Artifacts
27 files from Changelog, kept as they were.
The plan #
Before any code, two documents written for Jamie’s review on the morning of October 29, and kept up to date through the day as he answered their questions. One is the API Release Notes would need, the other the app that would use it, and each was checked against the other. They are here as they were, lightly redacted.
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The API plan #
Tokens, a public API and Changelog as one idea with two doors: what the API would do, the order to build it in, and Jamie’s calls on each question, quoted as he gave them. Every phase of it was built that day. Taken out: a cousin’s name, an email address, and one sentence.
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The app’s scope #
Changelog’s screens sketched in text, notifications with no push server, and a table checking each thing the app would do against the API plan, which changed the plan before any of it was built. Taken out: a cousin’s name and an email address.
The first scaffold #
From the repository’s first half hour.
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The icon #
The shared V and dot over two lines of notes, from the first scaffold, before the separate icon studies below.
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The first README #
From the first scaffold, before the API it talks to was live. Photos and voice memos, Upcoming, and Shortcuts and widgets are listed for later versions; all three arrived that same day.
Before: the first day, in iOS’s own look #
October 29, on the simulator against the Release Notes dev server’s fictional account. Grouped lists on gray, the system font, and blue links.
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The first screen #
The first scaffold’s sign-in, that morning, which took a token pasted from Release Notes’ Settings. Signing in with Release Notes itself came that evening.
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Log, in iOS’s own look #
Today’s version, a box for what changed, one-tap tags, buttons for a photo, the camera, a voice memo and the place, and Commit, with today’s activity underneath.
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Upcoming #
Birthdays, an anniversary, a trip and an event, each in the line the morning email gives it, like “Mom turns 6.8.0.”
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Adding a date #
A birthday, anniversary, trip or event, whether it goes in the morning email, and when the phone sends its reminder.
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Activity #
What came in, changed and went out, from every channel, without a note’s words.
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The foot of Settings #
Pinned tags, links to Release Notes, a debug build’s server switch, and the build line: Changelog 0.0.0, build 8a54afc, made Oct 29 at 3:57 PM CDT.
After: on the paper #
The same screens on October 30, after the redesign that put every screen on the Release Notes website’s paper, with the same fictional account and the same dates. Cream and navy, cobalt for actions, a tangerine Commit, and the site’s two typefaces, Bricolage Grotesque and Martian Mono.
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Signing in #
By now Changelog signs in with Release Notes itself, which asks the person signing in to name the token it keeps and choose what it may do. A pasted token still works.
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Log on the paper #
The day in mono capitals, today’s version large and tomorrow’s under it, and below, a note filed and read back with its words.
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Upcoming on the paper #
The same five dates, each day in cobalt mono over its line.
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Adding a date on the paper #
The same form, flat on the paper instead of in grouped boxes.
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Activity on the paper #
With a line marking the last visit, so what is new since is on top.
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The foot of Settings on the paper #
The build line in Martian Mono: Changelog 0.0.1, build 974deb4.
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Log, as the guide shows it #
The screenshot on Release Notes for Changelog, the app’s page on the Release Notes site.
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Upcoming in dark #
The same paper in the website’s dark navy, from the guide.
Finding a separate icon #
Icon studies made with Codex on October 31, 2026. The single folded v went to Release Notes. Changelog’s selected direction repeats the fold as three stacked versions; a list of paper slips was set aside.
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Entries, set aside #
Three curled paper slips on tangerine, each with a cobalt dot. This was the list-based alternative to repeating the version mark.
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Versions, the first stack #
Three folded v marks in cobalt, tangerine and ivory on ink navy. This became the direction for Changelog.
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Versions, refined #
The stack with more clear space around its edges and simpler fold shading. It was checked at 60 pixels beside Release Notes’ single v and dot.
Four member editions #
Paper, Copper, Terminal and Afterglow keep the same three-layer mark. These are proposed alternative app icons for Supporting Members of the Weekly Thing.
The design record #
The sequence, prompts and small-size previews from the design exercise. These files record choices and studies, not a release of the app.
