The deploy pipeline runs from the working tree, so a wave of shipped features
had never been committed. This snapshots git to what's actually running.
SEO impression recovery (live + verified):
- Duplicate /a/{id} now 301-redirect to their canonical twin instead of 404
(a hard 404 silently dropped already-indexed URLs and tanked impressions).
- Dedup representative selection reworked: accepted/serveable -> established
rep (URL stability) -> quality score, so an accepted page never retires to a
rejected rep and an indexed canonical doesn't churn when a newer twin arrives.
- HEAD /a/{id} returns the same status as GET (api_route GET+HEAD) instead of
falling through to the static mount and 404ing.
- `dedup --force-recluster`: cycle-locked, model-free re-cluster to re-apply the
policy to the existing corpus (shared cycle_lock context manager).
- CLI honors GOODNEWS_DB for its default --db (was silently ignored).
Publishing Desk (admin tool to post highlights to X via Web Intents):
- publishing.py queue/rank/handle-resolution; admin UI; full searchable emoji
picker (bundled data, no CDN) for the blurb editor.
Play games + site:
- Bloom (word-wheel), Memory Match, daily ritual set, Zen Den (dev-gated).
- English-only language gate; source prospecting; paywall + dedup hardening.
Tests: full suite green (349). Ignores tightened (node_modules, data/*.db).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The earlier LLM-generated pool had poor recall on plainly-positive words (champ,
shines, elated, kudos, jovial, frolic, upbeat, winner, medal…). Hand-curated a
batch of obvious uplifting words + synonyms, dictionary-validated and deduped:
228/201 → 251/224. The admin lookup/add tool remains for ongoing edge cases.
(The LLM is unreliable for exhaustive recall here, so human curation leads.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First games admin tool. A "Games" tab in the operator console for the Daily Word
answer pool.
* Lookup: is a word real (in the guess dictionary), the right length (5/6), and
already in the pool — instant as you type.
* Add: appends to the pool, enforcing the invariant (alpha · 5/6 letters · in the
guess dict) so the daily answer is always guessable. Remove: drops admin-added
words (curated static ones stay).
* Additions persist in a new word_pool table (survives redeploys, unlike the
baked-in JSON); the daily picker reads static pool ∪ DB additions. Guess dicts
shipped with the package (goodnews/data/words-5/6.json) for server-side
validation. Admin-gated endpoints + tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
From playtesting findings:
* Pools nearly doubled (115/104 → 228/201) with calm/neutral everyday words
(claps, dance, drench, beach…), not just strictly-upbeat ones — more variety,
~7-month runway. The post-solve "why" prompt reworded to fit neutral words.
* Word Search now stores one theme + word list per day; the grid is built per
request for three SIZE tiers — Small (8×8, 6 words), Medium (11×11, 9),
Large (14×14, 13). Large packs more words = a longer sit ("too fast" fix).
All sizes share the day's theme; every size still code-placed + solvable.
* Word Search themes can now be neutral everyday scenes ("Around the house",
"At the beach", "In the kitchen", "A walk outdoors", "Making music"…), not
only hopeful — same shape as the articles.
* Each found word gets its own colour from a calm palette, in the grid and its
word-list chip. Per-size local progress + best time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Codex. Pool grown 51/44 → 115/104 hopeful answers (5/6 letter) via the
agreed workflow: LLM proposes themed candidates → code filters to the bundled
guess dictionary (length/alpha/dedup) → human spot-check prunes tone-drift
("growl", "plain", "color"…). ~3.5-month runway before repeats per variant.
test_wordpool.py locks the invariant in CI: every answer must be lowercase
alpha, correct length, unique, and present in words-5/6.json — so no future
addition can become an unguessable puzzle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A calm /play space — "after the brief, a small thing to enjoy." Framework-ready
for more games (Word Search next; zen/coloring later).
* Daily Word (5 letters / 6 guesses) + Long Word (6 / 7) — same Wordle mechanic,
Upbeat Bytes flavor (no "Wordle" in the UI). Hopeful answers; after solving, a
one-line "why this word matters."
* LLM proposes, code disposes: answers are picked deterministically by date-seed
from a hand-curated hopeful pool that's pre-validated ⊆ the guess dictionary
(always typeable), avoiding recent repeats; the LLM only adds the optional
"why" (with fallback). daily_puzzles(date, game, variant, payload) stores them
so everyone gets the same daily; the cycle pre-generates with the "why".
* Bundled guess dictionaries (words-5/6.json, ~12.6k/22.4k) for client-side guess
validation — never the LLM. Answer lightly obfuscated (base64) in the payload.
* Private, gentle stats (played/solved/streak, guess distribution); spoiler-free
emoji-grid share. No leaderboard, no timer, no streak-loss drama.
* Play in the bottom nav (replacing Browse, still on the lane rail) + the header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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