A running log of what's changed on this site, what's been learned in fieldwork, and what's coming next. Most recent first.
The fast-moving stuff is in the project repository and fieldwork/ folder; the entries here are the ones worth surfacing to readers.
2026-04-30
Site
- Annotation/comments layer fixed. The side panel was loading its CSS asynchronously from JavaScript, which caused a brief unstyled flash on every page navigation as you moved between pages. The stylesheet is now linked synchronously in the
<head>and the panel renders correctly without the flash. - Editorial sweep across all major docs. Pitch, pedagogy, curriculum, technical-approach, product-spec, and fieldwork all revised.
- This page added.
Live updatessection added to the Fieldwork page so the field-research narrative is visible to anyone reading that doc directly, not only here.
Fieldwork
- Two-week NYC plan locked. Window: May 1–14, 2026. Six observation visits planned across NYPL, BPL, and QPL; four cold-outreach emails drafted for practitioner interviews (Henry Street Settlement, CUNY Adult Literacy, Senior Planet, NYPL TechConnect). Three more in reserve (Brandy McNeil/PLA, Goodwill NYNJ, CPC Learning Labs).
- Working folder created (
fieldwork/) with: outreach drafts, schedule, contacts, plan, and an emptyfield-notes/directory for visit writeups.
Project
CLAUDE.mdadded. Captures build/deploy workflow, project conventions, and the rule that meaningful changes must update the changelog before commit/deploy.- Custom domain live:
digitalfluency.mattalldian.com. Pages project attached to the new hostname; CNAME created onmattalldian.com; Google-issued cert provisioned. The originaldigital-fluency.pages.devURL (and preview URLs) now 301-redirect to the custom domain via a_middleware.tsPages function — Cloudflare doesn't expose a built-in toggle for this, so the redirect is enforced in code.
2026-04-29
Docs
- Drafted the full document set. First complete pass on pitch, pedagogy, technical-approach, curriculum, product-spec, and fieldwork plan.
- Research bundle assembled (
research/) — foundational papers (Schwartz & Bransford 1998, Salomon & Perkins 1989, Wing 2006, HPL II Ch 5, Bastani et al. 2026, Dell'Acqua et al. 2026), grey literature (Urban Institute 2019, OECD 2024), and synthesis summaries (adult CT transfer, browser-desktop simulation ecosystem, instrumented vs. vision telemetry, metacognitive prompting in LLM tutors, transfer of learning UI patterns).
Site
- Site shipped to Cloudflare Pages. Static-site build (
pnpm run build) renders the markdown sources into 21 pages with research notes alongside. - Anonymous comments enabled. Highlight any text on any page to leave a comment; replies threaded; no login required. Backed by D1 + Pages Functions.
What's next
- Send the four Tier-A outreach emails (Henry Street, CUNY, Senior Planet, NYPL) by Friday May 1.
- Drop in on first observations starting Friday May 1 (NYPL Soundview branch, Computer Basics, 11 AM).
- Field notes within 24 hours of each visit, using the template in
fieldwork.md. - Synthesis writeup at end of Phase 1 (~May 14): what the field said that the literature didn't, and what changes in the pedagogy/spec/pitch as a result.