New LiveView at /weather-ca duplicates the /weather UI but defaults the
viewport to central Canada (55N, -100W, z=4) and renders the map div
with data-source="hrdps". The JS hook reads that attribute and appends
&source=hrdps to every cell fetch; the WeatherTileController routes
those reads through Weather.weather_grid_hrdps_at/2, which only reads
the <vt>.hrdps scalar dir and skips HRRR merging entirely. Timeline is
sourced from ScalarFile.list_valid_times_hrdps/0 so HRDPS-only hours
show up even when no HRRR file exists for the same valid_time.
Also drops "— Unified" from the algo.md H1.
Apply the same overlay refactor we did for /weather to the propagation
map. Score data used to flow as JSON via LiveView push_event
(update_scores + the 18-hour preload_forecast batch); switching bands
or scrubbing time meant a synchronous server roundtrip + ~MB JSON push
per change.
Now:
1. New /scores/cells endpoint returns a "PSCR" binary cell-pack —
columnar f32 lats/lons + u8 scores, ~3-4× smaller than JSON and
parsed via DataView + typed-array views with no JSON.parse.
2. JS hook owns score fetching. mount/moveend/band/time changes
trigger HTTP fetches against /scores/cells. After the initial
paint, every other forecast hour for the current band is fetched
in parallel in the background — timeline scrubs after the prefetch
finishes are pure cache hits with no network at all.
3. LiveView no longer pushes scores. select_band emits update_band_info
with band_mhz so the client knows what to refetch; select_time and
set_selected_time only update server-side state (URL, point detail
bbox). map_bounds, propagation_updated, and advance_now_cursor all
skip the score push — pack_scores, schedule_bounds_update,
schedule_preload_forecast, the :flush_bounds and :preload_forecast
handle_info clauses, and the start_async :initial_scores lifecycle
(incl. retry_initial_scores event) are all deleted.
Net result: instant band toggles after the first paint, no LiveView
WebSocket payloads larger than the timeline metadata, and ~370 fewer
lines in MapLive.
The client moved to the binary cell-pack and canvas overlay last
commit, so the per-tile SVG endpoint, the TileRenderer module, and the
JSON shape of /weather/cells are all dead code. Remove them.
/weather/cells now always returns the binary WCEL pack (the ?format=bin
toggle is gone — there's only one format). The data-weather-tile-url
attribute and the weather_tile_url assign are dropped from the LiveView.
Also fix a latent bug surfaced once tests covered the default-layers
path: nil row values were writing the atom :nan into the binary segment
at runtime. Replaced with the explicit f32 quiet-NaN bit pattern so
Number.isNaN flags them correctly on the JS side.
Three changes that shrink first-paint and make layer toggles instant:
1. Server: /weather/cells now supports ?format=bin and ?layers=a,b,c. The
binary "WCEL" pack is ~3× smaller than JSON (Float32 columns, no key
overhead) and parses with DataView + typed-array views — essentially
memcpy on the client.
2. Client: replaced JSON parse + per-cell SVG <rect> with a custom
Leaflet canvas layer. The pack is columnar (lats/lons + Float32Array
per layer) and each draw is one fillRect per cell against a
precomputed 256-step color LUT. At low zoom (CONUS, ~80k cells) SVG
paint cost dominated; canvas keeps it under one frame.
3. Lazy prefetch: the initial fetch only requests the *current* layer
(~1/19 the bytes). Right after paint, a single background fetch
pulls every other layer into the same pack. Layer switches that land
after the prefetch finishes are pure recolor — no network, no
server CPU.
The /weather/tiles endpoint stays for backward compat. The JSON path of
/weather/cells stays too — the binary path is opt-in via ?format=bin.
Previously every layer toggle triggered 21 fresh tile requests with the
new layer in the URL — ~21 server-side SVG renders, plus the round-trip
overhead. Even with the GridCache fix the server still spent real CPU
generating thousands of <rect>s per tile, and the user felt it.
Add /weather/cells: a single JSON endpoint returning every layer field
for every cell in the requested viewport. The hook fetches once on
mount, time change, or pan/zoom, caches the cells in memory, and paints
them via L.svgOverlay. Layer switches now re-color the same cached
cells locally — zero network, zero server CPU.
The single SVG uses lat/lon coords with preserveAspectRatio="none";
Leaflet stretches it linearly to the bbox. There is mild equirect→
mercator distortion at low zoom over CONUS but it's imperceptible at
typical use (z6+) and the layer-toggle UX win is large.
Tile endpoint kept for back-compat. svgOverlay opacity matches the
prior tile renderer's 0.55 fill-opacity.
