Entering the editor could stack two overlays: the starter-template
dialog opened on mount, then four seconds later the "What's new" modal
landed on top of it. Two dimmed backdrops over each other, and the
smaller, *less* important surface in front — the z-indexes said it
outright, news 10000 against the starter's 9000.
The delay made it worse rather than gentler. Arriving after the user has
started reading the templates is the most disruptive moment available;
appearing instantly would at least have let them clear it before
engaging.
The rule this restores: a modal is for what BLOCKS, and an announcement
never blocks. News now slides into the corner as a toast that dims
nothing, steals no focus (role="status", polite), and retires by itself.
The full post is one click behind "Read more" — a modal the user asked
for is a categorically different thing from one thrown at them — and
stays reachable from Help ▸ What's new once the toast is gone.
Worth noting the audience argument too: the starter dialog only fires on
a PRISTINE visit, i.e. for someone brand new, and "what's new" is
meaningless without a baseline to compare against. Returning users, the
ones it is actually written for, arrive with a project loaded and never
saw the collision.
Renamed NewsModal → NewsAnnouncer: it is not a modal by default any more,
and leaving the old name would have mislead the next reader.
Strings are new keys under `news.*`, filled in for all nine locales — the
previous modal had "What's new" and "Got it" hardcoded in English.
Toast sits at z-index 8000, deliberately BELOW the starter dialog, so if
the two ever coincide again the blocking task keeps the foreground.
A modal over a pristine /editor dims an interface that is empty anyway
and offers a Cancel whose only destination is a dead workspace. The
picker now takes over the content area (StarterScreen): no veil, no
Cancel, the grid gets the room the 840px dialog never had, and the
examples gallery link is the secondary path out. The modal stays for
"New workspace" over existing work, where the replace-everything
warning and Cancel mean something — both shells share one card grid.
The details that make the takeover behave like a page: it sits at
z-index 90 (above the canvas' floating zoom pill, below the header's
stacking context so the menu dropdowns stay clickable; the fixed
account corner box is render-gated instead), the panes underneath are
inert while it is up, focus lands on the heading on mount and parks on
the workspace container on dismissal, and any path that fills the
workspace meanwhile — the File-menu modal, Open project…, a dropped
.vlx — dismisses it rather than letting its cards silently wipe the
loaded work. Full editor.newProject i18n for all nine locales (German
in Sie-form), heading outline h1→h2 / h3→h4, token focus ring, and
reduced-motion respected.
The account options that only lived in the bottom-left user button
(subscription, licenses, simulation history, replays, privacy) are now
reachable from the header too: a new Account menu hosts the pro items via
the SAME data-velxio-slot="user-menu" the corner dropdown uses — one
overlay renderer, two hosts, empty in OSS builds. Language moves from its
own top-level trigger into a section of that menu, so the menubar stays at
five triggers and frees header room for when the AI chat docks.
New NewProjectDialog: a bare /editor visit (and the New workspace button)
offers a blank workspace or a ready-to-run Blink starter per board family
instead of silently dropping the user into the hardcoded Uno + LED starter.
Boards with a gallery Blink example load it fully wired; the rest get a
fresh board with the on-board-LED sketch. Pro-gated boards carry the PRO
pill and go through the boardGateDecision seam. Shows once per page load;
en/es strings (the other locales fall back to English for now).
The word "Buy" on a solid button read as an ad inside a work dialog. The
link is really a pointer to the part's product page, so it now says that —
localized in all nine languages — with an external-link icon instead of a
shopping cart. Same URL, same placement, in both the part inspector and the
picker hover card.
The part inspector (right-click dialog) now lists the gallery examples that
use the part at the bottom of the Properties tab — matched by metadata id
against boardType/boardFilter/boards[].boardKind/components[].type, so it
works for components and boards alike, including overlay-registered ones
(re-derived via the pro-examples version subscription). Each link opens the
live editor (/example/:id) in a new tab. i18n key in all 9 locales.
The /examples board filter combo was a fixed list, so examples for
runtime-registered boards (XIAO, M5Stack, Raspberry Pi, ...) were reachable
only under "All". The gallery now appends a tab per board kind found in the
registered examples, labelled from BOARD_KIND_LABELS.
Three things from using it:
- The pin map is why the dialog gets opened, so hiding it behind a checkbox
meant every visit started with a click. Pins are always drawn now and the
toggle is gone (with its translation key).
