The Changelog - February 2026

February in a nutshell: Streamlining Scaffold’s asset management, trying new marketing workflows, and keeping the momentum going, one small improvement at a time.

The Statistics

Revenue

Goal: £1,000 MMR

Followers

Am I missing something? What other statistics would you like to see?

Product Feature - Scaffold Asset Management

February saw me continuing to improve the Scaffold Asset Management, simplifying the structure of the manifest.json file

• grouping files by a section type
• reducing verbose configuration via sensible defaults
• adding files I missed, like the .releaserc.json (configuration to allow semantic versioning), .editorconfig (PHPStorm editor settings)

I then used the updated Scaffold Asset Management to bring Build With Scaffold up to date with the latest version.

Marketing - SkySurge

After I mentioned in my last post that I had started using Buffer to schedule some of my Bluesky and X posts, Henrik reached out and suggested that I give SkySurge a go. He even admitted it was a shameless plug, as it was for his own service, but the timing worked as it aligned with my objective - to increase my follower count.

While using SkySurge, I sent Henrik several suggestions for improvements, some UX niggles and a few ideas for new features, which Henrik graciously took on board, and had some of them done and deployed within a few hours. Even my feedback on making the application responsive on mobile was turned around in just a couple of days.

I've not done much user testing in the past, so this was a nice change of pace, and a win-win - Henrik got feedback on his product, and I got a tool to help me try and get involved in more conversations.

I've added a new "The Statistics" section to the top of this post, and I'll add it to my future posts so you can track my progress.

If you’d like to help me with that and follow along as I build in public, you can find me on Bluesky or X.

Blog Post

Things were quite quiet on the blogging front. I did hit an issue with the pdo_mysql PHP extensions intermittently disappearing with my latest Scaffold project and I wrote up the diagnosis and fix.

Documentation Updates

• No progress this month.

Anything else?

When mentioning how disorganised I was when trying to pull together my notes for The Changelog - January 2026, the discussion turned to what I'm using to track my progress. This is primarily via Evernote, but I did highlight that I was having issues with it due to it converting Markdown to rich text format automatically, and a few Evernote alteratives were suggested.

I tried a few, and landed on FlatNotes. First impressions were really good:-

• It's easy to set up - just a simple docker command or docker compose file
• It allows me to work with raw Markdown files easily
• It has a web interface - this is a core requirement for me with FlatNotes being self-hosted as I need to be able to use if from multiple devices (laptop / phone)

I initially tried it on my local machine, and it worked great so I tried to move it to a dedicated setup using an old Raspberry Pi, but the Raspberry Pi was too old and could only run the 32-bit OS and FlatNotes only has 64-bit docker images, so I'm back to using Evernote for now.

My next attempt will be to set it up on a Digital Ocean droplet, and the cost should be pretty much the same (Digital Ocean droplet cost vs Evernote Starter subscription), but my current Evernote subscription is valid for another 6 months so I've got a bit of time to swap over. The biggest factor for how quickly I'll move over to FlatNotes will be how much frustration I encounter while still trying to use Evernote.

Originally published at https://chrisshennan.com/blog/the-changelog-february-2026