--- title: "Changelog: what has shipped on this site — Matt Pyle" description: "Everything shipped on this site, newest first: launches, features, infrastructure work, and the occasional experiment that did not pan out." canonical: https://www.mattpyle.com/changelog/ source: https://www.mattpyle.com/changelog/ --- # Changelog What has shipped on this site — launches, features, and the occasional experiment. 13 entries, latest 02 Aug 2026. [changelog.md](/changelog.md) ## All entries 2026 [02 Aug 2026 A guest book an agent can sign The retro homepage gets 1997 functionality: a guest book, a web ring, and a visit counter. The guest book is the first place on this site where an agent can create content, through WebMCP. feature major](/changelog/agent-signed-guestbook/) [24 Jul 2026 Added a /webmcp page to showcase WebMCP functionality The tools this site hands to agents get a page built from the live tool objects, with runnable examples. feature minor](/changelog/webmcp-resource-page/) [24 Jul 2026 Retro mode: a 1997 skin an agent can switch on A 1997 GeoCities-era appearance, and set\_appearance: the site's first WebMCP tool that changes something instead of returning data, in your browser only. feature major](/changelog/agent-driven-retro-mode/) [18 Jul 2026 The Scorecard gets a memory Redesigned /scorecard around a prominent latest run and a compact, expandable history, so score movement stays legible without creating a detail page for every audit. feature minor](/changelog/scorecard-run-history/) [17 Jul 2026 Homepage activity now comes from the changelog The homepage's hand-maintained activity list is now a linked preview of the public changelog, with explicit dates and deterministic same-day ordering. feature minor](/changelog/homepage-activity-from-changelog/) [17 Jul 2026 Public changelog launches A reverse-chronological log of what ships on this site — launches, features, infrastructure, and experiments. Starting with this page. launch minor](/changelog/public-changelog/) [17 Jul 2026 WebMCP read-only tool surface Registered three read-only, agent-callable WebMCP tools behind Chrome's origin trial — pure progressive enhancement, removable in one step, and consumed by approximately nothing. experiment minor](/changelog/webmcp-tools/) [16 Jul 2026 Raw-markdown post variants + content negotiation Every post now has a token-efficient raw-markdown sibling at /writing/.md, and the canonical URL itself serves markdown when a request genuinely prefers it. Took three attempts to land the negotiation. infra minor](/changelog/markdown-post-variants/) [15 Jul 2026 The public Scorecard Published /scorecard as a manually verified snapshot of the site's latest Accessibility, Performance, SEO, and Agentic Browsing results — the same facts exposed to human and agent readers from one source. feature minor](/changelog/public-scorecard/) [14 Jul 2026 mattpyle.com goes live The domain went live with www as the canonical host. Fixed every emitted URL to the canonical host, fixed a layout-shift regression, captured the first live-network baseline, and confirmed every AI crawler gets a 200. launch major](/changelog/site-live/) [14 Jul 2026 Self-hosted fonts, Performance back to 100 Dropped the render-blocking cross-origin Google Fonts stylesheet for self-hosted subset woff2 files. Live Performance went from 84–87 to 97–100 on every page; first paint from ~3.3s to under a second. infra major](/changelog/self-hosted-fonts/) [13 Jul 2026 A new light theme Retired the dark, amber, monospace look for a warmer, serif-led reading design — and moved the accent from a default-reading clay orange to oxblood to break the 'AI-generated design' tell. feature major](/changelog/light-theme/) [12 Jul 2026 Rebuilt on Astro Moved the site onto Astro content collections and shipped the foundational discoverability layer — sitemap, robots.txt, agents.md, and llms.txt. The foundation everything else here sits on. launch major](/changelog/astro-rebuild/) showing 13 of 13