Changelog
What changed here, from git.
This list is not written by hand. It is the repository's own commit history, newest first and grouped by date, so it cannot go stale the way a hand-kept log does. Merge commits and the routine weekly KPI log entries are left out; everything else this site's history records is below.
October 23, 2026
- Each case study now opens with a five-line brief: role, scope, outcome, timeframe and proof
- Home page, role fit, press bio and llms.txt describe a hands-on engineering manager and principal engineer for AI and platform work on .NET and Azure, in any industry
- Link previews and page titles now read Engineering Manager & Principal Engineer, AI and platform engineering on .NET and Azure
- Résumé dates the regulated-lender engagement as April to May 2026
- Résumé: FEE platform figure now reads as its $3M budget
- Résumé leads with shipped products: the modernized .NET 8 API, a 2 PB imaging migration to Azure, and the support platform
- Résumé now leads with hands-on engineering leadership for AI and platform work on .NET and Azure
October 22, 2026
- Update /commits: language breakdown section
- Add /commits: interactive report of 2026 GitHub commit history, linked from /projects/
October 19, 2026
- KPI: weekly apex report 2026-10-19 (GSC 12 clicks +33.3%, CF 2,103 visits -35.1%)
October 17, 2026
- Sitemap and Article schema now carry real per-page modified dates; /start/ linked from Capabilities
October 12, 2026
- KPI: weekly apex report 2026-10-12 (GSC 13 clicks +62.5%, CF 3,240 visits -4.1%)
October 7, 2026
- Role-specific resume PDFs now list david@davidveksler.com as the contact email.
- Named Veksler Consulting LLC as the contracting entity; contact email moved to david@davidveksler.com.
October 5, 2026
- KPI: weekly apex report 2026-10-05 (GSC 12 clicks +33%, CF 3,378 visits -10.5%)
September 28, 2026
- Retire droplet deploy path: exit 1 with a pointer to the Cloudflare Worker deploy unless --legacy
- Deploy: purge the host's edge cache after promoting
- KPI: weekly apex report 2026-09-28 (GSC 11 clicks +10%, CF 3,773 visits +15.6%)
- Docs: describe the site's Cloudflare hosting
- Deploy: live check no longer fails on large pages
- Restore the X-Frame-Options, nosniff and Referrer-Policy headers nginx sent
September 27, 2026
- Serve the site from Cloudflare's edge network
- Prepare the site's move to Cloudflare's edge network
- Put contact and résumé first on the homepage
September 23, 2026
- resume: add digital-asset custody cut (D2)
- Redesign About profile with clearer sections and timeline
- Illustrate the How I work principles
- Add image gallery to work index
- Condense marketing docs and refresh their status
- Turn SPEC.md into a status catalog and condense the guidance brief
- Condense AGENTS.md, README, and the content quick path
- Archive dated audits, reviews, specs, and old KPI blocks
September 22, 2026
- Add original homepage system sketches
- resume: sync archetype PDFs from career-strategy/04-resumes
- AGENTS.md: trim history narrative and fix stale Pillow claim
September 21, 2026
- Drop CLAUDE.md pointer; AGENTS.md is read natively
- content(colorado-firearms-watch): recapture screenshot for site redesign
- docs: weekly KPI block 2026-09-21 (apex GSC 9 clicks / 449 impr, CF apex 466/day)
September 20, 2026
- feat(home): fill every image slot: six employer logos, enrichment diagram plate
- feat(home): graphics pass: plates, glyphs, marks strip, flow figure
September 14, 2026
- docs(seo): 2026-09-14 weekly KPI block (apex-only)
September 7, 2026
- docs(seo): 2026-09-07 weekly KPI block (apex-only)
September 5, 2026
- feat: build-time homepage counters, /changelog, and /colophon
- chore: ignore agent worktrees
- seo: rewrite title and description on the six zero-click pages
- feat: add build gate for llms.txt case study coverage
- docs: marketing and SEO strategy, plan of record 2026-09-05
- redesign: "Record" - typeset the site as a filed document
September 1, 2026
- Rewrite /about/ around current work and the project fleet
- wip: governed agentic AI case study draft (draft: true, not rendered)
August 29, 2026
- feat: markdown twins for case studies, and the 7th study the agent surfaces were missing
- docs: competitor teardown 2026-08-29 with a ranked steal list
August 15, 2026
- Rewrite /projects/ per feedback: add freecapitalists.org + wiki, state thesis once
- Apply homepage copy fixes: dedupe Antech phrase, tighten hrs/wk stat, add email CTA
August 14, 2026
- Rewrite the homepage for hiring managers, not consulting buyers
