The sleep timer pauses after 5 minutes to an hour, fading out over the
last ten seconds. In the iOS app the phone's player keeps the time:
with the screen locked the web view is frozen, and a timer in the page
would not fire until the app was opened again. A browser plays on in a
background tab, so there the page keeps it.
The app says at ready what it does itself ({t:"host", can}), so a page
deployed ahead of the app falls back to its own timer and shows no
AirPlay button an older app would ignore. This deploy order problem
came up with #425.
AirPlay opens AVRoutePickerView by pressing its button from code; there
is no API to present it. On iOS 27 the picker opens on the button's
primary action, not touch-up, so that is what is sent, with touch-up
for versions that have nothing on it. The simulator has no AirPlay
devices and never showed the picker, so this is unverified until it
runs on a phone.
On a phone the player's one line left the title two letters wide once
the two controls were added, so the title takes the top line and the
controls flank play below it.
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Offline mode (#389) kept lists, text and pictures, but the worker let
every /media/ request pass, so no episode played without a connection.
A downloaded episode's files pane has a keep button beside Play. It
fetches the copy that person plays, the file or, when DeadAir cuts
something for them, the version without its dead air (/media/{id}/deadair,
the save button's), whole into a cache of its own, ipx-episodes, and
asks once for persistent storage. A kept episode plays as
/media/...?offline, online or not, and the worker answers that from the
cache with the byte ranges an audio element asks for (206, 416, 200);
not kept there, it goes to the server as before. Pressing it again takes
it off; signing out clears it with everything else. Only someone's
choice is kept, so there is no budget: a full device is the quota's
refusal, said in words. The button is data-a="offline", not "keep",
which the Directory's show page already uses for subscribing.
Places saved from DeadAir's version were read in its clock only if ipx
had handed out that file's playlist since it started (state.playing). A
kept copy plays without one, so the player now names the file in the
position it saves (deadair: <enclosure>) whenever it plays DeadAir's
clock, and ipx loads that file's plan when it has none, for that item's
file only. Checked the beacon is queued by the worker offline: it is.
Tests: playing a kept episode offline, its place queued and sent once
back, and taking it off (the offline show plays quiet.mp3, the only real
MP3 among the fixtures); the worker's ranges; which copy is kept and
played, in page-unit; the server reading a flagged place in DeadAir's
clock without a playlist, and ignoring another item's file. The files
pane's one-row test counts five buttons and checks a phone's width too.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RqkrVDqdiQEMWAkNGQ2tYA
hasMore() compared nextOffset(), which on Unread counts only the loaded
items still unread, with S.total from the answer: once they were read it
was 0 against that total, so the page asked for a page that came back
empty and took its total, 0, with the items still on screen. Whether
more is left now comes from the last answer itself, its offset and items
against its total; reading takes an item off the server's list and off
nextOffset() alike, so what that answer said is left stays true.
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traceparent keeps one trace for any request within a minute of the last,
and the tap span ran to the last answer in that trace, so a live update's
refresh 13 s later made a tap answered in 0.9 s read as 15 s (trace
a895551d20626fb6dc071d336262b772). Now a request counts towards the tap
only when one of the tap's own is in flight or it begins within two
seconds of the tap or its last answer; it still joins the trace.
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endTap reported the tap before clearing it; report's traceparent starts a
new trace when the last is over a minute old, and newTrace ends the open tap
again, so hiding the page (switching apps on the phone) a minute after using
it recursed until the stack ran out. Timings are never throttled, so nothing
broke the loop. Introduced in #376.
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Reviewing what production's traces and metrics leave out turned up
twelve gaps; each is an issue.
Metrics. A Prometheus histogram for ipx and the directory both
(ipx_directory::metrics::Histograms), which ipx's request histogram
(#364) now uses too.
- ipx: each statement's time once it has a connection, by its first
word, from SeaORM's metric callback; and the wait for one, for
hand-written SQL in db.rs, measured as the call less the statement
(the callback runs in the poll that returns the result, so the time
read after the await is that statement's) (#367). SeaORM's own queries
are timed but their wait is not seen: a shortcut, noted.
- ipx: counters of what the events say, counted in emit, which every
event passes once: feed failures by error.type, new items, downloads
saved and failed, DeadAir's seconds found (#368).
- ipx: the page's list_shown, play_start and stall timings (#369).
