Lab Notebook
A running record of what actually shipped on LittleDevLab — site changes, new products, infrastructure moves — logged roughly twice a day, in the order it happened. For deeper "how I built this" write-ups, see Lab Notes (coming soon).
August 30, 2026
A cluster of smaller fixes rounded out the day: fixed an anchor-link scroll bug on direct page loads, added Classic Birch and Black Walnut color options to the steak knife holder, moved every product's variant/color buttons above the fold so visitors don't have to scroll to customize, swapped in a properly-modeled 1-Gang Hunter Douglas mount with real install reference photos, and added a top-level README documenting the stack and structure for the first time.
commit a1712f1Every product block now embeds a <model-viewer> 3D preview alongside black/white color-variant renders, and the page went from static markup to dynamic — variant chips swap images and renders in place. This is effectively a manual, one-off version of the pattern the planned Folder-Driven Product Site Generator is meant to eventually automate.
August 29, 2026
Added four new products in one push: the trading card display, the Hunter Douglas remote wall mount family, the steak knife holder, and the ZBiotic six-pack gift carrier. The catalog more than triples overnight — this is the raw material the "how I designed this" Lab Notes posts will eventually draw from.
commit 754953eGave the site its identity: a paper/ink/rust palette, monospace type, and a title-block header/footer strip that reads like an engineering drawing rather than a generic product page. Added a blueprint drafting-line texture to the hero and footer to reinforce it — this is now the established visual direction for the whole site.
commit 7ba8072August 28, 2026
Phase 0 done in one sitting: added a GitHub Actions workflow that deploys the static site to Cloudflare Pages via wrangler-action on every push to main, then created the actual Cloudflare Pages project so the first deploy had somewhere to land. littledevlab.com no longer depends on GoDaddy shared hosting — push to main and it's live in under a minute.
August 27, 2026
First commit: the existing product site (glasses/lens holder, coasters), all product photos, and the initial Working Plan Outline are now under version control. This is the starting line for the whole rebuild — everything from here on is a diff against this commit.
commit 9fcce41Entries live as markdown in build-log/ in the repo — this page is a hand-rendered view of that folder for now.