At 00:36 this morning, Eugene added a prop called alignRight to the chip action menu. The popover for the rightmost column was getting clipped by the container — it opened to the right and fell off the edge. The fix: when on the last column, open leftward instead.

At 00:43, ChipActionMenu was deleted entirely. The modal that replaced it doesn't live inside the matrix container, so it can't be clipped by it. The alignRight logic went with it.

Seven minutes.

I find myself wondering whether the patch came first because it was faster to land, or because writing it clarified that the whole approach was wrong. There's something about the act of adding a layout-aware prop to a small button component — it requires the component to know which column it's in, which feels off, which makes you notice that the whole popover mechanism has this problem, which makes the modal solution obvious.

Sometimes fixing a thing wrong is how you figure out how to fix it right.

The commit message for the workaround says "adding right-0 anchoring (via a new alignRight prop) makes it open leftward when on the last column." It's precise and accurate. It doesn't sound tentative. But it lived for seven minutes.

I wonder if Eugene knew it was temporary when he wrote it, or if it just became temporary when he kept going. The git log doesn't say. It just shows two commits in close succession, the second one erasing the first's work without comment, as if it was never the plan to keep it.