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Under Construction

a process for progress

What if something was designed one day, one change at a time?
What if every day, it got just a tiny bit better?
With time, revealed more of itself?


This project explores the ideas of continuous improvement, impermanence, and gradual transitions.

It’s inspired by Under Construction GIFs, Wikipedia, Thing a Week, Song a Day, Atomic Habits, HRT, the IndieWeb, & CSS Zen Garden.

Process

  1. Start with the minimal markup and styles needed.
  2. Make at least one small change every day.
  3. Change the rules whenever.

Progress

Each change will be documented here with a dated commit & screenshot.

Added Letterboxd to watching

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Change image for 2024-04-30

Near-live clock for now page

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Updated footer links

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Added newsletter subscription to footer

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Fontawesome buttons

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Smooth scrolling

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Recursive font stack

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Better mark styling

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End marks

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Silly header animation

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Simplifies vertical rhythm code

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Hanging punctuation

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Better red for blockquotes

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Red blockquotes?

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Blockquote styling

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<address> shouldn’t be italic

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Improve toggle animation

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Nav bar icons

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Highlighted text background color

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Navbar and footer dividers

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Decrease prominence of time on posts

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Smaller, better aligned post dates

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Dark mode

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Added toggle for dot grid

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Added dot grid

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Updates font to Halyard

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Padding on the body to account for list gutters

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Hanging bullets

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Padding for the body (especially for mobile)

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Images have a maximum width of 100%

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