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Blackjack has a split. It was the last rule missing from a game that has been live for a week, and it is the only move in blackjack that takes chips out of your stack *after* the cards are out — which is most of what there is to get wrong about it. So the state stops pretending. State.Player is gone; there is a slice of Hands, each with its own cards, its own bet, its own outcome and its own payout, and an Active index the player works left to right. Settle runs per hand and rakes per hand: netting them against each other first would mean a player who won one and lost one paid no rake at all, which is not a rake, it's a discount for splitting. The web layer takes the second bet before the move and hands it straight back if the engine refuses — the same shape double already used, except double was staking st.Bet, the whole table's stake, which was the same number as the hand's until today and is now emphatically not. DoubleCost/SplitCost are the active hand's, and the felt would have found this by charging you 300 to double the third hand of a split. The rules that cost money if you guess them: split aces get one card each and no say (a pair of aces is otherwise the best hand in the game, forever), 21 on a split hand is twenty-one and not a natural (it does not pay 3:2 — the test that pins this is the most expensive one in the file), same rank rather than same value (a king and a queen are not a pair), four hands maximum, double after split allowed, and if every hand busts the dealer does not turn over. A live hand outlives a deploy, so State.UnmarshalJSON still reads the old blobs: "player" with no "hands" becomes one hand holding the whole stake. Without it, a player mid-hand at restart is a player whose cards vanished — which is not a decode error, and would not have looked like one. On the felt a hand is now a box with its own spot, and a split is a card lifting out of one hand into a new one with a second stack of chips flying after it from your pile. Verified in a browser against a real pair: chips 4738 -> 4638 on the split, two hands played out, one push and one loss, "Down on the deal. -100", 4738 back. Three hands stack without collision at 390px. Settled hands come back to full brightness — dimming means "not your turn", and when the deal is over they are the thing you are reading. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013M5nD7PgUboJXoDcYHzpuJ
Pete
A Matrix news bot that ingests RSS feeds from curated sources and routes each story to a configured channel.
Features
- RSS ingestion from configurable sources (Guardian, Ars Technica, Time Extension, …) with per-source polling intervals
- Direct routing — every source declares a
direct_routechannel; Pete posts there. No LLM, no classification step - Deduplication — GUID exact match, canonical-URL match, normalized-headline match, and per-channel canonical-URL cooldown
- Metered release — per-channel post queues with minimum interval (5min) and burst cap (3/30min)
- Round-robin mode — opt-in pacing: one story per N hours (default 4), cycling through channels in sorted order, skip-and-advance over empty channels, state persists across restarts
- Reaction tracking — records emoji reactions on posts
!poston demand — type!postin any configured channel room and Pete force-publishes the next queued story for that channel, bypassing min-interval, burst cap, and daily cap (canonical-URL dedup still applies); replies in-thread if the queue is empty- Paywall detection — if an article's visible body text is below threshold, Pete swaps in a Wayback Machine snapshot URL for both the lead image and the posted link
- FTS5 search — full-text search across headlines and ledes
- Image validation — HEAD-based checks filter tracking pixels, uploads valid images via MXC
- Video thumbnails — extracts a frame via
ffmpegfor video sources; also falls back toffmpegwhen Go's stdlib JPEG decoder rejects a source image - Seasonal weather — canvas-based ambient overlay (snow, leaves, rain, etc.) driven by a Portugal/Lisbon calendar; visitors can toggle it with the ⭐ star button in the nav
- Web UI — read-only browser interface (Tailwind, Animal-Crossing-ish vibe, day/night palette that follows the visitor's clock) at
/plus a section per channel. Designed for anews.parodia.dev-style deployment
Channels
| Channel | Purpose |
|---|---|
gaming |
Gaming news, releases, platform announcements |
tech |
Technology news, product/industry stories |
politics |
Political, policy, current events |
eu |
Portugal and the wider European beat (web-only — does not post to Matrix) |
music |
Records, scenes, artists |
anime |
Series, studios, manga |
foss |
Kernel, distros, free/open source |
kids |
World news written for younger readers (web-only) |
Requirements
- Go 1.25+
- A Matrix account for Pete with access to target rooms
- SQLite (bundled via pure Go driver, no CGo)
ffmpegonPATH— used for video-frame thumbnails and as a fallback decoder for JPEGs the Go stdlib rejects- No CGo dependencies — E2EE uses pure Go crypto (goolm) via mautrix v0.28
Setup
# Clone and build
git clone <repo-url> && cd pete
go build -tags goolm .
