gerbeur

db

v4: every image the API serves comes scaled to the size it is shown at — a first visit to the feed loaded 4.8 MB of images out of 5.1 MB in all: an avatar shown at 32 pixels was the upload itself, a 1.4 MB GIF among them, and so were a cover, a custom thumbnail, an attachment and a proxied image, only an image dump having a preview, 960 pixels wide. Every route that answers an image now takes ?w= and sends a WebP copy at most that wide, of the widths shared/image.ts lists, 128, 320, 640 and 960, a width between two taking the one above, and never wider than the image; without it the upload goes out as before, a dump's thumbnail alone being scaled to the widest by default, the custom ones included. serveImage (lib/upload.ts) is where they all end, and the image proxy scales what it fetched the same way, keeping each width in its cache. lib/ffmpeg.ts makes the copies as it made the previews, which they replace: on first request, under uploads/scaled/ at the upload's own path, each given its upload's date and made again when the two differ, so a new avatar or cover needs nobody to delete the old ones. WebP keeps a PNG's transparency and a GIF's animation. A JPEG is turned by its EXIF orientation here, ffmpeg's own rotation of images depending on its version. An animated WebP, which ffmpeg can't read, and an image it fails on go out as they are, a failure being remembered until the upload changes. ?f=compat asks for the copy as a JPEG, or a PNG for what may be transparent: the digest's emails take their thumbnails that way, at 640 pixels, not every mail client reading WebP. On the client, imageProps (utils/shared/urls.ts) gives an image its srcset of those copies and the width it is laid out at, which config/imageSizes.ts states for each place from App.css: Avatar, Thumbnail, which scales an API image and leaves another site's as that site sends it, and the playlists' covers use it. The images of notes and comments still load as uploaded. The copies go with the dump, the custom thumbnail or the attachment they were made from, and generatedMediaSweepJob, a minute after the start then daily, takes those whose upload is gone, the previews under their former name and the temporary files a generation left unfinished.

2026-10-10 19:01:36 +00:00

lib

v4: a still is scaled from its first frame alone, a second image in its file made the copy flash — an avatar came out as a WebP of two frames looping at 40 ms each, the picture then a blank. A still's file may hold more than one image, a phone's JPEG carrying a gain map or a depth map after the photo, and ffmpeg reads each as a frame: only the JPEG and PNG copies were held to one, the WebP keeping them all as it does a GIF's. scalableImage (lib/upload.ts) now says whether the image is an animation, which a GIF alone is, and scaleImage (lib/ffmpeg.ts) writes one frame of anything else, in every format; the image proxy scales through the same call. The copies already made stay, a copy being current while it has its upload's date: uploads/scaled is to be deleted once on an instance that ran the previous version, everything in it being made again on first request.

2026-10-10 19:40:14 +00:00

mail

v4: the six styles are reworked, each around one idea of its own, and the tab row stops painting the page — a pass over every theme, then the faults it showed in what they share. Brutalist draws every box in ink with a solid offset shadow and sets the palette's colors as flat blocks (a teal tag, an apricot quote, an inked label); its dark scheme keeps that ink darker than the page, on Twilight Indigo, where eggshell lines glared across every frame. GeoCities goes to the desktop of its day: the header is the taskbar, the site's name its Start button, the controls grey bevels, and a marquee crawls under the header (Marquee.tsx, drawn in that style alone), with Comic Neue where the system has no Comic Sans. Melange leaves its browns and Fraunces for a sorbet blend in Bricolage Grotesque, run along the header, through the site's name, where it drifts, and between a journal's blocks; its two schemes are one print and its negative, trading ink and paper while the pink and the plum written on it stay, and they share one fine grain where the light one had a coarse tile that greyed the page. Kanagawa opens the comments and the related dumps on a status line and reads on Lotus's brightest paper; its page is flat. Times draws its heavy rules in a mid grey at night, where ink is near white, and sets a journal cell with no picture as text. In what the styles share: a row of tabs (TabBar) hid the tabs scrolled under its scope switcher, and faded its ends, by painting the page's color over them, which showed as a patch on any page that is a gradient or a picture. The switcher now sits before the row that scrolls, which clips the tabs at its edge, and the fades are a mask (--tab-fade-start and --tab-fade-end); useRoomBeside measures the row through that one more level. A page's title keeps a word whole unless it alone is wider than the line: Firefox sizes a title set with negative letter-spacing a hair narrower than it lays it out, which dropped its last letter to a second line in any style that tightened it, so the rule is the base's and the two styles' copies go. A card holding one paragraph, such as the instances a new account hasn't signed in to on /settings, is spaced by its padding and not by the paragraph's margins as well. The site's name answers the pointer as a card's title does in each style, where two of them left it still. The emails follow the styles' tokens, Melange's blend among them.