- The dialog sat at z-index 1300 and the pro agent chat panel docks over the
canvas at 8000, so on a wide layout the dialog opened UNDERNEATH the chat -
invisible, on the very area the chat covers. It now sits at 8500: above the
chat, still below the component picker.
- On a 32-pin board a name in the gutter could not be matched to a pad by
eye. Hovering (or focusing) either the label or the dot now lights the
whole run - label, leader line and pad together.
Right-clicking a board opened a small bespoke menu (Board Options... / Flash
to real board / Remove board) with its styling inline, while components got
the inspector. Boards now open the SAME dialog: the live board art with every
pin labelled at its real position, and an actions column that carries Board
Options and Flash instead of Rotate (boards do not rotate), with the delete
button reading "Remove board" and the wire count moved into the confirmation.
The dialog grew four optional props to make that possible without a second
implementation: extraActions, deleteLabel/deleteHint, and
previewTagName/previewAttributes - boards select their art through a
board-kind ATTRIBUTE rather than a property, so the preview needs to set it.
Also adds the boardOptions and flashToBoard strings to the nine locales: the
old menu hardcoded them in English, so those two items never translated.
205 lines of inline-styled menu are gone.
The right-click dialog was a 250px column: every pin as a text row (an ESP32
means 30 rows of scrolling), a few editors, Rotate/Delete. The picker's info
card (datasheet, brand, Buy) was a separate surface you could only reach by
hovering the catalogue. One dialog now serves both:
- ~560px, two panes: live preview + actions on the left, Properties/Datasheet
tabs on the right. The Datasheet tab IS the picker card's body -
ComponentInfoPanel was split into an embeddable ComponentInfoBody (+
useComponentDoc, and its .cip-* styles moved to their own stylesheet) so
both surfaces render one implementation.
- "Show pins" (off by default): the preview is the REAL web component,
mounted and scaled, with pin markers at their true pinInfo positions and
labels flanking the side each pin lives on. pinInspectorLayout is pure
geometry - nearest-edge classification, per-side label stacking with a
minimum spacing and leader lines when nudged, interior pins as
dot+tooltip - driven only by pinInfo plus the measured element size, so
every part and board, present or future, works with no per-part data.
Dots are tinted by the pin's declared signal (i2c/spi/power/...).
- Clicking a pin keeps the old contract (onPinSelect -> handlePinClick), so
wires start with the same undo, colors and running-state gating.
- The two open gestures finally agree on coordinates: right-click always
passed viewport coords while touch passed canvas-local ones; the dialog is
now portaled to body in viewport space and the touch site converts.
- Keybind capture, the SD Card panel, the two-step delete, Escape and
click-outside all migrate unchanged. Mobile keeps the full-sheet layout.
Geometry covered by pin-inspector-layout.test.ts with coordinate tables
copied verbatim from the shipped parts (ESP32 two-column board, LED, an
interior-pin case).
The common namespace was assembled with a shallow spread, so any
top-level section present in two locale files had the later file clobber
the earlier one WHOLESALE. Two live casualties:
- header: adding header.shareProject to common2 (yesterday's raw-string
cleanup) erased common.json's whole header — header.auth.* and
header.nav.* — so the account menu rendered "header.auth.signOut" as
its label. My regression, caught verifying the account-menu fixes.
- editor.share.*: common2's editor section has been clobbering
common.json's since forever — the Share modal's seven visibility
labels were silently lost in every locale. Pre-existing.
Locale files merge by key now (deepMerge, both the synchronous en init
and the dynamic per-locale loader), which ends the failure class instead
of the instance; shareProject also moves to common.json's header where
it belonged. Verified: all header.auth/nav and editor.share leaves
resolve again in all nine locales.
The bottom-left block read wrong: a globe crowding the account button for
no gain — language already lives in the menubar's Language menu for
everyone, and (for signed-in users) inside the account menu. The footer
now holds only the account button.
Width-aware, as requested: when the explorer is dragged narrow (footer
under 150px, via container query) the username hides and the avatar
alone identifies the account; with the explorer collapsed, the floating
fallback box shows just the circle.
Adds the OSS half of the crash fix: LocaleSync listens for
'velxio-locale-switch' window events and performs the locale change as a
normal SPA navigation. The pro account menu is injected into its own
React root OUTSIDE the Router, so it cannot navigate itself — its
language rows dispatch this event instead.
The explorer toggle tooltips (Hide/Show file explorer) and the header's
Share-project title were raw English — now keyed and translated in all
nine locales, same common2.json home as the menubar strings.
Every menu we added lived on t() English fallbacks — the keys did not
exist in ANY locale file, so a Spanish or Chinese user got an English
menubar. 29 keys (editor.menu.* + the toolbar labels the File menu
reuses) now exist in en/es/pt-br/it/fr/zh-cn/de/ja/ru.
Two entries needed their own leaf keys: editor.toolbar.compile and .run
are nested OBJECTS (title/options/... sub-keys), so t() on them cannot
resolve to a string — the menu now uses editor.menu.compile / .run,
which also avoids double shortcuts ("Compile (Ctrl+B)" plus the menu's
own Ctrl+B column).
Verified mechanically: all 38 keys the menubar references resolve to
strings in all nine locales.
Any pushbutton (pushbutton / pushbutton-6mm) can now be driven from the
keyboard. Assign a key from the component property dialog — a keycap
control captures the next keypress (Escape cancels, modifiers alone are
rejected) — and a keycap badge next to the component label shows the
mapping on the canvas. Several buttons may share one key on purpose;
the dialog shows a hint when that happens.
At runtime a global bridge translates keydown/keyup into the same
button-press / button-release DOM events the mouse fires on the wokwi
element, so every simulation path (avr8js pin logic, SPICE-driven
inputs, the QEMU GPIO bridge, the pressed visual) behaves identically
to a mouse click. Guards: ignored while typing in inputs or the code
editor, ignored with Ctrl/Alt/Meta held, auto-repeat collapses into one
long press, and window blur releases everything so no button sticks
after Alt-Tab.
The binding is stored as the component's 'key' property, so it
round-trips through project saves and .vlx exports and is undoable like
any other property edit. Strings added to all 9 locales.
Convert the remaining window.confirm() call sites to the in-app
MessageDialogHost, extended with a new confirm mode (Cancel + Confirm
buttons, optional danger styling) via showConfirmDialog().
Sites converted:
- New workspace (EditorPage)
- Load project / delete file (FileExplorer)
- Overwrite SPIFFS file (BoardOptionsModal)
- Delete VFS node (VirtualFileSystem)
All dialog strings are internationalized across the 9 supported locales
(en, es, pt-br, it, fr, zh-cn, de, ja, ru); the two previously
English-only modals now pull from i18n too.
In a multi-board project the wired boards are one system, so running just
the active board almost never matches intent (a cross-wired UART pair only
comes alive when both run). The primary Run button now runs ALL boards when
there is more than one, with a split caret-menu to still run only the active
board. Single-board and board-less behaviour is unchanged, and the separate
Run-All double-triangle button is kept only for board+chip / chips-only
projects where the primary Run is not already a run-all.
- boot_images manifest: bump arm64 rootfs (gpiozero/colorzero baked in,
hostname applied at boot, reworded MOTD)
- RaspberryPi3Bridge: onBooted shell-ready detector + sendAndWaitForPrompt
flow control (resets on disconnect)
- RaspberryPiWorkspace: distinct Booting overlay + piBooted-driven status,
inline SVG icons replacing emoji glyphs
- SerialMonitor: strip CSI/DSR escapes so the dumb console no longer shows
a literal [6n next to the prompt
- VirtualFileSystem: upload auto-starts the Pi and waits for the shell, then
flow-controls each command (no more dropped lines on large files)
- i18n: bootingTitle/bootingNote + reworded offlineNote2 across 9 locales
The star banner used a single localStorage flag (velxio_star_prompted)
set identically whether the user clicked through to the repo or just
closed it, so once dismissed it never showed again and clickers and
closers were indistinguishable.
Now track three flags:
velxio_star_prompted - dismissed the first ask
velxio_star_prompted_v2 - dismissed the follow-up (stop forever)
velxio_star_clicked - clicked through to the repo (stop forever)
Anyone who dismissed the first ask without clicking through gets ONE
follow-up (round 2) with a stronger message; clicking the repo link at
any time opts them out permanently. Capped at two asks total.
Adds starBanner.title2/body2 copy in all 9 locales.
Every non-English page fell back to English when loaded directly (deep link,
refresh, SEO-indexed URL). Two causes:
1. index.ts seeded lng with the URL locale at init, but only the English
bundle is inlined. LocaleSync only fetches a locale bundle when
i18n.language !== target, which was already false on a direct non-default
load, so the bundle was never loaded. Init at DEFAULT_LOCALE and let
LocaleSync drive the locale from the URL (a real changeLanguage that
re-renders).
2. The region-coded locales (zh-cn, pt-br) never resolved their own bundle:
i18next's default code formatting rewrote them to zh-CN / pt-BR, which
failed the lowercase supportedLngs check and were dropped from the resolve
hierarchy. Add lowerCaseLng: true.
Verified in a production build: /zh-cn/* and /pt-br/* render translated;
toResolveHierarchy now returns ['zh-cn','en'] / ['pt-br','en'].
quotaModal.* (10), editor.share.updateFailed + visibility labels/hints (7),
editor.toolbar.exportBom + exportScreenshot (2) were present in en but absent
in de/fr/it/ja/ru. es/pt-br/zh-cn were already complete. Translated via
DeepSeek; interpolation tokens and JSON shape preserved, existing values
untouched.
Landing pricing card copy updated across all 9 locales: free was advertised
as '100 daily AI credits (up to 1,500/month)'; lowered to 20/day, 600/month
to match the backend quota (see velxio-prod quota.py).
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The board roster grew to 30+ (8 STM32 variants + Raspberry Pi 3/4/5), so
the home pricing cards and SEO FAQ were stale at '19 boards'.
- Home pricing (9 locales): free bullet '19 boards' -> '30+ boards';
the Maker bullet that just repeated the board count now states the real
paid differentiator — unlimited ESP32 / STM32 / Raspberry Pi simulation
time (free is time-capped on these server-side QEMU boards).
- SEO FAQ: roster updated to 30+ boards across 6 CPU architectures,
adding ARM Cortex-M (STM32) and Raspberry Pi 3/4/5.
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Search-engine indexing of public projects
- Update robots.txt to also list /sitemap-projects.xml so Googlebot /
Bingbot discover every public project's canonical /:username/:slug URL.
- Add /docs/github-sync + /classroom entries to seoRoutes.ts so the
build-time sitemap.xml picks them up.
Navigation polish
- AppHeader gains a "For schools" link between Pricing and Download.
- LandingPage's pricing section gets a slim banner under the cards
pointing institutional visitors to /classroom (visible discovery path,
not just a footer link).
- Localised header.nav.classroom + landing.pricing.classroomBanner +
landing.pricing.classroomCta across all 9 maintained locales (en/es/
pt-br/fr/de/it/ja/ru/zh-cn).
Community examples
- New CommunityProjectsGrid component lives next to ExamplesGallery on
/examples. Fetches /api/projects/featured (Pro-overlay-only endpoint)
and renders the top public projects ranked by run_count. Quietly
hides itself when the endpoint returns nothing or fails, so the OSS
build still ships cleanly.
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The home page's pricing section was still showing the dropped Phase 0
shape (Free / Pro $15 / Pro Max $35) instead of what /pricing and the
billing backend actually serve (Free / Maker $7 / Pro $19).
- Replace the middle card from "Pro $15" → "Maker $7" (CTA "Start
Maker") + the right card from "Pro Max $35" → "Pro $19" (CTA
"Subscribe to Pro"). "Most popular" badge moves to the now-Pro
card (still the upsell sweet spot).
- i18n keys renamed in lockstep: tiers.pro → tiers.maker, tiers.pro_max
→ tiers.pro. Updated in all 9 locales (en/es/pt-br/fr/de/it/ja/ru/
zh-cn) with translated copy that mentions the actually-shipped Pro
perks (private projects, GitHub Sync, BOM CSV, schematic PNG,
watermark-free embed). The Spanish line about "Maker" is left as
the loanword so it stays consistent with /pricing.
No backend changes — quota.py PLANS was already correct.
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Phase 1 D1.4 — replaces the binary public/private toggle in ShareModal
with three radio-button-styled options. Optimistic UI: every option
renders for every user; the backend's 403 (with structured
visibility_not_allowed detail) redirects to /pricing?from=visibility_X
so the pricing page can lead the right pitch.
Why optimistic-then-redirect instead of hiding/locking options:
1. Discovery — Free / Maker users SEE Pro unlocks Private. That's the
exact conversion signal the pricing page is trying to surface.
2. Discovery without surprise — the locked click goes to /pricing
with a hint, not a dead modal.
3. Less plan-coupling — this upstream component doesn't need to know
about the pro overlay's plan store. Backend is the only source of
truth for what's allowed.
Touched:
- ShareModal.tsx: full rewrite as a 3-option picker with badges
(Maker / Pro) on the gated options.
- projectService.ts: ProjectResponse / ProjectSaveData now declare
`visibility?: 'public' | 'unlisted' | 'private'`. is_public stays
declared for backward compat with old callers.
- useProjectStore.ts: CurrentProject gains `visibility?`; setVisibility
accepts EITHER the legacy boolean OR the new enum and keeps both
fields coherent.
- common.json (4 locales): new editor.share.visibility.{publicLabel,
publicHint, unlistedLabel, unlistedHint, privateLabel, privateHint}
+ editor.share.updateFailed.
Backend gating + DB migration are in the velxio-prod pro overlay
(commit referencing this submodule pointer).
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Front-end half of the schematic image export. New camera-icon button in
the editor toolbar between BOM and Upload-Firmware. Handler:
1. POSTs to /api/pro/projects/{id}/screenshot.png (server renders the
canvas with headless chromium, returns a PNG).
2. 402 → /pricing?from=screenshot_export
3. 401 → /login with redirect-back
4. 422 → friendly "add at least one component" toast
5. 200 → blob download with Content-Disposition filename
6. The "rendering..." toast surfaces during the 5-10 s of headless
chromium time so users know to wait, not click again.
i18n key editor.toolbar.exportScreenshot added in en/es/pt-br/zh-cn.
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Phase 3 D3.1 — front-end half of the BOM export. The toolbar gains a
new spreadsheet-icon button next to the existing project-export button.
On click:
1. POST is NOT used — the backend endpoint is GET-based and streams a
CSV. We just open the URL.
2. 402 (Pro-required) routes the user to /pricing?from=bom_export
so the page can show the right upgrade narrative.
3. 401 routes to /login with redirect-back.
4. 200 triggers a Blob download with Content-Disposition filename.
i18n key editor.toolbar.exportBom added in en/es/pt-br/zh-cn — the
" — Pro" suffix on the tooltip hints at the gating without forcing the
user to discover it only on click.
The button is shown to everyone, not hidden by plan. Free/Maker users
clicking it gets the 402 route to /pricing, which is intentional — that
is the upgrade-discovery funnel we want, not a silent locked icon.
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Phase 1 D1.8 — the home-page hero leads with three defensible
differentiators Velxio has that the dominant alternative doesn't:
- AI agent integrated (Wokwi has none)
- Works offline as a desktop app (Wokwi is cloud-only)
- AGPLv3 open source (Wokwi is proprietary)
Subtitle and trustLine rewritten across all four shipped locales
(en, es, pt-br, zh-cn). No layout change — the LandingPage.tsx
component renders both strings already.
The competitor name isn't mentioned anywhere — the user comparing
side-by-side does the math themselves. Anchoring on the USPs makes
the eventual /pricing visit ("Maker $7 = AI included") land in
context instead of cold.
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The quota-exhausted modal (rendered by the velxio.dev pro overlay when
a free user hits the daily AI cap) was hardcoded English. The modal is
seen by users from CN/BR/MX/CO/AR/PE/IN — the audiences most likely to
bounce on English-only UX. This adds the four key languages.
Keys:
titleFree — "You've hit today's free limit"
titlePaid — "You've reached your daily limit"
bodyFree — explainer + Pro upgrade pitch (interpolates cap/proCap/multiplier)
bodyPaid — explainer for paid users who hit their own tier's cap
today / thisMonth / resets — stats labels
ctaUpgrade — primary CTA ("Upgrade to Pro — $15/mo")
ctaSeePlans — fallback CTA for non-free users
ctaWait — secondary "Wait until reset"
Upstream-only change — the velxio-prod overlay's AgentChatPanel.tsx is
wired to consume these via useTranslation in a separate commit.
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Inserts a Download entry between Pricing and Blog in the main nav.
Routes to the existing DesktopInstallPage in the velxio-prod pro
overlay (auth gate + platform-detect + signed-licence download flow).
i18n: header.nav.download added across all 9 shipped locales
(en/es/ja/it/de/ru/pt-br/zh-cn/fr) with native translations.
Self-hosted OSS image: the route doesn't exist there, so the link
lands on the upstream router's 404 — same fallback behaviour as
/pricing already has for self-hosters. Acceptable until the OSS
side gets its own placeholder.
Velxio had two parallel import paths that confused users (reported on
Discord by AgUn / dmontero):
* Toolbar "Import a project from a .zip file" → Wokwi .zip only
* File-explorer "Open .vlx file" → Velxio .vlx only
If you exported a Velxio project as .vlx and tried to bring it back via
the toolbar Import button, you bounced off "wrong format" with no hint
that the .vlx loader was hiding behind the file-explorer save-bar.
Fix: introduce `utils/importProject.ts` as the single dispatcher. It
sniffs the extension and routes:
*.vlx → importVlxFile (writes directly to stores)
*.zip → importFromWokwiZip (returns a payload the caller applies,
so the toolbar can still trigger the
install-libraries modal afterwards)
Both UI entry points now go through the dispatcher with the same
`accept=".vlx,.zip,application/json,application/zip"` filter:
* Toolbar "Import project (.vlx Velxio or .zip Wokwi)"
* File-explorer "Open project (.vlx Velxio or .zip Wokwi)"
The toolbar tooltip is i18n-driven — updated EN + 8 other locales
(es, fr, de, it, pt-br, ja, ru, zh-cn) so every user sees the same
clarification.
Wokwi compatibility kept intact — the .zip path still resolves to
`importFromWokwiZip` and the same library-install modal pops if the
imported project lists libraries we don't have locally.
Two coordinated copy/layout changes on the landing hero:
- Primary CTA label gets "Online" added across the 9 supported
locales — "Try Simulator Free Online →" / "Probar el simulador
online gratis →" / etc. Reason: with the Velxio Desktop
download path now live, users should immediately understand
that the green button is the BROWSER version, and there's a
local install option for people who want it faster offline.
- The pro-overlay slot for the desktop download CTA was
`landing-hero-primary-cta` and sat ABOVE the hero CTAs. Renamed
to `landing-hero-download-cta` and moved BELOW so the funnel
reads "try online (primary) → or install locally (secondary)"
instead of "install locally (primary) → try online (secondary)".
OSS layout is unchanged — the slot is still empty in pure builds.
Also picks up the auto-regenerated sitemap.xml lastmod dates from a
recent deploy (every URL bumped 2026-05-19 → 2026-05-21).
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New keys across all 9 locales (en/es/fr/de/it/pt-br/ja/ru/zh-cn):
- admin.users.actions.resetAgentUsage — button label
- admin.users.actions.resetAgentUsageTooltip — hover hint
- admin.users.confirmResetAgentUsage — confirm dialog
- admin.users.resetAgentUsageDone — success toast
- admin.users.resetAgentUsageFailed — error toast
Consumed by the velxio-prod overlay's AdminPage Users tab, which adds
a "Reset agent" button per row that hits
POST /api/admin/users/{user_id}/reset-agent-usage and clears today's
pro_agent_usage_events for the user. Live agent quota recomputes
from the events table, so the user can keep using the agent
immediately after the button click.
Mirrors the velxio-prod backend quota bump (PLANS dict in
pro/backend/app/pro/services/quota.py). With 9router serving the bulk
of agent traffic for free, the cost-of-LLM ceiling is much lower than
when the limits were originally tuned, so we can be significantly more
generous and let casual users actually evaluate the agent.
Free 20 /day, 300 /mo → 100 /day, 1500 /mo
Pro 400 /day, 12k /mo → 500 /day, 15k /mo
Pro Max 1000/day, 30k /mo → 2000 /day, 60k /mo
Updates the landing.pricing.tiers.{free|pro|pro_max}.f1 string in all
9 locales (de, en, es, fr, it, ja, pt-br, ru, zh-cn) with each
locale's native thousands separator (',' / '.' / ' ' depending on
convention).
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Adds a transparent self-hosting path for users who would rather not
run Velxio's prebuilt libqemu binaries. The prebuilts have always
been a convenience under the AGPLv3 license; this just documents
how to skip them.
- docs/BUILD-QEMU.md as the canonical step-by-step (dependencies per
Debian/Arch/macOS, ESP32 xtensa + ESP32-C3 riscv32 configure-and-
ninja, drop-in instructions, troubleshooting, license notes on the
QEMU/Velxio GPL-vs-AGPL boundary).
- DocsPage gets a new 'build-qemu' section between Setup and Roadmap
in the sidebar. Content is hardcoded English (technical reference,
not marketing copy) and ends with a link to the .md on GitHub.
- nav + SEO meta keys added to all 9 locales (de en es fr it ja
pt-br ru zh-cn). Body remains English in every locale; technical
content doesn't need translation for the audience that follows it.
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The /pricing page exists (PricingPlaceholder upstream, real PricingPage
portal-mounted by the private overlay) but had no entry in the top nav.
