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 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:
  • Sun (https://codepen.io/dhintech/pen/WXKvzX)
  • Rain (https://codepen.io/datCloud/pen/BaKEEqq)

complete

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

December 2025

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

November 2025

• Added Canvas UIs: A Critial 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