2026-10-12 19:30:57 +00:00

middleware

v4: the API's JSON and the page are sent compressed — a page of the feed went out as it was, twenty kilobytes where a fifth does: only the built frontend's files were compressed, at build time, and Deno's server leaves alone a response whose length Oak has set. compressMiddleware (api/middleware/compress.ts), installed after the error middleware and around everything that sets a body, sends an object or array, and a string whose type its route set, in brotli or gzip as the request's Accept-Encoding takes, a coding refused with q=0 not being taken, from a kilobyte up, the threshold the build compresses from. Brotli is at quality 5, the frontend's files, compressed once, staying at 11. Files, streams and bytes, a response already encoded, a HEAD and one marked no-transform go out as they are, and a compressible answer says Vary: Accept-Encoding whether compressed or not.

2026-10-10 19:01:06 +00:00

model

v4: playlists sort by their last dump, their creation or their size, and /playlists is a grid of covers — every list of playlists came newest first, so one fed every week sank under those made since and left empty. GET /api/playlists and /api/users/:key/playlists take ?sort=updated|new|dumps (PLAYLIST_SORTS, shared/playlist.ts), updated being the default: the last to take a dump first, or its creation while it holds none; a new title, cover or description doesn't bring it back up. A playlist carries that date as lastDumpAt, read with its dumpCount by isMemberVisibleTo's rule (VISIBLE_DUMP_FIGURES, the viewer's id as ?1), so the owner's private dumps date and count their playlists for them alone, in the lists and over the socket: playlist_created, playlist_updated and playlist_dumps_updated carry each socket's own. The /playlists page and a profile's playlists tab show the orders as tabs beside the category menu and keep the one picked in ?sort=, the default being the bare path; a tab takes the current history entry's place, and picking a category keeps the order. Live, usePlaylistListSync takes the list's order: a new playlist goes where it puts it, one that rises moves up to its place, as in the updated order when it takes a dump, and one that falls stays until the list is fetched again, its place being perhaps on a page not loaded. The lists in an order of their own, the followed playlists and the search's, pass none, and take no new playlist as before (noNewEntries goes). comparePlaylists is the order on the client, which a test holds to the API's.

2026-10-10 08:51:37 +00:00

remote

v4: a still is scaled from its first frame alone, a second image in its file made the copy flash — an avatar came out as a WebP of two frames looping at 40 ms each, the picture then a blank. A still's file may hold more than one image, a phone's JPEG carrying a gain map or a depth map after the photo, and ffmpeg reads each as a frame: only the JPEG and PNG copies were held to one, the WebP keeping them all as it does a GIF's. scalableImage (lib/upload.ts) now says whether the image is an animation, which a GIF alone is, and scaleImage (lib/ffmpeg.ts) writes one frame of anything else, in every format; the image proxy scales through the same call. The copies already made stay, a copy being current while it has its upload's date: uploads/scaled is to be deleted once on an instance that ran the previous version, everything in it being made again on first request.

