Two things set the rhythm, and neither is a row counter — that beats like a metronome. It comes due on a count of *cards*: a block is a set of stories and a hero is one story however many cells it takes, so a stretch thick with big footprints reaches the count over more rows than a stretch of squares does, and block heights end up tracking the size mix (measured: four to five rows through square-heavy runs, six to seven where art clusters). And the break *makes* its own section front rather than waiting for one, promoting the card that opens a new block to a hero. Waiting was the first attempt and it failed on the numbers — a banner lands at the start of a row on its own two to five times in thirty-six, so the preference almost never fired and a max-rows cap did all the work. Promotion always fits, since a break only falls on a row with all four cells free. A tail guard keeps the last cut from leaving a rule with a fragment under it.
The break sits between two grids rather than inside one: a grid item would be stretched to the 9rem row track, and out here its height is its own, down to nothing. Three custom properties are the whole contract a theme writes against — the air around it, the rule through it, an optional glyph centred on that rule — with `none` on the last two meaning the real absence of each, so a theme can remove the separation entirely rather than leave an empty band. Themes wanting something a rule can't be reach past the properties to plain CSS: nyt pairs hairlines in the grid's own pen and clips them to the art inset (which moves up to the feed, since a property on the grid can't reach a sibling); brutalist spends air around the 2px border it already divides everything else with; kanagawa takes a comment divider, geocities the rainbow its header ends on, melange a thinner band of the mélange. The page gutter moves to a feed wrapper so every block lines up on the same edges, and nyt's masking frame now runs once per block, which is what makes each of them read frameless and not just the feed.
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Posting a dump was a single form where the important choices were the easiest
to miss. It is now three panels: link or file, why & where, playlists.
Composition:
- No more URL/File toggle. An empty panel offers both ways in at once and the
kind follows what you actually did; a file dropped anywhere in the modal is
accepted, not just on the zone.
- Categories and visibility get their own panel instead of a disclosure that
read as optional, and the primary button stays "Next" until they've been
seen. Visibility carries a real label now.
- The draft (link, title, why, categories, visibility) is mirrored to
localStorage on every change and restored on reopen, so Escape or a stray
backdrop click costs nothing. Only an attached file can't be restored, so
that is the one case that asks before closing.
- URL dumps can carry a poster-supplied title instead of being stuck with
whatever the page scraped, editable right under the preview.
- Multipart uploads go through XHR so there is a real progress bar and a
percentage on the button, rather than 50 MB of silence.
Duplicates:
- New dumps.url_canonical column (+ index, backfilled by 0013) holding a lossy
key that ignores scheme, www., trailing slashes, tracking parameters and
YouTube share shapes. GET /api/dumps/by-url reads it, and the create form
warns "already dumped by X" while it fetches the preview. Never blocking.
Fixes:
- /api/preview now reports whether the page was actually reached: a failed
fetch still yields a hostname-only stub, so a dead link and a page without
metadata used to render identically.
- The Web Share Target never worked. The manifest posts to "/", but the index
redirect dropped the query string, so every Android share landed on the feed
with nothing pre-filled.
- File dumps no longer take the extension into their title.
- The link field no longer autofocuses on touch, where it raised a keyboard
over the modal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TiAPtJZeCYYk8rKehtLUQU
The player now holds a queue instead of a single item, so albums play
through and single tracks share the same code path. Adds a "stream" item
kind for expiring, remotely-hosted sources: Bandcamp signs its mp3 URLs
for ~24h, so an item carries the page it came from and re-resolves itself
on error or on a stale restored session, falling back to the iframe embed
if that fails too.
Gated behind GERBEUR_BANDCAMP_PLAYER (default "embed"), injected into a
meta tag the same way as site-name/site-emoji.
Also: player header gains artwork and a subtitle, volume persists across
queue advances and reloads, and cross-origin streams get a plain seek bar
rather than a waveform that can never decode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SbtjNsT5wvuABnfqhegZEJ
The hot/new feeds go through FilePreview, which asks for
GET /api/thumbnails/:dumpId unconditionally on a video mime and lets VideoThumb
fall back to an icon if it 404s. The journal instead only recognised image files
and dump.thumbnailMime — and that field maps to custom_thumbnail_mime, i.e. a
thumbnail somebody uploaded by hand. Nothing on the Dump object advertises the
ffmpeg still the route generates on demand, so hasThumbnail() returned false,
mode degraded to text, and the card rendered a 🎬.
hasThumbnail() and JournalCard's thumbnail resolution now both treat a video
file as art, resolving to the same route. Since hasThumbnail() also gates grid
footprints, video dumps can now claim feature/tall/wide slots — the mosaic has
noticeably more image cards as a result, which is the point.
ThumbnailPlaceholder gains `glyph` and `seed`: a host without ffmpeg gets a 404
and lands on the placeholder, where the mime emoji says more about the dump than
an initial taken from its filename, and the hue is seeded from the filename
since there's no hostname to hash.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Thumbnails were failing in two different ways that both ended as an empty box.
Cloudflare hotlink protection answers a cross-site Referer with 403, so images
we had extracted correctly (dles.aukspot.com's og:image among them) never
rendered — every onError handler set display:none and swallowed it. The new
Thumbnail component loads with referrerPolicy="no-referrer", retries once
through /api/proxy-image for hosts that reject an empty referrer too, and only
then falls back to a placeholder.
Separately, the extraction cascade ended at the page's icon and then a guessed
/favicon.ico, so thumbnailUrl was almost never empty — just a 16x16 icon
cover-cropped into a 128x72 box. It now stops at real artwork, with faviconUrl
and accentColor (theme-color / msapplication-TileColor / mask-icon) as their own
fields. An absent thumbnailUrl finally means "no artwork", which is what makes
the placeholder possible: the site's own color mixed into the theme surface,
with its favicon centered on it, or its initial. Contrast holds for any
third-party color by construction rather than by luminance math, so nyt only
has to set --thumb-tint-strength to 0% to stay monochrome and geocities only
has to raise it. Missing accents fall back to a stable hostname-derived hue, so
rows saved before this get a tint with no backfill.
Migration 0011 reclassifies favicon-shaped thumbnailUrls on existing dumps.
The journal mosaic keeps its pull-quote and text fallbacks — the placeholder
appears there only to repair a broken image.
Also fixed: refresh silently overwrote good metadata with a failure stub, the
refresh button swallowed every error, refresh never broadcast the update,
extractBestIcon ranked SVG icons below 16x16 PNGs, and shared links with no
artwork carried no og:image at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
