Both fetched on every visit and drew only when the answer came: Currently Listening took 1.3 s.
fetchPage keeps their answers by address, as the item lists are kept, sharing a request already
on its way; both draw from what is kept at once and again only if the refresh changed them, and
show the spinner with nothing kept. They are fetched ahead with the lists when the page loads,
and when the pointer or a finger reaches their row. Removing an episode from Currently Listening
forgets its kept copy, which would otherwise show it again until the refresh. The preload loop
takes a failed fetch as done instead of leaving an unhandled rejection.
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A click on a feed, All Subscriptions or a filter fetched the list and only then drew it, so
nothing answered the click until the server did. The page now keeps the first page of each list
(the newest 40, by view, filter, sort and search), draws a kept one at once and refreshes it
behind, drawing again only if it changed. It fetches ahead: All Subscriptions and the twenty
feeds with the most unread once the page is idle, two at a time, and a feed or filter when the
pointer or a finger reaches it. A feed_row or a read forgets that feed's lists and All
Subscriptions'; the forgotten are fetched again behind. A list with nothing kept shows a
spinner if its answer takes more than 120 ms.
list_shown (#246) is reported when the list first shows, so a kept one reports its few ms.
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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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Measured on 2026-10-15: the feed list and item lists went out uncompressed at over 100 KB; ipx
read 2.6 GB of feed bodies a day and the directory 3.9 GB.
- ipx-web compresses with zstd or gzip, leaving out /api/events, which a compressor would hold
back, and /media (#239).
- A body identical to the last one (SHA-256 in feeds.body_hash) is taken as a 304, unless
something is missing a read would fill or the check is forced; and a feed without a schedule
of its own whose body has been the same waits a twelfth of that, up to four hours, beside the
failure backoff (#242). 35 Patreon show feeds sent ~300 KB each hourly, about 250 MB a day.
- The directory checks each feed every twelve hours, not six (#243).
- reqwest accepts brotli and zstd too (#244).
#240 (cache the feed list's counts) is left open: at production's size on the test Postgres
that count takes 12 ms and All Subscriptions 32 ms, against 366 and 300 ms in production, so
the cause is production's database, not the query (#241).
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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 buttons followed the feeds being checked, so they stopped between one feed and the next;
7ecbe82 held them for 600 ms over each gap. Now pressing one starts it, and scan_done stops
it only when it is the end of the scan asked for: scan_done carries `only` and `forced`, so a
scheduled scan finishing first does not stop a button whose scan is queued behind it. An
error event, a job that failed without a scan_done, stops them all.
A row's spinner stood in for its unread count from the moment its feed was checked; most
checks take milliseconds, so each count blinked as the scan went by. It now waits 300 ms.
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A scan checks its feeds one at a time; in the gap between two the body class came off, the
icon snapped back upright and the spin restarted, many times a second with fetches ahead.
The class now comes off only after 600 ms with nothing being checked.
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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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Each release is now a Gitea release as well as an image: scripts/release.sh takes the binary (or
the page's files) out of the deployed image, checks its version, and attaches it as a tarball with
the changelog section as the notes.
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The zone is in Cloudflare and the rays-unraid tunnel routes the name to ipx-directory, as it
does ipx-dir.sdf1.net, which keeps answering until every server using it has moved: a redirect
to another host would drop the Authorization header. Production ipx shares with the new name.
CLAUDE.md, docs/directory.md, the prod-check skill and the dashboard name it; the admin page's
placeholder and the settings' hint use directory.example.net.
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A Directory feed's page offers Check now and Remove to an admin whose token is rwa (the page
learns it from can_admin on the feed's page, asked of the directory only for admins). Admin,
Directory lists the servers sharing, from a new GET /v1/instances, and the blocked feeds by
title: a feed is often blocked because its address carries a key, so the address stays in the
directory. Unblocking or dropping a snapshot sends this server's snapshot again at once; since
directory's 403 reaches the page as 403, not 502.