- directory: requests by method, route (a route layer puts the matched
route on the response, or each feed's page was a row) and status;
feeds checked and failed; snapshots taken (#370).
- ipx-web: Caddy's own metrics on METRICS_BIND (:9180), served apart from
the port the tunnel reaches. `servers { metrics }`, which Caddy 2.11
calls deprecated, because the browser tests' Caddy is 2.6 (#371).
Traces.
- A list's sync is list_sync with steps, an OPML upload opml_import
(#372). Doing so showed sync_group reading every account and its
subscription to the list once per listed feed; read once now (#377).
- Each command the worker runs, from the socket, the CLI or the page,
is a command span with its job inside (#373).
- The daemon's start is a trace, from opening the database through the
catalogue's repairs to "daemon started" (#374).
- The directory's lines carry trace_id and span_id: WithTrace moves to
ipx_directory::otel and both use it (#375).
- A tap or key is its trace's root span (#376). The page names a root
span id in each request's traceparent, where the parent was random and
pointed at nothing, and reports the tap (ids, start, its last answer)
when the next begins or the page is hidden. opentelemetry 0.33 gives a
span builder no way to take ids, so the shared tracer provider has an
id generator that takes given ids inside with_ids, on one thread.
Alerts. grafana/alerts.py, Grafana alerting provisioning beside the
dashboard (#365): ipx, the directory or ipx-web down, scans stopped, a
job over 30 minutes, the pool full, 5xx, 502s, Jev refused, Signals
stopped, the directory's refresher stopped, Tower's load and memory, the
monitoring down, Tempo not reading its blocks, iPX's lines not reaching
Loki. No contact point yet: firing shows in Grafana. Prometheus now
scrapes Tempo, Loki, Alloy and itself (#366), in the monitoring project's
config, not this repository's.
The dashboard has database and page-timing panels; the prod check knows
the new metrics, spans and alerts.
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An item's link and an enclosure's URL are the publisher's, stored as
written, and the page put them in href and window.open through esc(),
which escapes characters, not schemes: a javascript: or data: link
survived as Open the original, View in a new tab (for a file not on
disk), the Directory's item links and the v key. Show notes already
lose those schemes to ammonia; these four sinks were the exception.
webUrl() passes http(s) only, and each sink goes through it. A link
that fails it shows no link, as an item with none does.
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Found reviewing the main window, its dialogs and the Directory in all 25 palettes (13 themes,
light and dark), in Playwright against the test daemon.
- #298: an item's title is a button, so Tab and a screen reader can open it; the feed list's
rows, places, Signals and the Directory's shows are links to a screen reader (asLink), named
by what they show, the open one aria-current. Not role=button, which would flatten a folder's
triangle inside it.
- #299: .ep:focus-within shows the row's actions; Tab reached Play and Delete at opacity 0.
- #300: the read toggle is named Mark read / Mark unread, the dot hidden from screen readers.
- #301: the seek slider is named Position, its value read as "12:30 of 45:00".
- #302: ::placeholder in --faint; the browser's grey was 2.7-4.4:1 in 20 palettes. The search
and filter boxes have names that do not depend on their placeholder.
- #303: #toasts is role=status; an error toast stays until dismissed, at most four at once.
- #304: api() says what to do when iPX cannot be reached or answers 500 (whose text is the
daemon's internals, already in its log); play() failures are put in words and reported, an
AbortError ignored; a failed download names its item.
- #305, #308: --field, the theme's --fg mixed into --bg in OKLab (--fieldmix, 60% and up to 80%
for Catppuccin light), edges text boxes, selects, chips, the OPML box and switch tracks,
phones included, and rings a light theme's switch knob. tests/contrast.js holds it to 3:1 on
bg, panel, panel2 and raise in every palette. --line stays for rules. Fields lose outline:0,
so they take the same focus ring as everything else.
- #306: openModal makes the card role=dialog aria-modal, labelled by its heading, focuses it,
and makes the rest of the body inert until closeModal, which gives focus back to what opened
it. Not <dialog>: its top layer would cover the toasts and their Dismiss.
- #307: the labels in Add a feed, Settings, Download latest and OPML point at their boxes.
- #309: Settings shows iPX's and the page's versions at its foot.
