More slo. Mostly fits.

1. KV writes a day

   Over

   KV writes learn’s labs could make in a UTC day before the neuron meter closes them (two per attempt, on the cheapest lab).

   1,600 writes a day of 1,000 writes a day160%

   At the ceiling

   KV writes fail for the rest of the UTC day: lab attempts error out before the neuron meter closes the labs, and badges can’t be claimed.

   The plan

   Make it one write per attempt (keep the visitor counts inside the day record), or close the labs at 450 attempts a day, or move the counters to a Durable Object.

   Limit from Limits (Workers KV) (Cloudflare Developers)

2. Workers AI neurons a day

   Over

   Neurons a UTC day our own caps allow: learn’s labs plus Lineage’s generator, which share one free allowance.

   12,000 neurons a day of 10,000 neurons a day120%

   At the ceiling

   Past 10,000 a day the free allowance is gone: model calls fail (or are billed), so a lab can fail halfway through an attempt.

   The plan

   Have Lineage’s generator read learn’s neurons:<today> before it plans, and stop at what’s left; or lower its cap to 2,000.

   Limit from Pricing (Workers AI) (Cloudflare Developers)

3. Backrooms sign atlas

   Full, on purpose

   Signs, tags and plaques in the first sign atlas (8 × 16 slots of 256 × 128 on a 2048 px texture, the WebGL 2 minimum).

   128 slots of 128 slots100%

   At the ceiling

   A 129th sign has no slot: gen.js refuses to load rather than draw it nowhere.

   The plan

   Drop or merge a sign first. For more room, redraw the atlas with 256 × 102 slots (160), never past 2048 px a side (backrooms skill).

   Set in our own code: backrooms/public/js/textures.js, sized to glGet (OpenGL ES 3.0 reference pages) (Khronos Group)

4. Backrooms staff memos

   Close

   Staff memos pinned in the world, each a 256 × 256 slot under the second atlas (8 × 4).

   29 slots of 32 slots91%

   At the ceiling

   A 33rd memo would draw off the texture: gen.js refuses to load instead.

   The plan

   Memos are quarter-size signs: a third atlas for memos alone gives 64 more. Or retire a memo to the codex.

   Set in our own code: backrooms/public/js/textures.js

5. Scroll’s shader uniforms

   Room

   Uniform vectors Scroll’s fragment shader declares; each artwork adds a quarter of one (uAspect).

   167 vectors of 224 vectors75%

   That’s about 228 more artworks.

   At the ceiling

   The shader fails to link on phones that have only the WebGL 2 minimum, and Scroll shows nothing on them.

   The plan

   Before 600 artworks, move the aspect ratios into a small texture (one texel per artwork), or send only the twelve the texture ring holds, as uResident does.

   Limit from glGet (OpenGL ES 3.0 reference pages) (Khronos Group)

6. Backrooms second atlas

   Room

   Navigation signs, floor arrows, bay digits and car park signs in the second atlas (8 × 8 slots).

   46 slots of 64 slots72%

   At the ceiling

   gen.js throws “second sign atlas is full”, and the game doesn’t start.

   The plan

   Same as the first atlas: merge, or smaller slots.

   Set in our own code: backrooms/public/js/gen.js

7. Durable Object rows written a day

   Room

   Rows the counters may write in a UTC day if every cap is reached: GeoCities visits × 2 + top saves × 3.

   70,000 rows a day of 100,000 rows a day70%

   At the ceiling

   Durable Object writes fail for the rest of the UTC day, for every counter on the account.

   The plan

   The caps are set so their sum stays under the allowance. A new counter takes its share from these caps (lower one first); this ledger adds them up.

   Limit from Pricing (Durable Objects) (Cloudflare Developers)

8. Size of the repository

   Room

   Git’s packed history plus loose objects.

   226.8 MB of 1 GB24%

   At the ceiling

   Nothing locally. On GitHub, past 1 GB clones slow down, and past 5 GB GitHub may ask for it to shrink.

   The plan

   Keep reference/ (the originals) out of git, as now; make big media (covers, captures) once and never re-commit them; if it nears 1 GB, move videos to Git LFS or R2.

   Limit from About large files on GitHub (GitHub Docs)

9. Workers on the account

   Room

   Workers this repo deploys (one per site).

   16 Workers of 100 Workers16%

   That’s room for 84 more sites.

   At the ceiling

   A new site can’t be created on the Free plan.

   The plan

   Past about 75 sites, fold the small static ones into one Worker with path routing (slopped.site/growth/ instead of growth.slopped.site), or move to the Paid plan’s 500.

   Limit from Limits (Workers): Account plan limits (Cloudflare Developers)

10. The secrets cookie

    Room

    The secrets cookie with every secret found (two letters each).