August 12, 2026
- Remove the evidence-claim cards from every UI surface
- Restore the architecture diagram and add a generated TOC
- Consolidate the ai-strategy write-up into the flagship case study
- Spread lateral case-study links, and link the prose mentions
August 11, 2026
- Remove /colophon/ page and its links
August 8, 2026
- docs(agents): carve docs/seo-progress.md out of the never-push rule
August 5, 2026
- Add /notes/, a hand-picked writing index
- Make evidence source citations legible to visitors
- Add ?ref=portfolio telemetry to outbound artifact links
- Add a primary artifact to the crypto-custody case study
July 24, 2026
- Apply the homepage-rewrite copy rules to the rest of the site
- Optimize on-page SEO: internal linking, per-page schema, stronger gate
July 23, 2026
- Implement the homepage rewrite spec
- Spec the homepage rewrite in the /about/ voice
- Rewrite /about/ as prose with a headshot and a real opinion
- fix: remove em dashes from /projects/ list items
- SA-8: add /press/ and /projects/ to the SPEC.md site catalog
- SA-7: llms.txt / llms-full.txt gain journalist and project sections
- SA-6: About page, demote the job ask, add a human closer
- SA-2/SA-3/SA-4: add /press/ media kit and /projects/ fleet page
- SA-1/SA-5: move availability line off home hero, onto /fit/ and /start/
- Add whopaysforai.org /work case study (author-hub deep links)
- docs: spec for secondary-audience (non-recruiter) site changes, 2026-07-23 review
- docs: external/off-page SEO playbook + backlink tracker
July 21, 2026
- Apply recruiter-review fixes: availability line, claim attribution, evidence scrub (review 2026-07-21)
- docs: spec for recruiter-review fixes from 2026-07-21 gap interview
- docs: recruiter/hiring-manager textual review of live site, 2026-07-21
- Add recruiter/hiring-manager textual-review prompt (docs/prompts)
- Add llms-full.txt + site-wide LLM discovery links (agent-readiness Tier 1)
- Add Content-Signal AI-usage policy to robots.txt (agent-readiness Tier 0)
July 20, 2026
- docs: weekly KPI 2026-07-20 (apex-host-only scope)
July 19, 2026
- docs: upgrade AGENTS routing block to doc-routing table
- docs: weekly KPI 2026-07-19 (GSC 28d clicks 626 -12.7%, impr -32.1%)
July 18, 2026
- Add docs/seo-progress.md - target for davidveksler-weekly-kpi-report routine
- Fix GitHub Desktop Node resolution in pre-push hook
- Add portfolio backlinks to ai-strategy.html (byline + footer)
- Automate Dependabot updates
- docs: document seoTitle/metaDescription fields and the seo-check gate
- SEO/SERP pass: entity schema, SERP titles, sitemap, llms.txt, build-time gate
July 17, 2026
- Add tracked pre-push hook: lint:claims + astro build quality gate
- docs: add content + marketing quick-path runbooks
- Make AGENTS.md canonical agent instructions; CLAUDE.md is now a pointer
- Harden deployment preflight and confirmation
- Humanize site copy: thin AI writing tells, drop verbatim repeats
- Add AGENTS.md contributor guidance
July 16, 2026
- Link Agentic AI field guide from how-i-work, footer, enterprise study
- Automate production deploy script workflow
July 15, 2026
- Link Vellum Capital in custody case study
- Case study: remove 'honest'/candor wording from inventory + delta copy
- Update .gitignore
- Update Colorado Firearms Watch stat
- Link both newsletters in the footer
- Swap homepage byline chip to a measured outcome
- Promote the primary artifact to a prominent CTA on case-study pages
- Humanize site copy: thin out AI-writing tells
- Add Apple touch icon
- Improve SEO metadata and add custom 404 page
- Add Colorado Firearms Watch case study
- Document auto-commit workflow for sole-project repo
- Add Colorado Firearms Watch evidence records
- Update cheatsheets-directory.png
- Add directory screenshot to governed pipeline case study
- Add governed pipeline case study and evidence
- Replace SSN near-miss with enrichment service case study
- Automate deploy.ps1 to push to server
- Document Cloudflare Pages deploy target
- Add Windows deploy script and strategy context
- Add OG images and structured metadata
July 14, 2026
- Add AI strategy page and publish resume asset
- Add content audit and site review (2026-07-14)
- Update llms.txt
- Fix schema, links, and make cards clickable
- Exclude .btn links from prose anchor styling
- Add local-server.sh: serve site locally (dev or prod mode)
- Build Tier 1 site: Astro + markdown/evidence-corpus pipeline in the ai-strategy.html house style
- Portfolio spec v1: catalog of tiers F-01..F-50, evidence-corpus architecture, open decisions