Full transparency
Build Logs.
Every update to this site, shipped and noted. High level, human-readable, nothing hidden.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 11
The TROOP.
- ·Click the ape in the top-left: a launcher opens with every tool on the site. A troop is a group of gorillas; this is the group of tools.
- ·Five new instruments joined: One Breath (sixty seconds of guided breathing, then what Earth did while you breathed), The Borrowed Body (your atoms, counted — Big Bang hydrogen, star-forged carbon, ocean-traveled water), You Are Here (a scroll from your body to the edge of the observable universe and back), The Common Thread (pick any stranger on Earth and find your shared ancestor), and Right Now (who's in daylight this second, where it's exactly noon, and what the species has done since you arrived).
- ·The Ledger and Field Notes moved into the TROOP. The top menu slimmed down to the writing.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 10
The field report.
- ·The homepage conditions strip now says where its readings come from: your local time and time zone, the nearest city, and the stretch of coast your tide is read from.
- ·It also tells you what to wear — sunglasses, an umbrella, snow boots, a real jacket — judged from live conditions.
- ·Warnings appear when the sky turns: official National Weather Service alerts for US visitors, and warnings read from live data (high wind, flood risk, big waves, extreme heat or cold) everywhere.
- ·This page — Build Logs — exists now. Every update to the site gets noted here.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 09
The portal.
- ·The site now opens on a white room with one huge breathing ape. Click it and its silhouette becomes a window into the forest — then you fly through.
- ·Once per visit; press Escape or click again to skip; respects reduced-motion settings.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 08
The almanac.
- ·The Ledger now tracks the sky: next and last full, new, blue, black, super, micro, harvest, and hunter's moons, plus solar and lunar eclipses — each with a plain-English definition. All computed in your browser from real astronomy.
- ·The Canon opened: books, records, and films that stayed.
- ·Links shared from the site now carry branded cards. The gorilla took over the browser tab icon. Day counts can be saved as share cards.
- ·The four canopies became doors — every pillar card now goes somewhere.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 07
Brutalist turn.
- ·The italic script is gone; the voice font is now a chunky grotesque.
- ·The menu scrolls on phones, so every page is reachable.
- ·The moon ticker now runs for everyone, including reduced-motion devices.
- ·Two tenets tightened; the last one now ends where it should.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 06
Tenets, charts, and a scratch pad.
- ·The manifesto is dead; long live the Tenets. Same words, better name, old links still work.
- ·The essays got real charts, drawn in house colors.
- ·Field Notes opened: a whiteboard where you can type or draw, and take it with you as .txt, .doc, or .pdf. It never leaves your browser until you export.
- ·Labels sitewide moved to a new face.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 05
Three essays.
- ·Published: The Container Moment, The Integration Tax, and Why Money and Power Can't Buy Soccer Wins (or F1 Wins, for That Matter).
- ·The hello-world placeholder was retired with honors.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 04
The Ledger.
- ·Enter the day you arrived and count your days. Jump to day 30,000, your billionth second, or any date you like.
- ·Your birthday stays in your browser. Ledgers are private by definition.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 03
The sky arrives.
- ·The homepage now shows your moon phase, local weather, and the tide at your nearest coast — quietly, at the bottom of the hero.
- ·A ticker tracks the last and next full moon.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 02
The design pass.
- ·The tenets went up in full. Articles got a real reading experience. Typography sharpened, navigation fixed, a date bug squashed.
- JUL 16, 2026 · SHIP 01
First light.
- ·apeshallneverkillape.ai is live. One gorilla, four canopies, nothing for sale.
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