History

The Codex has evolved a lot over time. The project began in March 2025.

V1: Version Release

Issued July 2025, featured 20 unique essays. V1 was quite barebones compared to the Codex you see today. It was hosted on a Google Doc instead of this website, and PDFs were sent out marking certain versions. The original 20 essays and four categories in V1 were as follows:

V1.1: Maintenance Update

Issued July 2025. Category overhaul and lots of minor tweaks and adjustments to all of the entries. If you're wondering why I decided to clean things up AFTER releasing V1... you notice the biggest problems right after shipping. The new categories and essay reorganization is as follows:

This update also introduced the Appendix. All other entries remained in their existing categories from V1.

V1.2: Content Expansion

Issued July 2025, +3 new entries (23 total). The introduced entries in their respective categories were as follows:

V1.3: Hybrid Update

Issued August 2025. +2 new entries, (25 total) some reformatting, new font, minor fixes and adjustments. For those curious, the font Crimson Pro was used on the Google Doc while Charter is used on this website. The introduced entries in their respective categories were as follows:

V1.4: Hybrid Update

Issued September 2025. Now hosted on this website and +2 new entries (27 total). The website was initially VERY barebones, but it got the job done. Still better than a Google Doc PDF. The introduced entries in their respective categories were as follows:

Additionally, the Happiness and Meaning domain was renamed to Existential Pursuits.

Initially, the Appendix was left out of the website. But it would be ported over in V1.6. Additionally, as a result of now hosting on a website and having the freedom to ship smaller changes, the version system became somewhat arbitrary, and "patches" (smaller, more frequent updates) became far more common. From here on out, versions can largely be considered general landmarks instead of full releases.

V1.5: Content Expansion

Issued December 2025. +2 new entries (29 total) and various website improvements. This version was focused on cleaning up the frontend and backend as well as making the website a lot prettier. It also featured some complex metacognitive theories I developed over the months since the last release. The introduced entries in their respective categories were as follows:

V1.6: Maintenance Update

Issued February 2026. Featured several frontend website improvements, existing essay rewrites, and major reorganizations and adjustments. Some of the entries with the largest adjustments include:

With minor adjustments throughout all other existing entries. Additionally, the Appendix was finally added to the website, with its name changed to Discussion.

V2: Version Release

Issued March 2026. Featured a complete UI overhaul, +7 new entries, (36 total) category restructuring, introduction of icons, and tons of small adjustments. For clarity, below is the structure of V1.6:

And below is the restructuring in V2:

And the new entries were as follows:

Finally, two small features were added: Related Entries, linking related entries at the bottom of entries, and the Back To Top button on PC, located in the top right of the screen.

V2.1: Content Expansion

Issued March 2026. +4 entries (40 total), several minor reorganizations, improved navigation, and small tweaks to clean up V2's release. For clarity, below is the structure of V2:

And below is the reorganization in V2.1:

The introduced entries in their respective categories were as follows:

Discussion also received another entry.

Additionally, Strategic Living and Intrapersonal Dynamics swapped places in the order. Intrapersonal Dynamics became the fifth domain and Strategic Living became the sixth domain.

V2.2: Maintenance Update

Issued April 2026. Included several new features and lots of minor fixes and adjustments. Below are the new features, roughly in order of significance:

Users can now leave comments on every individual entry. Comments are all anonymous by default except for the Host's (my) comments. The system is pretty basic, but you can still reply to any message up to two levels deep, share any comment, and the Host has the ability to pin or highlight any message. This comment system allows for direct feedback and discussion on any individual entry.

Now part of the sidebar navigation is a Search button. This allows you to search for any entry, domain, or page using the title and/or description. You can quickly access Search using Ctrl + K / Cmd + K, navigate between options using up and down arrows, and select an option using Enter. Pretty basic, but quite useful.

At the top of every entry now sits a header, including the entry title, domain, estimated reading time, and date last updated. The estimated reading time is standardized at 200 words per minute and rounds up or down based on 30 second intervals. The date last updated is the date where edits to that entry were last PUSHED to the website, not necessarily edited. Again, quite basic, but useful information to display at the top of each entry.

Essay cards will now have a green border around them indicating if they are new entries or old entries that got significantly updated. The latter is a little subjective. Regardless, just a quick little feature that tells you what's new and what's updated. Of course, check the History domain, where you currently are, for more details.

Entries are now capable of having notes that interrupt the entry to provide some informal information about specific things. Just a feature for me to utilize while writing as I see fit.

While this feature was added in V2, it wasn't utilized very frequently. With V2.2, the Related Entries at the bottom of each entry became much more frequent.

Text was updated to feel more consistent and natural across all sizes. The arbitrary values chosen previously were removed, unless absolutely necessary for certain features (comments and search). In any case, the sizing of font should feel much more consistent across the board. Also, tables and dividers got prettier.

Finally, as per usual with Maintenance updates, all existing entries were tweaked and adjusted. Major updates were made to the following entries: