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Timeline
A chronological record of engineering milestones, turning points and durable project history.
Engineering chronology
20 recordsMILESTONE / 01
CP10 — Projects Become Technical Records
Project pages gain structured objectives, lifecycle, architecture summaries, decisions, lessons and project-linked timelines.
MILESTONE / 02
CP11 — Knowledge Provenance
The knowledge archive gained an explicit path back to the project work behind its ideas.
MILESTONE / 03
CP13 — Discovery Becomes a Set of Paths
The Lab adds stable topic pages and project filtering so growth does not depend on a backend search service.
MILESTONE / 04
CP14 — Evidence Becomes a First-Class Record
The Lab separates compact engineering evidence records from longer essays and project prose.
MILESTONE / 05
CP15 — Writing Becomes an Engineering Workflow
Technical articles now retain an explicit format and a documented path from engineering source to published explanation.
MILESTONE / 06
CP16 — Maintenance Rules Become Executable
The Lab's content and relationship contracts are now enforced by repository scripts and CI.
MILESTONE / 07
CP17 — Long-Term Archive
Project lifecycle history became a clearer archive surface rather than an implicit metadata detail.
MILESTONE / 08
CP20 — Experience Excellence
The Lab's interface evolved from a polished archive toward a clearer engineering product.
MILESTONE / 09
CP21 — UX Reliability & Interaction Excellence
The Engineering Lab moved from visual polish into explicit interaction and accessibility reliability.
MILESTONE / 10
CP22–CP27 — Engineering Lab Expansion
A checkpoint where the Lab moved from experience refinement into connected knowledge, discovery and long-term maintenance.
MILESTONE / 11
CP8 — The Lab Becomes a Living Archive
Project activity becomes visible as documented state while the repository remains the source of truth.
MILESTONE / 12
CP9 — Knowledge Becomes a First-Class Archive
The Lab begins extracting reusable engineering principles directly from the systems being built.
MILESTONE / 13
Post-CP10 Stabilization
Closed the first post-CP10 audit by improving knowledge depth, navigation context and static Garden discovery.
MILESTONE / 14
The Lab Became a Knowledge Archive
Expanded Writing, Notes and Experiments so the Lab records engineering reasoning instead of only finished projects.
MILESTONE / 15
Engineering Archive Curated
Curated the Lab's primary engineering projects from current repository evidence instead of treating the website as a GitHub mirror.
MILESTONE / 16
Verification Became a Common Design Theme
Across autonomous systems, information systems and the Lab itself, verification emerged as a recurring architectural boundary.
MILESTONE / 17
Engineering Lab Started
The beginning of the Alok Engineering Lab journey.
MILESTONE / 18
Engineering Lab Foundation
Built the initial content-driven foundation for the Engineering Lab.
MILESTONE / 19
Engineering Lab v1.0.0
Reached the first stable responsive release of the Engineering Lab.
MILESTONE / 20
Engineering Lab v1.1
Moved the Engineering Lab beyond the initial release baseline with a stronger website foundation.