Reliability, performance, and UX overhaul: recording, model loading, downloads, updater, hotkeys - #103

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Commits on Jul 5, 2026

Harden privacy and updater paths
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Fix SwiftLint Makefile detection
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Fix updater defaults and feedback
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Improve model download and selection UX
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Polish history and file transcription flow
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Capture audio from the first buffer to stop dropping opening words
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Add model-load watchdog so a hung load can't wedge the recorder
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Paste as soon as the target app has focus instead of a fixed 500ms
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Fix mid-recording device loss, denied-mic dead-end, and launch race
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Separate download status notes from errors and clarify no-model error
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Validate Parakeet caches properly and stop silent loads-as-downloads
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Skip launch-time history re-normalization and sweep orphaned audio
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Install keystroke monitors only while they can do anything
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Delete dead screens, models, and the unused KeyboardShortcuts hookup
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Show load stage and elapsed time while the model warms up
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Let onboarding finish without Accessibility
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Draw the real audio waveform in history playback
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Guard download cancel races and pre-flight disk space
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Coalesce live level/waveform publishes to 30 Hz
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Allow cancelling a stalled update download
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Remove the KeyboardShortcuts package dependency
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Rewrite UI tests against the current interface
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Show the configured hotkey in Dashboard's empty state
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Fix watchdog killing legitimate first loads; make stale loads throw
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Don't let cancelled-download cleanup delete a retry's files
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Wait for the mic-permission answer before recording starts
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Explain the one-time model optimization during first load
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Add Option+Space as a hotkey choice
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Add a setting to hide the idle pill; recover the tap after grant
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Use per-download generation tokens to end the cancel/retry delete race
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Enter the recording HUD only when capture actually begins
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Don't drop a quick Option+Space release
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Strip trailing whitespace in DeviceRow
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Close the remaining download-generation races surfaced in review
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Gate device-switch resume and model-switch on success
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Dedupe the Software Update window
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Serialize per-variant downloads so cancel/retry can't overlap writers
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Report recording started only when capture is genuinely underway
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Only revert model selection if the failed load is still selected
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Chain a retry behind the post-cancel cleanup delete, not just the download
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Don't spin an inputless session on mid-recording device loss
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Add unit coverage for behavior changed this session
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