- 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>
- Fix TTS text pipeline: new caps handling (spell out unknown acronyms, lowercase
emphasis words), action-word lookahead for parenthetical stripping, abbreviation
expansions (US→United States, NM→New Mexico), pronunciation fixes
- Inworld TTS: camelCase API fields, speakingRate per-voice overrides, retry logic
with exponential backoff (3 attempts)
- Footer redesign: SVG icons for social/podcast links across all pages
- Stats page: show "Rate us on Spotify" instead of "not public" placeholder
- New voices, expanded caller prompts and problem scenarios
- Social posting via Postiz, YouTube upload in publish pipeline
- Episode transcripts 15-25, terms page, sitemap updates
- Fix invoice script: match Timing totals using merged Task+App intervals
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Returning callers now keep their voice across sessions (stored in regulars.json)
- Backfilled voice assignments for all 11 existing regulars
- Discord button on homepage + link in all page footers
- REC and On-Air buttons now toggle together (both directions)
- Fixed host mic double-stream bug (stem_mic vs host_stream conflict)
- SEO: JSON-LD structured data on episode + how-it-works pages
- SEO: noscript fallbacks, RSS links, twitter meta tags
- Episode 9 transcript and sitemap update
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add podcast_stats.py with --json/--upload flags for BunnyCDN
- Add website/stats.html fetching stats from CDN
- Add stats CSS styles
- SEO: shorten title/description, add og:site_name, twitter cards,
theme-color, image dimensions, consistent favicons and cache-busting
- Add all episode transcript pages to sitemap.xml with lastmod
- Auto-add new episodes to sitemap in publish_episode.py
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Re-label all 8 episode transcripts with LUKE:/CALLER: speaker labels
using LLM-based diarization (relabel_transcripts.py)
- Add episode.html transcript page with styled speaker labels
- Update publish_episode.py to generate speaker-labeled transcripts
and copy to website/transcripts/ for Cloudflare Pages
- Add SVG favicon with PNG fallbacks
- Fix CPU issue: tie host audio stream to on-air toggle, not per-caller
- Update how-it-works page with post-production pipeline info
- Add transcript links to episode cards in app.js
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- On-air toggle uploads status.json to BunnyCDN + purges cache, website
polls it every 15s to show live ON AIR / OFF AIR badge
- Publish script downloads Castopod's copy of audio for CDN upload
(byte-exact match), removes broken slug fallback, syncs all episode
media to CDN after publishing
- Fix f-string syntax error in publish_episode.py (Python <3.12)
- Enable CORS on BunnyCDN pull zone for json files
- CDN URLs for website OG images, stem recorder bug fixes, LLM token
budget tweaks, session context in CLAUDE.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add ads playback system with backend endpoints and frontend UI
- Diversify AI callers: randomize voices per session, expand jobs/problems/interests/quirks/locations
- Update website tagline and descriptions to "biologically questionable organisms"
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Expanded meta description with keywords
- Canonical URL
- JSON-LD PodcastSeries structured data
- RSS alternate link for feed discovery
- robots.txt allowing all crawlers
- sitemap.xml
- llms.txt for LLM indexing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Warm rustic bar palette (dark wood browns, orange neon accent, cream
text) replacing the previous navy/pink theme. Added ?v=2 to all
cover art URLs to force new image.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Static site for lukeattheroost.com with cover art, phone number,
subscribe buttons (Spotify, YouTube, Apple, RSS), and OG meta tags.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
