Changelog

What's changed
on the site.

Every meaningful change to idealog.works, newest first. New frameworks land here first, so do new blog posts, new ventures, and the occasional refactor. Companion to /now — that page is about the work; this one is about the site itself.

1. August 2026

   • 13 Aug /now cleaned up: dropped the Union Budget bullet from Actively working (already in Reading), dropped the 3-month-old A2GF Bangalore bullet (now on /talks), rephrased the TV/smartphone paper from "under review at EPW" to "looking for the right venue to pitch".
   • 13 Aug /now Writing block: The Measurement Trap is now marked done and in production with Routledge; the co-authored TV/smartphone paper is done. PolicyGrounds essay references updated to recent pieces; the dated NEET op-eds bullet removed from Actively working. Blog reference updated to the July/August pieces (The two-hour archive, What the smartphone actually replaced).
   • 12 Aug ImpactMojo counts refreshed from impactmojo.in: 70 courses (19 flagship + 51 foundational), 34 Studios, 135 games, 163 Reading Companions, 22 Deep Dives, 490+ ImpactLex, 324-source Dataverse, 8 Data Explorers, 31 Long View visualisations, 16 Learning Rubrics, plain-language Law Guides, 13,000+ practitioner community.
   • 12 Aug On Rotation grid: reverted the 1×4 desktop layout that left large whitespace under shorter cards; back to a 2×2 grid that keeps heights balanced pairwise.
   • 12 Aug Badalte Khwaab Ideas Tested card question rewritten in the site's "Can…" format for consistency with the other experiment cards.
   • 11 Aug Three new canvases shipped — Framework 13 Aspiration Gap, 14 Rapid Civic Tech, 15 Curriculum–Construct Fit. Featured strip on /canvas surfaces them at the top.
   • 11 Aug Tech hygiene: 2 new npm audit advisories cleared (js-yaml, nanoid); Astro 7.1.6 → 7.2.0, undici 8.9.0 → 8.10.0.
   • 11 Aug /now bullets added for the Mathura edtech baseline fieldwork, the Bangalore DD study fieldwork with Bala and the Christ University workshop, and the Delhi launch of Badalte Khwaab. Rotation and shelf refreshed.
   • 10 Aug /now, /shelf, and On Rotation refreshed for the new month.
   • 9 Aug New blog post: The two-hour archive — how Democracy by Design got built and what a protest archive has to refuse.
   • 8 Aug Featured in The Hindu: When protest becomes memory — joint interview with Pallavi Nayak on archiving dissent. Added to Publications.
   • 8 Aug Two new ventures added: Democracy by Design (protest archive, co-founded with Pallavi Nayak) and littlek.in (Class 1 CBSE learn-and-play). Venture count 14 → 16.
   • 8 Aug Three new Ideas Tested cards: Democracy by Design, littlek.in, and Badalte Khwaab (survey of 6,092 rural women across 15 states).
   • 8 Aug Badalte Khwaab · Women’s Aspirations in a Changing India — the full report is out, led as Research Lead (Quantitative) with Development Intelligence Unit and Transform Rural India Foundation. Added under Peer-reviewed and academic.

2. July 2026

   • 7 Jul /now, /shelf, and On Rotation refreshed for the new month.
   • 7 Jul Tech maintenance: Astro 6 → 7.1.6, all 9 npm audit advisories cleared.
   • 7 Jul Framework 12 shipped: The Baseline Design Test.
   • 7 Jul Framework 11 shipped: The Handover Canvas.
   • 6 Jul New blog post: The observer files a report.
   • 4 Jul New blog post: What the smartphone actually replaced.

3. June 2026

   • 5 Jun New blog post: Before you evaluate a curriculum, fix the construct.
   • 3 Jun Framework 10 shipped: The Feedback Loop.
   • 3 Jun Framework 09 shipped: The Survey Bias Audit.
   • 2 Jun New blog post: What the hand-drawn map carries.
   • 1 Jun /now, /shelf, and On Rotation refreshed for the new month.

4. May 2026

   • 30 May Canvas chrome standardised — shared .cv-* in global.css, per-page styles content-only.
   • 30 May Hero gains a Where to begin audience-typed router below the CTA.
   • 30 May On Rotation now shuffles per build; weekly rebuild cron wired to a Netlify build hook.
   • 29 May Blog post: The number, the testimony, and the AQI you can act on.
   • 29 May Twelve new Ideas Tested cards across political accountability, aquaculture welfare, welfare delivery, survey methods, and more.
   • 29 May Framework 08 shipped: The Knowledge Map (Rumsfeld).
   • 29 May Every subpage gains a theme toggle via a shared ThemeToggle component.
   • 29 May /talks page created; A2GF Bangalore panel added.
   • 29 May PhotoTales, PolicyGrounds Press, PolicyDhara, StoryWell, ImpactMojo, and Innovation Advisory all move to Active.
   • 29 May Some Perspective added as an Active venture; venture count 12 → 14.
   • 8 May Framework 07 shipped: The Indicator Test (VALID).
   • 8 May Framework 06 shipped: The Causal Pathway Review (CLEAR).
   • 8 May Astro 5 → 6.4.2; 0 vulnerabilities on npm audit.
   • 8 May 19 new books added to /shelf; new Ideas Tested cards for the AI assistant on JanVayu, the PolicyDhara Telegram bot, and Some Perspective.

5. April 2026

   • 10 Apr Frameworks 03–05 shipped: Evidence, Scale Decision, Kill Criteria.
   • 9 Apr Site launched. Frameworks 01 (Venture Readiness) and 02 (Measurement Checklist) shipped alongside the first eleven blog posts.

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