Site Log

What changed on the site, and when. How the seawall works, and who made its parts.

Log

Oct 19, 2026The line at the foot of the seawall now opens its weather and time controls. The note about cloud hiding the stars is gone, and the photographs are credited below instead of on the scene.
Oct 18, 2026Brought over the newest signal from the old site, on going from collective intelligence to collective wisdom, and restored the quotes and lists three older signals had lost in the move.
Oct 18, 2026The people of the seawall no longer line up at the foot of the front page; the page ends with the plain footer.
Oct 18, 2026New accent colours, Sea glass: cerulean links, sea-green notes, raspberry key phrases on the Now page, and brass signals. Links and notes no longer share a colour.
Oct 10, 2026White paper in place of the warm off-white, so the new type and the seawall carry the warmth.
Oct 09, 2026A second ferry on the Sound: MV Kitsap, an Issaquah-class boat modelled in Blender, takes every other crossing, at its real size beside the Wenatchee.
Oct 09, 2026New type: Timeless Serif for reading and titles, Timeless Grotesk for labels and navigation. The big names stay in Jost.
Oct 01, 2026A new look: Baskervville and Jost, ferry green and marigold, and a dark mode that follows your device. Notes and signals now share one Notebook, with a few featured to start with. The people of the seawall line up at the bottom of the front page.
Sep 30, 2026The new site: notes, signals and pages of their own, and the seawall on the front page. Built with Eleventy.

The seawall: Twelve notes walk the seawall, looking west over Elliott Bay to the Olympic Mountains. Crows fly over with signals. Now and then two notes stop to talk, and every line they say is quoted word for word from the two notes.
The sky: Seattle's real sun and moon for the moment you visit, the stars and constellations for that date and time, and the weather from Open-Meteo. Clouds, rain and fog change the light on the mountains and the water.
The picture: A photograph of a clear day on the Sound, given depth by Depth Anything V2 and re-lit on your device for the hour and the weather.
Made in Blender: The walkers, the crows, the harbour lamps and the two ferries, the Jumbo Mark II Wenatchee and the Issaquah-class Kitsap, were modelled and rendered in Blender.
The walkway: The Elliott Bay Seawall's glass-block sidewalk and weathered concrete, drawn in perspective; it darkens and pools in the rain.
Type and color: Timeless Serif for reading and titles, Timeless Grotesk for labels and Jost for the big names, set on a twelve-column grid. Links are cerulean, notes sea green, signals brass, and the key phrases on the Now page raspberry. Dark mode follows your device's setting.
Quiet mode: The front page without the scene, for slow connections, reduced motion, or just reading. The switch sits on the seawall, and it turns on by itself when your device asks for reduced motion.

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