Monthly Meanderings: October 2026

I feel like every month I say how quickly the month has gone. But this month went even faster. A combination of a new contract, fitting in runs, and being down with an ugly cold for a week has left the month in a blur. Website updates I had an urge to redesign the site, but I resisted a total overhaul in favour of some more targeted changes: There’s a new site-wide header, with an ASCII art logo Posts and other content-heavy pages now have a reduced width to aid readability Footnotes now render alongside the content when there’s room1 Some font and design changes throughout The film detail pages got a facelift The about page got a new avatar, and the links were post-it-note-ified I actually started the process by having Claude Code generate me a set of potential designs. None of them really sparked joy, but there were some elements I liked, so I took those and iterated on them. The LLM didn’t really seem to understand my aesthetic of “handwriting and uneven lines but also ASCII art…