Changelog & live updates

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

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 updates section added to the Fieldwork page so the field-research narrative is visible to anyone reading that doc directly, not only here.

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 empty field-notes/ directory for visit writeups.

CLAUDE.md added. 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 on mattalldian.com; Google-issued cert provisioned. The original digital-fluency.pages.dev URL (and preview URLs) now 301-redirect to the custom domain via a _middleware.ts Pages function — Cloudflare doesn't expose a built-in toggle for this, so the redirect is enforced in code.

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 shipped to Cloudflare Pages. Static-site build (pnpm run build) renders the markdown sources into 21 pages with research notes alongside.
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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.