I tinker with this site too much. To be fair, that is the price you pay for having a personal website, it is by nature an eternal distraction (or, more kindly, a worrystone) and a garden to tend to. You don’t get to make something like gwern.net without living a Gwern-like life. However many hours you think went into it, it was probably more.
This page is an homage to the hours lost to mine. If you want to know more about the site itself, read the Colophon page.
up next
- Redesign the blockquote elements
- Finish writing all the drafted Riffs
- Add big visual pile o’ tools to the bottom of Workbench page
- Add command menu for fast page search (titles + descriptions) from anywhere
- Add multiplayers cursors (gauntlets) with Partykit
- Subtle spotlight in dark mode
- Icon/styling for external links
- Add fallback links using archived copies
- Add “unoffice hours” (?)
- Add whiteboard to my site (?)
- Add client-side bookmarks (?)
- Add a CV (?)
- Switch from post types (LIST, NOTEBOOK, etc.) to some measure of completion or usefulness?
- Weather:
complete
January 2026
December 2025
November 2025
October 2025
- Fixed RSS feed (hopefully)
- Wrote new riffs
- Refactored styling and typography
- Switched to Hugo’s new template system
September 2025
August 2025
- Updated Software I Use with current apps
- Added dates to all published pages
- Added more items to PDFs
- Added more ideas to the Workbench page
July 2025
- New three-column layout design for Writing page with topic-based sorting for all posts.
- Replaced “Colophon” with “Changelog” in the home page heading links
- Added
RECOMMENDED tags to items in Software I Use