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Once something is typed: at the box's right end, inside it. One click
handler for every box, which clears it and fires its input event, so each
box's own handler brings its list back whole. The browser's own x, drawn
by some browsers and not others, gives way to it.
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web/signals.svg and web/deadair-{on,off}.svg, each with a -dark twin,
follow logo.svg's rules: square and opaque, the logo's gradient ground,
flat layers in its scale blues, the needle's orange, nothing thin
enough to vanish at 32px. Signals is the page's own glyph, waves going
out from a point, the point in orange. DeadAir on is the waveform
closed up with the needle at the cut; off has the silence still in its
middle, an orange flat line, and its bars muted, so the state is in
the shape as the old glyphs had it.
The Signals folder row and its page header show the Signals tile in
place of the glyph on an accent tint; the player's DeadAir switch shows
the on or off tile. tile() puts both variants on the page, and the mode
rule that picked the logo's now picks any .onlight/.ondark. The three
glyphs nothing uses any more are gone.
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A Signal is a name and keywords. A task beside DeadAir's asks TypeSafe's Jev, on the owner's own
key, about each item of their subscribed feeds from the last 30 days and every new one: one call
an item, one noul question for each of their Signals still to hear about it, 0.5 or more a fit.
Every verdict is kept, fitting or not, in signal_verdicts, so nothing is asked twice, and new
keywords drop a Signal's verdicts to be judged afresh. A key TypeSafe refuses (401/402/403) is
passed over until its owner saves another, so a bad key is not sent the whole queue.
A Signal's items come through entries_where with an EXISTS on its hits, so filters, search, sort
and read state are an ordinary list's, and reading an item in a Signal reads it in its feed.
The page shows Signals under the places, with New signal, and Settings takes the TypeSafe key,
which is never sent back. The browser suite stubs Jev in the fixture server (IPX_TYPESAFE_URL).
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#241: on production, All Subscriptions' query runs in 31 ms, unread oldest-first in 30, the
feed list's count in 5, generic plans included (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, BUFFERS, read only), against
0.3-1.6 s in ipx. A new Postgres connection takes 80-330 ms to open, and a page load asks for
more than are idle: four of six slow loads came as the pool grew (3 to 6, 2 to 6, 3 to 5, 6 to
8), and 20 requests at once took a median 414 ms while the pool grew from 8 to 20. The daemon
and the directory's server now keep their whole pool open (min = max); a command such as `ipx
status`, and the tests, which share the server's 100 connections, open as they need.
#246: the page reports list_shown, the ms from asking for a list to drawing it, with the view
and filter, under the click's trace; background refreshes are not timed. Timings skip report()'s
once-a-minute limit, which is for errors in a loop. A dashboard panel and table, and the prod
check, read it.
#245: the load test's browse scenario subscribes by OPML and leaves the Directory, which is
ipx-directory's since #204, to it.
CLAUDE.md records the owner's leave to EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) any query on production,
read only.
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$<T> returns the element type it is given and assumes the element is there: 122 lookups take
their type from the tag their id is on in the markup. A handler reads its target through a
cast, since a typed element will not take a handler whose event names a narrower target.
strictNullChecks found no bug the page had; its 94 places were values the code already handles
in ways the type-check could not follow (data- attributes the page writes, a map entry set the
line before, Share drawn only for an item with a link), each now said so.
isPlayable stays a plain boolean: as a type guard its false would have meant "no file", and it
is also false for a file that is not audio or video.
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290 places the type-check could not see into, mostly parameters, now typed with web/src/types.ts
(feeds, items, files, accounts, log lines, the directory's rows and items). Two changes run
differently in form only: the seek and volume inputs divide Number(value) where they divided
the string, and esc's table has a name. Null checks are #236.
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web/src/types.ts mirrors FeedRow, EntryRow, EncRow, /api/me and PopularRow; types only, so
swc strips it and it is not in build.mjs's list.
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The page reported NetworkError rejections from the live update's list refresh and the first
feed load, which had no catch, whenever the network was gone (a laptop asleep). A Cloudflare
502 page became a request's error message, since api() used whatever body came back. And
the trace id lived until the next tap, so background requests nine hours apart shared one
trace. The id now ends after a minute without a request; a play's position saves, every ten
seconds, keep it going.
