https://elchdl.com/ Everything I publish on elchdl: journal entries, articles, quotes I keep, Lab experiments and what I'm focused on now. en Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-11-1800-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-11-1800-elchdl-logbook/ Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT Today the Lab got its third experiment: The Focus Reader. personal website https://elchdl.com/lab/the-focus-reader/ https://elchdl.com/lab/the-focus-reader/ Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT A way to read the long pieces of the site a few words at a time, like subtitles, in a panel with its own pace, size and progress. https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-11-0800-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-11-0800-logbook/ Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMT The third batch I mentioned yesterday ran this morning. Until now the system only looked forward: each pass read what the feeds had published over the last couple of weeks, and… personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-10-1800-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-10-1800-logbook/ Tue, 10 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT Until now, the system moved when I asked it to. I would start a pass, it would gather what had come in, sort it, write its notes and a review, and I would read the result. Today it… personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-09-1830-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-09-1830-elchdl-logbook/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:30:00 GMT Today I read the first two reviews of my personal knowledge base, on the page I built for them. personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-09-1630-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-09-1630-elchdl-logbook/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMT Today the Lab got its second experiment: The Scenes. personal website https://elchdl.com/lab/the-scenes/ https://elchdl.com/lab/the-scenes/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:00:00 GMT A style of imagery for the essays, made from the site's own cells, able to show detailed scenes and to bring them to life. https://elchdl.com/notes/articles/visual-direction/ https://elchdl.com/notes/articles/visual-direction/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT How this site found its look between October and November, told as a method. Collect first, read and sort on a shared canvas with AI, put words on it, then focus and build one piece at a time. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/quotes/2026-11-09/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#quote-2026-11-09 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMT “Using AI tools is not an entitlement to elevated craft. The output is only as good as the person providing the input.” — David Hoang https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-08-2200-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-08-2200-elchdl-logbook/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 22:00:00 GMT Today the Lab opened, with a first experiment: The Dice. personal website https://elchdl.com/lab/the-dice/ https://elchdl.com/lab/the-dice/ Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT The site's logomark goes through four stages, one movement at a time, from flat to a Rubik's Cube that shuffles its cells. https://elchdl.com/notes/articles/proxy-to-almost-anything/ https://elchdl.com/notes/articles/proxy-to-almost-anything/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMT Sundar Pichai says there's no going back once you get the taste of agents. What I understood in that moment, for me and for someone close to me. https://elchdl.com/notes/quotes/2026-11-07/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#quote-2026-11-07 Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMT “I do think agents are going to be a fundamental part of how we work. […] Once you get the taste of using something like that and the superpower that comes with it, there is no going back.” — Sundar Pichai https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-06-2000-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-06-2000-elchdl-logbook/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:00:00 GMT Today the site got its slides: a theme for reveal.js and a set of templates to start a deck from. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-05-1800-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-05-1800-elchdl-logbook/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT Today the site published its first article, Threads since 2021. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/articles/threads-since-2021/ https://elchdl.com/notes/articles/threads-since-2021/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:00:00 GMT Rereading what I wrote on cmdncmds in 2021, I found many of the threads I'm pulling today, and saw logging everything go from a dormant load to an asset. personal knowledge base personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-05-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-05-elchdl-logbook/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I wrote down how I write. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/quotes/2026-11-05/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#quote-2026-11-05 Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT “Code review was always meant as a verification step: does the code produce the outcome we want? But it’s a hard question to answer, so we started asking an easier one instead: is this good code?” — Matt Ström-Awn https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-04-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-04-logbook/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reading the reviews had become the weak spot. Each one is a Markdown file, and even in a good preview, a page with quotes, links to notes and sections to weigh doesn't make for… personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-03-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-03-elchdl-logbook/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:10:00 GMT Today a quote turned into a way of working. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-03-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-03-logbook/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I went back over everything I had saved on LinkedIn in the last six months and sent it to the knowledge base by hand, post by post, the way I send any link I want it to read.… personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/quotes/2026-11-03/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#quote-2026-11-03 Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT “We talk a lot about better prompting, better models, better workflows, and better agents. We talk less about the moments when we should slow down—because that’s uncomfortable and hard.” — Katie Parrott https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-02-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-02-elchdl-logbook/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:45:00 GMT Today the site got a Feed. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-02-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-02-logbook/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I opened another drawer: DEVONthink, where I used to clip things before this knowledge base existed. Years of saves came in at once, articles I had kept, a design-systems… personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/quotes/2026-11-02/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#quote-2026-11-02 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT “It doesn't get easier, you just get faster.” — Simon Willison https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-01-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-01-logbook/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I sent a single link to the knowledge base: a video, nothing else in the message. It raised two questions at once. personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-01-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-11-01-elchdl-logbook/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today the site went live. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-31-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-31-logbook/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I went back over the first review. The change is small, but it matters to me. personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-31-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-31-elchdl-logbook/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A quieter day. Email forwarding for the new domain is set up: everything turned green, and the first test message reached my personal inbox. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-30-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-30-logbook/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today the system sorted the whole first batch, wrote its first notes and its first review. personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-30-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-30-elchdl-logbook/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today the identity started turning into a website. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-29-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-29-logbook/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today the backlog actually went through. More than a hundred Safari tabs, a first handful of feeds and about sixty newsletters turned into sources the system can read, sort and… personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-28-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-28-logbook/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I handed over my backlog. personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-27-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-27-logbook/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT On the second day, before the system had processed anything real, I decided to write about it. personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-26-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-26-logbook/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT I've wanted a knowledge base that works for me for a long time. This is the story of how that idea finally started to become real. personal knowledge base https://elchdl.com/now/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#now-2026-10-26 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Setting up the foundations of my living personal knowledge base. https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-23-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-23-elchdl-logbook/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT This morning was all about the mascot: four cells in a square. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-22-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-22-elchdl-logbook/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I came back to the canvas after a few days away. I was very much a fan of the new direction, and I left comments all over it to push it further. personal website https://elchdl.com/now/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#now-2026-10-22 Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Turning the visual direction into a website, and publishing its first sections. https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-17-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-17-elchdl-logbook/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Past midnight, right after "Relevé", I took a different turn: no more elk. I wanted to work with rectangular shapes that can hold symbols, starting from a page of my notebook where… personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-16-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-16-elchdl-logbook/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I answered the three directions, and by the evening I had asked to start over. personal website https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-10-elchdl-logbook/ https://elchdl.com/notes/journal/2026-10-10-elchdl-logbook/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Today I started working on the brand of my personal website. The site itself would come later: a place to publish notes and articles, show some work and experiments, and say what… personal website https://elchdl.com/now/ https://elchdl.com/feed/#now-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building the visual direction of this site: a design system, a family of symbols, and the tools that draw them.