2026-10-10 19:40:14 +00:00

routes

v4: the GeoCities marquee scrolls the community feed, what the site's members are doing — it crawled three canned lines, a welcome, "best viewed in Netscape Navigator" and "under construction", which said nothing of the site. The feed is a list any style may show (CommunityFeed.tsx), which GeoCities lays out along its marquee: who is online, the week's dumps, upvotes, comments and chat messages, linking to /community, its most upvoted dump, then the 12 latest things done in public, newest first, each ending on how long ago it was: a public dump posted, a public playlist created, a comment or an upvote on a public dump, someone joining and who invited them. Every name and title links to its page. A dump has one comment line and one upvote line at most, its latest, so that a thread or a popular dump doesn't fill the feed. GET /api/community/feed serves it, signed in only (community-service.ts): the events are read from the tables on each request, the week's figures are those /community already keeps, as of its last refresh. A signed-out visitor has no marquee. CommunityFeedProvider holds the feed around every page, so that it outlives the header each page renders anew, fetches it only while a component shows it, and fetches it again two seconds after the socket last told of a dump, a comment, a vote, a playlist, a rename, a deletion or a reconnection: the socket's messages don't carry a feed's lines, and the server's query stays the one place that decides what the feed holds. Someone joining comes with no message, and shows at the next of those. The crawl goes at 50 pixels a second however much the feed holds, Marquee.tsx measuring one copy for the stylesheet to work the loop's length out from, where a fixed 36 seconds would have sped up with every line. A loop shows what the feed held when it began: text that changed mid-crawl would jump, so what came meanwhile waits for the next loop, which also brings the times up to date. The next page's marquee carries on from where the last one's had got to, rather than from the start. The marquee was hidden from assistive technology as decoration; its first copy is now a labelled list of links, the second, which the seamless loop needs, hidden and out of the tab order. A link that takes the focus stops the crawl and the line scrolls to it, the pointer pauses it as before, and with reduced motion the line shows once, still, follows the feed as it changes and scrolls by hand. The sentences a notification also says, "posted", "upvoted", "commented on", share its translations. The tests' DOM gets an AnimationEvent before React loads (src/test/before-react.ts): finding none, React listened for the animation events under their WebKit names, and a test's "animationiteration" reached no handler.

2026-10-13 07:38:44 +00:00

scripts

v3: comments say what the code can't — the documentation pass wanted JSDoc on every export and every field of an exported interface, which filled the code with restatements ("The dump.", "Whether it is loading.", "The props of X.", "Renders the X.") and module docs that told a reader nothing ("The hot and new feeds, and the props every main feed of the index takes."); some were wrong as well as vague. Every comment in api/, shared/ and src/ is rewritten under one rule, now stated in the README's "Comments" section: every module and export still has a JSDoc, and it gives context (who uses it and where), usage (what a caller must know: a precondition, what it leaves to the caller, a side effect) or its place in the chain (where its input comes from, where its output goes); a field, parameter, private function or local gets one only when it adds to its parent's, and context about a whole type goes on the type; a type's doc is phrased from the value's side ("Returned to Y by X when Z", "Passed to Y by X"); full sentences, as short as they can be, no label-colon-list; // goes wherever the code isn't obvious and says why, and the section banners and narration go. Every claim was checked against the code, which turned up some forty comments that were wrong: DumpCard's claimed it was only used by the hot and new feeds, the WebSocket welcome claimed to be a socket's first message (presence comes first), UpdateUserRequest said null removes a description (it keeps it), deletedDumpIds leaves out that it also holds dumps made private, THEME_COLOR claimed to mirror index.html's, and the like. The routers' JSDoc now says where they are mounted and what becomes of a thrown APIException. doc-lint.ts lets a field without a doc through; a module or export without one still fails. No code changes; 204 backend and 628 frontend tests pass, and doc:lint, deno check, deno lint and tsc are clean.

