Midnight failures were read timeouts against the public URL — hairpin NAT
and/or the request queuing behind other traffic on the shared model.
LAN endpoint + longer timeout covers both.
Previously 3 failed attempts at 06:00 (e.g. llamaswap model cold/starting)
permanently blocked generation until the next day. Now the retry loop
pauses SLOW_RETRY_MINUTES (default 60) after the burst budget is spent,
then resumes — one attempt per hour until jokes exist.
- FastAPI + APScheduler + SQLite, single container
- Daily generation at 06:00 Europe/Copenhagen + cold-start generation
- Retry with backoff (3 attempts/15 min), stale fallback with banner
- OpenAI-compatible endpoint via env (OPENAI_BASE_URL/MODEL/API_KEY)
- docker-compose with named volume for joke persistence
hermes