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).

Pull request summary

| # | State | Merged | Title | | --- | ------ | ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 627 | merged | 05-19 | refactor(explore): migrate icons to lucide-react and add @shm/ui dep | | 633 | merged | 05-19 | fix(scripts): check-ts-directives skip generated code and count net | | 634 | merged | 05-19 | chore: ignore Python bytecode caches | | 641 | merged | 05-20 | fix(editor): preserve responsive image widths | | 646 | merged | 05-20 | fix(editor): handle pasted local media in web editors | | 648 | merged | 05-20 | fix(frontend): preserve comment drafts when opening side panel | | 652 | open | — | docs(repo): add contributor orientation guides | | 660 | merged | 05-22 | fix(editor): show drag handle for selected headings | | 661 | merged | 05-22 | fix(frontend): align editor prose and code block behavior | | 663 | merged | 05-22 | fix(frontend): support local web draft placeholder publishes | | 672 | merged | 05-25 | fix(frontend): refresh draft-backed document metadata | | 678 | merged | 05-25 | fix(frontend): keep editor focusable below content | | 679 | merged | 05-26 | fix(frontend): remove draft preview route and actions | | 682 | merged | 05-26 | fix(frontend): avoid deleted comment flash during sync | | 684 | open | — | fix(editor): sync formatting toolbar hides with style popover | | 685 | merged | 05-26 | fix(frontend): keep right panel action inside active tab | | 686 | merged | 05-26 | fix(frontend): report caught push and workflow errors |

15 merged, 2 open (#652 docs, #684 toolbar/popover).

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.