Hardcoded crontab → render at container start from
DIGEST_CRON_AM + DIGEST_CRON_PM. Defaults match the original
0800 / 2000 so existing deploys are no-ops.
scripts/add-digest-user.sh learns --am and --pm flags so each
teammate's stack can fire on their hours:
scripts/add-digest-user.sh bob --am "0 6 * * *" --pm "0 17 * * *"
scripts/add-digest-user.sh carol --pm "30 18 * * 1-5" # weekdays only
Standard 5-field cron syntax; busybox crond honors the container's
\$TZ. Removed the now-unused stacks/news-digest/crontab file and
the matching COPY in the Dockerfile.
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.
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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