Changelog for joodaloop.com

I thinker 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.

in progress

• Update workbench with Craft docs
• Finish writing…
  • drafted Riffs
  • Useful Programming Ideas
  • Software as X
  • Software I Use

up next

• Local-first – Tell the origin story, learnings, and current state of the ecosystem
• Canvas UI
• redesign the blockquote elements

under consideration

• Add command menu for fast page search from anywhere
• Add “unoffice hours” (?)
• Add a CV (?)
• Create memorial versions of this site’s previous designs
• Add multiplayers cursors (gauntlets) with Partykit
• Spotlight in dark mode
• Icon/styling for external links
• Add fallback links using archived copies
• Weather:
  • Sun (https://codepen.io/dhintech/pen/WXKvzX)
  • Rain (https://codepen.io/datCloud/pen/BaKEEqq)

complete

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!
• 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