Two pieces:
1) Multi-tenant onboarding via scripts/add-digest-user.sh
Shared miniflux + per-user digest stack. Onboarding a teammate
takes one command (plus a one-time sudo for dir creation):
scripts/add-digest-user.sh <username>
What the script does:
- Reads miniflux admin creds from ana-docker
- Allocates next free port (scans existing digest-*/.env)
- Generates a random password (or accepts one as 2nd arg)
- Creates the miniflux user via the admin API
- Materializes a per-user .env at /opt/docker/compose/digest-<user>/
(inherits NEWS_DIGEST_TAG from the canonical stack so all
tenants run the same image)
- Brings up `docker compose -p digest-<user> up -d`
- Seeds default world/local feeds in the new user's miniflux
- Triggers a first digest run
compose.yaml now uses ${DIGEST_PROJECT:-news-digest} to namespace
container_name + homepage labels. Default keeps backward-compat
for the singleton install — existing stacks unaffected.
2) Masthead overlap on phone widths
Desktop CSS pinned .masthead-edition to grid-row 1, which collided
with .masthead-brand once the mobile media query collapsed both
to grid-column 1. Result: "MORNING EDITION" badge stacked on top
of the "DAILY DIGEST" hero. Reset grid-row to `auto` for all
three masthead children in the ≤720 px breakpoint so they
auto-flow vertically.
Three things were broken on phones:
1. The collapse button I added to .desk-head had no grid placement,
so it auto-flowed into the desk-sub row and looked like a floating
chevron. Made the desk-head grid 4 columns explicit (num | title |
count | collapse) and pinned the button to col 4 row 1.
2. The 720px breakpoint was the only one — everything inherited
tablet rules at iPhone widths. Added a true-phone tier at
≤480 px that hides the section number badge and the rail
gutter, floats chips inline above the title, makes the jumpnav
horizontally scrollable for narrow widths, drops the edition
number, and bumps touch targets.
3. Long URLs / unbroken tokens could push horizontal overflow.
Added overflow-wrap: anywhere on titles + tldrs and overflow-x:
hidden on body as a belt-and-suspenders catch.
Two upgrades to make the digest actually readable:
1) Article-grounded 2-3 sentence summaries (everywhere)
The old prompt got just the title + miniflux's content excerpt,
which for HN/Lobsters/wire feeds is barely more than the title
itself — so summaries paraphrased the title and added nothing.
Now every URL gets fetched and main-content-extracted via
trafilatura on a parallel pre-pass (10 workers, ~15s for ~50
URLs). Extracted text caches to /output/.article-cache.json with
a 7-day TTL so repeat runs in the same window don't re-pull.
Headlines also get summarized now — one batched LLM call per
category (world / local). Rendered as a paragraph below the
title with source + time on the right rail.
Prompt rewrites tell the model to pull names/numbers/places
from the body and explicitly forbid restating the title.
Result: real specifics ("71% saw no pay increase globally",
"third time in less than two weeks", "Islamabad and Moscow
intermediaries") instead of title paraphrase.
2) Per-desk collapse buttons
Chevron next to .desk-count toggles a .is-collapsed class.
Collapsed state is per-device (localStorage by section id) since
collapse is a viewing preference, not content state.
Two new dense headline rails above the existing reddit/tech cards.
Designed for high-volume "what happened" coverage where the title
is the deliverable — no LLM summarization, ~15 items per section,
6-column-collapsing grid (title / source / time).
Digest pipeline:
* fetch_miniflux_headlines(category) — flat list per category, dedup
by lowercased title (different feeds syndicate the same wire stories)
* 8h look-back window (vs 12h for tech/reddit) since headlines move
faster
* cap of 15 per section (DIGEST_MINIFLUX_HEADLINES_MAX)
Frontend:
* .headline element parallels .item for the hide-button machinery
(both have data-id, both honored by app.js)
* dense 3-col layout collapses to 1-col on narrow screens
* jumpnav now numbers world=01, local=02, reddit=03, tech=04
Setup:
* seed-headlines.py — one-shot script (lives in the image at
/app/seed-headlines.py). Creates the World + Local categories in
miniflux, subscribes a curated feed list, and renames each feed
to a short display title (BBC vs "BBC News", "LA Times" vs "California").
Idempotent — reruns only add new feeds.
* Default world: BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera. Default local: LA Times Local,
LA Times CA, Voice of OC. (OC Register blocks miniflux; left out.)
* entrypoint.sh now syncs templates/{style.css,app.js,favicon.svg}
to /output on container start so frontend asset updates land
without a manual copy after rebuild.
Wrapped .masthead-brand in <a href="index.html"> in both digest.html.j2
and archive.html.j2 so the hero is a clickable shortcut to the latest
edition. Useful when reading an archived edition and you want to jump
back to the freshest one without going through the archive list.
CSS: color: inherit + text-decoration: none keeps the visual
identical; hover drops opacity to 0.85 for affordance; focus-visible
gets an accent outline so keyboard nav is discoverable.
The server-rendered .source-count / .desk-count badges were correct
at render time but went stale the moment the user hid anything —
"r/HOMELAB (4)" stayed at 4 even after all 4 items were hidden.
