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. Read the Colophon page if you want to know more about what the site is made of,

future work

  • Update my FAQ page (tweet for questions)
  • Update the Starterpack page
  • Add an “unoffice hours” page
  • Add big visual pile o’ tools to Workbench page
  • Finish writing all the drafted Riffs
  • Design shoutout section for related links at the end of posts (?)
  • Live site-wide chatroom (?)
  • 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
  • Figure out how to archive my Twitter Bookmarks page.
  • Image dimensions are looked up at compilation time & inserted into <img> tags as browser hints
  • Add multiplayers cursors (gauntlets) with Partykit
  • Subtle spotlight in dark mode
  • Icon/alt styling for external links
  • Add fallback links using archived copies
  • Add titles to links (?)
  • Add site footer (?)
    • blogroll implemented as “Site/quote/link of the day” in footer
  • Add shared whiteboard (?)

log of changes

July 2026

  • Added fallback styling for images that failed to load
  • Made dark mode more readable by switching blue theme color to a lighter shade
  • Bumped up font size to improve readability
  • Moved ideas in Workbench page into Markdown files
  • New design (using collapsible sections) for the essays section on the Writing page
  • Split my writing into Essays and Notes & Lists in preperation for importing Substack posts
  • Changed styling of “Stuff” on home page to better highlight individual projects

June 2026

  • New image styling that preserves aspect ratio while setting a max-height for tall ones.

May 2026

  • Made dark mode follow OS preference by default
  • Brought back analytics using Counterscale
  • Deployed a redesign of the <blockquote> element

April 2026

  • Added a linter 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

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

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Changes — in progress, planned, and imagined — that this site experiences.

Published
July 2025
Updated
July 2026
Type
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