gerbeur

db

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

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: every page and API URL follows one of two rules, written down in API.md — pages are a hierarchy where @name is a user and any other root word a category or an app page, tabs and views are plain segments and a default view is the bare path; API resources are /api/<plural>/<key>, a user's key being an id or @name, the caller's things under /api/me, media a sub-resource, lookups by another key a query filter. ~ is gone: the feed is /, /hot, /new, /journal, /follow and /music/hot, a profile /@bob with its overview and the tabs dumps, upvoted, playlists (her own only), follow (users, and /follow/playlists), invitees and manage (role and name, for user:manage), which replace the separate UserDumps, UserUpvoted and UserPlaylists pages; /settings holds the account (now with the username) and /manage the category manager, both linked from the user menu and one's profile. Dumps and playlists live under their owner, /@bob/dumps/<slug> and /@bob/playlists/<slug>, named by slug alone: migration 0021 re-slugs them to the bare slugify(title), unique per owner and kind (the oldest keeps it, clashes get -2), renames the categories whose slug v4 reserves (hot, follow, settings…), and rewrites this site's v3 links in dump notes, comments, chat, and playlist and profile descriptions. A slug changes only when edited, through the edit forms' new link field, which proposes slugify(title) as the title changes; a username changes from /settings or, for user:manage, from /@name/manage. Every slug or name left behind stays an alias of its item or user for good (dump_slug_aliases, playlist_slug_aliases, user_aliases), so old links redirect without chaining and nobody else can take one; slugs change 3 times a day per item, names once in 30 days, moderators exempt. An alias, or a name in another case, answers the item with its current path: the pages put it in their URL (useCanonicalPath, without fetching again), and the OG middleware answers a 301. shared/paths.ts builds and parses every page path, for the client's links, the emails' (digest-service lost its own builders and its id fallbacks, and links /follow and /settings) and the server's matchers (OG tags, self previews, backlinks, self-url); shared/slug.ts holds slugify and the format categories share. Dumps and playlists carry ownerUsername and a required slug, and notifications join their users' current names and their items' paths each time they are sent or read, so renames reach them and a deleted item's has no link. The API was renamed per the plan's table: POST /api/users and /api/sessions, /api/password-resets, /api/me (with settings, password, avatar, media-token, playlists?contains=, follow, feed?from=, notifications), /api/users/:key/{dumps,upvoted,playlists,follow/users,follow/playlists,invitees,avatar} and by path /api/users/:key/{dumps,playlists}/:slug, /api/dumps?url= and ?category=, /api/dumps/:id/{file,thumbnail,metadata}, /api/playlists/:id/cover, /api/remote/{preview,image,bandcamp,youtube} (one router), and /api/unsubscribe, the v3 POST /api/users/unsubscribe staying for the digests already sent. A stored default feed tab "followed" reads as "follow" once. dumps.slug and playlists.slug stay nullable, since SQLite can't add NOT NULL without rebuilding tables others reference; every writer sets them and unique (user_id, slug) indexes hold them. 254 backend tests (new: migration 0021 on a v3 fixture, slug aliases, swaps and rate limits, username renames, aliases and limits, reads by path and their privacy, the OG 301s, both unsubscribe paths, v4-shaped digest links with no ids, notification joins, shared paths and slugs) and 668 frontend tests (new: the profile's tabs and follow views, Settings, Manage, the link field, canonical URLs on the dump, playlist and profile pages, bare default feed paths) pass, and tsc, eslint, deno check, deno lint, deno fmt and doc:lint are clean; the migration was also run on a copy of the development database.

2026-10-06 16:08:59 +00:00

remote

v4: link previews are read once, in one place, and no longer take an error page, a relative image or a mask icon for the page's — each provider fetched its page and scanned it with regular expressions of its own, the generic one some fifteen times, and Bandcamp and SoundCloud read only OG tags. fetchPage (remote/fetch.ts) now fetches every page, follows redirects to the address it was served from, and refuses an error status, so a 404 or a bot challenge is unreachable rather than a preview titled "Just a moment...", and a refresh no longer overwrites good metadata with it. parsePage (remote/html.ts) reads it in one linear pass with a real attribute reader: unquoted values, a > inside quotes, og: tags under name as well as property, and nothing from comments or scripts. Every URL a page names is resolved against where it was served from, so a relative og:image works; entities are decoded in one pass, é and ’ included, and one that names no character no longer fails the preview (bandcamp-tralbum.ts shares the decoder). The mask icon is no longer the favicon, JSON-LD prefers the page's node over the site's, tracking pixels and lazy placeholders aren't thumbnails, an og:url with a slug keeps the OG tags, and a <title> loses its site suffix. genericPreview is the base of the Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube channel previews; SoundCloud takes www., m. and on.soundcloud.com short links, embedding the page they lead to, and Bandcamp keeps only its own player. The service tidies every preview: text on one line, titles and descriptions capped, only http(s) images and players. RichContent.type is now RichContentType, and the unused videoId is gone.

