Water of Life — Evidence Page, Dedication, Ship — March 22, 2026
80+
Evidence Entries
5
Nobel Prizes
6
Pages Updated
4
Commitments
Session Theme
Built the Evidence page from scratch (80+ entries, 3 tabs, sub-nav), added dedication to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal on the About page, fixed nav/CTA across all pages, added back-to-top buttons site-wide, set up email routing, shipped a-d-d-guidance v0.4.0, and deployed everything to production.
What Went Well
Evidence page landed big — 80+ entries, 20+ traditions, 5 Nobel Prizes, tabbed UI with sub-category navigation. From zero to comprehensive in one session.
Dedication section has real weight — Medal SVG reused from print cards, narrative about Our Lady, Wikipedia link. Feels earned, not tacked on.
Back-to-top button — Simple addition, site-wide, zero friction. Gold circle, fade-in on scroll, smooth scroll up.
Email routing done — [email protected] working via Cloudflare free tier. Two-minute dashboard setup.
CTA fix was clean — Every page now links to every other page in the CTA. Caught via screenshot, fixed across all 6 pages in one pass.
a-d-d-guidance v0.4.0 shipped — 50 lines of retro-driven methodology improvements that were sitting uncommitted got version-bumped and pushed.
What Could Be Better
Evidence page took multiple rebuilds — First version had 25 entries, user wanted 200. Then needed tabs. Then references vs uses separation. Then Nobel count wrong (4 not 5).
Root cause: Should have asked for scope and structure (tabs? groupings? how many items?) before building the first version.
Ohsumi's 2016 Nobel was missing — The most important Nobel for the site's thesis (autophagy + fasting) was left out. It was already referenced in story.html.
Root cause: Did not cross-reference existing pages when building new content. story.html had the Nobel callout — evidence page should have inherited it.
Medal SVG stroke too thin at scale — Copied from 12pt print card context, rendered at 80px. Stroke-width 0.5 looked ghostly. Fixed to 1.0 with filled stars/hearts.
Root cause: SVG stroke-width doesn't scale with viewBox size changes. Must adjust proportionally.
Tabs left-aligned by default — User had to flag from screenshot. Center-align should be default for tab navigation on this site.
Root cause: Default CSS flex layout is left-aligned. Should always set justify-content: center for nav-like elements on this site.
What We Commit To
Cross-reference existing pages before building new content — don't miss things already on the site (like Nobel callouts in story.html).
Ask for structure before building lists — tabs? groupings? approximate count? Get the shape first, then fill it.
Scale SVG strokes with size — stroke-width that works at 12pt doesn't work at 80px. Adjust proportionally when reusing SVGs at different scales.
Center-align navigation elements by default on this site — tabs, sub-navs, button groups.