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Nothing the page did in the browser reached the logs: a DeadAir playback
failure on the phone was a toast and nothing more. POST /api/client takes
page errors, unhandled rejections, hls.js and media errors, the time from
play to sound and the length of a stall, and logs them as ev lines under
ipx::client, inside the request's span. Only those kinds are taken, the
text cut to 500 characters, and the page sends each at most once a minute.
The page's API requests send traceparent, a new trace id for each tap or
key, and the server's request span takes it as its parent, so one action's
requests are one trace in Tempo, the report included. The stub DOM the
smoke and native-bridge tests run in gains crypto and performance, which
every browser the page runs in has.
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A new download in a show with DeadAir on plays at full length until its
copy is made, and nothing said so. Each file now carries
deadair_pending while DeadAir is on for its show and the copy is still
to come (not for one heard through, which it passes over), and the
episode's line and details say "Cutting dead air…". The maker sends a
deadair_done event when it finishes a file, and the page takes the list
again, so the line becomes how much shorter the episode is without a
reload.
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Outlined bars against solid ones read the wrong way round at 20 px: the
outlines ran together and the off icon looked the heavier. The off icon
now has the gap in its middle, the on icon has it closed.
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A DeadAir switch in each show's settings, and the same switch beside
the speed for the show that is playing, drawn as a waveform with its gap
closed up, outlined when off and solid when on, with aria-pressed. A
file the server gives a copy for plays from /media/{id}/deadair. An
episode's line says how much shorter it is, and Settings says how much
DeadAir has saved you.
Turning it on or off mid-episode saves the place with a request it waits
for, not a beacon, then asks for the entry again from the new
GET /api/entries/{feed}/{guid}, whose position is in the clock of the
version it now plays, and carries on there. A copy not made yet plays
from the next time. Turning a show on wakes the copy maker, so the copy
is there in seconds rather than at its next pass.
The browser test plays a real MP3 with long silences, quiet.mp3, from a
show it adds and removes itself.
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The Directory was one grid of every listed feed, 1,472 in production, under Podcasts and Blogs
tabs, a wall of about 30 category buttons and a sort menu, with a picked category's
subcategories appearing as a second row of buttons that looked like the first. It read as a
list to scroll, and the two rows were hard to tell apart.
It opens now on the ten most subscribed feeds, ranked, and the categories as tiles, each with
three of its shows' covers fanned in its corner on the tint its initials would get, so the
shows colour it and no theme's palette changes. A category has a page of its own: its most
subscribed, its subcategories with how many each holds, and its grid. See all is every feed,
as the grid was. Podcasts or Blogs holds across every page. Popular, the ten most subscribed,
had a place of its own in the feed list; it is the Directory's first section instead, and its
key, g p, is gone. /api/popular stays for scripts.
The search box finds a feed in the Directory by name (#126). It said "Search items…" there and
did nothing, since loadEntries returns early for a place that lists feeds.
A feed you do not subscribe to opens a page of its own (#128): its cover, category (a link to
that category's page), how many here subscribe, a subscribe button and its latest twenty items,
each with its title, linking to the post where it has one, its first lines, date and length.
Before, a click on it did nothing; only its + did. The items come from GET /api/directory/{id},
which answers only for a feed the Directory lists, so a guessed id reaches nothing private, and
carries no file or its address. The feed's own description would belong at the top, but the
database does not keep one.
Every tile and chart row takes the keyboard, as the feed list's rows do. Feed text made plain
keeps a space at a line break or a paragraph's end, which glued "2010)Recorded" together.
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The page loaded artwork from each publisher's server, or through /api/art, fetched every time,
for http-only hosts. Nothing was kept, every visit asked every publisher, and artwork went when
a publisher's server did.
- The page draws every image a feed or item names from /api/art. The first time, iPX fetches
it (only an address a feed or item names, only an image, up to 5 MB, within the feed timeout)
and keeps it in art/ beside the database, under a hash of its address with its type beside
it (src/art.rs). Later it comes from disk, which marks it as used.
- art_cache_mb, a server setting on the admin page, 500 by default, caps what is kept: the
sweep before each scan drops the least recently shown until it fits. 0 keeps nothing, and
artwork is fetched through iPX each time. Settings saved before it get the default.
- Served from iPX's own address, someone else's image must stay an image: nosniff, and a CSP
with sandbox, so an SVG opened on its own runs no script as iPX.
