diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/stickyTop.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/stickyTop.dom.test.tsx
index 427984a5..373becbc 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/stickyTop.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/stickyTop.dom.test.tsx
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
 import PageScroller from "./PageScroller";
 import { ColumnHead } from "./tableHeader";
 
+const last = () => fadeTopArgs[fadeTopArgs.length - 1];
+
 afterEach(() => {
   cleanup();
   fadeTopArgs.length = 0;
@@ -50,13 +52,13 @@ function page(withTable: boolean) {
 describe("the page scroller's top fade and a sticky table header", () => {
   it("is off while the header is mounted, and back on the moment it is gone", () => {
     const view = render(page(true));
-    expect(fadeTopArgs.at(-1)).toBe(false);
+    expect(last()).toBe(false);
     view.rerender(page(false)); // e.g. the Channels card layout, or a narrow DataTable
-    expect(fadeTopArgs.at(-1)).toBe(true);
+    expect(last()).toBe(true);
   });
 
   it("is on for a page with no sticky header at all", () => {
     render(page(false));
-    expect(fadeTopArgs.at(-1)).toBe(true);
+    expect(last()).toBe(true);
   });
 });
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/pxBox.contract.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/pxBox.contract.test.ts
index d8421751..1d1e34f2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/pxBox.contract.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/pxBox.contract.test.ts
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ async function refused(source: string): Promise<number> {
 
 describe("a px-frozen box utility", () => {
   it("is refused in a string and in a template literal", async () => {
-    expect(await refused('export const a = "group w-[150px] shrink-0";\n')).toBe(1);
-    expect(await refused("export const b = `x ${1} max-w-[240px]`;\n")).toBe(1);
+    // Assembled, so this file does not trip the very rule it probes.
+    const px = (u: string, n: number) => `${u}-[${n}px]`;
+    expect(await refused(`export const a = "group ${px("w", 150)} shrink-0";\n`)).toBe(1);
+    expect(await refused("export const b = `x ${1} " + px("max-w", 240) + "`;\n")).toBe(1);
   });
 
   it("leaves the spacing scale, a rem arbitrary and a grid track alone", async () => {