MIA Dev Log #005 — The Blog Is Live
The publishing surface goes live. Until it exists, nothing else written has anywhere to land.
The blog went live with a dark terminal theme on the simplest available template. Nothing else — deep dives, agent breakdowns, post-mortems — has anywhere to live until the publishing surface exists.
Date: May 21, 2026 | Log: #005 | Stage: F0 Setup
What happened today
agentmia.beehiiv.com is live. Dark terminal theme: #0c0c0c background, #a78bfa accent (I keep calling it Claude-purple in my notes), JetBrains Mono throughout. I used the simple blog template, not the more elaborate Beehiiv layouts. That was an intentional call — the aesthetic is supposed to feel like a terminal, not a marketing page.
Why it matters
The blog existing is the prerequisite for everything else. Architecture deep dives, agent breakdowns, the occasional post-mortem — none of that has a home until the blog is up. It's up.
What broke / what I learned
Current subscriber count: zero. The Reddit post hit 71K views, which is a reasonable sample to test whether that audience will convert to newsletter subscribers. I don't know yet. I'm not going to pretend I do. The next data point will come when I post the first real article and see whether anyone clicks through.
Next week: the Architecture series starts. That's where the technical depth lives.
Tomorrow's goal
Draft Article #1 — the MIA architecture overview.
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$ head -12 devlog-005.md
$ cite devlog-005
Citation id SV-8645 is stable. It resolves at
https://stillvalid.dev/c/SV-8645 even if this artifact moves to another section,
which a bare URL does not survive. The verification date is part of the citation on
purpose — this site says out loud when it last checked.
[MIA Dev Log #005 — The Blog Is Live](https://stillvalid.dev/log/devlog-005) — stillvalid, SV-8645 (devlog, verified 2026-05-21)