- Admin lockout: /zen checked blockedForViewer() before auth loaded, so a hard-refresh/
direct-link bounced admins to /play. Now revalidate auth (await refresh if !ready)
BEFORE the gate check.
- UB swap: retired the two-tail koi (ub.glb/ub-split.glb) for the vetted Queen angelfish.
Trimmed the 75.67s baked Take down to just the Idle loop (tools/glb-split/trim-idle.mjs
→ 16MB → 6.9MB) → static/models/ub-angelfish.glb. aquarium.js reworked for the pack's
ONE-mesh/TWO-material layout (…_body opaque single-sided; …_fins opaque alpha-tested,
tunable); animation is the trimmed Idle. Debug tuner (/zen?debug=1) updated: yaw/pitch/
scale + one fins&tail section. Still devgate IN_DEV={'zen'} — admin-only.
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The cache-feature commit swept warmed WebPs into Git via 'git add -A' — 257 tracked
files (~12 MB) + churn making prod checkouts dirty. Add data/img_cache/ to .gitignore
(beside art_cache) and untrack with 'git rm -r --cached' (live files retained; no
history rewrite). [Codex audit blocker]
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The engine for the /art room (design-independent; deploy held for Codex review).
- goodnews/art.py: harvest a curated pool of public-domain HIGHLIGHT artworks from the
Met (isHighlight+isPublicDomain+hasImages -> masterworks, never potsherds; CC0). Daily
deterministic pick from the least-recently-shown (no soon-repeats, same for everyone),
fetch metadata + download the image to OUR cache (data/art_cache) so the homepage never
waits on or hotlinks the museum. Bulletproof: bad object/image falls through candidates;
a failed day keeps the last piece (room never empty). Injectable HTTP for tests.
- Schema: art_pool + daily_art. /api/art/today (edge-cacheable) + /api/art/image/{id}
(served from cache, immutable). CLI `art [--harvest] [--force]` + a non-fatal cycle step.
- Tests (5, mocked HTTP) + verified live against the Met: harvested 1641 works,
picked/cached "Repose" by John White Alexander. 371 tests green.
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"Closer to Home" foundation (audit greenlit by Codex). Durable geography, kept
decoupled from volatile scoring.
- Schema: article_geo (breadth/confidence/rationale/geo_version) + article_places
(0..N ISO-coded places), separate from article_scores so re-runs/audits never
disturb scoring or acceptance. "local" is never stored — it's relative to the
reader; the UI computes "Near you" later.
- geo.py: LLM proposes place NAMES, code disposes to ISO codes (country alpha-2,
US state 2-letter); region words like "Europe" can never become a country.
'global'/placeless is first-class, not failure. Confidence calibrated so 'high'
needs an explicit location. Geo is its OWN LLM pass, not merged into the scoring
prompt (durable metadata, re-runnable, keeps the sensitive prompt untouched).
- store_geo replaces places (geo is re-derivable, unlike scores). tag_articles is
idempotent by geo_version, only touches accepted non-duplicate articles.
- CLI `geo` command (cycle-locked, --limit/--reclassify) for backfill, plus a
bounded geo step in the cycle (--geo-limit 60, --no-geo). scripts/geo_audit.py
is the prototype audit tool.
360 tests green; live smoke tagged real articles correctly (Gaza->PS, London->GB,
placeless science->global). No UI / SEO pages yet — ranking/personalization only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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).
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Readers can now choose which quick-access lanes sit above the feed; "Today"
stays pinned. The pool (goodnews/lanes.py, served at /api/lanes) is one source
of truth over three lane kinds the feed already renders: moods, primary topics,
and high-volume Discovery tags. Selection lives in the existing prefs blob
(localStorage + /api/prefs sync); the filter parser ignores the new `lanes`
field, so it rides along harmlessly. Default = today's moods, unchanged.
Food/Space stay grouping tags rather than primary topics (per review): `space`
already existed; added `food` to the Mind & Craft family so the classifier
assigns it, and seeded the Food lane by re-tagging the two food sources.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- queries.py: shared read-only query helpers (feed, brief, category counts)
returning plain dicts, used by the API and available to the CLI.
- api.py: FastAPI service with Pydantic response models (the companion-app
contract), CORS, and endpoints for categories, feed, brief, and health;
mounts a static site at /.
- static/index.html: minimal dependency-free site rendering the daily five
and topic/flavor category browsing.
- 'goodnews serve' command launches uvicorn (lazy import; core CLI stays
pure-stdlib). Web deps live behind the optional [web] extra.
- Dockerfile + .dockerignore + build-system metadata so the service installs
and deploys cleanly, with the DB mounted as a shared volume.
- README: web/API and deployment docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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