Missives
One a month, to the Armchair Collective.
Keep track of what's happened since you were last here with the newsletters and the changelog.
October 11, 2022
Changelog
Finally published some substantial site upgrades that have been going on in the background for some time. Here’s a summary:
Some streamlining of the site, largely in response to feedback. The old Anthologies page is replaced by the Analects in preparation for new kinds of content, and to be more coherently aligned to the manifesto. Missives (newsletters and changelog) are now combined wherever they appear, rather than split across javascript tabs (less javascript!). Articles tab on the home page now displays a random selection of two curated, and three latest articles. Home page about section provides more pointers around the site (and about what the site is doing). Projects updated.
Then, just for myself, extracted the Marginalia from the database and printed them as markdown files so I can add and edit them like the rest of the site content. The old way (entering via front end) was very time consuming and unpleasant, but the prospect of printing and messing with the database was extremely distressing. Yet through adversity we grow and here we are. Hopefully this will mean I actually curate the Marginalia properly now, and all my saved links will finally get published. We’ll see.
Upgraded to TailwindCSS 3.0 (from 1.0!). Some subsequent new visual features and code tidying that will probably please no one but me.
September 22, 2022
April 30, 2022
Changelog
After the move of content from “the Armchair Collective” to btrmt, the articles were named “The Armchair Collection” so old readers would find familiarity there. After some (vocal) feedback, the interim ‘Armchair Collection’ is gone. Now the articles are just the articles. Membership to The Armchair Collective is still by invitation only (for now), but everyone will always have access to the articles.
Updates to four common causes of relationship conflict.
March 29, 2022
Changelog
Overhaul of a most useful heuristic for mapping common group behavioural dynamics.
December 30, 2021