- The fixture server sends .jpg as image/jpeg, which /api/art requires.
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Through ipodderx.sdf1.net the page is https, the browser upgrades an http:// image to https,
and a host with no https, such as The Secret Cabal's CDN, answers nothing, so no artwork. On an
https page, the page now asks /api/art for those, and ipx fetches them. It only fetches an
address some feed or entry names as its artwork, and only an image, up to 5 MB, so the route
cannot be pointed at anything else on the network.
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4ed2d59 drew a pressed toggle in each theme's accent colour; the themes'
colours were not to change. Back as they were, pinned rows included. The
read button carries its state in its shape instead, as the pin does with
outline and solid: a tick when read, the envelope when not, where before
it showed the action (the envelope on a read item).
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A sweep of all 24 theme palettes, measuring each icon's drawn colour,
found pinned in three colours: accent in the feed list, the text colour
on an item's row, and uncoloured on the toolbar, beside the title and on
the feed page. The read button showed the action (an envelope on a read
item) beside a pin showing the state. Now each toggle shows what is, with
aria-pressed, and a pressed one is the accent colour; Classic needs its
own rule, as its buttons set their colour at higher specificity. The
contrast test checks the accent on the button grounds, where it now draws.
Directory's Subscribe button carried the Subscribed tick; it is a plus.
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A share button in the feed's header, beside an item's "Open the original", and on each file.
It uses the Web Share API where the browser has it, which is the share sheet on a phone, and
copies the link where it does not. A file is shared by the publisher's address, not /media/,
which only someone signed in here can open.
Paid feeds carry the subscriber's access in their address, Patreon's in a token, so sharing one
gives the subscription away. An address that looks like that asks first.
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Measured every theme's palette against WCAG AA. The unread badge's count
on its --accent2 fill fell as low as 2.6:1 (Flat Remix light), and the
unread dot with it; each theme's --accent2 is taken down until white on
it clears 4.5. Tags were --warn or --bad on --raise, short of AA in most
light themes, so they are outlined on the row's own ground instead.
Nordic dark had --line equal to --panel2, so bordered buttons on a
panel2 ground drew no edge at all. Classic's selected row left the
row's icon buttons grey on the blue. A zero badge on a selected row was
--raise on --raise and vanished.
login.html never had a doctype or viewport meta, so it rendered in
quirks mode and at desktop width on a phone, and its light palette sat
under data-theme="light", which nothing ever set. It follows
prefers-color-scheme now, signed out having no account to ask.
Dropped the unused log and users icons. The Classic theme's label is
now just "Classic".
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/admin, with Server, Accounts and Log sections chosen by the URL's hash. The
server sends the page and /admin.js to admins only (anyone else asking for the
page goes back to the app, and the script is 403), and removes the header's link
to it from everyone else's page rather than hiding it. The API keeps refusing
all of it to non-admins as before.
Settings becomes personal: theme, OPML import and export, and the schedule and
download folder to read. The server fields, the Users dialog and the Log dialog
move out of dialogs.ts into admin.ts.
The CSS moves out of index.html into web/app.css, which both pages load as
/app.css?v=<hash>, served immutable like the scripts. The smoke test checks both
pages.
Closes#19.
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- The logo as favicon, squared up (it is 128x121), at /favicon.png and at
/favicon.ico outside the auth layer, where a browser asking on its own got a
401; an apple-touch-icon on white (#32).
- An item not yet downloaded had its download bar on a line of its own under the
file icon, lifting the icon above its row's; the bar now sits under it without
taking space (#31).
- A feed error is Font Awesome's exclamation, hung in the margin where a folder's
triangle is, in the same column; a folder holding a failing feed has its
triangle turn red.
Closes#31, #32.
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- web/src/*.ts: the script that was inline in index.html and login.html, split along its
existing sections. Still one scope, concatenated in order, not modules.
- web/build.mjs strips the types, puts the script in the page and minifies it with swc;
build.rs runs it into OUT_DIR and web.rs include_str!s the result. 137 KB -> 106 KB.
- npx tsc -p . type-checks web/src, loosely; the handful of annotations it needed
change no behaviour.
- The Docker build installs node and swc (npm ci --omit=dev).
- Two list requests racing no longer let the older one win, and switching tabs clears
the selection it closes, which made a browser test flaky.
Closes#23, #24.
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