luke
3dd6a83c68
Full app audit: 24 fixes across backend, frontend, infra, content, social
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Critical fixes:
- Fix hangup-during-respond crash (null caller guard)
- Fix double-click caller race condition
- Stem recorder: non-daemon thread, disk error handling, 30s flush timeout
- Frontend startCall() error handling
High priority:
- Devon: filter tool errors from speech, shorter monitor prompt, 30s interval
- TTS ghost message fix (add to history after TTS, not before)
- Expand banned phrase list (12 new phrases)
- Increase returning callers from 1 to 2 per session
- Platform-tailored social posts with staggered scheduling
- YouTube dynamic tags from episode content
- Social post retry logic (2 attempts, 5s delay)
- Frontend: error handling on all raw fetch calls
Medium:
- stem_recorder null check race (local var capture in audio.py)
- Reactive shape directive expanded
- REACT TO LUKE moved higher in caller prompt
- Devon tenure updated ("few weeks" not "first day")
- D shortcut Escape to unfocus
- Volume slider debounced (150ms)
- Settings modal widened to 550px
- Backup script (daily MariaDB dump + data/ rsync to NAS)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-18 14:57:50 -06:00
luke
90e51698b8
Devon fixes, theme prompt rewrite, sentence trimmer, cost tracker, normalization
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- Fix Devon "if that makes sense" overuse (limit to once per show)
- Suppress Devon failed lookup notifications for self-initiated searches
- Strengthen show theme prompts (2/3 callers call because of theme)
- Fix sentence trimmer splitting on abbreviations (Mr. Mrs. Dr. etc.)
- Fix cost tracker data lost on server restart (persist in checkpoint)
- Ad/ident normalization targets -4dB below dialog for perceived loudness match
- Lower cross-speaker transition threshold to 5s
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-18 03:55:55 -06:00
luke
164cad456c
Devon own stem/track/channel, per-category LLM routing, settings UI cleanup
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Audio:
- Devon gets own stem, Reaper track (Input 17), and configurable channel
- play_caller_audio accepts stem_name + channel_override params
- Reaper script checks 4 voice tracks (Host, Devon, Live Caller, AI Caller)
- postprod.py includes devon stem in gap detection
Cost optimization:
- Per-category model routing: Sonnet for caller dialog, Gemini Flash for everything else
- Estimated 65% cost reduction ($4.32 → ~$1.50/show)
- Category models configurable from settings UI
Frontend:
- Settings panel: clean routing grid for output channels, model routing grid for LLM categories
- Devon channel added to audio routing
- Share icon SVG fill fix (currentColor)
- Website homepage iterations
Publishing:
- Revert Castopod API workaround (API re-enabled)
- Fix container media path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-16 17:05:19 -06:00
luke
c70f83d04a
Cost monitoring, PTT fix, Devon tuning, WEIRD pool expansion, YT thumbnails, LLM SEO, publish ep37
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- Add real-time LLM/TTS cost tracking with live status bar display and post-show reports
- Fix PTT bug where Devon suggestion layout shift stopped recording via mouseleave
- Devon: facts-only during calls, full personality between calls
- Double WEIRD topic pool (109→203), bump weight to 14-25%
- Auto-generate YouTube thumbnails with bold hook text in publish pipeline
- LLM SEO: llms.txt, robots.txt for LLM crawlers, structured data, BreadcrumbList schemas
- Publish episode 37
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-15 05:33:27 -06:00
luke
3329cf9ac2
UI cleanup, Devon overhaul, bug fixes, publish ep36
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- Fix Devon double messages, add conversation persistence, voice-to-Devon when no caller
- Devon personality: weird/lovable intern on first day, handles name misspellings
- Fix caller gender/avatar mismatch (avatar seed includes gender)
- Reserve Sebastian voice for Silas, ban "eating at me" phrase harder
- Callers now hear Devon's commentary in conversation context
- CSS cleanup: expand compressed blocks, remove inline styles, fix Devon color to warm tawny
- Reaper silence threshold 7s → 6s
- Publish episode 36
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-14 16:42:21 -06:00
luke
6d4e490283
Caller generation overhaul, Devon intern, frontend redesign
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Caller system: structured JSON backgrounds, voice-personality matching (68 profiles),
thematic inter-caller awareness, adaptive call shapes, show pacing, returning caller
memory with relationships/arcs, post-call quality signals, 95 comedy writer entries.
Devon the Intern: persistent show character with tool-calling LLM (web search, Wikipedia,
headlines, webpage fetch), auto-monitoring, 6 API endpoints, full frontend UI.
Frontend: wrap-up nudge button, caller info panel with shape/energy/emotion badges,
keyboard shortcuts (1-0/H/W/M/D), pinned SFX, visual polish, Devon panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com >
2026-03-14 01:54:08 -06:00
luke