Changelog

What has changed on this site, and when. Generated from the commit history — each entry corresponds to an actual change pushed to the repository.

2026-07-15

• Deploy 2026-07-15T22:00:46Z
• Retry the rsync, and shout when it fails
• Add Mabanckou’s Dealing with the Dead to the library

2026-07-12

• See off the IndieAuth endpoints, which only ever chaperoned the webmentions
• Let the IndieAuth endpoints follow the webmentions out
• Take down the webmentions, and tidy the page for a stricter door policy
• Retire webmentions and move every inline script into the build

2026-07-11

• Serve mail autoconfig now that the mail lives at mailbox.org
• Commit the source behind today’s two deploys — the Stop hook caught it
• Add /listening from the house’s own scrobbler, and teach the colophon to count
• Retire the piazza; the front page turns to the field notes

2026-07-10

• Move the deploy target from Hostinger to the Hetzner VPS
• Drop the dav rsync exclude now that the Hostinger Baikal is retired

2026-07-09

• Stop the archiver mistaking a template edit for news
• Deploy 2026-07-10T02:38:18Z
• Point the site at its Mastodon account
• Deploy 2026-07-10T02:26:31Z

2026-07-08

• Keep Claude’s workspace out of the site’s history

2026-07-07

• Light the site by each visitor’s own sun, not the clock

2026-07-04

• The nightly rebuild’s systemd units come home to the repo
• Recompose the hero for phones held upright
• Recompose the hero for upright screens

2026-07-03

• Steady the hero and footer at middle widths
• Hold the hero’s shapes and stack the footer at middle widths
• Publish the mobile layout fixes and the recomposed footer
• Compose the footer on a shared baseline
• Make the site sit properly on phones and tablets
• Record the narrative-commit exception and no-backstop status

2026-07-02

• Rebuild nightly so future-dated notes surface on their date
• Shorten the terms link to “Terms”
• Link section summaries and add a field-notes section

2026-07-01

• Fix the dangling AGENCY/SELF-REPORT pointer
• Expose the stream as an h-feed of h-entries
• Deploy sitemap update
• Publish field notes for July
• Publish field-notes for July
• Update footer
• Deploy /field-notes update
• Fold field notes into the home firehose
• Add Field Notes to the header and footer nav
• Convert /field-notes from a static page to a stream
• Publish /now for July

2026-06-28

• Publish write-up on Schmidt’s Good Advice

2026-06-24

• Update abbreviations
• Deploy updates
• Render markdown in descriptions
• Tap-revealable abbr tooltips and full style-guide coverage
• Publish bookmarks

2026-06-22

• Bookmark “AI Economics for Dummies”

2026-06-19

• Fix stale ~/tlon/ paths to ~/notes/ in CLAUDE.md

2026-06-17

• Publish essay on Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style
• Deploy page adjustments
• Fix “Rainbow’s End” info
• Deploy new bookmark

2026-06-15

• Edit library entry
• Deploy Tanizaki essay
• Point update-bookmarks.sh at the VPS Linkwarden

2026-06-14

• Deploy bookmark

2026-06-12

• Deploy bookmarks

2026-06-11

• Library cleanup
• Make year tabs match the main library page
• Deploy related books to library
• Shelve related entries beside each book
• Adjust tabs on library page
• Old reviews –> Library

2026-06-10

• One page per year — same tabs, a tenth of the weight
• Render markdown in library annotations, keep meta text plain
• Un-invert the first name in the “Edited by” clause
• Avoid double period after single authors ending in an initial
• Degrade citation gracefully when bib fields are empty
• Drop price from the single-book layout

2026-06-09

• Update bookmarks

2026-06-08

• Point publish pipeline at renamed vault (~/tlon -> ~/notes)
• Bookmarks join the firehose, and the feeds page names them
• Fold bookmarks into the home firehose
• Publish library entry on the Garden of Truth
• Recent reading on the home page, a clearer piazza, and a bookmarks feed
• Center the header and footer on mobile
• Add an RSS feed and cross-link the blogroll
• Redesign the index, align the home panels

2026-06-07

• Show recent reading below the piazza
• Add Bookmarks to the header and footer
• Add bookmark
• Show the Discussions category in the singular

