progress.org

Compiled Truth

progress.org is a Georgist/land-value-tax educational and advocacy publication platform. It publishes articles on land value taxation, the 18.6-year real estate cycle, and related economic frameworks. The site is built on Webflow CMS. Floyd has proposed migrating to Ghost CMS and using AI agents (Hugh + Claude) for all design and publishing — no visual site-builder needed. [Source: User, Floyd Marinescu, 2026-05-24]

Technical stack:

• CMS: Webflow (site ID: 56b26b90d28b886833e7a042)
• API: Webflow v2
• API token stored in Hugh’s 1Password vault as “Webflow API Token - progress.org (site-scoped)”
• Articles managed via Webflow CMS collections

Known articles:

• “The 18.6 Year Real Estate Cycle and Market Crash” (CMS item ID: 6a039702f9d09957cd4c1534) — authored by Floyd Marinescu, synced from Notion. Title updated 2026-05-17.

[Source: Hugh session dc620ddc, Floyd Marinescu, 2026-05-14]

State

• Active publication platform, content updated via Webflow API.
• Hugh can publish/update articles by fetching from Notion and patching Webflow CMS items.
• Proposed direction (2026-05-24): Migrate to Ghost + agent-driven design/publishing. Floyd’s thesis: “With agents and Claude design I don’t know that a visual site hosting platform matters anymore.” Test scope to be determined. [Source: User, Floyd Marinescu, 2026-05-24]
• Webflow API token is available in 1Password — use op-hugh.sh to fetch it.

Timeline

• 2026-06-06 | Hugh added /wiki to the progress.org navigation menu via Ghost Admin API (Staff Token). Previous nav: Home → Articles → Learn → Collections → About. New nav after change: Home → Articles → Learn → Collections → Wiki → About. Wiki added between Collections and About; points to /wiki/. Later in the same session Floyd requested removal of Collections; final nav: Home · Articles · Learn · Wiki · About. Changelog Notion log attempted but had auth hiccup. [Source: Hugh session a8123685, Floyd Marinescu, 2026-06-06]
• 2026-06-06 | Hugh filed PR #15 (floydmari/progress-org-theme) with mobile CSS fixes for the wiki pages. Issues fixed: wiki-masthead 3-col grid squishing on mobile, wiki-summary not stacking, wiki-entry-head not collapsing, wiki-entry-body 3-col layout not responsive, contribute-strip not stacking, wiki-featured__title too large at 46px on mobile. Added @media (max-width: 720px) and @media (max-width: 480px) blocks. PR awaiting Floyd’s merge; GitHub Actions auto-deploys on merge. [Source: Hugh session a8123685, 2026-06-06]
• 2026-06-05 | Floyd established standing rule: all theme / static-site / look-and-feel changes go through the floydmari/progress-org-theme GitHub repo — no more direct Ghost theme editing. Always work off latest main (concurrent edits via Claude Code). Updated PAT scopes (workflow + admin:org). Also announced new floydmari/georgism-wiki repo for progress.org/wiki content (see georgism-wiki). Details in agent-webdev-and-content. [Source: Floyd, Hugh sessions fa1260b0 + 87060c86, 2026-06-05]
• 2026-05-31 | Progress Ghost theme backed up to GitHub for the first time. Floyd asked for the latest .hbs files for a Claude.ai design pass; Hugh zipped the full theme (34 files) and pushed it to a new private repo at https://github.com/floydmari/progress-org-theme. PAT (item GitHub PAT - OpenClaw Infra Backup) added to Hugh’s 1Password vault by Floyd. Plan: create ubiworks-ca GitHub org (the bare ubiworks handle is squatted), transfer the repo there, push a GitHub Actions deploy workflow, and wire Claude.ai’s GitHub integration for natural-language design iteration. Blocked on PAT scope (needs admin:org + workflow). Details in agent-webdev-and-content. [Source: Floyd, Hugh session 6cd94adc, 2026-05-31]
• 2026-05-24 | Floyd proposed migrating progress.org from Webflow to Ghost, with Hugh+Claude handling all design and publishing via API. Thesis: visual site platforms become unnecessary when agents can generate and deploy themes as code. Test to be run on progress.org (already Ghost-hosted — zero migration cost). Referenced in 2026-05-24-ghost-agents-no-visual-platform-needed. [Source: User, Floyd Marinescu, Hugh session 6d44221a, 2026-05-24]
• 2026-05-17 | Floyd requested article title update → “The 18.6 Year Real Estate Cycle and Market Crash”. Hugh updated via Webflow API and published. [Source: Hugh session 4f47ee62, 2026-05-17]
• 2026-05-14 | Hugh synced the 18.6-year real estate cycle article from Notion to Webflow CMS. Corrected the opening paragraph (1989–90 crash figures, 2000–02 relabelled midcycle). Fixed image to render full-width. Published. [Source: Hugh session dc620ddc, 2026-05-14]

See Also

• floyd-marinescu — author, operator

• 18-6-year-real-estate-cycle — key article topic

• georgism — site’s intellectual foundation

• land-value-tax — primary policy topic

• 2026-05-27 | Floyd directed Hugh to write a Philadelphia wage tax / LVT article based on a Harvard study. Three draft iterations (v1→v2→v3) produced; Notion card pending Floyd’s review before publishing to progress.org. Key editorial decisions: exec summary first, international framing, direct paper quotes. Referenced in 2026-05-27-philadelphia-wage-tax-lvt-harvard-article. [Source: Floyd, Slack commonwealth + Hugh session 6a4f08b9, 2026-05-27]

• 2026-05-26 | Ken Yang deployed two updated design zips via Hugh. Updated /commonwealth (mobile responsive fixes: viewport meta tag, Ghost CDN image uploads, font data URI inlining). New page /bclvt (BC Land Tax Shift & Rebate policy article) created and deployed. Key technical issue solved: Ghost flat-file bundler uses UUID-based asset refs that break as literal src= attributes — fix is to upload all images to Ghost CDN and replace UUID refs before deploying. Second issue: /bclvt was getting Ghost theme chrome wrapper — fixed by adding page-bclvt.hbs bare template to the deployed theme zip. The bare template pattern: {{#page}}{{{content}}}{{/page}} with no {{!< default}} outputs raw page content without theme wrapper. [Source: Slack DM session b5464b88, Ken Yang, 2026-05-26]

• 2026-06-07 | Floyd delivered new routes.yaml Ghost config establishing site IA: two Ghost-collections (/articles/ for primary_tag != "wiki", /wiki/ for primary_tag == "wiki"), 10 learning paths (/paths/<slug>/ rendered by generic page-path template, route-bound via data: tag.path-<slug>), and 6 theme-collections (/collections/<slug>/ via generic page-collection). Homepage / is a static route using index.hbs. Learning paths: land-and-freedom, land-value-tax, real-estate-cycles, citizen-dividend, political-philosophy, environment-and-land, unearned-income, george-and-movement, georgism-in-practice, technology-flows-into-land-value. Same session: Floyd asked Hugh to fix wiki /wiki search page title (SEO) and to wire the masthead so “progress.org” links to / and “The Wiki” links to /wiki. Floyd suggested browser-harness for the SEO/header work. [Source: Floyd, Telegram + Hugh session deae2021, 2026-06-07]