"Terribly high CPU usage, the MacBook gets really hot" - a fanless MacBook
Air on a 144Hz screen. Measured on that machine with headed engines
(process CPU plus the per-process GPU time macOS keeps): an idle Aero
library cost LibreWolf ~110% CPU and ~230ms/s of GPU, the study feed ~130%,
Chromium up to ~57% CPU and ~350ms/s of GPU, Safari ~220-250ms/s of
WindowServer GPU. Priced one by one:
- the gradient mask on .ice-floats re-rendered the animated layer offscreen
on every frame (~75 points of Gecko CPU). The floats now rise through a
plain rectangular band clear of the header, the bottom chrome and the
rail, and fade in and out inside it, so the clip never cuts a visible one;
- the overlay grain forced a backdrop readback per frame for a texture that
measured a mean <=0.11/255 difference: removed;
- the invisible blob drift made every frame a full-screen redraw: the blobs
are painted once;
- static glass (answer tiles, feedback panel, chips, inputs, dropzones,
lists, segmented controls, Aero hint chips) re-blurred the moving scene
every frame: only floating glass blurs now, and Aero's baked chat chrome
drops a live blur that never showed under the bake;
- the scene also parks while the window has no focus and under any dialog
or sheet scrim (.scene-pause); the loading icon is a compositor-run CSS
animation instead of a framer-motion main-thread loop.
After, focused and animating: LibreWolf library 109% -> 33% CPU, study
134% -> 34%, chat 130% -> 42%; Chromium GPU 2.5-4.4x lower with 7-22 points
less CPU; Safari's WindowServer GPU -20-26% in Aero, about half in dark.
Unfocused or under a sheet: nothing. bubbles-test sweeps every float through
41 phases against the band and pins the parking and the cost contract;
tests/heat-probe.mjs (macOS) repeats the measurement; the suites find
Playwright's Chromium on macOS.
All 15 suites pass, lint clean, the contrast scan lost a finding. Version
0.6.7, SW v89.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
From your notes: the generator now stores a verbatim source quote with every
activity (schema + prompt + a server-side clamp so a chatty model cannot drop a
card), and the feedback panel shows the sentence that carries it with the quote
highlighted green. Decks made before the change, and quotes the model trimmed,
fall back to a local IDF-weighted match over the saved notes text
(lib/notes-source.ts): nothing is shown unless at least two distinct terms
land. The passage hides in exam mode with the other reveals.
Read aloud: a Web Speech API speaker control on the text a learner reads
(flashcard faces, questions, statements, sentences, instructions) via
lib/speech.ts and components/SpeakButton.tsx — one utterance app-wide, a voice
matched to the deck's language, and no button at all where the browser has no
speech synthesis. It used to sit inside the flashcard's flip button (nested
buttons, tapping it flipped the card); it now lives next to the hint row.
Timed runs: the feed chrome carries a timer chip (off by default) that gives
each card 30 seconds; a card that runs out is recorded as a miss through the
same path as a wrong answer (history + SRS agree), shows a toast, and the feed
moves straight on with a fresh budget. handleAnswered ignores a second result
per card, so a timeout plus a manual answer cannot record twice.
The generator's type spec now names what each type suits (language decks lean
on flashcards/matching/fill blank, ordering needs a real sequence, short answer
reasoning), so the deck-aware guidance covers all seven types.
New activities-test suite (24 checks: quote path, local path, the green mark,
the speech stub, the timed run on Playwright's fake clock), registered in
run-all; phase2 pins that the notes passage stays hidden in exam mode; en+cs
keys for every new string; no new dependencies. Version 0.6.1, SW v83.
1. Bugs fixed:
- Backup schema now accepts theme: "aero" so backups exported under
Frutiger Aero pass parseBackup on import, and applyImport in "replace"
mode replaces SRS schedules, answer history, and chats instead of
merging into existing SRS or skipping empty arrays.
- Typed FillBlank cards bind the input value to chosen ?? value instead
of chosen ?? "", and normalise() preserves Unicode letters (\p{L}\p{N})
when grading non-ASCII answers.
- OpenAI-compatible vision calls (contentFor in lib/openai-compat.ts)
prefix data:image/jpeg;base64, when routes pass stripped base64.
- Streaming calls (ollamaChatStream, providerChatStream) keep their
AbortController active across the entire body stream and API routes
forward request.signal so stopping a chat or cancelling a run aborts
the upstream request immediately.
- HomeworkCard uses homeworkModeLabelKey so "check" records display the
Checked label instead of Step-by-step guide.
- Desktop dropzones on /create and /homework accept dropped documents as
well as images.
- LibraryScreen filters reported questions out of its due and mistake
counts to match ReviewClient.
- Clearing a provider key resets generation if it pointed at that
provider; chat conversations persist and restore provider; ModelPicker
keys items by provider:name.
- RouteTransition no longer mutates module-level lastPath during render.
- Service worker asset handler falls back to Response.error() when an
uncached asset fetch fails offline.
- Confetti and .ice-orb / .ice-bubble respect the in-app reduce-motion
toggle.
2. Performance & cleanup:
- Deduplicate window storage listeners across all six localStorage
stores (one listener while subscribed instead of N^2 notifications).
- Use todayAnswerCount in LibraryScreen and pass sorted folders to
DeckCard.
- Memoize MessageRow with stable callbacks in ChatScreen and compute
last message IDs in a single pass.
- Close ImageBitmap after drawing in lib/image.ts and destroy pdf.js
documents in finally in lib/documents.ts.
- Avoid re-parsing serialized sync payloads in POST /api/sync.
