Earth

Where the observations are made from.

This is a daily log kept through 2026, written from Cambridge, UK.

Why it looks like this

A log only works if it gets written on the seventh month as reliably as the first, so this one is built to be worth opening. Each day is a planet whose sprite is derived from a hash of its date — the same date always produces the same world, and no sprite is ever drawn by hand. Watching a month fill in is the point.

The metaphor stops at the door of an entry. Pages you navigate are a pixel galaxy; pages you read are quiet, narrow and text-first, in the same palette.

What drives a planet

Nothing is drawn by hand. Every day’s world is generated from that day’s own data, so the same entry always produces the same planet.

Planet property	Driven by
Surface pattern / terrain	Hash of the date — unique but stable
Diameter	Hours worked, in six buckets
Colour	The projects worked that day, blended by hours
Terrain type — ice, rock, ocean, lava, gas, forest	Dominant category that day
Number of moons	Extra projects beyond the first
Ring	A milestone day
Passing comet	An idea was recorded
Asteroid debris, no planet	No entry that day
Name	A real star, exoplanet or moon, picked from the date

Colour and terrain are deliberately separate: colour says what you worked on, terrain says how. Two days of writing on different projects look different; two days on the same project in different modes look related but not identical.

How it is kept

Idea	Here
Day	Planet
Month	Stellar system
Year	Galaxy
Project	Constellation
Group of projects	Constellation family
Idea	Comet
Milestone	Supernova

Entries live in log/, one file per day, each carrying a sessions: list of projects and hours — a day usually touches more than one. Projects live in projects.yml under stable slugs, so they can be regrouped at any time without rewriting history. Everything else on this site is generated from those two things by scripts/build.py.