This update was not a phoenix flight, not a Time‑Turner experiment, and not another great refactoring of the castle walls.

This was more like walking into the Potions classroom after midnight, finding every vial, label, ledger, and cauldron slightly out of place, and deciding that tonight was the…

Some Mediabot updates are about fixing one cursed candle in a corridor.

This one was different.

This was the moment where a very old wing of the castle finally got renovated.

For a while, External.pm had grown into a massive magical cabinet: Claude, ChatGPT, TMDB, Spotify, YouTube, URL ti…

After the Fawkes bugfix pass, Mediabot v3 did not need another dramatic phoenix flight.

This time, the work was quieter, more precise, and a little more temporal.

A Time‑Turner was taken from the drawer.
A Pensieve was placed on the desk.
And Mediabot went through a pass focused on **tim…

After the previous polish rounds, I thought Mediabot v3 was ready to fly quietly across the castle.

Then Fawkes landed on the desk, dropped a few smoking feathers, and reminded me that a good bot is never really “finished” — it is only one careful bugfix pass away from being safer, cleaner, and l…

This one was not about adding a giant new subsystem.
It was not about changing the database schema.
It was not about summoning a dragon and hoping it would behave.

This was the quiet but important kind of work: making existing commands sharper, outputs clearer, diagnostics more useful, and …

After the large radio integration and the previous mb76 cleanup pass, Mediabot v3 went through another round of refinement: mb80 / mb81.

This was not a database-schema migration.
This was not a risky rewrite.
This was another careful Hogwarts-style polish pass:

keep the bot sta…

After the big radio integration work, Mediabot v3 went through another important polish pass: mb76.

This was not a database migration and not a schema-changing release.
The goal was simpler and more practical:

clean up subtle regressions, reduce noisy logs, improve IRC output safety, …

Over the last development cycle, Mediabot v3 received a serious radio upgrade — not a quick spell taped to the side of the bot, but a proper bit of wizardry forged carefully in the dungeons.

The goal was simple enough to say, but not simple to do:

make Mediabot able to control the radio …

This update improves the Grafana dashboard shipped with Mediabot v3.

The previous dashboard was already useful, but it was tuned for short-term, high-activity monitoring. That is not always ideal for IRC communities, where a quiet channel can still be healthy and meaningful. A per-minute view can…

This update is a usability and polish pass over existing Mediabot v3 features.

No big architectural rewrite this time. No new database schema. No risky refactor. The goal was simpler and more practical: make the bot’s existing commands more useful, less silent, and more accurate during day-to-day…