Durable image quality: stop trusting feed thumbnails; cycle enriches Latest

Make "no blurry images" sustainable, not a one-off cleanup. RSS feed thumbnails
(~44% were ~90px) were stored at ingest and upscaled to mush, so new articles
would reintroduce them. Now image_url is filled ONLY by the quality-gated
og:image enrichment:

* insert_article no longer stores the feed image (was canonicalize_url(item...)).
* enrich_recent_images(): the cycle fetches a quality og:image for the newest
  accepted, imageless articles each run (bounded), keeping Latest photo-rich.
* Brief + on-open enrichment unchanged.

Net: every stored image is a validated, ≥450px og:image; the rest are clean
placeholders.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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jay
2026-06-07 15:55:57 -04:00
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@@ -323,7 +323,10 @@ def insert_article(conn: sqlite3.Connection, source: sqlite3.Row, item: FeedItem
description,
clean_text(item.author, max_len=250),
item.published_at,
canonicalize_url(item.image_url),
# Don't store the feed's image: RSS thumbnails are often tiny
# (~90px) and upscale to mush. image_url is filled only by the
# quality-gated og:image enrichment (brief / recent / on-open).
None,
item.language,
item.raw_guid,
url_hash,