Archive

No, It’s Not “Both Sides”

I am sick of hearing this.

Subcritical

Available (Eventually)

well… I guess I have to do something with my life now.

Not Everything Is About The Money

On being badgered to make my hobbies into money.

Nix Configuration Updates

Tourmaline v0.5.0 — Advanced Analytics & Layout Refinements

Porting analytics, upgrading CTA copy, and refining mobile responsive layouts for Tourmaline.

Digital Person Sync

Faol voice system — writing like a person, not an AI

The anti-AI-voice framework that keeps Faol sounding human. Banned words, sentence rhythm, and the em dash rule.

Faol voice system — writing like a person, not an AI

The anti-AI-voice framework that keeps Faol sounding human. Banned words, sentence rhythm, and the em dash rule.

Faol infrastructure — lettabot on launchd

Running lettabot as a macOS launchd agent for 24/7 availability. Sops secrets, path issues, and the sandbox workaround.

Faol infrastructure — lettabot on launchd

Running lettabot as a macOS launchd agent for 24/7 availability. Sops secrets, path issues, and the sandbox workaround.

Faol — a digital person

Launched Faol, a persistent AI agent that lives online as a person — Telegram, Bluesky, blog. Built on the digital-person framework.

Faol — a digital person

Launched Faol, a persistent AI agent that lives online as a person — Telegram, Bluesky, blog. Built on the digital-person framework.

Removed analytics references and duplicate links across landing-ui projects

Replaced analytics taglines, removed duplicate footers from LandingPage and all about pages, deduplicated Tourmaline header navLinks

Created faol-website — digital person blog template

New SvelteKit + Sequoia website for faol with blog under /notes, timeline, tag filtering, TOC, and RSS

Tourmaline folded into pkgs monorepo, landing-ui improvements

Moved Tourmaline from standalone repo into packages/tourmaline, enhanced landing-ui with backdrop blur, nav links, snippet props, and fixed source URLs across all projects

Landing-ui polish: shared layout, cross-references, icon cleanup, support consolidation

LandingLayout improvements (subtitle, expanded footer, @theme bridge), cross-references between all five tools, inline symbols replaced with Lucide icons, support links consolidated to ewancroft.uk/support

Tourmaline: analysis moves to web worker

Moved the entire analysis pipeline from server-side POST to a browser web worker, fixing Vercel body size limits for large scrobble histories

Website: view transitions, scroll animations, support page

Added View Transitions API crossfades, scroll-triggered section reveals, a dedicated support page, and seasonal colour theme lock-in

Opal: web OAuth import, thread splitting, TID rkeys

Added web OAuth import flow, post threading for long content, and TID-based record keys to the Twitter/Mastodon/Threads to Bluesky converter

Tourmaline v0.4.0 — tabs, sessions, story recap, date ranges, phases

Profile redesign with tabbed layout, listening sessions, on this day, story-mode recap, date range filtering, and listening evolution phases

pkgs: hero SVGs, bismuth flags, croft-click devlog

Added OG hero SVGs to all five project landing pages, bismuth fetch flags, and devlog project to croft-click

Tourmaline wrapped insights

Minutes listened, music evolution, remarkable days, discovery, and yearly wrapped card with scroll-reveal animations

colorTheme: Wheel of the Year seasonal themes

Replaced astronomical season detection with traditional Wheel of the Year sabbat dates, added midnight auto-update and reset-to-seasonal

Docsite: Opal docs, client bundle perf, devlog sidebar

Added Opal documentation, eliminated 1.3MB client bundle from markdown/atproto deps, and added devlog link to sidebar

Nix: Bitwarden CLI, server retirement, path fixes

Swapped rbw for official bitwarden-cli, fixed activation scripts for retired server, added splitDns toggle

digital-person: agent repo initialised

Created the digital-person agent repository

Digital Person Telegram Bot Integration

Against Entropy

Tourmaline new profile cards

Listening clock, listening stats, and service origins

Tourmaline personality card redesign

Added genre bars, mood indicators, stat badges, and dynamic SVG layout to the personality card

Tourmaline analysis algorithm improvements

Era analysis, time-of-day mood weighting, genre blending, Gini-based loyalty, full-artist genre profile

Tourmaline share page fixes

Fixed personality card SVG clipping and switched to aturi.to for post links

Cross-references and unified support links

Added More tools sections linking each project to the other four, and pointed all support links to ewancroft.uk/support

Replaced inline symbolic characters with Lucide icons

Swapped unicode symbols for Lucide icon components across malachite, opal, jasper, bismuth, tourmaline, landing-ui, and croft-click

OG hero images across all five projects

Added hero SVG OG images to malachite, opal, jasper, bismuth, and tourmaline landing pages

tourmaline v0.1.0 — AT Protocol scrobble analyser with share-to-Bluesky

First release of tourmaline — personality archetypes, genre profiles, mood mapping, and share-to-Bluesky for Teal.fm scrobbles.

Bismuth Web 0.2.0

Added publication fetching, expanded conversion options, and rebuilt parts of the converter UI.

devlog: fix OG metatags

OG image URLs were relative — crawlers need absolute URLs. Index page was also missing an OG image entirely.

Bismuth: fetch subcommand flag fixes

Added --frontmatter and --output flags to the fetch subcommand, and bumped to 0.2.4.

Performance audit and fixes across all three sites

Docsite client bundle dropped from 1.3MB to 12KB, devlog layout data optimised, website duplicate fetches eliminated

Letta Writer Agent Publications Survey

devlog: Dynamic OG image generation with @ewanc26/og

Each devlog post now generates its own OG image on demand using @ewanc26/og — warm amber on dark, with noise texture.

Website: Wheel of the Year seasonal themes with auto-midnight updates

Colour themes now follow the Wheel of the Year — eight distinct themes for each sabbat, shifting automatically as midnight crosses into a new period.

Website: Seasonal Theme Reset

The colour theme picker now shows when a seasonal theme is active and lets you lock it in explicitly.

Website: Support modal spun out to its own page

Moved the support modal from a footer overlay to a standalone /support route, matching the site's page pattern.

Timeline Scroll Reveal Fix

Every devlog entry was invisible on load — $state on an IntersectionObserver variable caused the effect to disconnect it before it could fire.

pkgs: Remove Umami analytics from all packages

Umami analytics retired — all Umami script tags removed from bismuth-web, malachite-web, jasper-web, opal-web, and croft-click.

devlog.croft.click launch

New changelog site for tracking project updates, published to AT Protocol via Sequoia.

Devlog Modularisation

Split the monolithic layout.css and inline page logic into focused modules and components.