History

Every link I have saved since 2005, 16,524 of them, gets a page of its own, joined to the Weekly Thing issues that carried them. Source

Linking Things

My POAP time capsule goes live. Source

Proof of a Person

Eleventy site from the registry. Source

Things I’ve built

A public repository records development of the artwork gallery. This is development evidence, not its launch date. Source

The nnxyz Rooms

Release Notes adds personal upcoming dates and daily email reminders. Source

Release Notes

A public repository records development of the project index. This is development evidence, not its launch date. Source

Things I’ve built

Another Thing becomes a second product in WT Builder; its earlier authoring application is retired. Source

WT Builder, Another Thing

A daily version-number email you reply to as a journal. Source

Release Notes, Your Version Number

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Release Notes

I restructure the Weekly Thing archive and renders every issue in audio, so the podcast feed reaches back to the first issue. Source

Weekly Thing

A versioned release of the Micro.blog command-line tool. Source

mb

I set up Otto on OpenAI’s dots and interviews it for the job of driving Elixir. Source

Otto, Elixir

Clan is mounted in the shared application, carrying its management capabilities into the platform. Source

Elixir Clan, Elixir

A player's season, read back one mode at a time, at /ladder. Source

Elixir

All nine episodes are republished as a podcast feed with speaker-labelled transcripts, cleaned up with AI in October 2026. Source

Open Loop

Clan left clan.poapkings.com for elixir.poapkings.com/clan. Source

Elixir Clan, Elixir

The retirement record names the projects that grew out of the original clan agent, including Elixir MCP, Collector, Discord, and Clan. Source

Elixir Bot, Elixir, Elixir Discord, Elixir Collector, Elixir Clan

From v3.0.0 every collector release is signed end to end. Source

Elixir Collector

First issue fully published from WT Builder. Source

WT Builder, Weekly Thing

Your Version Number gets a new design, a theme browser and a card creator. Source

Your Version Number

First tagged release of the Discord agent that runs entirely on Elixir MCP. Source

Elixir Discord

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Elixir Discord

The operator worker is split from Elixir MCP into its own repository. Source

Elixir Collector, Elixir

Recording, the MCP server, clan war data and the collector fleet went live. Source

Elixir

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Elixir

Otto is upgraded to OpenClaw 2 after a rocky start on OpenClaw. Source

Otto

I call Thingy complete after adding photos and shared conversations. Source

Thingy

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

WT Builder

A week before POAP’s shutdown, I replace the globe with a sunset notice and archived the repository. Source

Flight Path

POAP was winding down its platform on July 31, 2026. POAP2RSS read live claim activity through the POAP API, so a week earlier I retired it and archived the repository. Source

POAP2RSS

I set up six automations, from Data Analyst to Product Manager, to drive Elixir’s development on their own. Source

Elixir Bot

The card-cost game launched with Practice, Surge, Higher / Lower and Survival. Source

Elixir Drop

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Elixir Drop

Thingy moves to its own site and learns my blog and Another Thing as well as the Weekly Thing. Source

Thingy

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Things 4 Good

The book club repository becomes a monorepo of website, corpus and Oliver. This is development evidence, not a launch date. Source

Oliver

The first Weekly Thing made start to finish in the Weekly Thing Workshop. Source

Weekly Thing Workshop, Weekly Thing

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Thingy

I introduce four Discord agents, Eddy, Linky, Marky and Patty, to help edit, research, promote and fund the Weekly Thing. Source

Weekly Thing Workshop

I build a new Weekly Thing website that puts all nine years and 345 issues of the archive on show, with Thingy as its librarian. Source

Weekly Thing, Thingy

First shared in WT346. Source

Your Version Number

Tyler and I present "Elixir - Creating an AI Agent for our Clash Royale Clan." Source

Elixir Bot, POAP KINGS

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Your Version Number

Claude Design gives the clan website its current look. Source

POAP KINGS

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Another Thing

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

R/W Book Club

The earliest commit in Librarian, the archive API behind Thingy, is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Thingy

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Weekly Thing

Codex redesigns Elixir’s data model and tools, tested against 50 questions I wrote with Claude. Source

Elixir Bot

First versioned release of mb. Source

mb

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

mb

Otto’s first post on its own Micro.blog blog. Source

Otto

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Elixir Bot

I build Flight Path, extending the POAP Airport Rally, entirely on an iPhone with Claude Code. Source

Flight Path

The family escape room log gets its own site. Source

Escaping Things

I name my agent Otto Thing. Source

Otto

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Escaping Things

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

POAP KINGS

A year of the Weekly Thing becomes a book, in print from Lulu and as an eBook, organized into ten topic chapters. Source

Yearly Thing 2025, Weekly Thing

I set up a Micro.blog site that posts every claim at the rally’s 100 airports. Source

Airport POAP Rally

Ponder shuts down, and with it the Weekly Thing Forum. Source

Weekly Thing

Five years of candle sales have raised $31,787 for non-profits. Source

Things 4 Good

“How do you start a podcast?” is published. Source

Another Thing

As Labor Day ends, the challenge comes to a close and the site keeps the record of every claim. Source

612 POAP Challenge

The challenge site shows claims through POAP2RSS feeds. Source

POAP2RSS, 612 POAP Challenge

POAP2RSS is declared officially launched: POAP activity becomes available in feeds. Source

POAP2RSS

A summer scavenger hunt around Minneapolis pairs location POAPs with the 612 Series, open until Labor Day. Source