    160 bytes of 1 KB16%

    At the ceiling

    The audit refuses a cookie over 1 KB: it rides on every request to every slopped.site page.

    The plan

    Pack found secrets as bits instead of letters (each secret then costs under a byte).

    Set in our own code: world/audit.mjs

11. Pages on the map

    Room

    Pages across every sitemap, all drawn on slopped.site/map/.

    1,236 pages of 12,320 pages10%

    At the ceiling

    Nothing at once. Past what has been measured, the first load and the filters slow down: 4–6 s to ready at ten times.

    The plan

    Load each site’s sidecar only when its district is in view, past about thirty times today’s size (site-map skill); re-run the 10× proof as the world grows.

    Set in our own code: .claude/skills/site-map/SKILL.md

12. Files per site

    Room

    Files one site uploads as static assets, on the fullest site.

    1,602 files of 20,000 files8%

    That’s 18,398 more files on the fullest site.

    At the ceiling

    Wrangler refuses the upload, so that site can’t deploy at all.

    The plan

    The bulk is artwork copied into several sites (main, Scroll, the games, the jungle). Serve the pictures from slopped.site alone and point the others at it before any site passes 15,000; the Paid plan allows 100,000.

    Limit from Limits (Workers): Static Assets (Cloudflare Developers)

13. Biggest single file

    Room

    The largest file any site uploads.

    804 KB of 25 MB3%

    At the ceiling

    That one file can’t be uploaded, and the deploy fails.

    The plan

    The biggest files are the cover videos. Keep each under a megabyte (capture-covers); anything that has to be bigger goes to R2 or a video host, not the assets folder.

    Limit from Limits (Workers): Static Assets (Cloudflare Developers)

14. _headers rules per site

    Room

    Rules in one site’s _headers file, on the busiest site.

    2 rules of 100 rules2%

    At the ceiling

    Cloudflare takes at most 100 rules in a _headers file; the sitemaps’ cross-origin rules are among them.

    The plan

    Match paths with wildcards instead of one rule per path, as the sitemap block already does.

    Limit from Limits (Workers): Static Assets (Cloudflare Developers)

15. Pictures per sitemap URL

    Room

    The most image entries on any one URL in any sitemap.

    16 images of 1,000 images2%

    At the ceiling

    Google ignores image entries past 1,000 on one URL. world/sitemap.mjs already stops at 1,000.

    The plan

    Nothing to do: index pages list their pictures on their own pages, one each.

    Limit from Image sitemaps (Google Search Central)

16. Biggest Worker script

    Room

    The bundled size of the largest Worker that runs code (learn carries the compact knowledge graph).

    1,008 KB of 64 MB2%

    At the ceiling

    Wrangler refuses the deploy. Well before that, startup time (1 second) bites: the learn Worker parses its whole bundle, the graph included, on a cold start.

    The plan

    When learn passes 10 MB, move the graph out of the bundle into a static asset fetched on the first world_graph call.

    Limit from Limits (Workers): Account plan limits (Cloudflare Developers)

17. Biggest file in git

    Room

    The largest file in the committed tree.

    1.1 MB of 100 MB1%

    At the ceiling

    GitHub refuses a push with a file over 100 MB.

    The plan

    Anything that big belongs in R2 or Git LFS, not the tree.

    Limit from About large files on GitHub (GitHub Docs)

18. URLs in one sitemap

    Room

    URLs in the largest site’s sitemap.xml.

    332 URLs of 50,000 URLs1%

    At the ceiling

    Search engines stop reading the sitemap past 50,000 URLs.

    The plan

    Split that site’s sitemap into several under the sitemap index (world/sitemap.mjs already writes the index).

    Limit from Sitemaps XML format (sitemaps.org)

19. Size of one sitemap

    Room

    The largest sitemap.xml, uncompressed.

    83 KB of 50 MB0%

    At the ceiling

    Search engines reject a sitemap over 50 MB.

    The plan

    The same split as for URLs; it comes first only if pages carry many pictures each.

    Limit from Sitemaps XML format (sitemaps.org)

20. Worker requests a day

    Can’t see it from here

    Requests that run Worker code (learn’s API and MCP, the two counters); static pages are free and don’t count.

    ceiling 100,000 requests a day

    Live traffic: only Cloudflare’s dashboard knows. Nothing in the repo can count it.

    At the ceiling

    Error 1027 on the routes that run code for the rest of the UTC day; the static pages keep working.

    The plan

    Keep every page static and only the counters and labs dynamic. If the dashboard shows 50,000 a day, cache the counters’ reads.