2026-10-09 20:46:32 +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

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

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

helpers.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.test.ts

v3: api/ gets one layout rule and keeps to it, and whatever crosses the wire is defined once, in shared/ — api/model/interfaces.ts and src/model.ts declared the same 40 types by hand and had drifted: the error envelope, email required on one side and optional on the other, Invitee/InviteTreeEntry and LinkPreview/UrlPreviewResponse for one shape each. The validation limits, the role permissions, the chat length cap, the @mention pattern and the Bandcamp and YouTube player responses were copied too, behind "keep in sync" comments. shared/ now holds them once, one file per domain (api, category, chat, comment, dump, follow, mention, notification, permissions, player, playlist, search, user, validation, ws), and imports nothing from either half. The server sends Dates; the client reads Wire<T>, the same type with every Date an ISO string, and turns it back with src/utils/shared/deserialize.ts. APIErrorCode becomes a const object, since the frontend's erasableSyntaxOnly rejects an enum. The shared types showed two real gaps: the avatar upload and GET /api/users/me return the full self user and the frontend read them as public users, and a stored session may predate media tokens, so the client keeps it as its own Session type. The backend rule: each folder holds one kind of module, each file is named after its domain. routes/ parse and answer; services/ hold the logic and every SQL query (lib/auth.ts's token check moves to user-service); remote/ is the only place that fetches from other sites — the guarded fetch and the HTML scraping out of rich-content-service, public-address, the Bandcamp and YouTube resolvers, the link providers, the image proxy (fetch, checks and cache, out of routes/preview.ts) and the Twemoji glyphs (out of lib/site-icons.ts). model/ holds per table a row type, its guard and its mappers; validators/ the request guards; db/connection.ts the handle and transaction(), db/startup.ts the purges and default admin that db.ts ran on import, called at the same moment. Tests mirror the source one file per module, test/<layer>/<module>.test.ts, with shared/'s under shared/test/ (deno task test runs both); the test that covered the bandcamp and soundcloud providers together is two now, and the backend can() has its own, so 202 tests. deno lint src/ is clean too: window.* becomes globalThis.*, and test bodies and act() callbacks that never awaited lose their async. The README states the rule. No behaviour changes; the catalogues only move their source references.

2026-09-27 20:19:48 +00:00

setup.ts

v3: fix the privacy and security findings of the comment pass — private dumps' broadcasts, mentions and attachments reached people who can't see them, and a few smaller holes. A dump's every write now goes through ws-service's broadcastDumpChange(before, after), which decides the audience: a private dump's creation, edits and deletion reach its owner's sockets alone (its deletion id went to everyone before), going private is dump_deleted for everyone else and dump_updated for the owner (whose other tabs dropped it), going public dump_created for everyone else. Mentions in a private dump, a comment on one, or a private playlist's description notify no one until it goes public (mentions are deduplicated per context, so going public notifies them once), and a moderator's edit of a comment, chat message or playlist mentions in the author's name. A link preview of a private playlist is refused, as one of a private dump already was: the preview is stored in the linking dump, which others may see. Attachments record the type of the resource that links them (migration 0018 backfills it); one linked by a private dump or playlist, or a comment on a private dump, is served only with its owner's media token, which Markdown now adds to attachment URLs, and one whose resource is gone answers 404 and is purged at startup. The Bandcamp provider claimed bandcamp.com.evil.example (the pattern wasn't anchored) and now reuses bandcamp-tralbum's anchored one; the YouTube provider took any site's ?list= for a YouTube playlist and missed m., music., youtube-nocookie and /live/ links, and now shares canonical-url's rules. Sign-in does the same scrypt work for an unknown username as for a wrong password, so timing no longer tells which exist. Usernames and emails are unique regardless of case (migration 0017, which refuses to run over existing clashes and names them): "Bob" and "bob" could both sign up and a mention picked one, emails had no constraint, and a reset request in another case silently sent nothing. The Open Graph tags escape the site name and build their URLs on PUBLIC_URL and FRONTEND_URL instead of the request's origin, which a proxy may rewrite.

2026-09-29 15:19:07 +00:00