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Merchandise. Shirts, mugs and deskmats, sold through the same hosted
checkout. Physical goods differ from cosmetics in three ways the schema had
to carry: they have a size to choose, they need an address, and payment
unlocks nothing. What a paid order produces is an obligation to pack and post
something.
The address is collected by Stripe on its own page and arrives here on the
webhook, so no postal detail is ever entered on this site. Postage is a
separate line item rather than folded into the price. A size is checked
against the sizes the item actually comes in, on the server as well as in the
browser, so a request naming anything else is refused rather than quietly
posted as a medium.
/api/admin/orders lists what has been paid for and not yet sent, and the
Contribute screen shows an administrator the same list with the address and a
button to mark each one posted. Without that the list of what is owed lives
only in the processor's dashboard. Shipping is limited to 21 countries, which
is a list of places somebody is willing to post to, not a technical limit.
The race view. The sprite sat still at the left of a 6px bar, which made the
one thing a player owns and can see the least visible part of the race. It
rides the track now, moving with progress, on a dashed line that reads as
road ahead with the trail behind it. The field is 1040px wide rather than
680, the sprites are 30px rather than 18, and each row carries its own
percentage as well as its speed.
Advertising. Two 160x600 rails in the page margins, shown only above 1424px,
which is the width at which they fit beside the widest content column without
crowding it. Below that they do not exist. They follow the same rules as the
banner: never while typing, never for a supporter.
--border-color was used in five places and defined in none. An undefined
custom property invalidates the whole declaration at computed-value time, so
every one of those borders fell back to currentColor: bundle cards, merch
cards, the size buttons and the settings checkbox all had borders that were
either invisible or faint text-coloured lines. It is defined now, derived
from each theme's neutral so it tracks the palette.
.settings-hint caps itself at 340px, which is right under a heading and wrong
for a line introducing a full-width grid.
Verified against a real database: the catalogue endpoint, a shirt refused
without a size, a shirt refused with a size it does not come in, a valid size
and a no-variant mug both reaching checkout, 404 on an unknown item, 401
unauthenticated, and 401 on the admin orders list without the role.
24 Rust tests, 3 browser tests, and all 21 screen and viewport combinations
clean.
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The store had 26 items, a price on each and a working equip flow, but the
purchase endpoint granted ownership without taking any money. Anyone signed
in could take the whole catalogue for nothing. That endpoint is now gone.
Payment goes through Stripe Checkout, which is hosted by Stripe. The buyer is
redirected there and comes back, so no card details reach this server and it
stays outside PCI scope.
Three rules hold the money path together:
- The price comes from the server's own catalogue row. The client sends an
item id and never an amount.
- Nothing is granted at checkout. The item appears only when a webhook
arrives with a valid HMAC-SHA256 signature, checked in constant time
against a 5 minute timestamp window.
- Fulfilment keys off the processor's session id, which is UNIQUE, so a
webhook delivered twice cannot grant the same item twice.
Prices now vary by item. Every caret cost the same as every other because
they are the same thing in a different colour, which left nothing to save
for. Carets run 149 to 349, flair 129 to 299, and sprites 249 to 399, since a
sprite is the one cosmetic every other racer sees.
Four bundles sit above the catalogue, each priced below the sum of its parts:
Starter Kit, Neon Set, Racer Set and The Lot. The saving is computed from the
current item prices rather than asserted, so it cannot drift. The Lot is
defined as every cosmetic rather than a fixed list, so it stays complete as
items are added.
Three bugs found while wiring this up:
- Sprites never showed as equipped. The store compared the equipped caret and
flair but not the sprite.
- Supporter status was a stored boolean that was set on payment and never
cleared, so a 30 day subscription lasted forever. Both read paths now
derive it from the expiry.
- sqlx::migrate! reads the migrations directory at compile time, but cargo
watches source files only. Adding a migration did not trigger a rebuild, so
the binary shipped the old migration set and the schema change never ran.
A build.rs now declares the dependency.
Verified against a real database: bundle maths, the grant statement and its
replay, 401 unauthenticated, 404 on unknown ids, 501 with no Stripe keys, and
both already-owned refusals.
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Design tokens
- The stylesheet had five corner radii in use with no rule for which applied
where, so a button was square while the input beside it was rounded and the
icon button next to that was something else again. Two tokens now: --radius
for controls, --radius-panel for the surfaces they sit on.
- One border weight. Buttons were 2px and inputs 1px, which made a field and
its own button read as different weights of the same idea. The two start
buttons keep 2px, where it is doing work.
