THOUGHTS 2026-08-06. News, weather, calendar, and holidays are the same feature: external context injected into DJ patter and/or rendered as a scheduled segment. Four bespoke pipelines = DRY violated four times. Build one seam (IContextProvider / ISegmentSource) with a shared model for: opt-in/config, polling cadence, persona assignment, segment-vs-patter delivery, and pre-render caching — then each feature is just an implementation. Slots into GenWave.Abstractions so the community can write providers we never thought of (sports scores, tide tables) — feeds the community-store strategy and is a differentiator. Sequencing: weather (gh-#267) is the reference implementation. Related: gh-#266, gh-#268, the holidays + this-day-in-history issues. Design session material, not a patch.
THOUGHTS 2026-08-06. News, weather, calendar, and holidays are the same feature: external context injected into DJ patter and/or rendered as a scheduled segment. Four bespoke pipelines = DRY violated four times. Build one seam (IContextProvider / ISegmentSource) with a shared model for: opt-in/config, polling cadence, persona assignment, segment-vs-patter delivery, and pre-render caching — then each feature is just an implementation. Slots into GenWave.Abstractions so the community can write providers we never thought of (sports scores, tide tables) — feeds the community-store strategy and is a differentiator. Sequencing: weather (gh-#267) is the reference implementation. Related: gh-#266, gh-#268, the holidays + this-day-in-history issues. Design session material, not a patch.