What's shipped

October 2026

• October 6 - Rebuilt this site around local work: websites, Google listings, upkeep, training and Facebook pages, with every price listed on the services page. The free tools moved to their own Tools page, and the demo sites are linked from the home page.
• October 6 - Baker's Recipe List got a display settings panel, a cook-first header and a recipe card you can download. Steps can now carry a short note on why you do them, starting with the paprika chicken. The About sheet became its own page.
• October 4 - The Home Affordability Calculator now asks before it resets your numbers, remembers the whole form between visits, and shows "Enter a home price" instead of a verdict when the price is blank. Negative amounts read the same way everywhere.
• October 4 - Pinion.md picked up newer versions of the library that cleans rendered HTML and the one that draws Mermaid diagrams, plus a round of review fixes the day before.
• October 4 - New recipes: Spicy Peanut Chicken, then Hot Honey Chicken Sandwiches the next day.
• October 3 - Review fixes for the UniStyle and Wren web apps. UniStyle's special-character and emoji buttons are bigger targets now, easier to hit with a thumb.
• October 3 - Northwoods Area Events got faster. The list now renders in chunks.
• October 2 - Baker's Recipe List works like an app on a phone now: a tab bar along the bottom, a Pinned view and a header that stays put. The To Try and For Review collections are gone, so the site is the cookbook and nothing else.

September 2026

• September 28 - Accessibility and speed pass across the site. Links in running text are underlined, form fields have visible borders, the mode switch on The AI Receipt works from the keyboard, and the security headers moved server-side. New share images too.
• September 28 - Northwoods Area Events v2, rebuilt for phones. Each event shows its town and how far away it is, from Ashland or from where you're standing. Tap an event for the details, save it, or add it to your calendar. Filters live in their own sheet with quick date chips, and the app installs to your home screen.
• September 28 - The contact forms on the demo sites no longer send anything, and the directions on them never point at a real place.
• September 28 - Four recipes got photos. They're AI-generated, and each one is labelled that way.
• September 26 - Redesigned Baker's Recipe List: colours by category, cards with a photo slot, shelves and filters, then a new recipe view, shopping list and print layout.
• September 23 - Wren 1.2.6. Sticky notes pop out roomier by default, with the formatting bar tucked away until you want it.
• September 19 - New recipes through the month: King Ranch Chicken Casserole, one-pan Dirty Rice, Wasabi Egg Salad, Keema Aloo Bhuna and Honey-Garlic Soy Glazed Chicken Tenderloins.
• September 9 - Every recipe has its own page and link now, and there's a cook mode. Related recipes are ranked by the ingredients they share, and the pages still load with JavaScript turned off.
• September 9 - Evened out the card sizes on Tools so Wren and Pinion.md match the rest.
• September 2 - Updated the editor library inside Wren to close a published security advisory.

August 2026

• August 30 - The Home Affordability Calculator now separates the point where you can ask to drop PMI from the point where it drops off on its own. The PMI marker is described by its shape now, not just its colour.
• August 30 - Share images for all four demo sites, so a link to one shows a proper preview.
• August 29 - Every recipe got a permanent ID, so pinned recipes and shared links keep working when the list changes. New: Skillet Beef and Potato Hash with Fried Eggs.
• August 25 - Rebuilt the four demo sites from the fixed website templates. Pinion.md stopped scrolling sideways on narrow screens, and its table of contents opens as a drawer on screens up to 960px wide.
• August 23 - Fixed two layout breaks that made Tools and The AI Receipt scroll sideways on a phone. The Tools grid was holding a track wider than the screen, and The AI Receipt had no mobile styles at all. Checked at every common phone width in both light and dark.
• August 23 - Re-checked every price on The AI Receipt, and its cost bar now shows each model's share of the cost instead of the tokens. The calculator checks every input so it can't print a result from bad numbers. Dark mode passes its contrast checks and no longer flashes light on load.
• August 23 - Corrected the privacy policy. It had three statements that weren't true, left out two tools, and didn't say what the tools keep in your browser. All fixed.
• August 23 - UniStyle: fixed garbled characters on the page and three defects in the text engine.
• August 23 - Northwoods Area Events drops recurring events once they're over, groups events that run for several days, and flags the list when the weekly refresh is late. Pinion.md's diagrams work again under the stricter security policy, and its fonts load from its own server.
• August 16 - Dropped an invalid attribute from the Home Affordability Calculator's chart that was throwing a console error on every load.
• August 14 - Every recipe is complete enough to cook from on its own, with a test that keeps it that way, and Back closes whatever is open instead of leaving the site. New: Soy-Garlic-Paprika Drumsticks and Crispy Onion-and-Black-Pepper Russet Chunks.
• August 5 - Wren 1.2.5 closed out the last findings from a full pre-release audit. The three rounds before it fixed save handling, Drive sync, focus, theme and touch issues.
• August 5 - Finished the photos for all four demo sites.

