Wahab Waypoint — release notes
Wahab Waypoint was first sketched as a single page on July 30, 2026 and grew into a product line of three browser tools. Pre-launch builds are numbered 0.x; the public launch is 1.0; point releases track shipped changes since launch. There is no backend, so every "release" is a set of static files going live — nothing else to deploy.
Release history at a glance
The short version. Each release is described in full below.
| Version | Date | What it was |
|---|---|---|
| v1.3 | Aug 16, 2026 | Docs landing nav alignment — sidebar now meets the sticky header |
| v1.2 | Aug 16, 2026 | HashiCorp-style docs layout — sidebar nav, on-this-page TOC, pager |
| v1.1 | Aug 16, 2026 | System architecture docs, release notes, diagram legibility pass |
| v1.0 | Aug 8, 2026 | Launch — Reviewer, cross-tool handoffs, docs, narrated tour, SEO |
| v0.5 | Aug 3, 2026 | Domain Context Learner, Waypoint hub, hex-mesh logo |
| v0.4 | Aug 2, 2026 | Security panel, compliance dimension, code quality pass |
| v0.3 | Aug 1, 2026 | 10 architectures, Gemini Q&A, PDF ADR, theme toggle |
| v0.2 | Jul 31, 2026 | Scoring engine, architecture library, first UI |
| v0.1 | Jul 30, 2026 | ate.html — the first page |
v1.3 — Docs nav alignment Current
Aug 16, 2026
A follow-up to the layout restructure: the docs landing page's welcome banner moved into the content column so the sidebar now runs edge-to-edge with the sticky header.
Fixed
- Docs landing navigation — the sidebar no longer sits below the hero; it starts right at the top, aligned with the header, matching every other docs page.
v1.2 — Docs layout restructure Layout
Aug 16, 2026
The documentation moved to a HashiCorp-style developer-docs layout. No product logic changed.
Changed
- Sidebar navigation — every docs page now has a persistent left sidebar grouping the pages into Overview, Guides, Examples, and References, with a version badge and quick links to the product line, about page, GitHub, and LinkedIn.
- On this page — long pages gain a scrollspy table of contents on the right that highlights the section you are reading.
-
Breadcrumbs and pager — crumb trails were
standardized (
Docs / Guides / …), and every page now ends with Previous / Next navigation instead of the old per-page links. - Compact page headers — inner pages swapped the hero banner for a tight header, while the docs home keeps its hero.
v1.1 — Documentation release Docs
Aug 16, 2026
No product logic changed — this build is about being able to explain the system and how it has changed.
New
- System architecture documentation — architecture.html walks through the high-level and detailed topology, tech stack, shared state and data model, the domain-profile weight mappings, the scoring engine, cross-tool handoffs, integrations, and the security model.
- This release notes page — a running changelog covering everything from the first commit to today.
Improved
- Diagram legibility pass — both topology diagrams were re-worked so they render at near-full scale (the figures scroll instead of shrinking to the text column) with larger fonts, brighter secondary text, thicker arrows and borders, and a layout that no longer overflows its boxes.
v1.0 — Launch edition Launch
Aug 8, 2026
The product line went public as Wahab Waypoint. This is the release the site, the docs, and the upcoming rollout campaign describe.
New
- Reviewer — the third tool. Score an existing or planned architecture against the same workload requirements Architect uses, with per-criterion coverage (strong / partial / gap), a fit verdict, and the shared scoring engine.
-
Cross-tool handoffs — Architect's
recommendation now deep-links into Reviewer
(
?scenario=<id>&arch=<id>) and Reviewer links back, so the three tools behave as one journey. -
Domain profile pre-tuning — the shared
domain-context.jsmaps a saved profile into weight deltas that pre-tune Architect's sliders and feed Reviewer's verdict, so both tools read the same context. - Documentation site — an overview, three how-to guides, and two worked examples.
- Narrated tour — a real narrated video with a screencast UI walkthrough, replacing the earlier speech-synthesis prototype.
- About page — founder bio and photo.
-
SEO — structured data, Open Graph and Twitter
cards, canonical URLs,
robots.txt, andsitemap.xml. -
Clean URLs —
history.replaceStatehides the.htmlsuffix in the address bar, plus a styled 404 fallback.
Improved
- Standardized hero titles across the line and removed redundant badges.
- Made the product journey explicit on every page — learn, then evaluate, then review.
- Site-wide design polish, and the personal landing page was redesigned as an editorial page distinct from the product line.
Fixed
- Architecture diagrams collapsing to
scale(0).
v0.5 — Domain Context Learner & the hub
Aug 3, 2026
The single tool became a product line with a home page and a second product.
New
- Wahab Waypoint landing page — the hub that frames the whole line.
-
Domain Context Learner — captures the business
domain (12 domains), priority qualities (8 qualities, pick up to
4), and data shape (volume, real-time, integration, sensitivity),
then writes the shared domain profile to
localStorage. - Logo redesign — the hex-mesh monogram, with new favicons and LinkedIn banner assets.
Improved
- Shared favicon set across the line; decluttered app headers (removed brand badge stickers, tightened the hero).
v0.4 — Quality pass & security
Aug 2, 2026
A cleanup and hardening day: the tool got more opinionated about security and the code got easier to maintain.
New
- Security considerations — IT and code security notes in generated ADRs, plus a security panel in the recommendation UI.
- Compliance dimension — the eighth scoring criterion, with scenarios rebalanced around it.
- Restored the why-not reasoning lines in the comparison table.
Improved
- Removed dead code and deduplicated explorer logic; formatted with Prettier.
-
Reorganized the repo — tool assets moved into a
favicons/directory,.DS_Storeuntracked. - Reorganized the explorer layout into a two-column top grid with a full-width security panel.
v0.3 — Architect feature sprint
Aug 1, 2026
The busiest single day in the project's history — the tool went from a working demo to a polished product.
New
- 10 reference architectures and the first scenario sets (later expanded to the 18 workloads of today).
- ADR export to PDF via jsPDF.
- Optional Gemini AI Q&A with a local knowledge-base fallback — the key stays in the visitor's browser.
- Architecture Q&A assistant panel.
- Light/dark theme toggle with a persisted preference.
- Navigation, keyboard access, and toast notifications.
Improved
- Responsive layout across devices.
- Capability GIF and article background images.
Fixed
- Proper multi-size favicon set.
v0.2 — Engine foundations
Jul 31, 2026
The core became real: a weighted scoring engine, a library of reference architectures, and the first working evaluation flow.
New
-
engine.js— the weighted scoring routine both tools still share today. -
architectures.js— the reference architecture library. -
decision-engine.js,data.js,app.js, andstyles.css— the decision logic, scenario data, UI, and styling. - The first end-to-end flow: pick a workload, see a recommendation.
v0.1 — The seed
Jul 30, 2026
Where it all started.
New
-
ate.html— the first page of what would become the Architect tool.
Before Waypoint
The repository itself is older than the product. It began in
May 2020 as a personal landing page for
wahab2.com, hosted static experiments (including an R
flexdashboard example in 2022), and was the hosting ground the
architecture explorer grew out of in July 2026. Today the site is
split in two: the personal landing page
and the Wahab Waypoint product line.
What's next: the pre-launch feedback circle and the eight-post LinkedIn rollout are in motion. Anything that ships to the site after that will be added to these notes.