    Limit from Limits (Workers) (Cloudflare Developers) and Pricing (Workers) (Cloudflare Developers)

21. GeoCities visits counted a day

    Can’t see it from here

    Visits the hit counter counts in a UTC day before it stops.

    ceiling 20,000 visits a day

    Live traffic, kept in the Durable Object: the repo can’t see it.

    At the ceiling

    The counter stops counting until midnight UTC and only shows its number.

    The plan

    Its share of the Durable Object allowance (see the rows-a-day limit) is what bounds it: raise it only by lowering another.

    Set in our own code: geocities/src/worker.js

22. Saves counted a day

    Can’t see it from here

    Saves top.slopped.site counts in a UTC day before it refuses.

    ceiling 10,000 saves a day

    Live traffic, kept in the Durable Object: the repo can’t see it.

    At the ceiling

    Saves still work in each browser, but stop being counted until midnight UTC.

    The plan

    As for the hit counter: one shared allowance, so a raise here is a cut elsewhere.

    Set in our own code: top/src/worker.js

1. Games on one shelf

   Close

   Cards on the fullest shelf of the games directory.

   15 games of 16 games94%

   At the ceiling

   Nothing fails: the shelf gets too long to browse, and new games get lost at its end.

   The plan

   Split the shelf by a second genre (integrate.mjs makes a shelf from a card’s data-genre).

   A budget we’ve proposed, not decided: on a phone each shelf is a sideways row with about 1.3 cards in view; past 16 nobody reaches the end.

2. MCP tools

   Room

   Tools the slopped.site MCP server lists.

   12 tools of 20 tools60%

   At the ceiling

   Nothing fails: assistants pick the wrong tool more often.

   The plan

   Fold related tools together (world_graph already answers most “where is” questions).

   A budget we’ve proposed, not decided: every tool’s name, description and schema goes to the assistant on every tools/list; fewer, broader tools are easier to choose between.

3. The artwork list

   Room

   public/artwork.js, which every visitor to slopped.site downloads whole before the gallery can filter.

   97 KB of 500 KB19%

   That’s about 1,363 more artworks.

   At the ceiling

   Nothing fails: the main page just gets heavier for everyone, and so do Scroll and the games, which load the same list.

   The plan

   Split it: the newest 48 inline for the first screen, the rest fetched when someone scrolls, searches or filters.

   A budget we’ve proposed, not decided: about half a second on a slow phone connection; beyond that the gallery’s first filter waits on it.

4. The codex search index

   Room

   codex/public/index.json, which the codex’s search downloads whole.

   52 KB of 1 MB5%

   At the ceiling

   Nothing fails: search takes longer to wake up.

   The plan

   Split the index by kind, or search on the server (the MCP server already has search_codex).

   A budget we’ve proposed, not decided: search should answer on the first keystroke on a phone.

Checked, and not growing

• Scroll’s texture ring: 12 layers. A ring of twelve near the current depth, whatever the collection’s size (scroll-engine).
• The wall on slopped.site: 5 per column. A fixed number of columns for the screen, five thumbnails each, picked from the whole list.

1. growth.slopped.site

   How much more fits

   With this much slop about, somebody had to check the shelves would hold. The workshop now counts itself at every commit and measures every ceiling it knows of: the free plan it runs on, the smallest phone a shader has to fit, the slots in the…

2. desktop.slopped.site

   Every window at once

   By then there were more sites than anyone could keep open, so the workshop built a desk to put them on. Every site is an icon, the thirty-seven games sit in one folder and the Fresh slop in another, and the whole world is a filing cabinet whose files…

3. css.slopped.site

   One page, many outfits

   The Slopwright wrote a manual for the workshop, and the machine kept dressing it: thirty-four outfits for one document, the same words byte for byte every time, from a 1998 homepage to the inside of a sardine tin. Next door, seventeen things usually…

4. top.slopped.site

   The top of the slops

   Eventually somebody had to say which of it was any good. The workshop keeps two lists: a few dozen picks from every site, one line each, and the things people save most with the ♡, counted without knowing who anyone is. The first picks were drafted…

On the wall

• Zebra stripes slip to the groundComing undone on the savanna.
• Wrong side of the hemSewing in safety pins.
• Upside down flamingos on the ceilingStanding on one leg, the other way.
• Thunderstorms in the spare bulbsBright ideas, bad weather.
• The other argumentThe mirror disagrees.
• The longer goodbyeLeaving a trail.

In the games

• Take CoverA rubber-band gun, after hours. Not the cat. Pop out, shoot, duck to reload.
• Spider SolitaireEight runs, king to ace. The web is optional.
• Pyramid SolitairePairs that add to 13. Returns not guaranteed.
• Crazy EightsShed your hand before the stapler does.