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The workspace stops holding one version. ipx keeps 0.12.1-dev and its vX.Y.Z tags; the directory
starts at 0.1.0-dev, tagged directory-vX.Y.Z, and the page at 0.1.0-dev in package.json, tagged
web-vX.Y.Z, which web/build.mjs gives the script for the logo's tooltip beside ipx's. crates/feed
is a library, not released. CLAUDE.md's release steps are for one service at a time.
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CHANGELOG.md moves to crates/ipx/CHANGELOG.md with its history, which until 0.12.0 was all of
ipx's; web/CHANGELOG.md and crates/directory/CHANGELOG.md start with this release's lines for the
page and the directory. The dashboard's lines go: monitoring is not a service anyone uses.
CLAUDE.md says which file a change goes in, and that a release covers each.
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Caddy's tracing directive, switched by WEB_TRACING so a server without a collector does not log
a failed export every few seconds. It continues an incoming traceparent (the page starts one per
tap, #190) and passes it to ipx, so a request is one trace from the browser through Caddy into
ipx, and Caddy's access log carries its traceID. Checked against Tempo with a probe container:
service.name and deployment.environment.name come from the OTEL_ variables, over OTLP/HTTP.
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The #146 rule lets icon buttons shrink so a feed header's seven fit one row at 390px. It
matched the Directory feed page's row too, where nothing sets the row's width, so the buttons
shrank to their icons: 18px wide, 44px tall.
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Caddy logs one JSON line a request, filtered: no ?token= in the address and no request
headers, which hold the session cookie and Access's token. Its default log, errors included,
has the same filter, since an error line carries the request too. The directory logs a line a
refresher round, so the dashboard can show its progress.
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Caddy reports an IPv4 peer as plain IPv4 even on its dual-stack socket, so remote_ip
192.168.64.1 matched all along. The stripping seen came from testing on Tower itself, whose
requests reach the published port as 192.168.1.130, rightly not the tunnel. From
cloudflared's network a forged Access token reaches ipx's check and is refused.
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Caddy listens dual-stack, so the ipx_default gateway connects as ::ffff:192.168.64.1, and
remote_ip 192.168.64.1 does not match it: every Cf-Access-* header was stripped, the
tunnel's too. The browser suite binds Caddy to 127.0.0.1, IPv4 only, so it never saw it.
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web/build.mjs builds a static site, web/dist, with the icons and typeface
beside the pages; Dockerfile.web serves it with Caddy, which passes /api
and /media to ipx on the same origin, so cookies, live updates and
Cloudflare Access work as before. ipx serves no page any more: build.rs
and every include_str! of the web files are gone, and its image is built
without node.
What ipx did to the page as it served it is kept another way. Caddy asks
ipx before serving a page (forward_auth): /api/page-check sends a browser
not signed in to /login and a non-admin away from /admin, and refuses them
/admin.js; /api/login-check sends someone Access vouches for past the
form; a page asked for with ?token= goes to /api/signin, which sets the
cookie. The theme and the admin link, once written into the page per
person, are set by web/boot.js in <head> from the theme cookie and the
last visit, before the first frame, and /api/me brings the version and
the account's theme from before.
Caddy strips the Cf-Access-* headers from every peer but TUNNEL_PEER, the
address cloudflared's requests come from, which is the boundary
trusted_proxies drew; ipx then trusts only Caddy's address.
The browser suite runs Caddy in front of its daemon, so it tests what
production would run. Not deployed: production's cutover is on #203.
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ipx asks ipx-directory on its people's behalf, with the token an admin set
in the new Admin, Directory tab, so the page never talks to it and never
sees the token or a feed's address. /api/directory, /api/popular and a
feed's Directory page answer from it; subscribing takes the address from
the directory and goes through Add feed's steps. With no directory set
up, the Directory says so. The local directory code is gone; its privacy
checks are the snapshot builder's now, and their tests moved with them.
With sharing on, ipx sends its snapshot after every scan, whenever the
config changes (set_cfg) and every half hour: each public feed and how
many here subscribe, never an OPML or Patreon creator itself or anything
private. A feed can be marked private in its settings, for a paid feed
whose address does not give it away; anyone subscribed may mark it, only
an admin unmark it. The admin's category for a feed that names none goes
with it, which the directory uses only while the feed names none, so the
category an admin gives a blog still reaches the Directory.
