designing the rebuild as a node graph

I've been mocking up a rebuild of this site. The current artlu.ai is a single-page app — fine to use, but hard for search engines to read and harder to extend. The plan is a static Astro site, SEO-first, with one shared design system across every view.

The idea I kept circling back to is a stack view: instead of a flat list of features, show the whole project as a node graph. Each feature wires across to its journal entry, then its series, then the parent project, all laid out along a date spine. It reads like a ComfyUI graph — pan, zoom, drag. A map view does the same thing as a vertical timeline.

It took a lot of iterations. The list view alone got rewritten about six times before it felt right — plain, centered, thin two-line rows so more of the timeline fits on screen. Pulled the connector dots off the canvas since they were rarely accurate. Then bundled all the views into one embeddable file that opens on the stack view, with a clean list-view fallback on mobile.

It's still a mockup. But it's the first time the whole 100 days reads like one connected thing instead of a feed.