Adds 'pricing' to header.nav in all 9 locales (de, en, es, fr, it, ja,
pt-br, ru, zh-cn), wires the Link in AppHeader between About and Blog,
and mirrors the link in the landing-page footer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two small fixes that compound:
1. Drop LLM model names from the landing AI section. The agent
auto-routes between several providers (9router combo, direct
DeepSeek, direct Gemini, future-others) and naming any of them on
the homepage misleads visitors. Replace "DeepSeek-V4-Flash and
Gemini 2.5 under the hood" with "frontier LLMs auto-routed for
cost and reliability" so the marketing line stays accurate as the
provider mix changes.
2. Pricing copy switches from absolute message counts (300/day,
700/day — small, intimidating, hard to anchor) to comparative
multipliers (Pro = 20×, Pro Max = 50×). Visitors instinctively
read these as "much more" without needing to count usage. The
multipliers reflect the new backend quotas (400/day, 1000/day,
committed separately in velxio-prod's pro overlay).
3. --color-bg-canvas moves from gray-1000 (#000000) to gray-950
(#0a0a0c). Pure black collided with the slightly-lighter card
surface (gray-900 #141416) and produced a harsh transition wherever
a `min-height: 100vh` page wrapper grew taller than its content —
visible on docs and user-profile pages with sparse content. The
2-luminance-step shift removes the jarring while keeping the dark
palette feel intact. gray-1000 stays in the scale for intentional
black uses.
All 9 locales updated for (1) and (2).
Two new sections on the landing page, between Features and Support:
1. "Powered by AI agents" — three cards explaining the in-editor agent
(place & wire parts, generate code, diagnose circuits). Calls out
DeepSeek-V4-Flash + Gemini 2.5 as the LLM backbone so visitors know
the simulator does more than draw boxes.
2. "Pricing" — three cards summarising Free / Pro / Pro Max with the
actual monthly cost, the daily AI-message quota, and a CTA per
tier. Pro is highlighted as Most Popular. Free CTA opens the editor,
the two paid CTAs link to /pricing where the PayPal subscription
flow lives.
The simulator itself stays free — only the AI-agent quota changes per
tier — that copy is repeated in the section subtitle so visitors don't
worry about the boards/components becoming paywalled.
All 9 locales translated.
Adds a two-card section at the foot of the landing page (before the
brand footer) that surfaces Velxio's licensing model: AGPLv3 for the
public release, commercial license for teams that need to ship
Velxio inside closed-source products. Mirrors the existing
.feature-card visual language so it slots into the page without a
new design system.
Commercial CTA opens a mailto:info@velxio.dev. Open-source CTA links
to GitHub via the existing trackVisitGitHub handler so the analytics
event still fires.
All 9 locales translated.
- Add color picker button to SelectionActionBar for wire selections
- Toggle palette using WIRE_KEY_COLORS swatches
- Pass currentColor and onColorChange from SimulatorCanvas
- Reset showPalette on kind/onColorChange change (Copilot suggestion)
- Use t('editor.selectionBar.changeColor') for title/aria-label (Copilot suggestion)
- Add changeColor i18n key to all 9 locale files
Co-authored-by: naweiss <naweiss@users.noreply.github.com>
The common bundle ballooned to 30KB after Block 15 added the AboutPage
prose, putting Russian translations past DeepSeek's 8192-token output
cap. The editor + about sub-trees (the two heaviest, ~15KB combined)
move to a new common2.json file. Both files now sit at 12-18KB and
translate cleanly.
i18n bootstrap merges common2 into the same common namespace at
load time and lazy-loads it per locale, so every existing t('editor.*')
and t('about.*') call keeps resolving without source changes.
All 9 locales regenerated via DeepSeek. Closes the gap left by the
Blocks 15+16 commit where only zh-cn/common had been refreshed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
AboutPage: ~28 prose blocks across Story / How It Works / Open Source /
Creator / Releases / Quote / Community sections; <Trans> for paragraphs
with inline <strong>, <em>, <a> markup.
15 SEO landing pages now use t() for all user-facing copy under
seo.<page>.* keys: CircuitSimulatorPage, SpiceSimulatorPage,
ElectronicsSimulatorPage, CustomChipSimulatorPage, Attiny85SimulatorPage,
ArduinoSimulatorPage, ArduinoEmulatorPage, AtmegaSimulatorPage,
ArduinoMegaSimulatorPage, Esp32SimulatorPage, Esp32S3SimulatorPage,
Esp32C3SimulatorPage, RaspberryPiPicoSimulatorPage,
RaspberryPiSimulatorPage. Code blocks, FQBNs, JSON-LD schema strings
intentionally stay in English.
