The Alienist's Cabinet #

A theatrical Victorian diagnostic parlor. Visitors select fictional complaints of the mental faculties, bodily humours, spiritual condition, and modern habits. DeepInfra produces an invented diagnosis, harmless treatment, prognosis, and a period medical illustration. Diagnoses are stored in SQLite and receive durable, shareable permalinks; generated illustrations remain alongside the database in the persistent data volume.

This is an entertainment project, not a medical tool.

Configuration #

Variable	Default	Purpose
PORT	8080	HTTP listen port
DATA_DIR	/data	Persistent result and image storage
BASE_URL	https://alienist.build.vibecode.rodeo	Canonical origin used for permalinks and sharing
DEEPINFRA_TOKEN	empty	DeepInfra API token; empty enables demonstration mode
DEEPINFRA_TEXT_MODEL	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3	Structured diagnosis model
DEEPINFRA_IMAGE_MODEL	black-forest-labs/FLUX-1-schnell	Illustration model

Local development #

mkdir -p data/results
DATA_DIR="$PWD/data" DEEPINFRA_TOKEN=... go run ./cmd/alienist

Without DEEPINFRA_TOKEN, the complete flow works with a fixed demonstration diagnosis and placeholder illustration.

Deployment #

Pushes to main run tests, build an OCI image in a Tangled Spindle microVM, and stream it to 157.245.173.122 over restricted SSH. The server runs the image as a Podman Quadlet and routes alienist.build.vibecode.rodeo through Caddy.

The Tangled repository requires a configured Spindle and the repository secret DEPLOY_SSH_KEY. Runtime secrets live only on the server in /etc/vibecode/secrets/alienist.env.

See ~/projects/BUILD_DEPLOY.md for infrastructure operations.