2026-09-29 14:31:14 +00:00

services

v4: the GeoCities marquee scrolls the community feed, what the site's members are doing — it crawled three canned lines, a welcome, "best viewed in Netscape Navigator" and "under construction", which said nothing of the site. The feed is a list any style may show (CommunityFeed.tsx), which GeoCities lays out along its marquee: who is online, the week's dumps, upvotes, comments and chat messages, linking to /community, its most upvoted dump, then the 12 latest things done in public, newest first, each ending on how long ago it was: a public dump posted, a public playlist created, a comment or an upvote on a public dump, someone joining and who invited them. Every name and title links to its page. A dump has one comment line and one upvote line at most, its latest, so that a thread or a popular dump doesn't fill the feed. GET /api/community/feed serves it, signed in only (community-service.ts): the events are read from the tables on each request, the week's figures are those /community already keeps, as of its last refresh. A signed-out visitor has no marquee. CommunityFeedProvider holds the feed around every page, so that it outlives the header each page renders anew, fetches it only while a component shows it, and fetches it again two seconds after the socket last told of a dump, a comment, a vote, a playlist, a rename, a deletion or a reconnection: the socket's messages don't carry a feed's lines, and the server's query stays the one place that decides what the feed holds. Someone joining comes with no message, and shows at the next of those. The crawl goes at 50 pixels a second however much the feed holds, Marquee.tsx measuring one copy for the stylesheet to work the loop's length out from, where a fixed 36 seconds would have sped up with every line. A loop shows what the feed held when it began: text that changed mid-crawl would jump, so what came meanwhile waits for the next loop, which also brings the times up to date. The next page's marquee carries on from where the last one's had got to, rather than from the start. The marquee was hidden from assistive technology as decoration; its first copy is now a labelled list of links, the second, which the seamless loop needs, hidden and out of the tab order. A link that takes the focus stops the crawl and the line scrolls to it, the pointer pauses it as before, and with reduced motion the line shows once, still, follows the feed as it changes and scrolls by hand. The sentences a notification also says, "posted", "upvoted", "commented on", share its translations. The tests' DOM gets an AnimationEvent before React loads (src/test/before-react.ts): finding none, React listened for the animation events under their WebKit names, and a test's "animationiteration" reached no handler.

2026-10-13 07:38:44 +00:00

test

v4: the GeoCities marquee scrolls the community feed, what the site's members are doing — it crawled three canned lines, a welcome, "best viewed in Netscape Navigator" and "under construction", which said nothing of the site. The feed is a list any style may show (CommunityFeed.tsx), which GeoCities lays out along its marquee: who is online, the week's dumps, upvotes, comments and chat messages, linking to /community, its most upvoted dump, then the 12 latest things done in public, newest first, each ending on how long ago it was: a public dump posted, a public playlist created, a comment or an upvote on a public dump, someone joining and who invited them. Every name and title links to its page. A dump has one comment line and one upvote line at most, its latest, so that a thread or a popular dump doesn't fill the feed. GET /api/community/feed serves it, signed in only (community-service.ts): the events are read from the tables on each request, the week's figures are those /community already keeps, as of its last refresh. A signed-out visitor has no marquee. CommunityFeedProvider holds the feed around every page, so that it outlives the header each page renders anew, fetches it only while a component shows it, and fetches it again two seconds after the socket last told of a dump, a comment, a vote, a playlist, a rename, a deletion or a reconnection: the socket's messages don't carry a feed's lines, and the server's query stays the one place that decides what the feed holds. Someone joining comes with no message, and shows at the next of those. The crawl goes at 50 pixels a second however much the feed holds, Marquee.tsx measuring one copy for the stylesheet to work the loop's length out from, where a fixed 36 seconds would have sped up with every line. A loop shows what the feed held when it began: text that changed mid-crawl would jump, so what came meanwhile waits for the next loop, which also brings the times up to date. The next page's marquee carries on from where the last one's had got to, rather than from the start. The marquee was hidden from assistive technology as decoration; its first copy is now a labelled list of links, the second, which the seamless loop needs, hidden and out of the tab order. A link that takes the focus stops the crawl and the line scrolls to it, the pointer pauses it as before, and with reduced motion the line shows once, still, follows the feed as it changes and scrolls by hand. The sentences a notification also says, "posted", "upvoted", "commented on", share its translations. The tests' DOM gets an AnimationEvent before React loads (src/test/before-react.ts): finding none, React listened for the animation events under their WebKit names, and a test's "animationiteration" reached no handler.

2026-10-13 07:38:44 +00:00

validators

v4: playlists have categories of their own — a set apart from the dumps', which admins manage on /manage under "Playlist categories", next to "Dump categories". Each category now has a kind, dump or playlist, its slug and name unique within its kind only; migration 0025 rebuilds categories with the column, every existing one becoming a dump category with its dumps, and adds playlist_categories. A playlist's owner files it under any of them in the create and edit forms, and it shows them as chips on its card and its page, each leading to /playlists/<slug>.

