- Removed the whole-app animated scanline overlay entirely — biggest
single contributor to the hazy look.
- text-shadow glow blur cut from 8px to 2px across the board (headers
keep a hint of neon, body text is now crisp).
- hud-panel: solid 0.97-alpha background (was 0.88 + backdrop-blur(10px),
which softened everything behind/inside it), tighter box-shadow.
- Map: dropped the saturate/hue-rotate tile filter (just brightness now),
halved drop-shadow blur radii on markers/links/fields/clusters.
- Bumped low-opacity text (many labels were down at /30-/60 which reads
fine on a mockup but is genuinely hard to read against a busy map) up
to /75-/95 across Login/TeamPick/MapView.
- iconCreateFunction now inspects each cluster's actual child markers
(tracked via a WeakMap<L.Marker, Team> since markercluster only hands
back raw marker instances, not our Place data) and colors the cluster
orange/green if every claim inside belongs to one team, a split
orange/green 'contested' look if both teams have claims inside, cyan
neutral only when nothing in it is claimed. Previously every cluster
looked identical regardless of contents.
- Status panel: 'held since block XXXXXX' — dropped 'in orange'/'in
green', the color already carries that (was redundant).
'held since block XXXXXX in orange/green' instead of just 'held by
orange' — the backend already returned claimed_at_block (routes/places.ts),
it just wasn't wired into the frontend Place type or the status display.
- Sync now pulls every BTC Map place worldwide (~29k live), not just
Madeira — dropped BTCMAP_CENTER_LAT/LON/RADIUS_KM entirely.
- Incremental via a stored watermark (settings.btcmap_synced_since):
only fetches what changed since the last sync, not the whole dataset
every time. Handles deletions too (BTC Map delistings correctly evict
the local place + cascade its claim/links, not just go unclaimed).
- Real bug caught and fixed before it shipped: tried BTC Map's own
recommended updated_since+limit pagination first, but their timestamps
mix millisecond and whole-second precision, and naive string comparison
across that isn't chronologically safe — silently truncated a real
sync to ~4,000 of ~42,000 records with no error. Measured the
alternative (single unpaginated request) instead: 2-3s for the full
dataset, simpler and actually correct. Full writeup in
services/btcmap.ts, regression test for the specific bug in
services/btcmap.test.ts.
- @fastify/compress added — the places list is now tens of thousands of
rows, gzip/br/zstd auto-negotiated.
- Also fixed while touching dependencies: @fastify/static had a real
high-severity path-traversal/auth-bypass advisory (GHSA-pr96-94w5-mx2h
et al) affecting the version we were pinned to — bumped to the patched
10.1.2.
- Frontend: leaflet.markercluster (raw per-marker rendering doesn't scale
to tens of thousands of points), cyberpunk-themed cluster icons to
match the existing HUD styling, batch marker insertion (addLayers, not
a per-marker addLayer loop) since that's dramatically faster at this
scale. Default map view is now world-scale, recentering on the
player's location if geolocation is available.
- 60 backend tests passing throughout (7 new for the sync rewrite).
- MAX_LINK_DISTANCE_KM (default 500): flat cap on link length. Real
Ingress scales this off portal/resonator level (up to ~655km); Regress
has no leveling system to scale off of, so this is a single ceiling.
- PORTAL_TIMEOUT_BLOCKS (default 2100): claims stamp the current Bitcoin
block height (claimed_at_block, new migration) and expire back to
neutral after this many blocks — the game's clock is block height, not
wall-clock. Current height comes from mempool.space (BlockHeightService,
60s cache), same trust model as the BTC Map dependency. A background
sweep actively reverts timed-out claims (tearing down their links, same
as a normal recapture); claim/link routes also check inline so
correctness doesn't depend on sweep timing between runs.
- Pre-existing claims (already live in production) get backfilled with
the real current block height once at startup rather than a guessed
historical value — dry-run verified against an actual copy of the live
production database before deploying.
- Score now reports link count per team alongside places/fields/area
(backend already computed this; only the frontend display was missing).
22 new tests (53 total): pure expiry-logic unit tests plus full
claim/link/sweep integration tests using a network-free fake block-height
provider (BlockHeightProvider interface + FakeBlockHeight test double).
Dark CARTO basemap (was default bright OSM tiles), Orbitron/Share Tech
Mono fonts, neon cyan/magenta HUD chrome with glassmorphism panels,
glowing divIcon portal markers (pulsing when claimed) replacing plain
circle dots, neon drop-shadow filters on links/fields, and a subtle
scanline overlay. Login and team-pick screens restyled to match.
- Server: NIP-98 nostr auth (session cookies), BTC Map sync, claim/link/field
routes, physical-presence checks via geolocation distance. 31 tests passing.
- Frontend: Leaflet map, team pick, claim/link UI, Archipelago identity
bridge vendored (nostr-provider.js) for dashboard launch support.
- Verified end-to-end against the live BTC Map API (167 real Madeira places)
and via genuine NIP-98-signed HTTP requests against the built app.
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