How this site got the way it is, newest first. The entry says what changed; beside a few, a note says why, in the maker’s hand. “Considered options” opens what else was on the table.
- 2026-10-15
Pen, the family blue
Pen #2f6fb0 replaces Tailwind's stock #2563eb. Every link in the reading text is pen and underlined, the doors included; keyboard focus draws a 2px pen ring.
- 2026-10-07
One underline, and a card when the link travels
Every inline link is ink with an underline; the FAQ nav sets in Newsreader; tiles run two across on a phone; a share image rides every page.
- 2026-09-25
Record yourself, revised
JC's pass: the opening counts the files, the second reason for notes is said more sanely, and the age-23 section ends where it used to begin.
- 2026-09-25
Two essays, a readability pass
Every other Tuesday: the doubt now lives in the car section, the opening is shorter, fewer asterisks. Record yourself: the 2002 line is quoted, the Recovery section comes out, the disclaimer goes.
- 2026-09-25
Record yourself, reordered
JC's revision: the morning practice now comes before the systems that preceded it; the ducks get their paragraph and a photo; Colbert on gratitude in the margin.
- 2026-09-24
Record yourself
A new page under the FAQ: why JC keeps a record of himself. Two pages from a 2002 notebook, the 2019 gratitude notebook, this morning's On This Day block, and the morning practice as it runs now.
- 2026-09-24
The FAQ is the now page
/now folds into the FAQ and redirects there. Everything it said already lives on the homepage or in an FAQ drawer. Write Me If retires with it; the homepage's email line is the contact.
- 2026-09-24
Every other Tuesday
The Tuesday Men's Club page, told from the end of the night backwards, with the posters in the margin and four short videos from the car. It answers the men's club question on the FAQ.
- 2026-09-22
Tiles open before they leave
Each tile in the Elsewhere row shows its logo first. A click turns it over to a sentence on what the thing is and the way there; one more click goes to the site.
- 2026-09-19
Sentence first
Two paragraphs in JC's words open the page, and a word in a sentence opens that thing's tile under it. The wall of faces comes off the top and returns as an Elsewhere row; a list of things also true sits between.
considered options
- S1The wall on top, each tile with a second sentenceTried. Captions got busy under the tiles and the personal lines were orphaned at the bottom.
- S2A plain list under the wallThe Sivers shape. Scannable, but the sentence that says what JC does was still missing.
- S3Sentence first, tiles opening in placepicked 9/19Two paragraphs in JC's words; a word opens its tile under the sentence. The faces return as an Elsewhere row.
- S1The wall on top, each tile with a second sentence
- 2026-09-12
The customer service page, as an answer
The page under the FAQ's twenty-years question drops its report furniture: the Experiment tag, the flow diagram, the If/when margin and the roadmap. What stays is the story, the rules file, and S.
- 2026-09-12
The FAQ, second pass
The contents list is gone; the drawers are the list. Each site gets one sentence in JC's words above its tile. The customer service question got friendlier. Two questions came down until their pages are up; the notes page retired. The tile boxes match now, in the drawers and the footer.
- 2026-09-12
The writing page becomes the FAQ
The questions people ask, in a contents list, each with its answer in a drawer underneath. Where an answer is not yet written, the site it points to stands in. The Building sentences became answers; Friends left the header; the line under the nav is gone.
- 2026-09-11
Same job, twenty years later
The customer service report comes back from the shop rewritten around the 2006 manual: the email I sent myself, its cover, the spreadsheet where every status was logged by hand, then the rules file that does the same job now. Six artifacts with margin notes; the numbers and the failures list are gone.
- 2026-09-08
A blogroll at /friends
Ten people worth your time: eight I know, two I only read. Each name links out, with one line on why. Friends joins the nav beside Now and Writing.
- 2026-09-05
A quiet door to the changelog
The record of how the site got this way goes live at /changelog, with a discreet link at the bottom of the homepage and in the other footers.
- 2026-09-03
Building, then the Groucho line, then the pointers
The homepage reads in one order: the wall, the building line, a Groucho coda whose ellipsis runs down the page to “I have more,” then where to go next.
- 2026-09-03
The longer Now lives at /now again
A reader who lands on /now without the homepage gets the whole thing: Work, School, Groups, Family, Writing, and Write Me If.
- 2026-09-02
Seven faces in three titled rows
The homepage becomes a wall: Work, Groups, Practice. Each face borrows its site’s identity, with a caption beneath it.
considered options
- W1Four across, under the taglineThe faces move up as the masthead; a second Building line opens the claims.
- W2Three titled rows, three acrosspicked 9/2Work (Linslow, its room, its client), Groups (TMC, SSDG, the walk), Practice (MMQ, on its own).
- W1Four across, under the tagline
- 2026-09-02
Captions in Newsreader, at its small size
Row titles and captions set in the serif’s small optical size, not the system sans. The face was drawn for small text.
- 2026-09-02
The writing page: a sentence, a face, one artifact
Each piece is a Building sentence with the site it came from and one artifact beside it. The stub is gone.
- 2026-08-27
Both experiments go back into the shop
The URLs stay up with an honest in-the-shop note rather than a 404. The pieces return with artifacts carrying the story.
- 2026-08-26
Experiment two: three scores for weekly intentions
The full furniture: the lockup, the Published and Updated line, two real artifacts, the numbers inline, an If/when margin with status dots.
- 2026-08-25
One serif voice, hierarchy by size, warm paper
Newsreader as the single content voice at low weight; chrome stays sans. Above 1200px the column sits left of center and the right margin becomes a place.
- 2026-08-25
The numbers go back inline
Stat figures reversed to run-in words: One in sixteen. Ten times. Zero. Scannability comes from the type system and the margin, not stat height.
- 2026-08-25
Gates become the If / when margin note
The body keeps the simple plan; the specific conditions move to a margin note with a now-state on each. “Gates” as a term is retired.
- 2026-08-25
The experiment masthead: a thin box and a clean title
An EXPERIMENT tag in a thin box, the Published and Updated line in the header with the changelog absorbed into it, the standard Elsewhere footer beneath.
- 2026-08-25
The first experiment report ships
An anonymized customer email opens it; then a status report, a What hasn’t worked section, and a paragraph on the technical setup.
- 2026-08-25
A map for machines
llms.txt: identity, experiments, writing, elsewhere, contact. One line per new piece at ship; refreshed at the monthly review.
- 2026-08-20
One page, plus the writing
Per the traffic review, /now folds into the homepage; about, work, groups, contact, and network retire behind redirects. Navs collapse to Home and Writing.
- 2026-08-20
Building… types itself
The dots type on and reset; the word never blinks. The homepage loses its nav and its divider lines.
- 2026-08-03
Elsewhere becomes a row of borrowed faces
Each tile borrows the identity of the site it points to: TMC’s poster setting, the walk’s wordmark, SSDG’s date-due card. The attribution lines go.