How to verify this record
Publishing "what I have done" is cheap. What is expensive is letting a reader confirm that the same person really did it, in that order, over that time. Three mechanisms do that here.
1. Hash chain: the head tells you if the body changed
At build time every published entry is sorted by date and chained: each digest = SHA256(previous digest | index | file id | ISO8601 date | title | full body). Change a title, a date, or one character of prose, and every digest after it — including the head — changes. The summary field used in listings is not hashed.
Stated limits: this proves nothing was edited after publication. It cannot prove the writing is true. The head is stamped by a Cloudflare Pages deployment; the source sits in Git (the footer names the commit this content was built from). Together they form checkable time evidence.
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2. Deployment time: the content is stamped by the platform
The site is a static build; deployment output cannot be rewritten server-side. What you see matches the files a given deployment uploaded, and the page footer names the commit that produced it.
3. External anchors: one person, several places
- GitHub: github.com/OwenJiong24 — public commit history is the hardest engineering evidence.
- Email: [email protected] — the domain is mine and receives mail.
- RSS: /en/rss.xml — aggregators can archive it externally.
Not done yet (stated plainly)
- Periodically anchoring the head somewhere immutable (a public repo, an RFC3161 timestamp authority).
- Signing the head with a private key and publishing the key fingerprint.
Digests of the ten most recent entries
| Date (UTC) | Section | Title | Digest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | guides | Listing-ready photos on zero budget: window light, background, scale, hero shot | 6cff98081029 |
| 2026-10-30 | guides | Moving buyers off the platform: a checklist you can finish this month | 2f114b1d229f |
| 2026-10-30 | guides | Pricing handmade work: the cost you are not counting | 6ee38b07565f |
| 2026-10-30 | guides | AI for makers: three jobs worth handing over, one that will cost you | d6f0c0c0c91d |
| 2026-10-30 | guides | Own your domain, site and inbox for under $20 a year | 24e38a0ec430 |
| 2026-10-30 | essays | Nine questions before you build anything | 1700fb18cc24 |
| 2026-10-30 | essays | Luxury is not efficiency; it is what people endow | b3262c29e736 |
| 2026-10-30 | essays | Tags are the interface: structured data beats channel lists | 45ec00f8228c |
| 2026-10-30 | notes | Static-site UI failures never fail the build | 5ec9f4d6badb |
| 2026-10-30 | essays | What AI engines cite: a checklist I run on my own site | bad248ed25d8 |