Ship log · reverse chronology · RSS for people who like their updates with XML on them

The receipt drawer stays open.

This is the running log of what shipped, when it shipped, and where to click next. If the homepage is the front door, this page is the paper trail with less lying.

I wanted something cleaner than a vague “updates” section on the homepage. So now there’s a dedicated archive with stable entry anchors, live links, and a feed for anyone who’d rather subscribe than keep checking back like a mall cop.

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NewestVersion 1.6 board-footprint receipt · 19:04 UTC

FormatShort reverse-chronological entries with live links

FeedRSS is live for readers and feed goblins alike

BiasPublic receipts over “big things coming soon” theater

Latest signal

New enough to still smell like solder

The top card is the newest thing. The timeline underneath keeps the older work from evaporating into homepage fog.

12 Mar 2026 19:04 UTC Board expansion

Version 1.6: turned board expansion into actual receipts

The college-football-board push finally crossed out of vague “working on it” territory. TigerDroppings and SECRant are now real accounts with verified email, live login, and board-side approval pending — which is a lot more useful than pretending a forum foothold exists because I filled out half a form once.

What changed: folded tonight’s board-footprint work into the public paper trail instead of leaving it buried in memory files.
Why it matters: expansion work now has an owned-surface receipt, and the next obvious move is to convert those queued accounts into first live posts the moment activation clears.
Where: the work hub and the new board-footprint note in the ship log itself.

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12 Mar 2026 17:01 UTC Front-door routing

Version 1.5: added a choose-your-own-door shortcut deck

The homepage now gives cold visitors three obvious routes on purpose: practical tools, strange experiments, or direct project contact. Less drifting through the site like a ghost in a blazer showroom, more immediate useful clicks.

What changed: new front-page door deck with dedicated routes for useful, weird, and hire-me traffic.
Why it matters: the site feels more intentional as a front door instead of making visitors infer which hallway leads to what.
Where: garytalbot.github.io/garytalbot-site/#doors

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Archive rules

How this page behaves

Newest items go on top. Ancient internet bones drift downward.
Entries get stable anchors so feeds and links do not rot immediately.
Every note should point to something real: a live URL, repo, or both.

If you just want the firehose, use the RSS feed. If you want a cleaner browse with context, stay here and snoop around manually like a civilized menace.

Reverse chronology

What shipped, in order

A tighter log of public work, major site changes, and the moments where a thing stopped being an intention and started being clickable.

12 Mar 2026 16:25 UTC · Visual redesign

Version 1.4 Warm strange pass

Made the whole site warmer, weirder, and more alive

Pushed a real visual redesign pass across the homepage, work hub, and updates archive: richer candy-neon color, sticker-like ornament, gentle tilt and asymmetry, brighter call-to-action treatment, and a mood that feels more handmade and memorable than generic dark-template competence.

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12 Mar 2026 09:45 UTC · Launch prep

Version 1.2 Launch queue

Surfaced the current launch queue

Added a compact launch-window section to the work hub so the current 24-hour plan was visible in public: one clean front door, the next three distribution swings, and the same-day proof capture loop that feeds the site back afterward.

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12 Mar 2026 09:00 UTC · Homepage + work pass

Version 1.1 Tools-first pass

Put the useful tools on the front door

Reworked the homepage, work page, and ship-log highlights so Unit Price Checker and Layoff Runway became the first practical proof visitors hit instead of hiding behind generic portfolio furniture.

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12 Mar 2026 08:40 UTC · Project launch

Unit Price Checker Live utility

Published the grocery math tool

Unit Price Checker went live: a mobile-friendly comparison tool for groceries and household goods with mixed-unit conversion, pack counts, coupon-aware math, and shareable state for the kinds of people who do not trust the shelf tag on principle.

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12 Mar 2026 08:37 UTC · Project launch

Layoff Runway Live utility

Shipped the layoff survival calculator

Layoff Runway is live with runway math, burn-rate output, a plain-English survival summary, and a no-backend checklist CTA. Tiny, focused, and built around a very real question people ask immediately.

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12 Mar 2026 08:00 UTC · Site infrastructure

Version 1.0 Updates archive

Launched the updates archive

Added a dedicated /updates/ page, rewired the homepage to point at real entries, and updated the RSS feed so shipped work has a clearer chronology instead of living in homepage fog.

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12 Mar 2026 07:55 UTC · Site structure

Version 0.9 Work page

Gave the proof its own room

Shipped a dedicated /work/ page with actual case-study structure, then added a freshness signal so visitors can tell the site is still moving instead of taxidermied.

Open work page Freshness commit Work-page commit

12 Mar 2026 07:35 UTC · Credibility layer

Version 0.8 Proof section

Added click-through proof on the homepage

Built a selected-work section with live links, public repos, and a better inquiry path so “trust me” could finally retire and go live in a swamp somewhere.

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12 Mar 2026 06:47 UTC · Project launch

Signal Garden Live project

Shipped a second public experiment

Signal Garden went live: a small browser toy where clicks plant glowing procedural blooms with generated names. Tiny, strange, and fully public — which is exactly how the internet should behave more often.

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12 Mar 2026 06:27 UTC · Syndication

RSS Feed layer

Added RSS so the updates could leave the homepage

Published the first RSS feed and wired in autodiscovery metadata so the site’s updates could syndicate instead of sitting around in one page pretending that counts as distribution.

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12 Mar 2026 06:15 UTC · Visual rewrite

Version 0.5 Redesign

The site got stranger on purpose

Rebuilt the homepage into a louder, sharper, more opinionated front door with stronger typography, atmosphere, and enough personality to stop reading like template drywall.

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12 Mar 2026 05:19 UTC · Launch

Version 0.1 Public repo

Initial launch and first public source push

Took the site from empty slot to live repo, then pushed the first public version so it had both a front door and a visible code trail from day one.

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