The dev blog
Every project the two of us have built for this site, and what we just fixed — one window each, newest first inside its area. Nothing is listed here until it is live on this site and read back from it.
Games
8The family's own games, on their own host — all of them playable right now.
A 2-5 player land-rush card game we made ourselves: claim lots, bank scrip, charge rent on whoever builds next door until three districts are yours.
Two to eight players explore a sunken barrow together: everybody declares an action at once, then the party rolls against whatever is waiting in the room.
One shelf listing every family game with an honest player count and a PLAY button that opens the game on the games host.
The old card game on a real 3D table: flip fast, slap the pile on a double or a sandwich, because the slowest hand burns a card. Your seat is held if you drop out.
Everyone writes a sentence, then it gets drawn, described and drawn again until nobody remembers where it started.
In Delarosa Deal the card you tapped rose by so little that its face was still covered. It now lifts above its neighbours, so you can read the whole card before you play it.
A stack of property cards lost its height and clipped the cards under the top one. The stack reserves real height now, so a set reads as a pile you can count.
The flip now flies from the player who threw it, the pile you win fans out for a beat, and each player's plate sits beside their pile instead of on top of it.
Delgotchi
2The personal pet: five questions, your own drawing, and a page that shows everybody's.
One page that shows every pet the family has hatched, drawn exactly the way its owner sees it on their own page.
Answer five questions and get a hand-drawn pet on your page that wears your colours, lives in the habitat you chose and grows with the care you give it.
Public Art
1The Paint everyone remembers, on the site, on a canvas the whole family shares.
The Paint everyone remembers, rebuilt for the site - and now one shared canvas, so anybody paints and everybody sees it live.
Mail & chat
4Family chat, friend requests and messages — one window you never have to leave.
A Mail tab where you accept or decline friend requests and read and reply to direct messages without leaving the page.
An instant-messenger window on every page: rooms, a buddy list that shows who is really online, and a format bar that really formats.
Bold, italic, underline, face, size and the colour wheel just looked pressed. One sanitiser is now shared by the composer, the write API and the renderer, so what you send is exactly what everybody reads.
Being online was tied to one page's stream, so reading People or your own page made you invisible - and a tab that closed without saying goodbye stayed online forever. Every page keeps its own entry warm now, and the list only changes when it really changes.
Music
2The family's tunes, and the recorder window that plays them.
A recorder-style player on every page: the family's own tracks, a green waveform drawn from the score, and a pocket player for phones.
Every upload was squeezed to 2000 Hz and 8-bit, which deleted the consonants and the cymbals - it sounded broken, not nostalgic. Uploads are stored at 96 kbit/s now, and the player was fixed with them.
The calendar
1Birthdays and family dates on the grid, kept in our own calendar.
Birthdays and family dates on a month grid, kept in the family's own Nextcloud calendar, with a coming-up list and admin controls.
The site
9The house everything else lives in: the front door, the chrome and the doors out.
A public page for what the two of us are building, what just got fixed, and a Q&A anybody can read - with the suggestion box on the same page.
The whole site wears the XP chrome: the Bliss desktop, the site's own Windows faces, its own font menu and a theme shop on your own page.
A Links tab with previews of the family's other sites, sized so all four fit one screen on a desktop and a phone.
Profiles, comments, albums and friend links are stored server-side, so what you post on a phone shows up on everybody else's screen.
The family site rebuilt in 2026 on our own server instead of a rented host: profiles, guestbook, calendar, music and games behind one sign-in.
The system-stats frame on the home page sent no cache header, so browsers helpfully kept yesterday's copy. It revalidates now, so the numbers you read are today's.
On a signed-in admin's menu the tabs overlapped the Search button. The blue bar is two rows now, so the menu can never reach it, on a desktop or a phone.
The header art was fetched from a fixed address, so a browser kept painting yesterday's banner after a change. The art is versioned now, so a new one always shows.
Profiles, guestbook comments, albums and friend links were held in each visitor's own browser, so a comment left on a phone reached nobody and a new device reset the page. The server owns the family now and every browser is handed the same copy.
Accounts
2Signing in once, and who is allowed to change what.
Your page follows you: sign in once and your profile, mail and pet are yours on any device, and every page knows who you are.
The site editor served a full page to any visitor. It is admin-only now, decided on the server against the family allowlist - and it fails closed, so a missing list can never be read as everybody may edit.
Nothing is listed here until it is live on this site and read back from it — if something looks missing or wrong, ask on the dev desk.