Esa Kataja
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Ten members and a handful of songs a week never needed a database server,
and the server was the last thing making this a two-container deployment.
modernc.org/sqlite is pure Go, so CGO_ENABLED=0 survives and the dependency
count is unchanged: pgx out, sqlite in.
The port stayed small because the driver matches $1-style placeholders
against argument ordinals exactly as pgx does, so no query needed rewriting
for parameters. What did change:
- timestamptz becomes timestamp holding UTC 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'. The
declared type is what makes the driver return time.Time, and the
fixed-width UTC string is what makes ordering and comparison against
datetime('now') mean what they say.
- interval has no equivalent: sessions.idle_ttl is seconds, and the review
edit window travels as a SQLite date modifier string.
- No stddev_pop, so the divisive and unified boards spell the population
formula out, guarded with max(0.0, ...) because cancellation returns a
tiny negative when every score is identical.
- foreign_keys is off by default, so the cascades only exist because the
pragma is set on every connection.
Drops the postgres service, its healthcheck, the depends_on gate, the
startup retry loop and POSTGRES_PASSWORD. ./storage is now the whole
backup. Tests get a fresh database file per test and run everywhere
instead of skipping without TEST_DATABASE_URL.
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# Levyraati
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A private music review club. Members submit songs — by file upload or YouTube link — and review each
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other's picks on a 1–100 scale. Other people's reviews of a song stay hidden until you've written
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your own.
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Invite-only, no public registration. Built for about ten friends.
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> **Status:** not built yet. This README describes the app defined in [docs/spec.md](docs/spec.md);
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> commands here are the intended interface, not a record of anything that runs today.
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## Docs
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| File | What's in it |
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| [CONTEXT.md](CONTEXT.md) | The glossary — every domain term, in English and Finnish |
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| [docs/spec.md](docs/spec.md) | What the app does: rules, pipeline, routes, API contract, schema |
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| [docs/decisions.md](docs/decisions.md) | Why it is that way. Append-only |
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| [docs/theme.md](docs/theme.md) | The visual language: tokens, type, and what differs from the theme handoff |
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| [docs/later.md](docs/later.md) | Deliberately not in v1, with the reasoning kept |
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## Branches and releases
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- **`main`** — released code only. Every commit on it is something that ran in production, or is
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meant to. Tagged at each release.
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- **`dev`** — current development, and whatever nightly builds get made. Work happens here and
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reaches `main` by merge at release time.
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Versions are **CalVer: `YYYY.MM.DD-N`**, where `N` is the build number for that day, starting at 1.
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The version is injected at build time, so no file in the repo carries it:
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```sh
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git switch main && git merge --no-ff dev
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git tag 2026.07.31-1
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VERSION=$(git describe --tags --exact-match) docker compose build app
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docker compose up -d app
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```
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A plain `go build` reports `dev`, which is the honest answer for a local binary. The running
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version appears in the footer, in the startup log line, and in `GET /healthz` — so "what is
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actually deployed" is answerable without an SSH session.
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The app never sends email — there is no verification, no password reset link, and no notifications.
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Members have an address because it is their login and because mail is a planned feature.
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## Stack
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Go, SQLite, `html/template`, HTMX + Alpine. Audio is converted with ffmpeg and downloaded with
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yt-dlp. One binary, one origin, one container — there is no separate frontend and no database server
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to deploy.
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Go dependencies: `modernc.org/sqlite` and `golang.org/x/crypto`. The SQLite driver is pure Go, so the
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build stays `CGO_ENABLED=0`. No Node, no npm, no bundler.
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## Running it
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```sh
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cp .env.example .env # then edit — ADMIN_PASSWORD has no default and the app won't start without it
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docker compose up -d
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```
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Migrations apply themselves at startup, before the server accepts connections. The first launch
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creates no users: log into the admin panel and mint an invite.