July 2026

• July 27 - Added a Northwoods Area Events card to Tools. The Home Affordability Calculator picked up a download-summary button, a new hero icon and share image, and a fix for the toolbar buttons that were zeroing out the down payment.
• July 27 - Every demo page carries a bar saying it's a demo for a made-up business, and the addresses on them are fictional.
• July 23 - Copy pass across the site to strip the phrasing patterns that make writing read like a language model wrote it.
• July 23 - Baker's Recipe List installs as an app, works offline, and updates itself quietly.
• July 21 - Four demo sites went up for made-up local businesses, one per website template: trades, a diner, cabins and charters, and a general store.
• July 17 - Wren 1.2.4 fixed a cluster of bugs where a failed save could lose a note without telling you. It also brought sticky and Kanban fixes.
• July 11 - Refreshed The AI Receipt with current model pricing, and pointed the UniStyle links at its Chrome Web Store listing.
• July 9 - Built the website templates for local businesses: trades, eat and drink, stay and play, shop and office.
• July 9 - Closed a path-traversal hole in the Wren MCP server's read tools.
• July 6 - Fixed the Wren desktop app opening to a blank window. Version 1.2.0 a few days earlier taught it to check for updates on its own.

June 2026

• June 25 - Northwoods Area Events went up: one list of what's happening around the area, refreshed every week. It started with about 200 events and a dark mode.
• June 22 - Finished the slow cooker recipes: beef stew, pork stew, corned beef and cabbage, and pulled pork. Coconut rice and a rib rub came the same week.
• June 19 - Merged the AI Cost Estimator into The AI Receipt as a Simple and Detailed toggle, then retired the standalone Estimator page. Removed the email signups site-wide; the RSS feed stays. Switched the site to clean URLs.
• June 19 - Wren 1.1.0. The desktop app saves directly to a Wren Notes folder in Documents without asking where.
• June 18 - Homepage cleanup and a redesigned Tools grid. Wren's links now point at wren.buildwithbaker.io.
• June 17 - The Wren desktop app sits in the system tray, can start with Windows, and takes global hotkeys for quick capture. Notes got due dates and an archive. Notes save to your own device by default; Google Drive is now experimental.
• June 17 - The Wren MCP server can write as well as read: update, append, tag, delete and move notes.
• June 16 - Wren became a desktop app, with a Windows installer, a download page and sticky notes that float on top of your other windows. The web app got pop-out sticky windows and a compact view the week before.
• June 12 - Pinion.md got a Copy all button. A week earlier it learned to open .md files directly once it's installed, and it moved to pinion.buildwithbaker.io.
• June 5 - The AI Receipt went live, a plain-English page for what the current AI models cost. Dark mode landed across the site.
• June 3 - Wren got its perched-wren logo.
• June 2 - Site expansion. Shipped a privacy policy, per-tool detail pages for UniStyle, Wren, and Pinion.md, a new writing section with its first essay and an RSS feed, plus /now and /uses pages.
• June 1 - Added the Home Affordability Calculator to the site.
• June 1 - The Wren MCP server shipped. It lets an AI assistant search, read and create your Wren notes, and installs in one click as a Claude Desktop extension. Wren writes a plain index of your notes so the server can find them.
• June 1 - Pinion.md 1.5 and 1.6: presentation mode, then dark mode.

May 2026

• May 31 - Pinion.md went from 1.1 to 1.4 in a day: a table of contents, code copy buttons, search inside the document, HTML export, Mermaid diagrams, drag-and-drop open, synced scrolling, footnotes, recent files, auto-reload when the file changes on disk, heading links, an image lightbox and emoji shortcodes.
• May 29 - UniStyle 1.8.0. The right-click panel can be dragged around the page, and the cleanup tools sit in one switchable section. Version 1.7.2 the day before added Remove Formatting.
• May 28 - This site moved to buildwithbaker.io.
• May 28 - Wren picked up tags, a tag filter, and a Kanban board you can drag notes across. Google Drive sync arrived as an option.
• May 27 - Pinion.md v1.0 shipped: a Markdown reader and writer with preview, edit, and split views that opens and saves files straight to your disk.
• May 25 - UniStyle 1.7.1 puts all 22 styles in your favorites by default, with a new icon to go with it.
• May 23 - Wren reached beta: a local-first sticky-notes app that saves each note as a plain Markdown file on your own device.
• May 23 - UniStyle got an emoji tray and an undo on every button.
• May 19 - UniStyle, the Unicode text formatter, went live at unistyle.io with a privacy page. The Chrome extension followed.
• May 16 - Baker's Recipe List got a cook log with notes, a shopping list, ingredient search, a serving scaler, dark mode, and nutrition estimates worked out from USDA data.

April 2026

• April 25 - Baker's Recipe List went up, my own cooking site. It moved to React the next day.