Calendar Week 16 · 2026

Shipped GitHub-style collapse and expand controls for long Markdown code blocks in v1.27.0 of 11ty-subspace-builder. The release also reuses that shared copy-and-collapse behavior for regular fenced code blocks, which keeps the interaction consistent instead of treating Markdown blocks as a separate case.

I shipped month archive pages for timeline entries, month-banded week archive pages under /timeline/weeks/, and ISO calendar week archives in v1.26.0 of 11ty-subspace-builder. That gives the timeline a few more ways to browse older entries without flattening the chronological flow.

Published The Accelerated Speed of Creation, a reflection on how much faster the path from thought to shipped artifact has become with coding agents handling the translation layer around writing, blog workflow, and routine Git operations. I also kept the earlier Encoding My Blog Workflow for Coding Agents draft as a note rather than a post, because it was useful and concrete but still did not meet my standard for what the real piece needed to be.

Shipped theme mode control and delayed previews in v1.25.0 of 11ty-subspace-builder. The new theme switch adds explicit auto, light, and dark modes instead of treating the site theme as a hidden implementation detail, and delayed previews make hover previews configurable so they feel less jumpy when moving around a page.

rtc-bridge — TCP tunneling from a browser, explained is up. I wrote down the WebRTC signaling path, the node/coordinator/browser split, and the auth gap I think matters most before anyone uses it for sensitive services. I also compared it to my Tailscale + Caddy setup so the trade-offs stay concrete.

I split the blog editing rules into repo-local skills in 22c4d7d. post-and-note-workflow now makes the timeline-entry rule explicit, while frontmatter-editing routes posts/, notes/, and timeline/ to canonical front matter docs instead of burying that guidance in CLAUDE.blog.md. I also cleaned up timeline-entry so its tag guidance matches the repo defaults.

I published WebRTC — How it actually works as a note on how signaling, STUN/TURN, ICE, DTLS, and SRTP fit together. The useful framing here is that WebRTC is not just "peer-to-peer"; it is a browser-owned transport stack wrapped around signaling and fallback infrastructure you still have to run.

I published Smart AI Token Consumption as a note on matching model choice to task complexity instead of defaulting to the biggest model. It captures the split I keep using in practice: light models for mechanical work, stronger reasoning only when the problem actually needs it.

I published Getting Pulled Into the Ethereum Ecosystem (From a Digital Garden Perspective) after a 3am rabbit hole with Andrew about Ethereum, trust models, and what a markdown blog can borrow from a ledger. It is less a crypto post than a thinking-out-loud piece about verification, shared state, and the difference between controlling a history and publishing into one. I’m treating it as the first step toward a small on-chain/off-chain experiment rather than a full web3 shift.

Published the first follow-up entry in the new threaded timeline model.

Timeline entries can now point back to earlier entries, which turns the feed into more of a build log than a flat list. This update continues from the original timeline launch and marks the point where parent and follow-up relationships became part of the feature.

The implementation for this lives in PR #17.

I’ve set up ProjectSpire Lab so I can run a script that pulls a decompiled copy of Slay the Spire 2 for local experimentation; the game code itself stays out of Git because I do not have a license to commit it. The setup lives in NicholasClooney/ProjectSpire. It gives me a clean foundation to build mod tooling from.

This grows out of Cloudflare Build Notifications via Email Routing and Email Worker, but I’m now moving the Email Worker out of the Cloudflare dashboard editor and into Git in NicholasClooney/cloudflare-email-to-webhook-worker. The goal is to keep the worker version controlled, review changes before deploys, test locally, and configure it with Wrangler instead of only editing it in the Cloudflare web UI. Right now it is still mostly Wrangler init plus the example email worker, but that is a solid foundation to build from.

I created git-activity in a631c98 so I can quickly answer "what have I been working on?" It walks a directory tree, finds the Git repos underneath it, and shows the latest log entries from each one in a single pass. It also supports a few filters, which is handy when I only want to review a slice of recent work; for example, from my projects folder I can run:

git-activity -r blog -m feat -x chore

That recursively scans repos, focuses on feature work, and leaves chores out of the list.

I moved the timeline-entry workflow into a repo-local skill in f7fceef. It now sits at .claude/skills/timeline-entry/SKILL.md, with the date/time quoting rules, status tags, and commit-based workflow close to the files it writes.

I published The Limits of AI and Where Humans Shine — a devlog about a tiny timeline sorting bug that turned into a useful comparison between AI confidence, runtime verification, and human judgement. It follows the fix from plausible-but-wrong timestamp changes to a quoted-date guard that keeps the timeline honest.

I added a /release skill to 11ty-subspace-builder in f1cb3a3. It captures the release ritual in one place: choose the semver bump, update package.json, commit chore: release vX.Y.Z, push, and create the GitHub release with the right title, body, and compare link.

I’m recording the ProjectSpire ideas now even though they’ve been rattling around for a while: an unofficial SpireAPI for mods, a REST layer on top of it, and a voice-command/accessibility layer that could eventually add Whisper-backed recognition and text-to-speech. Writing them down gives me one place to grow the monorepo instead of leaving the ideas scattered in my head.

Published What's Worth Keeping: On Humanness in the Age of AI — a post on what I've been thinking about since attending a thought experiment session on AI and skill erosion. It's about the parts of humanness I think are genuinely worth protecting — junior skill-building, critical thinking, forming a view before outsourcing it — and what I actually try to do in my own daily use of AI tools.

Added a personal timeline feed to the site. Markdown files in timeline/, same front matter as posts. Color is tag-driven: shipped goes green, published goes blue, thinking goes amber — no extra fields needed.

Added random month navigation in v1.3.0 of project-etho — a button that jumps to a random month's content rather than always landing on the latest. Good for surfacing older stuff without having to browse manually.

Published A Small Digital Garden That Feels Like Home — a reflective post on what it means to tend a personal site: slow accumulation, things planted for yourself rather than an audience, and why that feels different from posting anywhere else.

Fixed OG image generation for Chinese text in v1.21.1 of 11ty-subspace-builder — social cards were silently dropping CJK characters, now they render correctly.

Published a note on homemade hash browns, two ways — the kind of thing I keep wanting to look up and never find written the way I remember it, so I wrote it down myself.