Three independently ugly bugs that all fed the same log flood:
* Electron's `WebFrameMain.send` writes every "Render frame was disposed"
to stderr via `console.error`. When the worker fans a second
agent-event past a reloading renderer, we produced thousands of
identical lines and stalled the main loop on stderr I/O. Added a
`mainFrame.detached` guard so the send is short-circuited before
Electron's own catch block fires, and installed a targeted filter in
`suppress-warnings.ts` (now actually imported from the entry point)
so the specific `console.error("Error sending from webFrameMain:"…)`
noise never reaches the terminal. Any other payload still surfaces.
* `dispatchAgentMessage` accepted the human-reader sentinel as a wake
target when an agent replied to `__board__` — `wakeAgentIfPossible`
then called `db.getAgent("__board__")`, threw, and the dispatcher
kept repeating on every send. Strip `HUMAN_SENDER_ID` at
`resolveMessageWakeTargets`, and keep a defense-in-depth guard in the
heartbeat so a stray caller (future automation fan-out) cannot
reintroduce the crash.
* Pi's skills loader rejects any SKILL.md whose frontmatter `name`
diverges from its parent directory. The four bundled `my-writing-style`
copies declared `name: writing-style-skill`, so every install emitted
a warning and dropped the skill. They also lived as orphan gitlinks
(mode 160000 without .gitmodules), and the global `*.md` gitignore
hid every other SKILL.md from version control. Fixed the frontmatter
to match the dir, converted the dangling submodules to plain trees,
and allowlisted `builtin-skills/**/*.md` so a fresh clone carries the
catalogue instead of silently losing it.
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title, impact, impactDescription, tags
| title | impact | impactDescription | tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avoid Horizontal Alignment | MEDIUM | prevents alignment maintenance burden | fmt, horizontal, alignment, whitespace |
Avoid Horizontal Alignment
Horizontal alignment of variable declarations or assignments looks nice but creates maintenance problems. When one line changes length, all aligned lines need reformatting.
Incorrect (horizontal alignment):
private Socket socket;
private InputStream input;
private OutputStream output;
private Request request;
private Response response;
private FitNesseContext context;
private long requestParsingTimeLimit;
private long requestProgress;
public void setResponse(Response response) { this.response = response; }
public void setSocket(Socket socket) { this.socket = socket; }
public void setContext(FitNesseContext context) { this.context = context; }
Correct (natural formatting):
private Socket socket;
private InputStream input;
private OutputStream output;
private Request request;
private Response response;
private FitNesseContext context;
private long requestParsingTimeLimit;
private long requestProgress;
public void setResponse(Response response) {
this.response = response;
}
public void setSocket(Socket socket) {
this.socket = socket;
}
public void setContext(FitNesseContext context) {
this.context = context;
}
Why avoid alignment?
- Adding a longer variable name requires reformatting all lines
- Eyes are drawn to the wrong thing (the alignment, not the names)
- Most formatters don't preserve it anyway
Reference: Clean Code, Chapter 5: Formatting