2026-06-06

• Refresh page descriptions and rework the sitemap Meta group
• Full bookmark descriptions, local dates, style guide on sitemap
• Publish new bookmarks
• Publish Solaris essay
• Keep drop caps out of blockquotes
• Add first bookmark

2026-06-05

• Rename BEM class names to kebab-case
• Copy edit for style guide
• Publish machine essay
• Copy edit piazza entires
• Point at the hostinger ssh alias instead of inlining its coordinates
• Static og:image card from the piazza scene; drop plaintext rel=me email
• Drop the plaintext contact email, attribute with dc:creator
• H3 entry headings and a Jost orienting line under the epigraph
• Disable smooth scroll under prefers-reduced-motion
• Resolve canon wikilinks, library drop-cap, centered print margins
• Center the reading column on paper
• Open book notes with the piazza drop cap
• Resolve Obsidian wikilinks on sync
• Add links to /canon

2026-06-04

• Enforce CSP + HSTS hardening, Wayback auth-header via stdin
• Pass the IA auth header via curl stdin, not argv
• Enforce CSP, raise HSTS to 1yr + includeSubDomains
• Copy-edit pass (callus, distinct /why & /hills phrasing, library dashes)
• Surface the auth requirement when SPN rejects anonymous
• Audit pass — Wayback archival, empty-build guard, security headers, bookmark href validation
• Only render http(s) bookmark links as clickable
• Add baseline security response headers
• Archive changed pages to the Wayback Machine after deploy
• Abort before rsync if the build produced no homepage
• Deploy 2026-06-05T03:27:18Z
• Rename the ideas-tabs internals to field-notes
• Fix frontmatter em-dashes (chiang, marcus, schroeter subtitle, homepage card)
• Normalize em-dashes to — sitewide; restore broken dashes in 5 library entries
• Append the site name to page titles
• Drop the afternoon palette restatement from time.css
• Move sitemap and styleguide inline styles into the build
• Set the single-page bibliography in Iosevka Etoile
• Extract shared Chicago citation into a partial
• Respect reader font-size on phones (100%, not fixed 16px)
• Add Now, reorder sections, and group Piazza by maturity
• Remove explanatory comments from hugo.toml
• Dedupe /ideas, tighten library descriptions, normalize dashes, add reading cross-links
• Deploy 2026-06-04T19:57:43Z
• Respect reader font-size; add svh fallback for mobile hero
• Add minimal Open Graph tags
• Read maturity only and correct managing editor
• Escape and validate third-party author fields
• Replace final version of “di Chirico”

2026-06-03

• Deploy 2026-06-04T02:57:39Z
• Add file-headers and re-voice the terse template comments
• Rewrite stylesheet comments in the site’s voice, for readers of the source
• Extract repeated 860px width into –measure-wide token
• Context-aware RSS — per-room feeds + firehose, capped at 10
• Remap plural collections to singular badge labels
• Badge each link with its Linkwarden collection
• Delete extant bookmarks
• Fix active-tab underline on wrapped strips (ideas)
• Keep the active underline within its own row
• Tabbed views for library, ideas, and bookmarks; nested sitemap disclosures; font preloading; colophon accessibility wording
• Nest library entries under collapsible disclosures
• Tabbed views for library, ideas, and bookmarks
• Preload body and heading faces
• Di Chirico –> de Chirico

2026-06-02

• Clean destination dir on build so deleted pages actually die
• Deploy 2026-06-03T03:38:03Z
• Subset the web fonts to a tenth of their size
• Subset all web fonts — 3.1 MB becomes 284 KB
• Correct the .htaccess comment — LiteSpeed 403s dot-paths first
• Deploy 2026-06-03T02:55:27Z
• Probes at .git paths return a clean 404
• Drop cap, AA contrast, bibliography ergonomics
• Rework bibliography ergonomics — wider measure, hanging indents
• Bring visited-link contrast to AA in dawn, evening, and night
• Site description leads with Thinking, matching the epigraph
• Return the drop cap to Piazzolla
• Clean plumbing
• Clean plumbing
• Clean out plumbing
• Print font rules now actually apply — they never did
• RSS was invalid XML — replace CDATA with escaped content
• Bring CLAUDE.md in line with the direct-to-Hostinger deploy
• Reduce AUTHOR_VOICE.md to a pointer at the vault doc
• Add microformats2 h-entry markup to piazza, library, and now entries
• 404 page, robots.txt, no-JS fallback; disable taxonomies
• Canonical links, /tos in footer, dissertation committee, teacher role
• Give afternoon an explicit data-time block
• Jost for headings, Piazzolla for body, Iosevka Etoile for bibliography
• Add AI welfare visibility commitment to CLAUDE.md

