — so every page load forgot it and the
entire ecash history came back as new. That is worse than the timer it
replaced: the old behaviour at least let receipts go, this one resurrected
them on every refresh. Reported from the node, and correctly.
Acknowledgement now lives in localStorage, capped at 300 keys.
That opens the opposite trap: on a browser with nothing stored, treating
the whole history as unseen is the same wall of old receipts from the
other direction. So a first run seeds everything older than five minutes
as already seen — the window survives as a first-run heuristic, not as
an expiry. Unreadable storage takes the same path, because reading a
corrupt value as "nothing acknowledged" is the refresh bug wearing a hat.
Also guards the balance readout against NaN. `sats == null` does not
catch it, and arithmetic over a missing field produces it, so it would
have rendered as the literal text "NaN sats" — worse than the zero the
component exists to prevent, since a zero at least looks like a number.
Frontend: 1000 tests green.
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Seeing it on the node settled the shape. Two rows of per-cell delays
read as a dense flicker — closer to a progress bar than a display, and
short enough against the row's text to look like an underline.
Three rows laid out column-first fixes both: the three cells of a column
now share a delay, so the lit column travels across as a single scan
line, and at 11px the matrix sits with the text rather than under it.
Verified in a real browser against the live node with the balance RPCs
held open: five placeholders, five distinct rail colours (white, orange,
yellow, purple, blue), 42 cells each, all animating, each announcing
what it is waiting for — and no "0 sats" anywhere on screen while the
calls were in flight. They gave way to real figures on arrival, with
Lightning's genuine 0 correctly shown as a figure rather than left
shimmering.
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An unloaded balance rendered as `0`. Zero is not a loading state — it is
a number, and it is the one number that frightens people. Someone
opening the dashboard while the RPCs were still in flight was told, in
the wallet's own typeface, that their money was gone.
There is no formatting fix for that. The fix is to stop claiming a
figure we do not have, so `null` now means "not known yet" and `0` means
"none", and the two are kept apart end to end: the refs start at null,
a rail becomes a number only when its call actually succeeds, and a
snapshot key that was never written stays unknown instead of becoming a
zero.
In place of the figure, a small dot-matrix scans in the rail's own
colour. It inherits currentColor, so on-chain shimmers orange, Lightning
yellow, Cashu purple, Fedimint blue and Ark teal with no colour table to
keep in sync — and it is sized to the figure it stands in for, so
nothing jumps when the real number lands. It carries role="status" and
names what it is waiting for; a shimmering box with no text is nothing
at all to a screen reader.
Two consequences worth stating. The total is withheld until every rail
that makes it up is known — summing nulls as zero would show a total
*lower* than the rails beneath it, which is worse than showing nothing
because it looks authoritative. And the Ark row stays hidden while its
balance is unknown, since "unknown" must not be read as "> 0" on the
many nodes with no Ark sidecar.
The LND app UI had the same bug in a different shape: its tiles start as
an em-dash, but renderBalances() runs on every poll including before the
first response, and `num(null && …)` is 0 — so the dashes were painted
over with "0 sats" almost immediately. Same treatment, in plain CSS.
Also fixes a stale assertion in AppHeroSection's suite, which has been
red since 9ccc325a changed "Restarting..." to a real ellipsis; and two
test proofs that used a plausible-looking hex string for `C`. The V3
codec never parses that field so it went unnoticed, but the V4 encoder
hands it to the reference implementation, which checks the point is
actually on secp256k1. Real curve points now.
Frontend: 996 tests green. Backend: 1436 green.
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