iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dan @danabra.mov · 12/01/2026

ok this is amazing i've made a claude skill that uses @bobbby.online's deciduous to generate a design evolution tree from a project's commit history. this tree is generated by Claude using the displayed prompt (and my skill). the graph ~matches how i remember it react-deciduous-example.pages.dev

a long-ass design evolution tree with nodes for individual decisions to do, choices, and consequences

# Task: Build a Decision Graph for Suspense Fallbacks

Create a deciduous decision graph about how React decides when, whether, and for how long to show the fallback in Suspense.

## Scope

Look at decisions related to fallback behavior.

## Commit Range

Search commits in `./react/packages/react-reconciler` between **May 2018 and August 2020**.

Use: `git -C ./react log --oneline --after="2018-05-01" --before="2020-09-01" -- packages/react-reconciler/`

## Source Material

Use ONLY information from commits in the specified range.

**CRITICAL: Do not use your prior knowledge about React. Every node must be grounded in something you find in these commits.**

## Output

Use the `/decision-graph` skill to build the graph.

When complete, export with: `deciduous graph > graph.json`

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 12/01/2026

Oh damn. Could you dump all the prompts etc in a gist or something Dan? Just been looking at doing some architectural decision write ups in work, and this could be super useful for historic stuff. Or if you're planning a write up, I'll eagerly wait

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dan @danabra.mov · 12/01/2026

^ this tree tracks how the design of <Suspense> API and heuristics evolved inside of React before it become a stable feature. so it tracks a couple of years of iteration including failed attempts and things learned in the process. this kind of picture is usually locked inside team members heads

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Yassin Mohamed @yassinm.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I love layout algorithms. With these amazing colors the layout of the nodes looks super nice. What are you using in this case ? is it generated by dot (like everyone does) or something else ?

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Chimney Sweeps Local 420 @bobbby.online · 12/01/2026

Another thing I have been doing is once it establishes the graph tell the story of the project or a section of it. This is one that went pretty well for the stacked git library my brother maintains notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/stgit-archae...

notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io

The Complete History of Stacked Git (StGit) - 21 Years of Patch Stack Excellence

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