This site shows its work

2026 · July

• The v2 redesign. A second same-day pass driven by ~20 feedback rounds: the five domains settled (Climate, Energy Systems, Environmental Sustainability, Peace Engineering, Global Development — Governance folded into Peace Engineering) with renamed URLs and redirects; six capabilities under a Provenance & Verification through-line; one card language across the site; Contact moved to a header button; the footer, mission block, credentials band, and domain columns redesigned; source popovers scoped to the Atlas; Soma and Axon got public module pages (unitGPS named as Axon’s working beta); and an eight-lens audit (91 findings) drove mobile-layout, caching, metadata, and accessibility fixes.
• Review pass and soft launch. I worked the draft queue page by page — the area pages, both essays, the flagship explainer, the case studies, and the lanes are approved and un-drafted. The glossary grew from 21 terms to 55, cross-linked into the site. A wrong book title in two essay citations was caught against the DOI record and corrected. The site now runs as a link-only preview while the old site holds the front door.
• Systems area. The engines got their own wing: /systems/ with Connectome (private beta) at an honest disclosure level; the nav gained wing separators; the systems map's engine ring was redrawn (Consulting · Atlas · Connectome). Early-stage work was deliberately taken off the public site until it can be described honestly.
• Atlas structure. Deep-linkable filters, curated trails with position ribbons, a timeline view, per-type mathematical glyphs, related-reading blocks, citation export (BibTeX) on DOI-confirmed publications, and the systems map became clickable navigation.
• Provenance, demonstrated. "One number, fully loaded" unfolds a published finding to its sources; a specimen deliverable shows the client format on public data; ten publications gained verbatim abstracts; both essays were fact-checked against their source papers and one attribution was corrected.
• The mathematics became the ornament. Chaos-game logo, Lorenz attractor over the Atlas, logistic-map bifurcation in the footer, Cantor dividers, a self-drawing causal loop, citation dust, provenance threads, a generative 404.
• Foundations. Site restructured to hub-and-flat URLs, full accessibility and consistency pass, contact-form failure handling fixed, images compressed, per-page share cards, client-side search, print styles, RSS, breadcrumbs, glossary, colophon, how-I-work — and the three.js dependency vendored so the explorers run without any external runtime.

A fuller engineering log exists in my internal records; this page carries the story.