# Create config from example
cp config.example.toml config.toml
# Edit config.toml — fill in Matrix credentials, room IDs, and a direct_route for every source
# First run: seed current feed items as seen (prevents flood)
./pete -config config.toml -seed
# Post one story to verify the pipeline
./pete -config config.toml -test
# Run
./pete -config config.toml
Configuration
See config.example.toml for the full structure. Key sections:
matrix— homeserver, credentials, channel room IDs, optional admin roomposting— rate limiting (min interval, burst cap, daily cap), optionalround_robinblockstorage— database path, retention windowssources— RSS feeds with tier, polling interval, and requireddirect_route(must match a key inmatrix.channels). Optionallanguage = "en"drops items whose per-item<language>tag doesn't prefix-match — handy for multilingual feeds like Politico Europeweb— read-only HTTP UI (enabled toggle, listen address, site title, public base URL)
Environment variables can be referenced with ${VAR} syntax in the TOML.
Web UI
Set web.enabled: true (default port :8080) to expose Pete's classified-story archive over HTTP. A landing page at / plus one section per channel (/gaming, /tech, /politics, /eu, /music, /anime, /foss, /kids), all pulling from the stories table. A /weather page demos the seasonal canvas overlay in isolation. Adding a section is two lines in internal/web/server.go (the channels slice) plus a matching theme color in internal/web/static/css/input.css.
The frontend uses a small Tailwind build:
npm install
npm run build:css # produces internal/web/static/css/output.css
# or for live editing:
npm run watch:css
The Docker image runs the build automatically as a first stage, so deployments don't need Node.
Front the server with a reverse proxy (Caddy, nginx, Traefik) terminating TLS for e.g. news.parodia.dev → 127.0.0.1:8080. The day/night palette is driven by the visitor's browser clock — no server-side timezone needed.
Round-robin mode
Set posting.round_robin.enabled: true to switch Pete from "post immediately" to a paced rotation. On each tick (interval_hours, default 4) Pete picks the newest unposted story routed to the next channel in sorted order, posting through the existing queue. Empty channels are skipped; the rotation pointer advances to whichever channel actually posted, and last_channel / last_tick_at are persisted so restarts don't reset the cycle. Rotating by channel (not by source) guarantees variety even when one channel has many more feeds than the others.
With a 4-hour cadence Pete will post at most 6 stories/day, so set posting.daily_cap_total to 0 (or ≥6) when enabling this — otherwise the daily cap can silently swallow a tick.
Flags
| Flag | Description |
|---|---|
-config <path> |
Path to config file (default: config.toml) |
-seed |
Ingest all current feed items as seen without posting, then exit |
-test |
Post one story to verify the full pipeline, then exit |
-local |
Web/RSS-only mode: poll feeds and serve the web UI on web.listen_addr. Skips Matrix login and posting — useful for local testing |
Docker
docker compose up -d
Set PETE_PASSWORD in your environment or a .env file for the Matrix password.
Architecture
RSS Feed → Poller → GUID/Canonical/Headline Dedup → Article Fetch → Store → Route by direct_route → Image Validate → Queue → Matrix
↓
Paywall? → Wayback snapshot
Packages
| Package | Purpose |
|---|---|
internal/config |
TOML config loading with ${ENV} expansion |
internal/storage |
SQLite with WAL, FTS5, all queries |
internal/ingestion |
Per-source RSS polling, feed parsing, image validation, paywall detection |
internal/dedup |
Canonical URL + headline normalization helpers |
internal/matrix |
Password auth with device persistence, posting, threaded replies, reaction + message listener |
internal/poster |
Per-channel metered release queue, reaction tracking |
internal/scheduler |
Round-robin posting scheduler: paced rotation across channels when enabled |
internal/web |
Read-only HTTP UI: Tailwind templates, day/night palette, per-channel feed pages |
Post Format
[lead image if valid]
**Headline** → article_url
Lede text from feed
`source name`
Testing
go test ./...