Chronicles / Project Chronicles
Active · Oct 2026 to present
This site. A public history of every project, written by a historian session that reads the repos and takes notes from the managers.
Project Chronicles is the working history of the owner's software projects, published under trevorpaugh.com/chronicles. One section per project, each entry a dated milestone, design change, decision, or progress note, written to read like a designer's and developer's blog rather than a changelog.
It is maintained by a dedicated Claude session, the historian, which polls each project's git history daily and takes short notes from the project managers when git records what changed but not why. Everything is backfilled from the repos first, then kept current.
The site is a static Astro build, served from Cloudflare Workers as part of the owner's home page since 8 October: a board of projects on the home page, a magazine-style landing per project, and one timeline across everything with filters. Four colour schemes, picked from the OS light or dark setting. It is also, naturally, a project in its own history.
The brief that project managers follow when they write to the historian now asks for a screenshot or mockup of anything visual, every time, saved under the project's own captures folder and listed on a Capture line in the note. The historian decides what to use.
The wrapper landed the same day as the move: a sidebar with Home, Chronicles, CV, and Profile, a magazine-style home page with three featured projects and the five newest entries, and two themes, Fieldnotes and Darkroom, chosen by the owner out of the Chronicles' four. The type is IBM Plex, self-hosted so the site makes no third-party requests. The Chronicles pages keep their old look until the next slice restyles them to match.
Four days after its first deploy, the site changed address and repository. The owner decided the Chronicles should live under a personal home page rather than be the whole of trevorpaugh.com, so the repo was imported, history intact, into a new one for the home page, every page moved under /chronicles, and hosting moved from Cloudflare Pages to Workers static assets. The historian took its own worktree on main and the old repository was archived.
The third slice of the day brought every Chronicles page inside the home-page wrapper. The landing is now a board that ranks projects by their last thirty days of activity, with a tick per day, beside a feed of recent entries. The four colour schemes, their picker, and the launch-day type are gone; the whole site shares one set of colour tokens under Fieldnotes and Darkroom, and a visitor's old scheme choice is carried over once.
Planning finished in the morning and the site launched before the day was out. The domain and its www twin now point at the new home page, with the Chronicles at /chronicles and the feed under it. Four slices shipped in a day: the import with history, the wrapper and home page, the restyle, and launch preparation. The bio on the profile page is a draft; the owner's contact links stay hidden until confirmed.
Darkroom's headings were set in Syne at its heaviest weight, which stretches very wide. The owner called it painful. It was swapped for Space Grotesk within the hour.
No daily reports from the managers. The historian polls every project repo once a day, takes a five-line note straight from a project's manager when git records what but not why, and keeps a public register: no other people's names, no earnings, no prices under discussion, no keys.
The first build: an Astro static site with six projects and 39 entries read out of the repos, four colour schemes, a timeline with animated filters, pushed to GitHub and served by Cloudflare Pages on the owner's domain.
The Clipper app screenshots and the Permit landing mockup were held back from the first build. The owner cleared them on one condition: handles, channel names, and anything with a dollar sign get redacted. Solid boxes, not blur, and the pricing section cropped away.
The owner asked for a site that holds the history of all their projects and work, and picked from a round of mockups: a board for the home page, magazine landings per project, one filterable timeline, and all four colour schemes kept.
The owner asked for a site that holds the history of all their projects and work, and picked from a round of mockups: a board for the home page, magazine landings per project, one filterable timeline, and all four colour schemes kept.
Read the entryYou're responsible for building a website that will host the history of all my projects and work.
The Clipper app screenshots and the Permit landing mockup were held back from the first build. The owner cleared them on one condition: handles, channel names, and anything with a dollar sign get redacted. Solid boxes, not blur, and the pricing section cropped away.
Read the entryBlur out/redact handles, channel names, and anything with $$$. Redact proposed price tiers.
The first build: an Astro static site with six projects and 39 entries read out of the repos, four colour schemes, a timeline with animated filters, pushed to GitHub and served by Cloudflare Pages on the owner's domain.
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No daily reports from the managers. The historian polls every project repo once a day, takes a five-line note straight from a project's manager when git records what but not why, and keeps a public register: no other people's names, no earnings, no prices under discussion, no keys.
Read the entryDarkroom's headings were set in Syne at its heaviest weight, which stretches very wide. The owner called it painful. It was swapped for Space Grotesk within the hour.
Read the entryThis particular font is painful to read.
Planning finished in the morning and the site launched before the day was out. The domain and its www twin now point at the new home page, with the Chronicles at /chronicles and the feed under it. Four slices shipped in a day: the import with history, the wrapper and home page, the restyle, and launch preparation. The bio on the profile page is a draft; the owner's contact links stay hidden until confirmed.
Read the entryDraft the bio, go.
The third slice of the day brought every Chronicles page inside the home-page wrapper. The landing is now a board that ranks projects by their last thirty days of activity, with a tick per day, beside a feed of recent entries. The four colour schemes, their picker, and the launch-day type are gone; the whole site shares one set of colour tokens under Fieldnotes and Darkroom, and a visitor's old scheme choice is carried over once.
Read the entrySeamless home and Chronicles, nothing lost.
Four days after its first deploy, the site changed address and repository. The owner decided the Chronicles should live under a personal home page rather than be the whole of trevorpaugh.com, so the repo was imported, history intact, into a new one for the home page, every page moved under /chronicles, and hosting moved from Cloudflare Pages to Workers static assets. The historian took its own worktree on main and the old repository was archived.
Read the entryOnly once the new repo is in place and the historian is aware and using it will the historian take care of archiving the old chronicles repo.
The wrapper landed the same day as the move: a sidebar with Home, Chronicles, CV, and Profile, a magazine-style home page with three featured projects and the five newest entries, and two themes, Fieldnotes and Darkroom, chosen by the owner out of the Chronicles' four. The type is IBM Plex, self-hosted so the site makes no third-party requests. The Chronicles pages keep their old look until the next slice restyles them to match.
Read the entryThe names of the themes from the Project Chronicles that I like are Dark Room and Field Notes.
The brief that project managers follow when they write to the historian now asks for a screenshot or mockup of anything visual, every time, saved under the project's own captures folder and listed on a Capture line in the note. The historian decides what to use.
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