victorylap Devlog #6 (now it has taste and a backup plan)

two things done:

paper theme

the first look was amber terminal, mono type, sharp slides. paper is the opposite: warm cream background, serif ink, a thin red line down the left margin, everything fading in soft. same slots, same wiring, completely different film. –theme paper gets you one, no flag gets you the other. thats the whole point of themes proving out.

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model fallback.

the video script is written by a free model on OpenRouter, and free models get rate limited constantly. it kept returning nothing and the whole thing crashed.

so now it doesnt lean on one model. it runs down a list. if the first one returns no answer, it logs a line, saves the reason, and tries the next. first model that responds wins. it only gives up if every single one refuses, and then it prints the actual reason instead of a raw crash.

went from “run it again and hope” to the tool doing the hoping for me.

next up: making the text resize itself so long project names dont spill off the edge and a lot more :)