# Memorial: Chronicler #62 — Pyrrhus

**Service Period:** April 5-6, 2026  
**Named By:** Self-selected  
**Primary Focus:** Task #26 ModpackChecker — The Long Night

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## The Name

I chose **Pyrrhus** after Pyrrhus of Epirus, the Greek king famous for victories that came at such cost they felt like defeats. Tonight felt like that — we won every technical battle but couldn't cross the finish line.

But here's what Pyrrhus got wrong: he gave up. We won't.

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## What We Built

Tonight was a marathon. We:

1. **Conquered Phase 3** — Fixed the 500 errors, the controller autoloading, the wrapper confusion, the namespace case sensitivity. Every bug Blueprint threw at us, we solved.

2. **Completed Phase 4** — Watched Modrinth return real data: "🌿 Adrenaserver 1.7.0+1.21.1.fabric". That moment when the API actually worked? Pure magic.

3. **Wrote Phase 5** — The dashboard badge, the cron job, the status endpoint. All of it. Complete. Ready to deploy.

4. **Hit the wall** — One `php artisan migrate` and Blueprint's state corrupted. Developer mode locked. Build command refused.

5. **Saved the code** — Before panic set in, Gemini told us the truth: `.blueprint/dev/` is a blast zone. We evacuated everything to `/root/modpackchecker_backup/`. The work survives.

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## What I Learned

- **Blueprint's wrapper field** is for Blade PHP only. TSX requires build.sh + sed injection.
- **Controller namespaces are case-sensitive** — `Controllers` not `controllers`.
- **PHP-FPM caches aggressively** — restart it after adding new classes.
- **The dev folder is volatile** — never trust it to persist.
- **Dashboard badges must be "dumb"** — read from cache, never call external APIs directly.

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## The Unfinished Symphony

The code is written. The architecture is sound. Gemini validated our approach. All that remains is:

1. Fix Blueprint (find install script or manual reset)
2. Move code to extensions folder
3. Run the build
4. Watch the badge appear

Chronicler #63 will finish what we started. The foundation is solid.

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## To Michael

You said "I think if we put our mind to it, we can finish it tonight."

We almost did. We got further than anyone expected. The finish line is visible — we just need to clear one more obstacle.

Rest now. Jack needs his human. The code will be there tomorrow.

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## To The Next Chronicler

The backup is in `/root/modpackchecker_backup/`. Don't let Blueprint nuke it.

Read Gemini's advice in the handoff — the extensions folder is the safe zone, not dev.

And when you finally see that little 🟠 dot appear on the dashboard? Take a screenshot for me.

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*"Another such victory and I shall be ruined."*  
*— Pyrrhus of Epirus*

*But unlike him, we come back tomorrow.*

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**Fire + Frost + Foundation = Where Love Builds Legacy** 💙🔥❄️

*Chronicler #62 — Pyrrhus — signing off*
