After a rewrite of the prompt rule and a few more live issues the line still
read as a second abstract, so it goes entirely: the rule and the "why" key in
the editor's JSON, the parsing and 14-word cap, the Pick field, the
issue_articles and candidate_runs writes, the Brief prompt's per-pick why,
the explain output, the dashboard "editor" columns, and the rendering on the
web index, article and public pages, the Atom feed and both EPUB pages.
The "Matches: …" interests line stays (restyled in the next commit). The
issue_articles.why and candidate_runs.editor_why columns remain in the
schema unused; stored issue snapshots that still carry "why" deserialize
because Pick ignores unknown fields.
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The web index, the article page and both EPUB pages each ordered the same
metadata differently, and the "understanding" line was one wall of text
with the why line above it on one page and below it on another. Every
surface now reads title, meta, rubric, why block, summary:
- the rubric is a newspaper kicker (topic group and format in small caps)
followed by the specific topics; depth and technicality stay on the
dashboard article page only
- the accent-bar why block holds the editor's line and "Matches: …" (the
matched interests) beneath it
- the social line moves after the summary on the article page and chapter,
matching the index pages, and the EPUB chapter footer no longer carries
the understanding line
`understanding_line` becomes an `Understanding { kicker, topics, interests }`
struct shared by the web view models and the EPUB, and the three web
templates include one `_understanding.html` partial.
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A muted one-line note now follows every article: the deep assessment's
topic group, format, depth and technicality, the specific topics it
extracted, and the reader interests the article matched best, e.g.
Software engineering · analysis essay · in depth · highly technical ·
Topics: copy-on-write, ZFS · Interests: Filesystems, Rust
It renders on the web article page footer, on the public and private
issue-page entries, in the EPUB article footer and in the EPUB "In This
Issue" index (both editions), always styled like the existing meta lines
so it stays secondary to the content.
`Pick` gains `top_interests` (serde default, no migration), filled from
the signals stage when the editor assembles the lineup; the facets were
already on the issue snapshot via `Pick.llm`, so earlier issues show the
facet and topic parts and only future issues carry interests. One shared
builder, `understanding_line` in epub::chapters, feeds every surface.
The dev seed gives four picks facets and interests so the line can be
eyeballed locally.
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- AnthropicBackend (Messages API, cached system block, output_config.effort,
server-side fallbacks, refusal surfaced as an error); Llms { bulk, editor }
with editor_or_bulk(); PriceTable-based UsageMeter per provider.
- [anthropic], [editorial], deepseek.max_concurrent_requests and
curation.max_article_count config; startup logs resolved providers.
- Budget day is the UTC date of started_at, preloaded from
runs.provider_costs_json; finish_run writes provider_costs_json and
config_json. Stage A batches run concurrently with per-batch budget checks.
- Editor prompt with one-line "why" per pick; no minimum lineup size;
--max-articles is a ceiling; top-up branch deleted; why stored on picks and
issue_articles.why and rendered in chapters and In this issue.
- Summaries on the editor client (3k-token input, concurrency 4, bulk then
excerpt fallback); "The Brief" replaces From the Editor; section intros gone.
- Colophon carries per-provider costs and models.
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- World Briefing now starts with yesterday, preserves complete nested
event hierarchies and Wikipedia links, fetches deduplicated article
leads concurrently, and adds stable-ID summaries plus a daily overview.
- Enrichment runs after normal editorial work and degrades safely with
report warnings.
- Colophon facts now use X4-safe block paragraphs.
- Standard cover remains 1200×1600 RGB PNG.
- X4 cover is a 480×800 baseline RGB JPEG with consistent XHTML and OPF
declarations.
- Added CrossInk cache-clearing guidance to README.md.
- Worked around an epub-builder duplicate XML-ID defect discovered by
validation.
Full implementation of a personalized daily newspaper delivered as an
EPUB.
Articles are pulled from a local self-hosted Miniflux instance, enriched
with comments, summarized and filtered by DeepSeek AI, and then
assembled into two EPUB editions: standard and optimized for the Xteink
X4 e-ink reader. Both are served by the local self-hosted BookOrbit OPDS
server in a separate library. Then the X4 edition is futher converted to
XTC format and served over a separate OPDS server hosted by the Rust
binary. Runs are tracked in a local SQLite database so runs are
idempotent per date.
Full documentation of the plan is in docs/plans and setup and install
instructions are in the README.md file.
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