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.
- 2026-09-03
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.
- 2026-07-14
Subtraction: the footer is Elsewhere only
The contact line goes; the intro and the nav already said it. The homepage divider lines go with it.
- 2026-06-04
The Elsewhere footer is complete
The California Walk joins the row and the label lands. Every site in the network now points at the others.