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

• 2026-05-24 | 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]