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### Configuration
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| Variable | Default | Notes |
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| `DB_PATH` | `$STORAGE_DIR/levyraati.db` | The SQLite file. Created on first start |
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| `ADMIN_USER` | `admin` | Admin panel username |
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| `ADMIN_PASSWORD` | — | **Required.** No default; the app refuses to start without it |
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| `ADDR` | `:8080` | Member-facing listener |
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| `ADMIN_ADDR` | `127.0.0.1:8081` | Admin listener. Keep it on loopback. Under Compose it binds `:8081` inside the container and is published only to the host's loopback |
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| `STORAGE_DIR` | `./storage` | Audio, avatars, in-flight conversions |
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| `SECURE_COOKIES` | `true` | Set `false` for local development over plain HTTP |
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| `PUBLIC_URL` | — | Public address of the member site, e.g. `https://levyraati.example.com`. Used to build invite links in the admin panel; unset gives relative links |
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### Local development
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```sh
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export ADMIN_PASSWORD=dev SECURE_COOKIES=false
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go run .
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```
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Requires Go 1.25+, plus `ffmpeg`, `ffprobe`, and `yt-dlp` on `PATH`. There is nothing to start first:
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the database is a file under `./storage`, created on the first run.
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Tests get a fresh database file in a temp directory each, so they need no setup and touch nothing:
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```sh
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go test ./...
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```
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Templates, stylesheet, and migrations are embedded with `embed.FS`, so a rebuild is needed to see
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template changes. `go build && ./levyraati` is the loop.
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## Admin panel
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The admin is **not a user account**. It exists only as `ADMIN_USER` / `ADMIN_PASSWORD`, authenticates
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with HTTP Basic Auth, and is bound to loopback so it is not reachable from the internet. Reach it
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through an SSH tunnel:
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```sh
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ssh -L 8081:127.0.0.1:8081 you@server
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# then open http://localhost:8081
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```
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From there: mint invites, reset member passwords, ban members, delete songs, read issue reports.
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**Lost the admin password?** Edit `.env` and `docker compose restart app`. There is no recovery
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endpoint and no recovery key — the credentials are the environment.
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## Operations
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### yt-dlp goes stale
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yt-dlp needs regular updates to keep working against YouTube. It comes from Alpine's community
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repository, whose active branch tracks upstream closely, so rebuilding is how you update it:
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```sh
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docker compose build --no-cache app && docker compose up -d app
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```
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**Rebuild monthly.** When submissions start failing with download errors, this is the first thing to
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try. Failures are shown to the submitter with the yt-dlp error attached, so they're visible without
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reading logs.
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### Logs
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```sh
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docker compose logs -f app
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```
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JSON to stdout, nothing else. There is no log table and no log viewer in the app.
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### Backups
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`./storage` holds everything: audio files, avatars, and `levyraati.db`. It is a bind mount, so a copy
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of that one directory is the whole backup. `storage/tmp/` is in-flight conversions and is safe to
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skip; it's cleared on startup anyway.
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Copying the file while the app is running is not a backup — WAL means the latest writes live in a
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sidecar file. Ask SQLite for a consistent snapshot instead:
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```sh
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docker compose exec app sqlite3 /storage/levyraati.db ".backup '/storage/tmp/backup.db'"
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gzip -c storage/tmp/backup.db > backup-$(date +%F).db.gz && rm storage/tmp/backup.db
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```
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### Database shell
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```sh
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docker compose exec app sqlite3 /storage/levyraati.db
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```
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## Layout
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Go source is flat at the repository root, one package. Beyond that: `templates/` and `static/` are
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embedded assets, `migrations/` holds numbered `.sql` files applied in order at startup, and
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`testdata/` holds the golden JSON files that guard the API contract, plus `ytdlp-noose.json` — a real
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`yt-dlp -J` dump of an ordinary upload, used to test metadata prefill against a video that has no
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`track`, `artist` or `album` at all.
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## Notes
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Downloading audio from YouTube is against YouTube's terms of service. This is a private app among a
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handful of friends; the decision is deliberate rather than accidental.
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## Licence
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MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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