Changelog for joodaloop.com

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 what the site is made of, read the Colophon page.

up next

• Update my FAQ
• Page with a list of all links leading out of my site
  • Or maybe just a Stats page?
    • Git commits
    • Word count
    • Links in/out, bibliography
    • Analytics
    • Posts/words per month graph
• Add site shoutouts at the end of posts? Recommended articles specifically?
• Bibliography
• Reader mode
• Click-to-zoom images
• Image dimensions are looked up at compilation time & inserted into <img> tags as browser hints
• Make dark mode respect device mode
• Finish writing all the drafted Riffs
• Add big visual pile o’ tools to Workbench page
• Add multiplayers cursors (gauntlets) with Partykit
• Subtle spotlight in dark mode
• Icon/styling for external links
• Add fallback links using archived copies
• Add titles to links (?)
• Bring back analytics
• Add site footer (?)
  • blogroll implemented as “Site/quote/link of the day” in footer
• Add “unoffice hours” (?)
• Add whiteboard to my site (?)
• Add client-side bookmarks (?)
• Figure out how to archive my Twitter Bookmarks page.
• Add a CV (?)
• Switch from post types (LIST, NOTEBOOK, etc.) to some measure of completion or usefulness?
• Weather:
  • Sun (https://codepen.io/dhintech/pen/WXKvzX)
  • Rain (https://codepen.io/datCloud/pen/BaKEEqq)

log of changes

May 2026

• Deployed a redesign of the <blockquote> element
• Added click-to-copy-deeplink functionality to headings

April 2026

• Added linting for spelling errors, broken link formatting, missing metadata
• Added a “Backlinks” section to content pages
• Added ⌘ + K for fast page search (title-only)
• Rewrote Workbench page to contain “frames, focuses & frontiers”
• Designed a <details> element, because I finally needed one (on the Workbench page).
• Added a Service Worker to cache the full site for offline and instant navigation.
• Added invitation to email me to end of all posts (including in RSS feed)
• Updated Software I Use
• Redesigned Writing page to not need the Latest and Favourites sections

March 2026

• Added new top-level page called ~~~

February 2026

• Added Databases
• Updated the design of the Writing page to include Essays currently hosted on Substack.

January 2026

• Updated Software I Use and Uses pages
• Added Software Design Ideas I Dislike
• Updated Writing (new date format for “Latest Updates”) and Workbench (added new ideas) pages, and replaced the “GUIDE” type with “ESSAY” instead.

December 2025

• Added Interface Anxiety
• Added Better Blog Design
• Wrote a couple new riffs

November 2025

• Added Canvas UIs: A Critical Review
• Added Things I Do to Procrastinate
• Updated Twitter bookmarks

October 2025

• Fixed RSS feed (hopefully)
• Wrote new riffs
• Refactored styling and typography
• Switched to Hugo’s new template system

September 2025

• joodaloop.com v4.5 is now live!
• Created memorial versions of this site’s previous (and failed) designs (accessible at v1.joodaloop.com all the way to v6.joodaloop.com).
• Added the chat bubble format
• Added the Useful Programming Ideas page

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

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