Backups are .tar.gz archives of a consistent database snapshot (VACUUM
INTO) plus the images folder. They run on a cron schedule, daily at 3:00
by default, and the newest N scheduled ones are kept (7 by default).
Manual backups are never pruned.
Settings → Backups offers schedule presets or a custom cron expression,
retention, "Back up now", and download/delete for each backup. A small
built-in parser handles standard 5-field cron syntax with names, ranges,
steps and @daily-style shorthands.
Backups go to CANON_BACKUP_DIR (default data/backups). Compose mounts a
separate canon-backups volume at /backups, overridable with
CANON_BACKUP_PATH.
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It made every build pull docker/dockerfile from Docker Hub, which fails
on hosts with rejected Hub credentials. The Dockerfile uses nothing the
built-in frontend lacks.
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Podium, Spotlight and Grid render smaller on the home page on desktop so
one entry no longer fills the screen; list pages keep full size.
Compose now builds on every deploy (pull_policy: build), stores data in
the canon-data named volume outside the synced folder (CANON_DATA_PATH
overrides), and takes optional bind/port/version settings.
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- Every provider can look an entry up again by its ID (TMDB, TheTVDB,
IGDB, Deezer, MusicBrainz, Wikipedia); search and lookup share parsing
- POST /api/items/{id}/refresh re-applies title, subtitle, year,
description, link, details and artwork. Kept: the "why" note, rank,
theater production/venue/cast and a theater entry's year, the Deezer
preview match. Empty source fields don't erase existing values
- New items.image_custom column (migration 4; existing uploads marked)
records artwork the owner chose; refresh keeps it unless asked
- Refused for custom lists and hand-added entries; entries the source
dropped are reported, and a refresh whose title shares no words with
the current one is rejected as a likely bad ID
- Editor: refresh button per row (asks about the owner's own artwork),
and "Refresh all" with a confirm step, replace-my-art checkbox,
progress with Stop, and a summary of problems
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The Podium and Spotlight ring was a box-shadow, which the card hover
shadow replaced. Draw it as an outline instead.
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- Each list picks a style in List settings (new lists default to Podium);
existing lists keep Grid or List
- Podium: top 3 on medal-colored steps (#1 center and raised), the rest
behind a native <details> "Show N more"; stacks #1 over #2/#3 on phones
- Spotlight: #1 as a feature card (art, why-note or description, play
button), the rest as a numbered list
- Visitors can switch styles on a list page (?style=), preserved across
pages; later pages fall back to a plain list since they don't start at #1
- Entries' detail data now lives on a wrapper per list, so featured and
collapsed entries all open the detail view
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Search
- Albums and songs search Deezer and MusicBrainz at once and merge the
results: duplicates keep the Deezer copy, best word matches first.
Deezer's search misses albums it carries (Death Magnetic) and most game
soundtracks; MusicBrainz finds them
- MusicBrainz secondary types are shown ("Soundtrack", "Live")
- Settings: Deezer + MusicBrainz (default), Deezer only, MusicBrainz only
- Search results show which service they came from
Previews
- Songs and albums get a play button (cards, rows, detail view, editor,
and Deezer search results) for a 30-second Deezer clip; albums play
their most popular track
- Clips are looked up fresh (Deezer URLs expire), cached 10 minutes, and
streamed through Canon with Range support; hidden lists stay private
- Entries from MusicBrainz or added by hand are matched to Deezer on save
so they can preview too
- "Play previews" toggle in Settings → Profile
Tests cover merging and title/artist matching; `-tags live` runs checks
against the real services.
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Pure #000 background (OLED pixels off), near-black panels with dark red
borders, and a red accent (#e0263a) that passes 4.5:1 as text on black and
behind white button labels. Badges use a brighter red to stay legible on
their tinted background.
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Add the missing colons after `networks` (service) and `chromanet`
(top-level) so Compose can parse the file.
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- New CANON_HOST (default 0.0.0.0; 127.0.0.1 keeps it on one machine)
- On start, log the http:// addresses other devices can use, skipping
Docker/VM bridge interfaces
- docker-compose publishes 0.0.0.0:4242 explicitly
- README: opening Canon from other devices and firewall note
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Descriptions
- Items keep the source's description (TMDB/TheTVDB overview, IGDB
summary, Wikipedia intro) in a new items.description column
(migration 3); editable in the item form
- Deezer/MusicBrainz track counts and album names are now display-only
hints, not saved as descriptions
Why it's #N
- The owner's note is presented as "Why it's #N" in the editor and the
public detail view, above an "About" section with the description
IGDB developers
- IGDB credits internal divisions ("Nintendo EAD", "Nintendo EPD
Production Group No. 8"). A developer whose name shares its first word
with its parent company is credited to the parent ("Nintendo");
independently named studios keep their name (Retro Studios, Naughty
Dog, Landfall Games)
- Fall back to the publisher when IGDB lists no developer
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- Module github.com/cdnutter/canon, binary/command cmd/canon, Docker
image and compose project "canon"
- Environment variables now use the CANON_ prefix
- Default site title is "<Your name>'s Canon" (or "Canon" with no name);
a Site title set in Settings still overrides it
- Existing topdeck.db (and WAL files) is renamed to canon.db on start
- README: upgrade notes, including moving the old compose volume
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Export
- GET /l/<list>/export?format=csv|txt downloads a list's titles in rank
order, one per line, with no header or other fields (CSV gets a UTF-8
BOM for Excel)
- Export menu in the list editor and, for the owner, on the public list
page; hidden lists stay owner-only
Custom lists
- New "Custom" category for anything not built in (sports teams,
drinks…): owner-named, slug from the title, entries added by hand or
from an unfiltered Wikipedia search
- Per-list artwork shape (square or tall), stored in a new lists.art
column (migration 2)
- Art can be uploaded while adding an entry, not only after
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A single Go binary with SQLite that serves a public page of the owner's
ranked lists (movies, TV, albums, songs, video games, theater) and a
login-gated editor.
- Lists of 1–65,535 entries (100 recommended), several per category
- Search-to-add via TMDB, TheTVDB, IGDB, Deezer/MusicBrainz, Wikipedia;
manual entry as a fallback
- Theater entries carry a production (Broadway, tour, …), venue and cast
- Artwork cached locally; URL override and uploads
- Drag, arrow and type-a-rank reordering; paginated for long lists
- 12 theme presets plus custom CSS
- First-run setup code or env-provided admin; bcrypt, rate-limited login,
CSRF-guarded JSON API
- Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml
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