August: what shipped

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The August roundup, dated 1 September and covering 1 to 28 August. Two days early against the plan on marketing#19, which said Friday, because the alternative was writing it on launch eve.

What you actually have to do: merge it on Tuesday 1 September. If anything ships between the 29th and the 31st there will be one top-up commit on this branch to re-read, and nothing else.

What is in it

Ten sections. Four of them were written and signed off across August as the features shipped and are here close to unchanged: the odds calculator, drills, the tournament card, and text size. Six are new this morning: the short version, /learn, the flop-set answer page, the bots measurement, the corrections page, and the contributor section.

The month has a spine and it is not a feature list. Half of what Pip shipped in August was Pip checking its own work, so the roundup ends on the two sections about that rather than opening on them.

Every figure in it is imported

A post about deriving numbers rather than typing them does not get to type its own. So:

• the flop counts come from config/flopSet.ts, the same registry the answer page renders
• SAMPLE_TARGET comes from lib/poker/oddsQuote.ts
• 990 is computed as C(45,2) through the module's own combinations(), not written out, because 990 is the point of the paragraph it is in
• the number of corrections is read off CORRECTIONS.length, so the sentence does not go stale the next time a row lands. It renders as seven today and will say eight on its own if #92 merges first

What it deliberately does not say

• No membership, in any form. That means the second drill kind is not in the post. It shipped on the 25th and it cannot be described without naming a thing we do not talk about yet, so it is left out rather than described badly. The drills section says the kind's name instead of counting the kinds, which is true whatever is registered.
• Nothing about improvement over time, no progress tracking, no graph, and no screenshot of the recap or the Drills section, because nobody has looked at either on a device.
• No /drills link. Drills are app: playpip.io/game/drills.
• "Exact" appears once, attached to heads-up with the board complete, which is the only shape that earns it.
• The corrections section does not mention that the corrections page corrected itself, because that lands in The account row is fixed, and the post's own headline was wrong when it published #92 and The account row is fixed, and the post's own headline was wrong when it published #92 is not merged. If it merges before the 1st, that is the natural top-up commit and it is the best line available in the section.

The one claim in it that is new rather than repeated

The bots section says the ladder gets harder as you climb and puts a number on it: entries-raised runs 32% at Friends' Garage to 60% at The Main Event. That comes off the measurement in tests/ai.test.ts, which also records that the climb is not monotone rung by rung, and the post says so. It is deliberately the weaker sentence, because the strong one has been wrong once already.

Gate

pnpm test:all green, 503 tests, pnpm build clean, biome-formatted, no em-dashes. gen-llms picks it up as the 22nd mirror.

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