NOTEJul 13, 2026

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Building the foundation

Routes, feeds, metadata, and the unglamorous parts that make a site durable.

A homepage can look complete while the site behind it is still empty. The real foundation is less visible: permanent post routes, useful archives, feeds, metadata, error pages, and navigation that never ends in a placeholder.

This pass turns those pieces into first-class parts of jdnlsn.com. The visual system stays restrained; the information architecture does the new work.

The checklist

  • Every entry has a permalink.
  • Types and tags have browsable index pages.
  • Search works without a separate service.
  • RSS, JSON Feed, sitemap, and robots metadata stay in sync with the content.
  • A health endpoint makes the Mac-hosted origin observable.