N° 11Changelog
What I've shipped.
A running log of what's gone live on this site and across what I'm building. Fresh on top. No marketing language.
Oct
2026
- 11 Sun5 ships
- SiteFirst renderings on /commissions — 20 views from the Aria model home, five ADU models and a set of front elevations, all rendered from plan sets.
- SiteNew era on /travel: Based in Buenos Aires — a month studying Spanish, with a weekend in Colonia del Sacramento. Mexico City added too.
- Site/now and the home strip refreshed: Before Concrete is the primary build, Ennis Builders alongside it, Future Garage on the bench.
- ProjectNew project: Before Concrete Studio. Plans in, photoreal renders and walkthroughs out — before anything is built.
- ProjectNew project: Ennis Builders. Growth, marketing and systems work inside my family's construction and realty firm.
Jun
2026
- 18 Thu3 ships
- SiteNew page: /commissions. 3D renderings and client websites — a home for the paid work alongside the products.
- Site/now restructured: Future Garage promoted to primary build; Listpaver and Restaurant AI moved to 'On the bench'. Home strip updated.
- ReflectionNew reflection: Coming Back.
May
2026
- 12 Tue1 ship
- 07 Thu5 ships
- SiteBuilt the Listpaver ecosystem — /projects now groups Listpaver, License Radar, CSLB License Watchdog, and Bid Leveling Assistant under one banner.
- SiteEach ecosystem child shows a 'Part of Listpaver' badge linking back to the parent. Listpaver's page lists its siblings.
- ProjectNew project: CSLB License Watchdog. Always-on license, bond, and insurance monitoring for the subs you actually hire.
- ProjectNew project: Build Bid Leveling Assistant. Compare subcontractor bids apples-to-apples — without the Excel sheet.
- ProjectNew project: Future Garage. AI-powered collector car intelligence — predicting the next future classics.
- 05 Tue2 ships
- SiteAdded build-time photo guard. Case-mismatched photos can't ship to production again.
- ReflectionNew reflection: 700 Days of Showing Up.
- 01 Fri3 ships
- SiteRenamed AI Chatbots → Restaurant AI. Now a stack: web chatbot + AI phone receptionist + unified dashboard.
- SiteAdded build-time date guards. Dates auto-stamp from the live PST clock; future-dated entries fail the build.
- ReflectionNew reflection: Interest vs Commitment.
Apr
2026
- 25 Sat5 ships
- SiteChangelog now auto-updates from reflections, travel, and projects.
- SiteCode-split every route. Initial JS down 36% — pages load faster, especially on cellular.
- SiteRedrew the small favicons. Bold A in the browser tab, AE monogram still on the home screen.
- ReflectionNew reflection: The People Who Take Risks.
- TravelNew travel writeup: Prague, Czechia.
- 24 Fri13 ships
- SiteNew page: /uses. The software, AI tools, and stack actually running.
- SiteRenamed TradeLink → PunchVault for legal reasons.
- SiteShipped full server-side prerender with breadcrumbs and richer Person schema. Crawlers now see fully rendered content.
- SitePer-route OG cards generated for every reflection, project, and travel page.
- SitePer-route titles, descriptions, and JSON-LD on every URL.
- SitePublished /rss.xml for reflections.
- SiteBranded OG card with the carbon + brass + purple palette.
- SiteOptimized 725 MB of photos down to 162 MB. Same quality, ~5× smaller.
- SitePhotos: arrow keys, swipe, neighbor preloading, scroll lock.
- SiteFixed the photo lightbox black-screen bug.
- SiteShipped /now page and dream destinations on /travel.
- ReflectionNew reflection: Loneliness Is a Skill.
- ProjectNew project: License Radar. A private CRM and leads engine built on top of the CSLB license database.
- 22 Wed10 ships
- SiteSite launched. First commit: home, projects, travel, photos, reflections, about, work, contact.
- ReflectionNew reflection: Off Script.
- ReflectionNew reflection: What Vietnam Taught Me About Money.
- ReflectionNew reflection: What I Choose to Build.
- ReflectionNew reflection: Health Isn't Complicated.
- ReflectionNew reflection: I Was the Limiting Factor.
- ReflectionNew reflection: Most AI Builders Are Focused on the Wrong Thing.
- ReflectionNew reflection: What Traveling Alone Taught Me.
- TravelNew travel writeup: Hong Kong, China.
- TravelNew travel writeup: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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