2026-10-09 21:53:16 +00:00

config.ts

v4: every image the API serves comes scaled to the size it is shown at — a first visit to the feed loaded 4.8 MB of images out of 5.1 MB in all: an avatar shown at 32 pixels was the upload itself, a 1.4 MB GIF among them, and so were a cover, a custom thumbnail, an attachment and a proxied image, only an image dump having a preview, 960 pixels wide. Every route that answers an image now takes ?w= and sends a WebP copy at most that wide, of the widths shared/image.ts lists, 128, 320, 640 and 960, a width between two taking the one above, and never wider than the image; without it the upload goes out as before, a dump's thumbnail alone being scaled to the widest by default, the custom ones included. serveImage (lib/upload.ts) is where they all end, and the image proxy scales what it fetched the same way, keeping each width in its cache. lib/ffmpeg.ts makes the copies as it made the previews, which they replace: on first request, under uploads/scaled/ at the upload's own path, each given its upload's date and made again when the two differ, so a new avatar or cover needs nobody to delete the old ones. WebP keeps a PNG's transparency and a GIF's animation. A JPEG is turned by its EXIF orientation here, ffmpeg's own rotation of images depending on its version. An animated WebP, which ffmpeg can't read, and an image it fails on go out as they are, a failure being remembered until the upload changes. ?f=compat asks for the copy as a JPEG, or a PNG for what may be transparent: the digest's emails take their thumbnails that way, at 640 pixels, not every mail client reading WebP. On the client, imageProps (utils/shared/urls.ts) gives an image its srcset of those copies and the width it is laid out at, which config/imageSizes.ts states for each place from App.css: Avatar, Thumbnail, which scales an API image and leaves another site's as that site sends it, and the playlists' covers use it. The images of notes and comments still load as uploaded. The copies go with the dump, the custom thumbnail or the attachment they were made from, and generatedMediaSweepJob, a minute after the start then daily, takes those whose upload is gone, the previews under their former name and the temporary files a generation left unfinished.

2026-10-10 19:01:36 +00:00

main.ts

v4: every image the API serves comes scaled to the size it is shown at — a first visit to the feed loaded 4.8 MB of images out of 5.1 MB in all: an avatar shown at 32 pixels was the upload itself, a 1.4 MB GIF among them, and so were a cover, a custom thumbnail, an attachment and a proxied image, only an image dump having a preview, 960 pixels wide. Every route that answers an image now takes ?w= and sends a WebP copy at most that wide, of the widths shared/image.ts lists, 128, 320, 640 and 960, a width between two taking the one above, and never wider than the image; without it the upload goes out as before, a dump's thumbnail alone being scaled to the widest by default, the custom ones included. serveImage (lib/upload.ts) is where they all end, and the image proxy scales what it fetched the same way, keeping each width in its cache. lib/ffmpeg.ts makes the copies as it made the previews, which they replace: on first request, under uploads/scaled/ at the upload's own path, each given its upload's date and made again when the two differ, so a new avatar or cover needs nobody to delete the old ones. WebP keeps a PNG's transparency and a GIF's animation. A JPEG is turned by its EXIF orientation here, ffmpeg's own rotation of images depending on its version. An animated WebP, which ffmpeg can't read, and an image it fails on go out as they are, a failure being remembered until the upload changes. ?f=compat asks for the copy as a JPEG, or a PNG for what may be transparent: the digest's emails take their thumbnails that way, at 640 pixels, not every mail client reading WebP. On the client, imageProps (utils/shared/urls.ts) gives an image its srcset of those copies and the width it is laid out at, which config/imageSizes.ts states for each place from App.css: Avatar, Thumbnail, which scales an API image and leaves another site's as that site sends it, and the playlists' covers use it. The images of notes and comments still load as uploaded. The copies go with the dump, the custom thumbnail or the attachment they were made from, and generatedMediaSweepJob, a minute after the start then daily, takes those whose upload is gone, the previews under their former name and the temporary files a generation left unfinished.

2026-10-10 19:01:36 +00:00