The list was ordered by max(interest, importance) and nothing on the page said
so, which makes it impossible to tell whether an odd ranking is a bug or the
intended order.
Five orders, with the active one explained in a line beneath the control:
best highest of the two scores (unchanged default)
interest purely the taste profile, importance ignored entirely
important purely the importance axis -- velocity, corroboration, prominence
new most recently seen, regardless of score
covered most independent newsrooms, syndicated copy collapsed
"My interests" is the one that was actually missing. The two-axis design means a
quiet story that is very much the reader's can sit below a big one that is not,
and until now there was no way to see past that.
An unknown sort falls back to the default rather than erroring.
Cards showed a hard-capped 5 members with no way to see the rest. They now
render every report, with the first three inline and the remainder behind a
native <details> disclosure -- so it works without JavaScript and stays keyboard
accessible. Each entry carries its publication time and outlet, and the summary
names how many reports across how many outlets. `e` expands the selected card.
Loaded inline rather than through a lazy endpoint because the data is small:
measured on this corpus the largest cluster is 23 members and multi-item
clusters hold 249 between them.
Also fixes a bug this introduced. The sources-list comprehension was byte
identical in triage() and digest_page(), so a str.replace() intended for one hit
both, and digest_page started reading a published_at column its query does not
select -- four tests went red. The assert only checked that the anchor EXISTS,
not that it is UNIQUE. Edits now assert the occurrence count. The digest query
gained the column properly, since a timestamp is useful there too.
Three states rather than two: system (follow the OS), light, dark. A two-state
toggle cannot express "just do what my laptop does", which is the state most
people actually want.
Two details that are easy to get wrong and were both handled deliberately:
- The dark rules are guarded with :root:not([data-theme="light"]). Without that
guard, choosing light does nothing on a machine whose OS is set to dark,
because the media query keeps winning -- the toggle appears to work in one
direction only.
- The stored theme is applied by an inline script placed ahead of any rendered
content, so there is no flash of the wrong palette on load. A deferred script
would repaint after first paint, visibly.
localStorage access is wrapped in try/catch: it throws outright in some
private-browsing modes, and a theme preference is not worth a broken page.
The palette moved out of all four templates into _theme.html, which also removes
four near-identical copies of the nav CSS that had already started to drift.
Tests assert the toggle, the guard, the pre-paint ordering, and that no page
redeclares the palette locally.
The pages were only reachable by typing URLs, and the digest had no navigation
at all. A single _nav.html partial now appears on all four, marking the current
page, so Triage / Digest / Tune / Config are one click apart.
Parameterised test asserts every page links to the others and marks itself
active, so a page added later cannot ship stranded.
Connor pointed out he may use the site from a laptop away from home. The gated
/ui/feedback/ path was worse than just inconvenient: fetch() follows redirects,
so an expired Authelia session would go 302 -> login page -> HTTP 200, and the
UI would mark the card labelled having recorded nothing. Silent data loss on the
one signal the system learns from.
Both surfaces now post to the same HMAC-signed public endpoint, with
`redirect: 'error'` so a redirect fails loudly instead of looking like success.
The gated route is gone -- one mechanism, not two.
/config shows what every block actually matches right now, and a box to try a
filter before saving it: describe what you want caught, see what it catches and
what sits just below the line, move the threshold, then save it as a veto or a
demote. That boundary view is the point -- a crypto filter at 0.55 catches 131
clusters including "Security updates for Monday", and at 0.62 catches 4, which
you can only know by looking.
Saves use tomlkit rather than tomllib plus a dump, because profile.toml carries
the reasoning behind every constant and a comment-stripping round-trip would
quietly destroy the record of why each number is what it is. Verified: 97
top-level comment lines in, 97 out.
The config mount had to stop being :ro, and ~/config/news2 is now owned
10001:1000 group-writable so the container can save while hand-editing still
works. `:U` would have fixed the container and locked the user out.
Found in production, not in tests. SQLite's default busy timeout is ZERO, so
when a poll held the write lock while storing ~1,500 embeddings, a concurrent
feedback POST failed instantly with "database is locked" rather than waiting.
Polls take minutes and run every fifteen, so this was a wide failure window on
the single endpoint that must never drop a write -- feedback is the only way the
taste model learns anything, and the previous system's entire failure was
collecting 32 labels.
Connections now set busy_timeout=15s. Regression test included, and its first
draft was wrong in an instructive way: the competing thread held the write lock
continuously, which no finite timeout can survive. It now writes in bursts with
gaps, like a real poll cycle, which is the contention actually being tested.
Also cleans up the static-site plumbing left over from the Rust service: the
caddy /srv/news bind mount, the built SPA under data/news/web, and the
news-update systemd units -- which turned out to be DANGLING symlinks into
docs/projects/news/deploy/, the path the old repo used before being renamed to
news_triage, and had been failing every ten minutes unnoticed ever since.
ntfy push is deliberately short: a title, one line, and a Click through to the
story. The digest is a WEB PAGE, not a push payload -- the old system sent the
whole report as one long markdown message and ntfy turned it into a .md
attachment, which is what made it miserable to read on a phone.
Feedback buttons finally work. The old ones never fired once: NEWS_API_BASE_URL
was unset so they were dropped behind a single boot WARN, and /api/feedback had
no auth anyway. ntfy runs http actions FROM THE PHONE, so the endpoint must be
public -- which is why each button now carries an HMAC signed over
(cluster_id, kind). A leaked URL authorises one vote on one story rather than
acting as a bearer token for the whole model. Missing config drops the buttons
loudly instead of silently.
Digest prose is one LLM call per day through LiteLLM, and that is the entire
generative-model surface of this system -- clustering, relevance, importance and
vetoes are all embeddings and arithmetic. Feed text is passed as JSON data,
never interpolated into prompt prose, so a headline cannot read as an
instruction. Any failure falls back to the plain list; the digest never depends
on a model being reachable. Verified against the live proxy: 20s, themed
paragraphs, no invented facts.
Digest page is mobile-first, dark-mode aware, and renders from notification_log
so it is a record of what was actually sent.
deploy/README.md documents the Caddy vhost and env the buttons require, and uses
a python healthcheck rather than curl -- the v0.2 image shipped no curl, so its
healthcheck failed forever while the service was fine.
62 tests.
connor