The directory lists only feeds it has read as a feed: the first snapshot
after a start went before the first scan, when an OPML was not yet known
to be one, and the directory listed the OPML. It now fetches what a
snapshot brings in at once instead of within the minute.
The browser suite runs its own ipx-directory on SQLite; the Directory's
tests match feeds by title, since the directory names them by address.
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A feed's settings stopped showing its folder in 0.10.3; the dialog that adds one
still asked for it. The API keeps its folder for scripts.
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hls.js sends traceparent on its own requests (xhrSetup); a beacon, which
cannot set a header, and Safari's player, fetching the playlist itself,
carry it in the query, which the server reads where there is no header.
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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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The save button fetched the original while the player played it shortened.
/media/{id}/deadair sends the original's ID3 tag and then the pieces of the
person's plan one after another, read as it goes: MP3 and ADTS frames each
stand alone, so that is a file any player takes, and nothing is stored, as
with the playlist. The tag stops at the first kept frame, since what can
follow it, the Xing frame, gives the original's length.
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Below the box it read as a setting about something else. It sits after
the download options' fold, not in it, since DeadAir applies whether or
not the show downloads on its own.
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"Pause it leaves" said how DeadAir works, with an "it" to decode, not
what you hear. Greyed out rather than hidden, so the choice can be seen
before DeadAir is turned on.
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The four segmented buttons gave no sense that 0.2 to 0.5 s is one scale,
and stayed on screen with DeadAir off, where they did nothing. A range
input with a dot at each stop and Brisk/Relaxed at its ends says both.
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DeadAir made a shortened copy of each episode with ffmpeg: as much disk
again as the original, one pause length for everyone, and a minutes-long
wait after the download. Seeking past silences instead was tried on an
iPhone and left about 1.3 s of nothing at every cut (#178).
Now it finds a file's silences once (silencedetect, plus ffprobe for
each frame's byte position) and stores a plan for each pause a person
can choose, 0.2 to 0.5 s: the cuts, and the frames kept as byte ranges
of the original. /media/{id}/deadair.m3u8 hands this person's plan out
as an HLS playlist of ranges of /media/{id}/deadair.mp3, the original.
Tested on iOS Safari first (#180): no gap at the cuts, plays locked,
seeks exactly, and needs no ID3 timestamp in front of each piece.
Other browsers get hls.js (1.6.19, the light build), loaded only when
needed. Not where canPlayType says it can play HLS: Chromium answers
"maybe" and then fails on MP3 ranges with "stream parsing failed", so
only Apple's browsers play the playlist themselves.
The pause is per person and per show, on deadair_prefs.pause_ms, 0.3 s
unless chosen; 0.2 s, what the copies left, made speech sound rushed.
AAC in MP4 has no ranges a playlist can use, so only MP3 and ADTS AAC
are shortened (the library is 803 MP3s and no .m4a). The copies, their
table and #179's expiry go: the first start drops the table and deletes
the files it names, only those named name.deadair.*.
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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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The pane is 245 px wide above 820 px, and a downloaded file's size and
four buttons did not fit, so delete wrapped under the rest. The row no
longer wraps, its gaps and the buttons' padding are tighter, and the
size gives way with an ellipsis if anything still has to.
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The switch, the button's tooltip, the toasts and the time saved now say
what the name already pictures, the dead air cut, instead of explaining
it as silences shortened each time. The caption says the voice keeps its
own pace, which is the part people doubt, and names the shows to leave
out: stories whose pauses are part of the telling.
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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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Asked for: swiping on from the last item in the reader showed "No more items" in faint text beside
it; the pane is now the theme's accent colour and says nothing, the colour saying it is the end.
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Asked for: "Nothing here yet — try Scan now." and "Pick an item to read it." are gone. A search
that finds nothing still says so, as the words typed are the reason.
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Asked for: the API tokens section of Settings sits in the same rounded box as a feed's download
settings, set apart from the rest of the dialog.