- Letter-spacing was 1px, 2px, 3px and 4px with no rule behind it. Now 1px
for small caps labels and 2px for button text.
- Removed the .ghost modifier. After the hierarchy pass it rendered
identically to .quiet, so the two were one control under two names. Its
uses were toggles, which .quiet plus .active already expresses.
Racer sprites
- Six sprites in the same angular language as the rest of the icon set, one
per racer in the lobby and the race. A race reads as characters moving
rather than as coloured lines with names attached. Assigned from the
server's player order, so every client draws the same person as the same
character without needing to agree on anything.
Store
- Six items to twenty-six, across three slots. Race sprites join carets and
flair as a third slot, with the equipped sprite stored per user. Nothing is
required to race: an unequipped player keeps the sprite their position in
the room assigns.
Advertising space
- Reserved, empty, and loading nothing. The slot exists so that adding a
network later cannot push the page around when the tag loads. Shown to
signed-out visitors and to accounts without the supporter flag, on the end
screen only: interrupting somebody mid-test is the one placement that would
cost more than it earns.
- No ad code is included, and none can be added without three deliberate
changes recorded in adSlot.js: the CSP forbids third-party script, frame
and image sources; the privacy page states there is no advertising and no
third-party script; and an ad network brings consent requirements that this
app has no mechanism for. Verified after this change that the only external
request the page makes is still fonts.googleapis.com.
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Dependencies
- The server build carried 37 known advisories, including RUSTSEC-2024-0363
in sqlx 0.7, which is the database layer. sqlx moved to 0.8 with
default-features off, which also drops the MySQL and SQLite drivers and
with them rsa and RUSTSEC-2023-0071. reqwest moved to 0.12, which brings
hyper 1.x and was the sole source of every remaining advisory: h2 0.3,
rustls-webpki 0.101, rustls-pemfile 1.0 and idna 0.3.
- The server build now reports no known vulnerabilities against OSV. cargo
audit itself would not compile, so the check queries OSV with the crate
versions cargo tree reports for the server binary.
- Cargo.lock is committed. This workspace produces binaries, so the lockfile
is what makes a deployed build reproducible and the audit above meaningful.
Headers
- The application sent no security headers at all. The static server now
sends a Content-Security-Policy, nosniff, frame options, a referrer policy
and a permissions policy; the API sends a policy of its own, since it
serves JSON and should load and frame nothing.
- The one inline script in index.html moved to a file so script-src needs no
unsafe-inline. WebAssembly needs wasm-unsafe-eval, without which nothing
types at all, so that is present and explained.
- Five style attributes moved to the CSSOM rather than adding unsafe-inline
for styles. A style attribute in markup is refused by the policy; the same
property set through element.style is not.
Production configuration
- With TYPERPUNK_ENV=production the server refuses to start if COOKIE_SECURE
is off, if DATABASE_URL is still the development default, or if
FRONTEND_ORIGIN is http on a non-local host. These were warnings, and a
warning in a log nobody reads is not a safeguard.
Administration
- Moderators were appointed with psql. There is now an admin role,
bootstrapped from TYPERPUNK_ADMIN_USERNAME at startup, and a UI to appoint
and remove moderators. An administrator's own role cannot be changed
through the API, so a mistake cannot lock everyone out of moderation.
Corpus
- scripts/export_approved.js writes approved submissions back into
data/packs/community-*.json. Approved passages are served from the database
and merged at startup, so without this the repository dataset and the live
corpus drift apart, and a fresh checkout or the TUI sees only what shipped.
Documentation
- README rewritten for the repository: what it does, how to run it, the pack
format, the server variables, deployment, and what the security posture
actually is. Plain English, no em dashes, no emoji.
Checked and found already correct: every private endpoint refuses anonymous
callers, session cookies are HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax, CORS names a single
origin, internal errors are logged rather than returned, and every query is
parameterised.
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Submissions
- POST /api/texts proposes a passage; nothing reaches players until a
moderator approves it. GET /api/texts serves the approved set, which the
client merges on top of its bundled packs at startup.
- Validation the server enforces rather than trusts: category from a fixed
list, 40 to 600 characters, no control characters (a newline makes a
passage untypeable in a single-line input), attribution length, and a
unique index on md5(lower(btrim(content))) so the same passage cannot be
submitted twice under different whitespace or casing.
- Moderation is a flag on users. The queue and the review endpoint both
refuse a non-moderator, and reviewing an already-reviewed submission is a
404 rather than a silent second write.
