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PROJECT UPDATE / The Long Road

Building a source-verifiable road to the NHL

The archive now follows 151,078 player identities across 39 North American and European leagues while keeping incomplete historical denominators explicit.

Published
Aug 24, 2026
Length
1 min read
Author
Justin Bumstead
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Project update · The Long Road

Building a source-verifiable road to the NHL

The archive now follows 151,078 player identities across 39 North American and European leagues while keeping incomplete historical denominators explicit.

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Project update · CivicWest

Rebuilding Media from First Principles

Why do we do the things that we do?

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Project update · Institute for Exotic Science

Version 0.11 release

60 new topics added to the site

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Project update · FutureState (FTFN.io)

The first real build

Bringing order to chaos, one domain at a time

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Project update · Northern Terroir

Northern Terroir

26 working documents, 3 reports, 6 months of intermittent progress

06

Field note

GumRoad Shifts Their Spend

The future is coming and its coming fast

07

Field note

We're Live, Finally

This is a place to keep the chaos under control. I hope...

08

Blog

Time and Money

The theme for June is consistency. I need to ensure that I’m writing and building and that I don’t let

09

Blog

Concurrence

This is going to get more and more interesting. I need to shift a focus into building networks of agents,

10

Blog

A lot can change in a week

It was one of those moments. I was sitting in a coffee shop with a friend and we were bouncing

11

Blog

Circling Back

A lot can change in 5 months. I started this project in a quiet month and after 5 of the

12

Blog

Investing in Opportunity

Today is one of those days. ChatGPT just released Codex but only for the premium plans. The free Hostinger trial

13

Blog

A Figma of my Imagination

Figma is an AI tool built for website design that feeds into AI software engineering tools (SWE) that struck a

14

Blog

The Value of Information

There was a great piece a couple days ago where Sam Altman was going through the way that different generations

15

Blog

Building the Basics

I’ll admit it, I’ve been tardy. I thought that having this would ensure that I kept writing, but also kept

16

Blog

Ubuntu

“I Am Because We Are” The first advice I received was to create a virtual machine using a computing framework

17

Blog

Build in Public

I’ve been kicking the tires on this project for years now, going back to my first experiences with online media