Move the /weather render path off raw HRRR profile decoding + per-cell
SoundingParams + WeatherLayers derivation. The dominant cost was
re-deriving the same scalar fields on every viewport pan and timeline
scrub.
Server side:
- New Microwaveprop.Weather.ScalarFile persists pre-derived scalar
rows on NFS, bucketed into 5°×5° chunk files under
<base>/weather_scalars/<iso>/<lat_band>_<lon_band>.etf.gz. Viewport
reads only decode the chunks that overlap the requested bounds;
point-detail clicks read exactly one chunk.
- weather_grid_at/2 and weather_point_detail/3 prefer ScalarFile;
ProfilesFile is now the cold-start fallback only.
- warm_grid_cache_and_broadcast/1 and warm_grid_cache_from_latest_profile/0
also persist the scalar artifact, and the cold-derive path kicks
off a per-valid_time-locked async materialization so the next
reader gets the cheap path.
- NotifyListener.handle_propagation_ready/1 fires
Weather.materialize_scalar_file/1 in a detached Task on the Rust
pipeline's NOTIFY propagation_ready, so steady-state forecast hours
arrive with their scalar artifact already on disk.
- available_weather_valid_times/0 unions ScalarFile + ProfilesFile so
the timeline survives an aggressive retention sweep on either side.
Browser side (finding #8):
- Mount the legend Leaflet control once and patch its inner content
on layer changes instead of remove + re-add on every renderLayer.
- renderTimeline now keys off the rendered button set: selection-only
updates take an applyTimelineSelection patch path that restyles
existing buttons in place. Full innerHTML rebuild only fires when
timelineData itself changes.
Also fixes a credo nesting-depth flag in tile_renderer.ex by extracting
interpolate_pair/2 from the inner anonymous function.
Adds ~600 new test cases (2013 → 2613 tests; 170 properties; 0
failures) across 12 new test files plus expansions of eight existing
files. Big lifts per module:
ContactLive.Mechanism 33 → 100%
MetricsPlug 54 → ~100%
Microwaveprop.Release 15.8 → 70%+
Telemetry 38 → 76%
HrrrNativeGridWorker 27.7 → 76%
ContactLive.Show 34 → 48% (handler + render branches)
Admin.ContactEditLive 49.7 → 70%+
GefsFetchWorker 35.8 → ~55%
IonosphereFetchWorker 56.3 → 75%
PathLive 58.9 → 67%
WeatherMapLive 66.9 → 80.2%
RoverLive 0 → 70.3%
ContactMapLive 59.2 → 89.8%
ContactMapController 0 → 100%
Mix tasks (Rust.Golden, Notebook, Backtest, HrrrBackfill,
HrrrClimatology, HrrrNativeBackfill, NexradBackfill,
RadarBackfill, ImportContestLogs, PropagationGrid,
ResetEnrichment, Hrrr.PurgeGridPoints) 0 → ~60-100%
Two incidental fixes made while adding tests:
- ContactLive.Show.handle_event("toggle_flag", ...) was passing
socket.assigns.current_scope to admin?/1 instead of socket.assigns,
so admins never matched the pattern and every toggle ran the
"Admins only." flash branch. Flag now toggles for admins again.
- Commercial.PollWorker.fetch_weather/1 promoted from private to
@doc'd public so the IEM-fetch + ASOS-upsert path can be tested
directly without driving perform/1 through live SNMP (which was
timing out for ~50 s per test in the earlier attempt).
Stable property-test additions cover the dewpoint-from-RH monotonicity,
nearest_run/1 idempotence, and the ionosphere station envelope.
- PageController: cover the legacy `/qsos` → `/contacts` redirect pair
(both the index and the id-preserving per-resource redirect), which
had no coverage since the route rename.
- Scorer property tests:
- f_to_c / c_to_f are inverses up to float epsilon, both propagate
nil, and the C→F slope is exactly 5/9.
- wind_speed_kts is non-negative, propagates nil on either axis,
and matches sqrt(u²+v²)·1.94384 (the 5-digit kts factor the
scorer uses).
- precip_to_rate_mmhr is non-negative, 0 for nil/zero/negative.
- dbz_to_rain_rate_mmhr is 0 below 5 dBZ (and for nil), and
monotonically non-decreasing above — guards against accidental
inversion of the Marshall-Palmer lookup.
Suite: 2,382 tests + 155 properties (was 2,380 + 148); coverage
71.08% → 71.12%; credo strict clean.