The seo bundle (67KB English source) is split into 4 balanced files
(seo.json + seo2.json + seo3.json + seo4.json, ~17KB each) so each
DeepSeek translation request stays inside the 8192-token output cap.
i18n bootstrap merges all 4 halves under the seo.* keyspace.
Translations: 8 locales × 4 seo bundles all regenerated via DeepSeek.
common.json (now 30KB after about additions) only has zh-cn refreshed
so far — the remaining 7 locales' common.json need a follow-up pass
(the bundle is at the edge of DeepSeek's output limit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire useTranslation() + Trans into DocsPage.tsx. ~330 user-facing
strings across 13 sections (intro, getting-started, emulator, riscv,
esp32, rp2040, rpi3, components, roadmap, architecture, third-party,
mcp, setup) plus sidebar nav + page chrome are now keyed under docs.*.
Strings with inline <a>, <code>, <strong>, <em> use the <Trans/>
component with mapped slots; bare prose uses t().
Code blocks, FQBNs, hex addresses, library names visible as link text,
and JSON-LD schema strings stay in English on purpose.
Internal Link to=... wrapped with localize() so /es/docs/... etc.
keep their locale prefix.
The English docs bundle is split in half (docs.json ~22KB +
docs2.json ~22KB) so each fits inside DeepSeek's 8192-token output
window. The i18n bootstrap merges both halves into the docs.* keyspace
under the default common namespace.
All 9 locales regenerated via DeepSeek (parallel run for the two
namespaces).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire useTranslation() into Velxio2Page and Velxio25Page: hero badge,
accent, subtitle, CTAs, board/example/outcome cards, OSS section, and
footer links all keyed under landing.v2.* and landing.v25.*.
Split en/common.json (34KB) into common.json (25KB) + releases.json
(9KB) so each translation request stays inside DeepSeek's 8192-token
output cap. i18n bootstrap merges both bundles into the default common
namespace at load time, lazy loader fetches both per locale.
translate-i18n.mjs: set max_tokens=8192 + response_format json_object
on the DeepSeek call so future bundles closer to the cap don't get
silently truncated.
All 9 locales regenerated via DeepSeek (fr/de/es/it/pt-br/zh-cn/ja/ru).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the Phase 2 i18n rollout. Every visitor- and user-facing
surface velxio renders in normal use now reads from t().
AdminPage (admin-only)
- Header (panel title, logout) and the four tabs (Dashboard /
Users / Projects / Boards).
- Setup screen for first-admin creation (title, body, password
fields + mismatch error + create-admin button).
- Not-admin gate page.
- EditUserModal (title, four labels, admin/active toggles,
cancel/save).
- UsersTab: search placeholder, count pluralisation, all 12
table columns, Activity / Edit / Delete actions, empty state,
delete-confirm prompt with username interpolation.
- ProjectsTab: search placeholder, count pluralisation, all 9
table columns, public/private badge labels, delete action +
confirm with project-name interpolation, empty state.
- All error messages (load failed / save failed / delete failed)
fall back through t().
UserProfilePage
- "New project" CTA, loading + empty + not-found states,
"Private" project badge, "Copy shareable link" tooltip.
- The /editor link uses localize() so /es/<username>'s "New
project" button stays in Spanish.
PricingPlaceholder
- Title + the two paragraphs (self-hosted note + hosted Pro
tier note + GitHub source note). Inline links wrapped via
the Trans component so the link surface stays clickable in
every locale without each translation having to re-write the
HTML.
EditorPage shell
- Mobile bottom-tab labels (Code / Circuit), file-explorer
toggle (Show / Hide), View mode aria-label, view-mode
segmented control labels (Code / Both / Circuit), and the
three "Drag to resize" handle tooltips on the panel splitters.
Translations
- en.json hand-curated for the new keys.
- All 8 non-English locales auto-translated via the existing
`npm run translate:i18n` pipeline (DeepSeek, ~5 min for the
whole bundle, sameShape() validates each output before write).
This closes Phase 2 of i18n. Phase 3 (DocsPage prose, AboutPage
long-form paragraphs, the 15 SEO landing pages) is deliberately
deferred — Docs/About are best handled by extracting the prose
into JSON keys and running the same script, while the SEO pages
are intentionally optimised for English keyword targeting and
should not be machine-translated en masse.
David Montero Crespo