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Asked for after the redesign: the switch and what depends on it sit in one box with rounded
corners, in place of the rule down their left side. Drawn in --line rather than --edge, so it shows
on a phone too, where --edge draws no outlines; the indent the rule needed goes with it.
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Asked for after the redesign went out: the box of settings the same for everyone (address, folder,
Directory category) held what a person reading the feed cannot and should not change. The address
moves to the top, under the feed's name, with its copy button, read-only except to an admin, who
can still follow a feed that moved from its failing banner. The folder and the category leave the
dialog.
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One column of label, box and grey paragraph, eight times at the same weight, three screens long on a
phone with Save at the bottom of the third. Approved from the mockups on #167.
- Download automatically comes first, as a switch; how many, the keywords and explicit, which only
ever applied to automatic downloads, hang beneath it and fold away when it is off.
- How many is Default, Newest or All, said as a sentence with the number in it, over a strip of the
feed's own newest items, each as tall as it is long and lit where it downloads; dragging along
it sets Newest. All is 0, which now means all (#166).
- Keywords and hidden words are chips: Enter or a comma adds one, its x or Backspace removes it.
- The feed's own settings, the same for everyone and an admin's to change, sit apart in a box.
- The body scrolls and Cancel and Save stay at the foot.
- Theme colours only; iOS switches, but checkboxes in Classic. openModal takes a class for a
dialog with a frame of its own, set whole each time so it never outlives it.
A browser test covers the strip, chips, the fold and a save that holds.
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Classic is drawn after the 2004 iPodderX app, so its top bar shows that app's icon (/icon.png) in
place of the iPX logo, on the app and admin pages. The favicon stays the iPX one.
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All Subscriptions said 1 unread when the server had none. The badge is the page's own sum of its
feed list, loaded once and patched only by events the server sends when a scan or a download
changes a feed. Reading an item, marking everything read or unsubscribing sends none, so another
device's page kept its old counts, and an iPhone stops the event stream while the app is in the
background, missing everything meanwhile; the reconnect did not catch up.
The page now takes the feed list and the open list again when it comes back into view and when the
stream reconnects after a drop. A browser test reads an item behind the page's back and checks the
badge follows once the page is shown again; it fails without this.
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In a home-screen app iOS paints the strip behind the status bar and the Dynamic Island itself, in
one flat colour, from theme-color. Glass's bar is see-through, so theme-color fell back to Glass's
page background, #0b0d14 (#eef1f7 light), above a bar that showed #191e34 on average, bluer at the
left and purple at the right: a near-black band, or a white one in light mode.
No flat strip can match a see-through bar, so on a phone the bar is solid, in what it showed on
average (--glass-bar, measured in Chromium off the bar's top edge), and theme-color carries the
same colour. Everywhere else Glass is as it was. The browser test checks the bar is solid and
theme-color equals it in both modes.
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On a phone the feed list is a drawer slid off the screen to the left, and it kept its shadow
there, which fell back across the page: the left 30px or so of the top bar and everything under
it were darker, in every theme (Glass light 231,233,243 at the edge against 246,247,255). Beside
the flat strip iOS paints above the page it made a seam at the top-left corner (#147).
Hiding the closed drawer instead (visibility) would also have done it, but every phone test
starts by waiting for the feed list to be visible, which off the screen it still counts as.
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46f9370 set theme-color, but Safari 26 ignores it. iOS 26 paints the strip behind the status bar
and the island in the background colour of a sticky or fixed element at the page's top edge, and
failing that the root's. The top bar was neither, and the root had no colour of its own (only
body did), so iOS used black or white: a band of another colour above the bar.
The bar is sticky now, though nothing scrolls under it, so iOS reads its colour; the root has the
page's background for screens with nothing at the top edge; Classic's metal bar gets a colour
under its gradient, the top of the metal, since iOS reads no gradient. theme-color stays, set to
the bar's colour, for iPhones before iOS 26 and for Android. Glass's bar is see-through, so iOS
frosts what is under it there, as the bar itself does.
Taken from developers' reports of iOS 26, not Apple's documentation, and not yet seen on a phone.
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