Writing / Journal
How something was built and why, including the decisions that turned out to be wrong, which are usually the ones worth reading. Every entry is dated and points at the thing it describes.
How four of our websites came to mark the seasons in autumn 2026: what each one shows, how the page decides which day it is, what we ran into on the way, and what we would do differently.
On 28 October 2026 littlebluepilot.com stopped saving a copy of itself on a first visit. Its offline copy is now made only when a reader presses “Save for offline”. What changed, what we measured, and what a family gives up in return.
Ask Little Blue looks like a conversation, and it answers only the questions it was written to answer. Why a site for children aged 3 to 8 chose a curated shelf over a chatbot, and what was tried before deciding.
The Little Blue Pilot began as a picture book and a record. Since August it has gained a second record, films, flight notes, a place to ask questions and a workshop of things to make. How the parts were joined to each other, and where the world stands now.
On 24 October 2026 littlebluepilot.com moved from a Next.js static export to Astro with Svelte islands, and kept every address, title and lyric. The engineering decisions, the measurements, and the limits that remain.
At the end of September 2026 we tidied wpagency.space, the non-commercial lab site of WPAgency.xyz. Most of the work took things out, and the site is faster, more private and clearer about what it is because of it.
In the last week of September 2026, littlebluepilot.com grew from the home of a record into a place to ask, make, play and explore. Three rules shaped every part of it.
The destination stayed the same: twelve songs, one journey and one little blue pilot. Second Flight took another route through the material and showed that repetition does not have to mean replacement.
A September 2026 local-search measurement from a system WPAgency.xyz has maintained since 2023, and what an Average Rank of 1.0 does and does not tell us.
DropTrack's Music Analyzer scored Wings & Prayers: Second Flight between 94 and 97 out of 100. The full results, what the tool says the number is, and the line between a proprietary score and a measurement someone else can repeat.
The mastering case study forced a decision about evidence: quote the private engineering reports, or measure the published files. Choosing the second changed what the page could honestly say, and became a standing rule.
Before a single component existed, four decisions had to be settled, including one where the brief contradicted itself, and one where following the spec would have meant lying.