"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>
- Conversations in a versioned IndexedDB store (freezmo-chat v1, zod
validated with the same schema backup/sync use, capped at 100 x 300).
Settled turns persist (question always; answer when produced, partial
stops included); ?c=<id> keeps reloads on the conversation via
history.replaceState (no router round-trip mid-chat).
- History UI: desktop column, phone sheet (spring, backdrop, Escape),
auto titles from the first question, inline rename, delete with an
Undo toast, diacritic-folding search over titles and message text.
Scope and model are remembered per conversation; history is readable
offline.
- Assistant actions: Turn into flashcards (New deck with the answer as
notes, landing on the options step - deck seed gained step) and Save
to notes (appends to the single scoped deck, trimmed at 40k).
- Chats travel in the backup export (preview counts them) and in the
encrypted sync payload; still never the key.
- Motion from lib/motion.ts: message fade-up, sheet springs for the
model/context/history sheets, 150ms composer height transition, all
skipped under reduced motion.
- Tests: chat suite 63 -> 89 checks (history, reload, rename/search/
delete/undo, actions, export, two-device sync round-trip, offline,
desktop panel). Full set: 12/12 suites, 513 checks. SW -> freezmo-v33.
Also: tests/model-compare.mjs benchmark (diagnostic) for deciding the
default text model on numbers; defaults unchanged.
Entry points (no sixth tab): Ask in the Library header (desktop button,
phone icon), Ask about this deck in the deck menu, Ask a question on
study/homework results (compact result travels as context), and a Chat
row in the desktop sidebar. Phones get a full-screen route with back +
New chat; the tab bar steps aside.
- Client-side retrieval: chunk scoped decks (~800 tokens), BM25 against
the question + recent turns, top chunks under ~7k tokens, each
labelled with deck + section. Notes come from the deck's stored
sourceText (already kept for Regenerate); decks without it fall back
to generated content and the UI says so.
- Stateless server: /api/chat validates against the CHAT_MODELS
allowlist, trims the history to ~6k tokens, caps context at ~9k and
streams token/thinking/done/error NDJSON. /api/chat/extract reduces
attachments to text through the existing vision step.
- UI: user bubbles + full-width assistant text, streaming with stop,
auto-scroll that pauses with a jump-to-bottom button, safe markdown
(React nodes, no HTML injection; KaTeX dynamically imported only when
a message has math), Thinking row for reasoning, copy/regenerate/
edit-and-resend, model + context pickers (last model remembered),
composer with visualViewport keyboard handling, safe-area, 16px
textarea, Enter-to-send on desktop.
- Usage-limit failures keep the draft and show the shared message with
Settings/Ollama actions; stopping maps the reader abort to a clean
stopped state; offline disables sending with a reason.
- Settings: Keep notes text for chat toggle; deck menu: Delete notes
text. RATE_LIMIT_CHAT + CHAT_MODELS in .env.example and README.
- Tests: chat suite (63 checks, stub Ollama) wired into run-all.
Full set: 12/12 suites, 487 checks. SW -> freezmo-v32.
Also: tests/model-compare.mjs (diagnostic) benchmarks two models on the
same notes (latency, repair rounds, activity types) so the gpt-oss vs
gemma default can be decided on numbers; defaults unchanged.
- Orbs rise from below the bottom edge to above the top edge, each with
its own 36-68s pass (slower on phones), a negative delay (scene already
populated on load), own horizontal position, a gentle sway and a slight
scale drift; opacity fades in/out at the edges so the loop never pops.
- Only transform + opacity animate, each orb on its own composited layer
(will-change: transform); no filter/backdrop-filter, nothing animates
size/offsets/shadow. The glacier blobs are untouched.
- Opacity lowered ~38% in both themes: 0.55->0.34 light, 0.8->0.5 dark,
phone overrides 0.32->0.2 / 0.42->0.26.
- prefers-reduced-motion: rise removed, orbs return to the old static
placements (a paused-from-start CSS animation is not applied in Chrome
and would park them below the fold); tab hidden: a visibility listener
parks the whole scene (.ice-paused), blob drift included.
- Measured with a CDP perf trace on a 4x throttled phone profile: p95
33.4ms, 0 frames over 34ms, no long tasks - identical to the pre-change
baseline; ~0.6% extra main-thread CPU. Desktop stays compositor-bound
from the pre-existing blob drift, as before. tests/bubble-perf.mjs
keeps it repeatable.
- New bubbles suite (34 checks) in the repo harness; the axe contrast
matrix is now 16 runs (360/390/1280 x dark/light x EN/CS) and passes.
- SW cache -> freezmo-v31; README decision 46.
Full suite: 11/11 suites, 424 checks.
The browser harness lived in /tmp/opencode and an overnight reboot
wiped it. It now lives in tests/ and survives reboots, is versioned
and runs with one command.
- tests/lib.mjs: shared helpers (Chromium auto-detect, seeding,
IndexedDB fixtures, stub/extra instance spawn with process-group
cleanup, check/finish).
- tests/run-all.mjs + npm run test:e2e [filter]: runs the ten suites
in order with a summary; suites that need a stub Ollama or VAPID
keys start their own next start instance on 3208/3209, verify the
port is free and kill the group on exit. Test scratch in
tests/.tmp/ (gitignored).
- Suites rebuilt and green against the current build: regression 38,
mobile 94 (tab matrix, ... sheet, settings sheet, axe), wizard 83,
native 31 (PWA/offline/share/back/undo/haptics/draft), i18n 13,
freeze-loading 6, review 15, phase1 36 (backup/sync/usage limits),
phase2 42 (learning engine/reminders), phase3 21 (homework check).
379 checks, 10/10 suites in one full run.
- playwright-core + axe-core added as devDependencies; CHROME env or
the newest ~/.cache/ms-playwright chromium is used.
- README: new decision 45 documenting the harness; decision 44's
verification note updated.
The older suites' exact sources were lost with the wipe, so the
rebuilt versions reconstruct the same feature areas rather than
being byte-identical.
