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Your Version Number

A website that writes your age as a software version, decades.years.days, with a Work Edition for job tenure.

A different way to count the days.

Status
Active Being built or operated.
Dates
Started May 3, 2026 (The idea began in 2018)
Where
yourversionnumber.com/
Topics
Play
Page views
4,455 in the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026 2025-10: 02025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 6172026-06: 4712026-07: 702026-08: 362026-09: 3261
Latest evidence
Latest commit, Oct 7, 2026
The front page of yourversionnumber.com on Oct 20, 2026
yourversionnumber.com on Oct 20, 2026. The collector captures the front page once a month.

In February 2018 I wrote Your Version Number, building on a habit of my friend David Hussman, who gave his age as a version number. I mapped it to semantic versioning: decades are the major version, years into the decade the minor, and days since the last birthday the patch. I was v4.6.52 that day, and I made a Workflow script to show the versions of people in my address book. David died that August; the site’s About page says the arithmetic is his.

After a year of seeing my version through a shortcut on my phone, I made it a website with Claude Code in May 2026, first shared in Weekly Thing 346 on 2026-05-03 and then in a launch post. Add one or more birthdays, pick one of the themes, and the page shows each version, counting up at midnight. Everything is held in the URL, so a view can be bookmarked, set as a home page, or sent to someone, with no account. Cards with a signed note work the same way.

The Work Edition applies the same idea to a job: completed years of tenure, the quarter of the current tenure year, and weekdays into that quarter, with a build number that counts every business day, and work themes such as a board update. In October 2026 the idea grew into Release Notes, a daily email of the day’s version with a journal attached.

The build

  • A framework-free static site calculates its numbers in the browser.
  • Dates, people, themes, and signed cards travel in the URL, making a view shareable without an account.
  • The related Release Notes product adds daily email and a personal journal. It has its own server and storage.

JavaScript CSS Static web URL state

Source

Activity

86 commits (33 with Claude, 49 with another agent, 4 by me), the first on May 1, 2026.

The latest weeks with activity

All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.

Sources and evidence

Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.

2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 212026-06: 02026-07: 12026-08: 02026-09: 632026-10: 1 Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.

Connections

Connections of Your Version Numbergrew intoYour Version NumberRelease Notes
Connections of Your Version Numbergrew intoYour Version NumberRelease Notes

  • Your Version Number grew into Release Notes

    Release Notes uses Your Version Number’s birthday arithmetic in a daily email and personal journal. Source

Related

Release Notes mb

History

  1. launch Release Notes launches

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

  2. milestone Your Version Number redesigned

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

  3. launch Your Version Number site

    First shared in WT346. Source

  4. development Your Version Number: recorded development begins

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

  5. development Your Version Number post

    Age as decades.years.days. Source