- Submissions are rate limited per user: enough for a real contributor, not
enough to fill the queue from a script.
- A Contribute screen carries the form, your own submissions with their
status, and - for moderators only - the review queue.
This is the half of TypeRacer's model the packs could not reach by authoring:
their corpus is roughly twelve thousand passages, grown by submission.
Custom text as a study tool
- Imported documents are kept between visits, with how far through each one
you are. Custom text lived only in memory, so importing a set of notes and
reloading the page lost them - fine for pasting a paragraph to race,
useless for working through a file over several sittings.
- Position is recorded when a segment is finished, not when the next is
started, so closing the tab after a segment does not lose it.
- Markdown is chunked as markdown: fenced code blocks are kept whole and
typed line by line, and the decoration - hashes, asterisks, backticks,
link brackets, table pipes - is stripped so what you retype is the
material rather than the punctuation around it.
- Everything stays on the device. Notes are not uploaded anywhere.
Fixed while doing it: a chunk could contain a newline, which cannot be typed
in a single-line input at all. Any paragraph with a line break inside it --
ordinary in notes and in wrapped prose - produced an unfinishable segment.
Whitespace inside a chunk is now flattened.
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PostgreSQL
- sqlx switched from the sqlite feature to postgres; the server now runs on
Postgres 18 and the SQLite file is gone.
- 95 placeholders renumbered from ? to $N.
- REAL widened to DOUBLE PRECISION: Postgres REAL is float4 and will not
decode into the f64 the code reads.
- flagged and is_bot are real BOOLEANs rather than 0/1 integers, with the
decode side reading bool.
- The leaderboard's derived table gained the alias Postgres requires, its
flag comparisons became boolean predicates, and INSERT OR IGNORE became
ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING.
- u32 binds cast to i64; Postgres has no unsigned integer types.
- Integration tests run against a real database - Postgres has no in-memory
mode - each in a throwaway schema, with search_path set per connection
because it is session state and the pool opens more than one.
- Timestamps stay TEXT for now and LISTEN/NOTIFY is still unused; both are
recorded in TODO-postgres.md rather than left implied.
Custom text and lyrics, checked rather than assumed
- Custom files never reach the server: they are read in the browser through
the File API, so there is no upload, no path handling and no remote file
inclusion to have. Verified by driving a hostile file - markup in the body
and in the filename - all the way onto the typing screen: it renders as
literal characters, no nodes are created, nothing executes, and the
filename is escaped in the attribution too.
- That test found a real regression: picking Custom from the new mode picker
selected it without ever starting it, so the mode was unstartable.
- /api/lyrics fixes its upstream host, so it cannot be pointed elsewhere, but
it was an unbounded relay: now rate limited per IP, with length caps on
artist and track and a ceiling on the response body it will read.
Hacking mode
- 22 single-line drills across recon, web, memory safety, exploit
development, crypto, post-exploitation and defence, each syntax
highlighted and each explaining what the line actually does.
All 19 modes verified to start, render and be typable.
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Naming
- "Typing Test" removed from the browser tab, the crate description and the
READMEs. The scope outgrew it: solo practice, live races, code drills and
adaptive weak-key training.
Content
- Movies was prose *about* film, not film quotes - the same mistake the
programming pack had. Replaced with 28 attributed lines. New anime pack,
28 lines across 24 series.
- This follows the model TypeRacer states outright ("type quotes from popular
music, songs, anime, comic books and more"): short excerpts attributed to
the work they came from. The scalable half of their approach is user
submission with moderation, which is a feature this does not have yet.
Leaderboard
- An empty board tells a new player nobody is here. Bots now race the eight
fixed-length leaderboard modes, seeded with a fortnight of backdated results
on first run and one new result every 90 seconds after.
- They are ordinary users carrying is_bot, returned by the same query and
labelled "bot" in the UI. Seeding a board is reasonable; passing synthetic
scores off as human results is not, so the flag travels with the row.
- Seeding is checked per mode. A single result from the live ticker used to
satisfy an "any bot results" guard and leave every other mode empty forever.
Stats
- The per-key accuracy data Practice mode is built on was computed, used to
generate text, and never shown. The screen now ranks your weakest keys with
the error rate and pause length behind each one.
- Added recent form against your lifetime average, best accuracy, and tests
this week.
Multiplayer standings
- Now place, racer, WPM, accuracy and time, with column labels - the columns
TypeRacer and 10FastFingers both show.
Site furniture
- Share (Web Share where available, clipboard otherwise - no third-party
button, no tracking script), a GitHub link, and a real privacy page written
from what the code actually stores rather than from a template.
