Topology glyph stream on a 2D canvas — the background stops being wallpaper and starts being terrain. Seeded flow, ambient drift, no interactivity yet.
TIMELINE
chronicle — eras, events, commit refs◈era 0 — substrate2026-08 → 09-14
the field, the type engine, the card recipe — the language itself
Text resolves out of a scramble of its own characters; every cell holds its measured advance from frame zero so nothing rewraps. One choreography map conducts the whole page.
The field gains its ladder: worker + WebGL2 at the top, CPU cell compute below, a main-thread painter as the floor. Degrades honestly — the rung is shown, never hidden.
Every index becomes a typed array in lib/ rendered through one card component. Pages as queries over registries — add an entry, get a card, a route, a stat.
Worker topology stream feeding a GL field, CPU painter fallback, honest telemetry to the bench — the design memo the next three eras built on.
◇era 1 — surfaces2026-09-14 → 09-28
the registry pattern spreads — bench, harness, ledger pages
Rust kernel with desktop, CLI and web surfaces; persistent sessions over SSH relay. Still in dev — no public terminal yet.
1500 deterministic trials per model pairing, pass@k with Wilson intervals, live board. Which small local LLM drives Omarchy most reliably — answered with numbers.
◆era 2 — chrome2026-10-03
navigation, icons, auth — the site becomes a shell
Topbar dropdowns retired for a direct icon rail: projects, devblog, wiki, about, stats as real routes; canvas gains a live scope experiment.
The wireframe xCy cube becomes favicon, app icon, apple touch icon and topbar mark — trimmed, alpha-boosted, rastered at five densities.
Sign-in shell in the site language: cube mark, card chrome, drifting-glyph field. Private repo, Vercel project, custom domain — honest offline endpoint until the backend lands.
Per-pixel Schwarzschild ray integrator in WebGL2: 42-step bend, plane-crossing accretion disk, emergent photon ring, the live field as the sky being lensed. Shipped, demoed, abandoned.
app/ holds routes only; components, lib, fx separated. A new page becomes a metadata export plus SiteShell — chrome and field come free.
⬡era 3 — graph2026-10-05 → 10-06
cobralsp demo, eve — sealed projects get a first-class state
Codebase intelligence graph, rebranded and slimmed: 8,518-node APEX index as a static snapshot — fetch interceptor serves the full /api surface, every file explorable in-browser. Closed source — demo showcase, not a release.
locked lands on the registry: diagonal hatch, sealed-compartment watermark, CLOSED SRC badge, OPEN DEMO instead of OPEN→. Access is a visual state, not a footnote.
A sealed landing deck with a ported corruption engine: quadrant blocks, box strokes, alphanumerics mutate inside the E·V·E silhouette — structure-preserving dissolve on hover.
Stale 'Prosperous Universe' title traced to blocked deploys (commit-author permission), not code. New xcycx-authored deploy; z.ai mark replaced by a generated apex delta.
▣era 4 — v22026-10-07 →
surface layer — docs, blog, contact, persistent chrome, this page
Docs manual with scrollspy rail, blog with full posts, contact deck, persistent topbar with bottom-edge scroll progress, cursor spotlight on every card, scroll-reveal, ReDecode hover-glitch, segmented filters — and this page.