Worse, the entire source header still rendered with a (0) badge
once every item underneath was gone.
app.js gains a refreshCounts() pass that walks every .source and
.desk, recomputes the visible (non-.is-hidden) child count, updates
the badge text, and toggles an .is-empty class. CSS rule for
.source.is-empty and .desk.is-empty sets display:none so empty
groups collapse out entirely. Hooked into hideItem, restoreItem,
and the initial-paint hidden-set application.
Adds a small × on each item that hides it from the page. State is
server-side at /output/hidden.json so the same hidden set follows
the user across devices (home, ipad, laptop, work). A "Hidden (N)"
tray at the bottom shows what's hidden on the current page with a
restore button per row; older hidden ids that aren't on this page
sit silently and continue to filter future editions that include
the same article.
Architecture change: news-digest-web swaps from nginx:alpine to a
FastAPI app on uvicorn, built from the same Dockerfile as the
worker. Same image, different command (`uvicorn web:app` overrides
the worker's cron entrypoint via compose). Drops one image dependency,
adds /api/{hidden,hide,restore}.
Item ids are stable 12-char sha1 prefixes (`reddit:<post_id>` /
`miniflux:<entry_id>`) computed in digest.py at render time and
emitted as `data-id` on each .item. The frontend reads /api/hidden
once on load, applies `is-hidden` to matching items, and POSTs
hide/restore on user interaction (optimistic, with rollback on
network error).
Storage: single JSON array at /output/hidden.json, atomic writes
via tempfile + rename, threading.Lock around the read-modify-write
inside the single uvicorn worker. No auth — the digest itself is
unauthenticated on LAN; same trust boundary applies.
Playbook also drops the DOCKER_BUILDKIT=0 fallback now that
ana-docker is on docker-ce 29, and adds three verify steps
(/api/hidden returns a JSON array, app.js is reachable, full
hide/restore round-trip with a synthetic id).
Two requested polish items:
1. Reddit items now show TWO distinct action chips in the footer:
[↗ SOURCE huggingface.co] [⌥ REDDIT THREAD] 3h · u/foo
Previously the external link was a tiny dot-separated text link
that visually competed with the post metadata. Now: explicit
labeled buttons, distinct colors (cyan for source, blue for
thread), with hover states that match the Australis accent
palette. Non-Reddit items get just the SOURCE chip.
2. Archive page at /archive.html — lists every edition-*.html on
disk, newest-first, sorted PM-before-AM within a day. Each row
is the date in editorial serif + an AM/PM chip color-coded
(yellow morning / cyan evening) + a hover-affordance arrow.
Header link from the main edition reads "ARCHIVE →".
Generation: digest.py walks OUTPUT_DIR for the edition-*.html
filename pattern on every run, sorts, renders archive.html.j2,
writes atomically. Cheap (~1ms even with hundreds of editions).
No retention cap — twice-daily for a year is ~700 small files,
well under any reasonable concern.
CSS additions: .action chip styles (with per-action color variants),
.archive-link in masthead, full .archive-row + .archive-edition
treatment.
The Miniflux inbox got noisy after a few subreddits + HN + Lobste.rs.
This stack distills a single static page twice a day — at 0800 and
2000 local — that surfaces only what cleared score + ratio filters,
each item tldr'd by qwen3.5-35-a3b on llama-swap.
Pipeline (digest.py, ~330 lines):
1. Discover subreddits from Miniflux feeds (any reddit.com/r/<sub>/
URL — single source of truth, no duplicated config).
2. Reddit JSON top-of-day per sub. Filter: score >= 50,
upvote_ratio >= 0.85. Cap 8 items per sub.
3. Miniflux /v1/entries for the 'Tech aggregators' category
(HN, Lobste.rs) — last 12 hours.
4. Batched per-source summarization via llama-swap
/v1/chat/completions. Each post gets a one-sentence tldr +
one-word tag (news / tutorial / release / discussion /
question / showcase / drama / meme).
5. Render Jinja2 template. Atomic write to /output/index.html
(.tmp + rename) so partial pages never get served. Per-edition
archive at /output/edition-YYYY-MM-DD-{am,pm}.html.
Two containers:
news-digest-worker python:3.12-alpine + busybox crond
news-digest-web nginx:alpine, port 8181, homepage card via
docker labels (group=News, fits next to Miniflux)
Both bind-mount /opt/docker/data/news-digest as /output and
/usr/share/nginx/html respectively.
Aesthetic — operations-center chrome (Australis cool-mono palette,
JetBrains Mono UPPERCASE eyebrows, mdi-glyph anchor) wrapping
editorial-serif news content (Fraunces variable serif w/ optical
sizes). Two type families that wouldn't normally meet, intentionally
combined: chrome says 'filed at 0800 from the bridge'; headlines say
'this is news, read it like news.' Sticky aurora-glow rule under the
masthead is the only sanctioned Australis gradient.
Edition stamp (AM/PM in big mono Australis-yellow) is the signature
piece — establishes the twice-daily rhythm at a glance.
All filtering + LLM + scheduling knobs in .env. Subreddit list is
implicit (read from Miniflux), so adding a sub = subscribing in
Miniflux, no config edit on this stack.
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