Investigated why all three prop pods were restart-looping every few
minutes (RESTARTS counts 7–11 in 99m). The trail:
20:53:33.058 [error] Postgrex.Protocol ("db_conn_10") disconnected:
client (:"Elixir.Microwaveprop.PromEx.Poller.5000") timed out
because it queued and checked out the connection for longer than
15000ms
PromEx's Oban queue-depth poller was scanning the oban_jobs table
every 5s and holding an Ecto connection past its checkout timeout.
That starved the rest of the pool, so /health's `SELECT 1` couldn't
acquire a connection inside the 3s liveness probe timeout, the
kubelet's failureThreshold=3 tripped, and SIGKILL landed on the
BEAM. Every replica cycled on the same cadence.
Two fixes:
1. Split /live (no DB) from /health (DB ping). Kubernetes livenessProbe
now points at /live so a saturated Ecto pool can never cascade into
SIGKILL. Readiness still hits /health so a genuine DB outage drains
the pod from Service endpoints gracefully.
2. Turn off the PromEx Oban plugin in prod via the same flag already
used in test. The queue-depth query isn't worth pod instability;
the oban_web dashboard surfaces the same information without
scanning the job table on a timer.
Locked both down with HealthController tests that verify /live never
touches the Repo (no sandbox owner, controller.live/2 called directly,
200 ok) and /health does (sanity query round-trips).
Add a "Forgot your password?" flow off the login page. A 24-hour
reset_password token is emailed on request, the landing page lets the
user pick a new password, and all other tokens for the user are
revoked on success.
The request endpoint returns the same flash regardless of whether the
email matches a user so that attackers can't enumerate accounts.
Implements the subset of the isitagentready.com checklist that maps to
real capabilities of this site:
- RFC 8288 Link headers on every browser response advertising
service-doc (/algo), about, privacy-policy, and sitemap.
- Markdown-for-Agents content negotiation: requests with
Accept: text/markdown for / or /algo return real markdown
(curated summary + verbatim algo.md) with x-markdown-tokens hint.
Other paths still 406 — no synthesizing markdown from LiveView HTML.
- Content-Signal directive in robots.txt declaring
search=yes, ai-train=no, ai-input=no.
- RFC 9727 API catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog with the sole
public endpoint (/api/contacts/map) linking status -> /health and
service-desc -> /openapi.json (a new minimal OpenAPI 3.0 spec).
- Agent Skills Discovery index at /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
listing two skill documents (fetch-contacts, read-algorithm) with
sha256 digests computed at compile time; documents served at
/.well-known/agent-skills/{name}/SKILL.md.
Skipped (don't match actual site capabilities): Web Bot Auth JWKS,
OAuth/OIDC discovery, MCP server card.
- Rename beacons.power_watts to power_mw (migration multiplies existing
values by 1000); form/list/show all relabeled to "Power (mW)"
- Fix Add-monitor button alignment on /users/settings by rendering the
label above and putting the input and button in a plain flex row so
the input wrapper margin no longer offsets the button
- Extend the settings page re-auth window from 10 minutes to 24 hours
Users can now register beacon monitors on the settings page. Each
monitor gets a unique random token the remote program will use to
authenticate its reports. Name is the only user-supplied field for
now; more will be added as the monitor protocol is defined.
Also adds :gen_smtp to deps. Swoosh's SMTP adapter depends on
:mimemail which lives in that package, and production was 500'ing
when trying to send confirmation emails without it.
- Register/Log in (or callsign/Settings/Log out) now live next to
the Map/Path/Rover links in the main header instead of a separate
top menu bar
- Add on_mount in UserAuth to assign current_scope on LiveView mount,
and pass current_scope through to Layouts.app from every LiveView
- Drop the old top <ul> from root.html.heex
- Password minimum lowered from 12 to 8 characters
Generated Accounts context, User schema, and controllers via
phx.gen.auth. Adapted it for password-only login with required
email confirmation:
- Users have callsign (unique, uppercased), name, email, password
- Registration form fields: callsign, name, email, password, confirm
- Magic-link login path removed; login is email + password only
- After register, a confirmation email is sent and login is blocked
until the account is confirmed via the token URL
- Confirmation link logs the user in on first use
- SMTP2GO configured as the outgoing mailer in k8s prod
Click anywhere on the propagation map to see a detailed popup with:
- Overall score and tier label with color
- Estimated range for the selected band (CW mode)
- All 9 scoring factors with visual bar charts, individual scores,
and weight percentages
- Grid point coordinates and data timestamp
Factors are displayed in weight order so users can immediately see
which atmospheric conditions are driving the prediction.
