Session log — Past Events: Bridget and Mashiko recordings

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Session log — Past Events: Bridget and Mashiko recordings

2 June 2026 · Hasmukh with Claude · auto-published from the local journal entry. A polished narrative version can be requested in any future Claude session.

Summary

  • Added the recorded video of Prof Bridget Hodkinson's "Gout: What's New" talk to the live Past Events page (medilearn.africa).
  • Located the matching Vimeo recording by its tag 20251001bridget, set it to play privately only on the live site, and attached it to the correct event.
  • Then did the same for Prof Mashiko Setshedi's headline talk (tag 20251217mashiko). This also replaced the old placeholder YouTube link that was sitting on that event.
  • Reused the proven private-Vimeo recipe from the Jantina recording (1 June): hidden video plus an embed whitelist to the live domain.
  • Finally, at Hasmukh's request, saved the whole process as a reusable project skill so future recordings follow the same playbook automatically.

Decisions

  • Used the tested "hidden plus embed whitelist" approach (view=disable, embed=whitelist) rather than unlisted or password, because the ml-past-events plugin strips the privacy hash and only a domain whitelist plays reliably.
  • Whitelisted medilearn.africa only. The www. host 301-redirects to the plain domain, so the single whitelist covers every visitor.
  • Confirmed the speaker from the real speaker id field, not list position. Speaker ids are not positional: Bridget Hodkinson is id 3 even though she sits second in the list. This matched event id 5.
  • Edited the Past Events data in PHP via mysqli (decode, set, encode, prepared update) to keep the stored JSON intact, avoiding the backslash corruption that a mysql batch round-trip would cause.

Changes made

  • Vimeo video 1197321428 ("Gout: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment", tag 20251001bridget): privacy changed from unlisted/embed-public to view=disable plus embed=whitelist, with medilearn.africa whitelisted.
  • Past Events event id 5 ("Gout: What's New", 1 October 2025, Prof Bridget Hodkinson, speaker_id 3) on the live site (medistage_pm): recording link set to https://vimeo.com/1197321428 (was empty).
  • Vimeo video 1196585114 (name "Proton Pump Inhibitors: Benefits and Risks", tag 20251217mashiko): privacy changed from unlisted/embed-public to view=disable plus embed=whitelist, with medilearn.africa whitelisted.
  • Past Events event id 1 (17 December 2025, Prof Mashiko Setshedi, speaker_id 1, the headline spotlight): recording link set to https://vimeo.com/1196585114, replacing the old placeholder YouTube rickroll.
  • Then, at Hasmukh's request, retitled that same event from "Hidden gastrointestinal red flags in primary care" to "Proton Pump Inhibitors: Benefits and Risks" (matching the video name). I first wrote my own description; Hasmukh corrected that it should come from the video, so the summary was then set to the Vimeo description-box text verbatim. Backups ML_Past_Events-exact-before-retitle-20260602-193127.json and ML_Past_Events-exact-before-desc-20260602-193350.json.
  • Server backups before changes: /root/backups/medistage/vimeo-1197321428-privacy-before-20260602-182421.json, ML_Past_Events-before-bridget-20260602-182421.json, vimeo-1196585114-privacy-before-20260602-201249.json, ML_Past_Events-before-mashiko-20260602-201249.json, and an exact copy ML_Past_Events-exact-before-mashiko-20260602-181319.json.
  • Updated memory note medistage-past-events-vimeo with the Bridget entry plus reusable gotchas (options table columns are name/value, speaker ids are not positional, the page 302-redirects to a trailing slash, edit the JSON in PHP).

Verification

  • Live page https://medilearn.africa/past-events renders the player URLs player.vimeo.com/video/1197321428 (Bridget) and player.vimeo.com/video/1196585114 (Mashiko, the spotlight).
  • Both embeds play from medilearn.africa (HTTP 200) and are correctly blocked from an unrelated site (HTTP 403).
  • The old placeholder rickroll link is no longer present anywhere on the page.

Follow-ups

  • Resolved this session: the headline Setshedi event no longer carries the placeholder rickroll, it now plays the real recording.
  • Resolved this session: Mashiko's event was retitled to "Proton Pump Inhibitors: Benefits and Risks", and its description now uses the text from the video's Vimeo description box. Note for future recordings: Hasmukh wants event descriptions taken from the Vimeo description box, not written from scratch.
  • New reusable skill created: .claude/skills/add-past-event-recording (SKILL.md plus a plan-then-apply PHP helper). Validated with a read-only plan against the live site. Future "add the Vimeo recording to [speaker]'s past event" requests should use it.
  • A pre-existing audit log error on the live site ("Column 'user' cannot be null") is still worth a look. Carried over from the 1 June note, unrelated to this work.