- Deduplicate copyText (lib/share.ts -> lib/clipboard.ts), chatMessageId,
describeExtraction, ALL_FOLDERS, useIsPhone, and remove unused helpers
and boilerplate public/*.svg files.
Version 0.5.8, SW -> freezmo-v80.
Homework (/homework — entry points in the drawer and on the create screen)
- Assignment intake reuses the study pipeline: pasted text, photos
(camera/picker, compressed in the browser) and documents (PDF/DOCX/PPTX/
ODT/text) through lib/image + lib/documents, the same vision step and the
same language guard. Raw files never leave the device — only text and JPEG
data URLs reach the server.
- Two large choice cards: “Just make it” returns the finished homework
(answer only, plain text, copy + make it again); “Explain how to make this
homework” builds an interactive guide.
- The guide is one step per screen in the study-feed snap layout:
explanation, three progressive hints (nudge -> hint -> the answer) and an
optional checkpoint rendered by the existing activity components (graded
through /api/grade). The last screen assembles the solution from the step
answers, with a copy button. Checkpoints carry xp 0 so the guide stays free
of XP/streak chrome.
- Results live in freezmo.homework.v1 with a small history (open/delete);
“Make it again” re-runs from the stored assignment text (the vision
transcription when photos were used) — no original files are stored.
- The answer and the guide are written in the assignment's language, never
translated into the UI language.
Server
- POST /api/homework: NDJSON stage events like /api/generate, the same
http-guard, auth checked before parsing, and its own RATE_LIMIT_HOMEWORK
(documented in .env.example + the README table).
- New prompts in lib/prompts.ts and zod schemas in lib/schemas.ts with the
same single repair retry; TEXT_MODEL for content, VISION_MODEL only for
photos. New shared client pieces: useNotesIntake, lib/homework store,
lib/clipboard, and a shared NDJSON reader in lib/client-api.
Also finishing the mobile polish pass from the previous request
- Phone ice scene: the top-left orb moved behind the glass header (it sat
behind the page heading/subtitle). The settings sheet's scroll cue is now a
bare chevron inside a content fade (mask) instead of a chip over the status
banner, and the API key card's note/disclosure/actions are tightened.
- theme-color now follows the in-app theme (SSR metas still fall back to the
OS preference); apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style stays “default”
because iOS fixes the status-bar text colour at launch.
Verified: 78/78 homework checks (text/photo/PDF, both modes, EN+CS, dark+light,
360/390px, copy, history persistence, storage privacy, API language, axe), plus
the existing suites re-run (mobile 47/47, pixel contrast 0 below AA, i18n 27/27,
desktop regression 72/72). Lint + build clean; service worker freezmo-v6.
English stays the default; Czech is a full translation. Only the app chrome
is translated - notes and generated decks keep their own language, which is a
core feature, not a setting.
i18n
- lib/i18n-dict.ts: flat en/cs dictionaries (441 keys each), translate() and
translatePlural() with real Czech plural rules (1 sada / 2-4 sady / 5+ sad).
English is the default and the fallback for a missing key.
- lib/i18n.ts: browser store (freezmo.locale.v1), useI18n() hook, and the
x-freezmo-locale header. The hook's t/plural are bound to the locale React
is rendering with, so the first client render matches the server HTML and
then re-renders in the stored language; module-level t is only for event
handlers and non-React helpers.
- <html lang> follows the choice (inline script + setLocale).
UI
- Settings -> Language segmented control (English / Cestina), plus an EN/CS
button on the key gate for first run.
- Every screen translated: sidebar, header, tab bar, library, deck cards,
folder bar, create flow, all seven activities, study chrome, results,
settings + health panel, API-key gate and help, install sheet, offline and
the deck-not-found page.
- Plural-aware counts everywhere (decks, folders, activities, runs, photos,
documents, pages, words, wrong attempts).
Server
- API routes and guards (generate, grade, health, http-guard, rate-limit,
ollama error mapping) answer in the request's language, so error cards and
the health panel never fall back to English mid-sentence.
Fixes
- A hydration mismatch when a non-default locale was stored silently dropped
the .dark class after hydration; render-time t() is now bound to the
hook's locale (UploadScreen.describeExtraction, ResultsScreen.answerFor,
DeckCard's folder fallback).
- Bumped the service worker cache to freezmo-v4 for this deploy.
Tests: i18n 27/27 (gate toggle, persistence, html lang, Czech plurals,
settings switch) and a rebuilt regression suite 72/72 (English default,
library, create, all 7 activity types, results, settings, install sheet,
offline, PWA, security, Czech smoke).
Next.js 15 app that turns photos, PDFs, DOCX/PPTX and text into a swipeable
feed of AI-generated activities (flashcards, multiple choice, true/false,
fill-in-the-blank, matching, ordering, short answer) using the user's own
Ollama models.
Highlights:
- All AI calls run in server route handlers; the browser never talks to Ollama.
- Bring-your-own-key mode (default): the key lives only in the browser and is
sent per-request; server, local-daemon and shared-key modes also supported.
- Client-side document extraction (pdf.js, mammoth, jszip) with scanned-PDF
page rendering for the vision model; notes stay in their original language.
- ChatGPT-style shell: collapsible sidebar / mobile drawer, neutral token-based
light + dark themes, folder organisation, PWA (manifest, SW, offline page).
- Strict JSON validation with zod + auto-repair, rate limiting, and request
guards (cross-origin, body-size, API-key sanitising).
- setup.sh bootstraps deps, .env.local and a production build.
Gitignore excludes .env*, the generated pdf.js worker and local scratch files.
