goosebumps.fm changelog - feb 2026

After I mentioned that a lot of my energy's been getting spent on the goosebumps codebase, Kapil asked me what's been cooking in there. I figured it'd be a good moment to get my head out the gutter and take stock.

Overview

The work spans multiple areas: Radio Shows, User Profiles, QR Code Generation, Admin Tooling, Observability, and Platform Infrastructure.

Major Features

1. Radio Shows System (Full Implementation)

Perhaps the main thing, a radio shows feature was built to support a new resident DJ, [kimetsu.] on the platform.

Commits: 0436146, 132fabf, 834ed96, d13262d, 33edb38, 196161f, 6135572, eba130d, a658638

• Backend: New show.service.ts, show.schema.ts, routes for CRUD operations on shows
• Database: Multiple migrations adding shows table, show slugs, banner images, host relationships
• Frontend: Show listing pages, show detail pages with banners, episode grids, subscribe buttons
• User Subscriptions: Users can subscribe to shows and manage subscriptions
• Slug Resolution: Dynamic routing system ($slug.tsx) that resolves slugs to either shows or user profiles, like twitter.com/username
• Favourites: Added show support to the favourites system

2. User Profiles & Identity System

Commits: dca8d78, 3ff6b33, fd308bd, 86676b4

• Username system: Added username field to auth schema with migration
• Display names: Separate display names from usernames (I still need to clean this up, there's display name, name (which better-auth needs ??), and username)
• Public profiles: New profile routes (/profile/$username) with profile header and content grid components
• Reserved slugs: System to prevent users from claiming reserved slugs (like "admin", "api", etc.) - implemented in lib/reserved-slugs.ts. I want to automate this in the future.
• Username availability checks: Real-time validation in admin and signup flows (basically built into the better-auth package)
• Admin user creation: Admins can now create and edit users with full control over username, display name, profile image, and email verification status

3. QR Code Service & Access Control

Commits: 75b6394, ba9e646, 4847842, c84d587

• New QR Service: Full QR code generation service (qrcode.service.ts - 561 lines)
• S3 Operations: Extracted S3 operations into dedicated s3.service.ts with object listing capability (separate refactor - S3 is used across multiple services)
• Cron Job Cleanup: Automated cleanup of expired QR PDF files from S3 (qr-cache-cleanup.ts). Effect's Schedule and runFork makes it trivial to add cron jobs to my app.
• Access Control: QR download functionality restricted to admin and creator roles only

Reasoning: The QR codes allow physical distribution (flyers, posters, social media) that link to digital content. The cleanup cron prevents S3 bloat, and access control protects premium/paid features.

4. Mix Upload Flow

Commits: db49d8f, 376862e

• Enhanced mix upload UI with improved HTTP client integration
• Simplified upload interface
• Audio player with timestamp support for tracklist editing (UI only for now, I still want to make proper time to polish the editing/cms experience)

5. Newsletter Subscription System

Commits: 834ed96

• New newsletter.schema.ts with database table
• Newsletter API routes (/newsletter/*)
• Frontend subscription page redesign (subscribe.tsx)
• Added to command palette navigation

Reasoning: Standard growth/retention feature to keep users engaged.

I need to come back to this one for a proper round of testing. I squeezed it in while busy with other stuff.

6. Admin Dashboard Enhancements

Commits: 834ed96, 86676b4, 3ff6b33, fd308bd

• Shows Tab: Full admin management for radio shows (509 lines of UI)
• User Search: Searchable user list with autocomplete (UserSearch.tsx)
• User Editing: Enhanced editing including username, display name, profile image, email verification
• Sessions Tab: Session management improvements

7. Observability & Monitoring

Spent a lot of time on this one. next steps:

• Grafana cloud integration
• Posthog logs
• Analytics abstraction layer, plus the conforming posthog implementation
  • might be worth doing a FE logging abstraction layer as well

Commits: 3723b98, 08e8d4a, 951ae11

• Performance Monitoring: Enhanced performance-monitoring.ts with more metrics
• Structured Logging: Added logging spans throughout services (audio, email, favorite, label, profile, publication, release, s3, show, spotify, user)
• Grafana Cloud: Initial configuration work (config.service.ts)
• Documentation: Updated logging-implementation-progress.md and opentelemetry-stack.md

Reasoning: The platform is maturing and needs proper observability for production reliability and debugging.

Refactoring & Code Quality

Effect Type System Fixes

Commits: 593c21f, and others

• Massive refactoring of services to fix Effect type errors across 26+ files
• Changes in audio, email, favorite, label, music-reminder, profile, publication, release, show, spotify, user services
• Documentation added: effect-language-service-typecheck-ci-mismatch.md

Infrastructure Consolidation

Commits: eda9476

• Consolidated GitHub workflows: merged quality-gate.yml into release.yml

Development Experience

Commits: 726d864, f629703

• SSL handling improvements for local vs production database connections
• Database mirroring from prod to local for development

Bug Fixes

CI/CD & Tooling

Commits: cec8c41, eda9476, c95b6ca

• Lefthook: Format on commit hooks. I kept getting too many pipeline failures, triggered by formatting. waste of time.
• Consolidated deployment pipeline
• Claude Code workflow added (.github/workflows/claude.yml)

Documentation

Commits: 8197f44, ab4262b

• Documentation reorganized into subdirectories
• Image processing service documentation added (840 lines)
• OpenTelemetry stack documentation updates (had to pause this work mid flight to move attention to radio shows due to the looming deadline.)

Summary Statistics

• Total Releases: 8 (v2.4.0 → v2.12.0)
• Feature Commits: ~25
• Bug Fix Commits: ~6
• Chore/Refactor Commits: ~15
• Key Files Changed: 677+ across the major restructure
• Primary Focus Areas: Radio Shows, User Profiles, QR Codes, Admin Tools, Observability