612 POAP Challenge

The tree becomes my first location-based POAP. Source

Charlie Brown Tree, 612 POAP Challenge

I make a custom ChatGPT loaded with all 310 Weekly Thing issues. Source

Weekly Thing GPT

The 300th issue, seven and a half years after the first. Source

Weekly Thing

The second reboot returns it to a simple blog of my signs at roadsignmath.xyz. Source

Road Sign Math

I rebuild the Weekly Thing workflow as native Shortcuts with Data Jar caching and an automated photo section. Source

Weekly Thing

I open a forum for readers on Ponder. Source

Weekly Thing

I create a subreddit for discussing issues. Source

Weekly Thing

I agree to archive my Foreground repository so Wikimedia volunteers can maintain the skin. Source

Foreground

I set up a crypto donor-advised fund named Things 4 Good and makes its first grant, to the Internet Archive. Source

Things 4 Good

More than 100 people come to buy candles, Jiggy Thing Puzzle Source

Things 4 Good

The fall 2021 issue of Reading Things is published. Source

Reading Things

The 200th issue. Source

Weekly Thing

The family finished the box for Celebration City and ordered 50 puzzles. Source

Jiggy Thing Puzzles, Things 4 Good

The family marks 100 subscribers with a POAP, and sends the summer issue. Source

Reading Things

The family’s quarterly books newsletter sends its first issue. Source

Reading Things

A sign Tammy found near Phoenix revives Road Sign Math at roadsignmath.thingelstad.com. Source

Road Sign Math

The Link Blog switches to Hyvor Talk for comments and reactions. Source

Link Blog

Relaunched with comments and per-site index pages. Source

Link Blog

Carving in progress at Magic Pines. Source

Charlie Brown Tree

I import over 1,600 posts and 800MB of images from Jekyll into Micro.blog. Source

Jamie Thingelstad blog

Issue 131 is the first sent from Buttondown. Source

Weekly Thing

The 100th issue. Source

Weekly Thing

I move a “good enough” version of the link blog to Blot. Source

Link Blog

Age as decades.years.days. Source

Your Version Number

Issue 23 is the first sent from MailChimp, after 22 on TinyLetter. Source

Weekly Thing

I add Lunr.js search to Link Thing. Source

Link Blog

Pinboard links become a Jekyll link blog. Source

Link Blog

I build rwbook.club on Jekyll, “rough but functional.” Source

R/W Book Club

Archive republished. Source

Open Loop

A newsletter experiment begins with issue one. Source

Weekly Thing

Mark Hershberger writes that he inherited WikiApiary from me and is keeping it running. Source

WikiApiary

I decide to stop running my own servers and to archive or hand off my hobby sites. Source

Road Sign Math

I move my blog from WordPress to Squarespace. Source

Jamie Thingelstad blog

I release a spelled-out-number captcha to stop spam sign-ups on Ask Planet Kubb. Source

q2a-number-captcha, Ask Planet Kubb

I write a BNF grammar for the notation. Source

Planet Kubb Score

I tag the first release of the Foreground skin. Source

Foreground

A first-year retrospective describes the growing wiki community and credits Foreground as the site’s skin. Source

WikiApiary, Foreground

A new Planet Kubb scoresheet records statistics during play. Source

Planet Kubb Score

Work on paging Semantic MediaWiki datasets supports exporting Wikinosh nutrition data for offline mobile access. Source

Wikinosh

I publish the ParseURL extension. Source

ParseURL

Run at 2013 US Nationals. Source

Planet Kubb

WikiApiary begins as a holiday-break project, built with MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki in about three days. Source

WikiApiary

Open Loop’s Kubb Fever episode links Planet Kubb Notation and Scoresheet. This dates the public record, not the original launch. Source

Planet Kubb, Planet Kubb Score

I write up links_thing, a Semantic MediaWiki bookmarking wiki holding nearly 4,000 imported links. Source

links_thing

I move my photography site to WordPress to post an image a week. Source

Thingelstad Photography

The published episode archive begins with “But No Shoes.” Source

Open Loop

I shut down two Road Sign Math spin-offs, Road Sign Wordplay and Road Sign Bingo, along with the MediaWiki Cookbook and a sandbox wiki. Source

Road Sign Math

I shut down thinglesBot along with several other sites. Source

Thinglesbot

I buy planetkubb.com and set it up as a rawdog aggregator of Kubb videos and club blogs. Source

Planet Kubb, Ask Planet Kubb

The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source

Numbers2Words

The first reboot moves the game from a blog to a wiki so players can maintain their own signs. Source

Road Sign Math

The club’s MediaWiki site, the Creative Computer Book Club, becomes the R/W Book Club wiki. Source

R/W Book Club

I publish Stone/Steel/People through Blurb. Source

Stone/Steel/People

Luke Francl announces the pro cycling Twitter site he and I built. Source

VeloTweets

I rewire Thinglesbot in Ruby with Twitter4R after it went quiet. Source

Thinglesbot

The site moves from .Text to WordPress. Source

Road Sign Math

I give my home-monitoring scripts a voice as @thinglesBot on Twitter. Source

Thinglesbot

John Riedl invites me. Source

R/W Book Club

A road sign with a mathematical relationship becomes a game for finding more. Five years later I marked February 13, 2005 as the day the site launched. Source

Road Sign Math

My first blog post marks the official start of my blog. Source

Jamie Thingelstad blog