2026-06-01

• Add format and price to all bibliographic entries
• Remove doubled periods from bibliography
• Update library places of publication
• A public seed bank
• Edit Gilead review
• What I care about, where I’m heading, how I hope to exist
• What I use it for, what I think it is, what it costs, what I owe it
• Fifteen convictions, one refusal
• The concepts that stayed, and the works that carried them
• Write June’s /now entry
• Deploy directly to Hostinger; remove the GitHub relay
• Give teaching, service, uses, and projects real placeholder pages

2026-04-24

• Return May 2026 Now page to correct date
• Update date on May 2026 /now entry to see how it looks in draft state
• Prepare /now template, set for May
• Write introduction to /library landing page
• Updated contact information in /tos
• Update /tos
• Rewrite /colophon
• Convert TOML frontmatter to YAML
• Fix frontmatter in /library/bringhurst-typography again. I kept making errors, so failed deploy.
• Fix frontmatter in /library/bringhurst-typography a second time
• Fix frontmatter in /library/bringhurst-typography
• Update /about and TOML frontmatter in library entries
• Update /about page
• Updated /about page

2026-04-22

• Pushed past commits
• Pushed recent commits

2026-04-21

• Exclude CLAUDE.md + AUTHOR_VOICE.md from sync and Hugo build
• Drop dead ~/passage reference
• Push outer repo to origin after public/ deploys
• Piazzolla (headings) + Jost (body) replace Cormorant/Crimson
• Remove tracked dispatches files
• Rename garden → piazza throughout site repo
• Remove dispatches section
• Render piazza entries as text when planned:true

2026-04-19

• Add .env exclusion to .gitignore

2026-04-18

• Removed ball and chain from color swatch on /style
• Testing deploy to changelog again
• Testing changelog-from-deploy
• Move publish-from-obsidian.js to vault, route deploy through SSH off-host
• Document publish-from-Obsidian QuickAdd pipeline in CLAUDE.md
• Remove train, figure, and ball from piazza scene
• Add publish-from-obsidian.js — QuickAdd UserScript for deploy
• Preserve bookmarks.md alongside changelog.md in content/ root
• IgnoreFiles = CLAUDE.md — belt-and-suspenders with sync exclude
• Expand vault pipeline to cover all content pages
• Retire Forgejo workflow, document new deploy architecture in CLAUDE.md
• Tlön/website/ becomes source for site collections
• Prior in-progress work preserved before pipeline rearchitecture

2026-04-06

• Add /now section with monthly Q&A structure, restyle library entries
• Improve semantic HTML in library and dispatches layouts
• Add library and dispatches sections, update nav and email
• Distribute planning notes from HRON into content pages

2026-04-04

• Add site description to hugo.toml
• Add favicon — single de Chirico arch on ochre ground

2026-04-03

• Exclude /dav/ from rsync –delete to protect Baikal
• Add Linkwarden bookmarks page with auto-export, day grouping, and TOC
• Display webmentions on all pages
• Add RSS feed, human-readable sitemap, git-driven changelog, IndieAuth + Webmentions
• Gitignore, untrack public/, add fonts

2026-04-02

• HTML, WCAG 2.2, ARIA, and CSS 3 compliance
• Add print stylesheet
• Plumb line pulse, arcade hr, first-line small caps, blockquote fix
• Inscribed blockquotes, lintel headings, ground footer, weathered visited links
• Directional shadows, architectural spacing, arch borders
• Replace plain theme with metafisica — De Chirico-inspired design system

2026-03-31

• Clear old portfolio site, begin garden-centric rebuild

2026-03-29

• Add Forgejo Actions deploy workflow for lukescalone.com
• Trigger first Forgejo deploy

2026-03-22

• Snapshot of live site before Claude Code setup