Matt Pyle — Changelog

A guest book an agent can sign

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

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.

Added a /webmcp page to showcase WebMCP functionality

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:15:00 GMT

The tools this site hands to agents get a page built from the live tool objects, with runnable examples.

Retro mode: a 1997 skin an agent can switch on

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:45:00 GMT

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.

The Scorecard gets a memory

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:22:47 GMT

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.

Homepage activity now comes from the changelog

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:31:45 GMT

The homepage's hand-maintained activity list is now a linked preview of the public changelog, with explicit dates and deterministic same-day ordering.

Public changelog launches

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A reverse-chronological log of what ships on this site — launches, features, infrastructure, and experiments. Starting with this page.

WebMCP read-only tool surface

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Raw-markdown post variants + content negotiation

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The public Scorecard

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

mattpyle.com goes live

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Self-hosted fonts, Performance back to 100

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

A new light theme

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Rebuilt on Astro

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.