Button hierarchy
- Everything was an outlined box of roughly equal weight, so a screen's one
real action, a settings toggle and a filter chip looked alike. Three tiers
now: primary (filled, one per screen), default (outlined), quiet (toggles
and filters, bordered only when hovered or active).
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End screen
- Every figure is now a dim label directly over its value, the two centred on
each other, grouped by what they qualify: RAW and PB under WPM, ERR and
CONSISTENCY under ACC, KEYSTROKES and CHARACTERS either side of TIME. The
row is a grid so TIME sits on the graph's exact centre line rather than
drifting with its neighbours' widths.
- Errors go back onto the wpm line. Their own y axis implied a magnitude a
mistake does not have; what matters is when one happened.
- Graph hover reads "wpm ... raw ... time" - the figures first, the second
they happened in as the qualifier.
Mode picker
- Opens from the Single Player button itself, and choosing a mode starts it:
picking what to type and starting it are one action. The control has now
been a chevron notched into that button, a caption between the two buttons,
a pill above them and a chip row below them; as the button's own menu it
needs no separate real estate at all.
Corners
- Settings and Store move to the bottom-left. The top-left is the wordmark's
alone.
- The global racer count is gone from the home screen - it is not something
you can act on there. The Friends control carries "N online" instead, which
is.
- Presence: users gain a last_seen column, touched at most once a minute per
active user on any authenticated request, and the friends list reports who
has been seen inside a five-minute window.
Multiplayer race view
- The standings move to the middle of the screen, the space the end screen's
graph occupies, and now include your own row rather than opponents only.
Pinned to the top-left corner they put what you are racing against in your
peripheral vision and left out the one bar you most need to see.
Programming mode
- Snippets carry an explanation of what the code does. Shown under the passage
while you type in single player; in multiplayer that space belongs to the
standings, so it waits for the end screen, where it appears either way.
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Multiplayer
- Quick match: POST /api/multiplayer/quickmatch returns whichever room is
still filling, or opens one. Players never see a room code; joining by
code stays for racing specific people.
- Bots fill quick-match rooms after a short wait so a new game is never an
empty lobby. They only ever join quick-match rooms, never a room opened
by code. One or two per room, drawn from separate ~40 and ~80 WPM tiers so
two bots are never near each other's pace, and they stall to correct
mistakes rather than typing a clean straight line.
- Live player count via GET /api/multiplayer/online, shown on the
Multiplayer control and under the main menu's Multiplayer button.
- Per-racer colours: you are the theme accent, opponents take distinct hues
that stay the same from lobby to race.
- The countdown no longer holds the room lock for its full three seconds,
which is what reset clients mid-countdown.
Typing languages
- 16 languages for the generated-word modes, each with its own
high-frequency vocabulary rather than a translation of the English list.
- Picker in the top-right rail; non-English uses its own list at every
difficulty tier instead of falling back to English words.
Fix UTF-8 accuracy in the game core
- update_game_state mixed byte and character counts: total_characters_typed
accumulated byte-length deltas while total_correct_characters compared a
char index against that byte count. Equal on ASCII, so it went unnoticed;
a correctly typed Spanish passage scored 6%. The old byte slicing would
also have panicked if an index landed inside a multi-byte character.
Rewritten char-based, with regression tests.
Programming mode
- Replaced prose about programming with real code: 26 syntax-highlighted
snippets across JavaScript, Python, Rust, C/Go/Java and shell. Single-line
by necessity, since the typing input is a single-line field.
Layout and readability
- One icon rail arrangement on every screen: Settings/Store under the
wordmark, Language/Theme/Friends/Account top-right, Stats/Leaderboard/
Multiplayer bottom-right.
- Main menu: mode picker moved out of the Single Player button, which it was
notching a divider through and pushing the label off-centre.
- Escape returns to the menu, closing any open popover first, and confirms
before abandoning a live race.
- Split --text-color and --sub-color per theme; they shared one value that
measured 3.65:1 against the background, below the 4.5:1 body-text floor.
- Semantic colours used in exactly one place each: gold for a personal best,
amber for the race countdown and the mobile-result badge.
- Passage now sits in the same place on the typing and end screens, and its
column is a whole number of characters wide so wrapping cannot leave a
permanent gap on the right.
- End screen: keystrokes and a correct/wrong/extra/missed split, attribution
carried over from the typing screen, and a graph with a separate error
axis, axis titles including seconds, and smoothed lines.
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