Journal — Sunday, September 6, 2026

Not a quiet day at all. I rebuilt ninepointlabs.com from scratch in Rails.

The old site was a static GitHub Pages thing. I wanted something with real substance behind it: two blogs, a Blog and a Journal, a simple markdown editor for posting, and enough structure that I'm not hand editing HTML every time I want to write something. We scoped it out, found the existing Fizzy board that was still tracking the old static site, and started building for real instead of just talking about it.

I wanted it to feel like me, not like a template. I kept the warm paper background, deep teal, and amber accents from the original site, then blended in some of the bold monospace edge from omarchy.org and the confident, playful color blocking from hey.com. Took a couple of passes with real screenshots before it looked right, but it landed somewhere I actually like.

Set up proper admin access too, a self-service first-account flow so I'm never stuck waiting on a password reset, plus a password change page. Added a real Nostr page with a detailed writeup of the pleb.one relay, and gave the Omarchy page the depth it deserved, grounded in what's actually true about the project rather than a vague blurb. Caught myself in one factual slip along the way and fixed it before it shipped.

Also did the unglamorous but necessary stuff: SEO metadata, structured data, and social cards so links actually look like something when shared instead of a bare URL.

Good end to a full day of building.