2026 Year in Review

Elombe Kisala · Web Development, Core Home · Position through October 30, 2026 · Drafted from repositories, Cloudflare and Webflow

27brand entries managed in the corehome.com Brands CMS (26 live)
898records across the AB1200 / PFAS CMS (V2 209, Colorways 378, Chemicals 36, Products 275)
108finishes in the Finish Library configurator
30Cloudflare Workers/Pages deployments in the account
4brand sites built or relaunched in Oct (Alder Meadow, Winslow Pantry, People of Spice, PWRD)

PFAS / AB1200 compliance (corehome.com, Webflow)

  • Rebuilt the AB1200 / PFAS compliance experience: new /ab1200 page and modal, with the earlier version retained as a draft (AB1200 Legacy). Sept 22–30
  • Reorganized the CMS into purpose-built collections: AB1200 Version 2 (209 items), AB1200 Colorways (378), Chemicals (36, with its own detail template), alongside AB1200 Products (275). Sept 22–24
  • Kept the public /pfas page current with SEO title and description updates. Updated Jul 29

corehome.com

  • Maintained the Brands page and Brands CMS (27 entries); latest update Oct 26.
  • Refreshed the Home page (Oct 26) and published the New Ventures page (Apr, updated Oct).
  • Updated Collaborate and Innovation pages (Jul) and added a Homescreen Marquee collection (Mar).

New brand sites (Cloudflare)

  • Winslow Pantry: trilingual (EN/ES/FR) site, SEO on every page, WCAG 2.2 AA audit passed, GSAP motion, gated style guide, email-scrape protection, winslowpantry.shop. Oct 22
  • Alder Meadow: brand site, generated product pages, store finder, Basic Auth style guide. Oct 21
  • People of Spice: 2026 redesign (World of Spice globe, Spice Rack, recipe CMS, GSAP intro) on top of the Sept 2025 launch with Airtable-connected forms. 61 commits
  • PWRD: Liquid Glitter Headphones and LED charger stand site (Walmart-linked). Built a WebGL 2.5D depth hero with tilt/shake on phones, glitter intro and site-wide motion, interactive LED color remote, shop carousel, support FAQ, lightbox gallery, official logo and favicon, and a waitlist signup API (Worker + D1). Oct 2026, 21 merged PRs
  • Fizz, Medici, Roam & Repeat, Spice St Market, Outlaw Spice: sites iterated and deployed on Workers (Fizz alone shipped 5 Worker iterations in Oct).

Finish Library / Render Portal

  • Built a shared web app replacing Excel/PowerPoint render specs: 3D (Three.js) configurator, finish wheel, graphics shelf, specs card. May 21–Jun 3
  • Imported the factory v3 catalog for ceramic, glass, stainless and plastic: 108 finishes.
  • Stack: Cloudflare Pages, Workers, D1, R2, Access; CI/CD on GitHub Actions; 13-chapter project book for non-technical readers.

Shopify storefronts

  • Brooklyn Steel Co.: launched the Inova Dark – Auto Pour Over theme and PrecisionPour (Oct 7); added Talos 20, coffee blends, mugs, a Replacement Parts range, and Brew Guides, Maintenance, Registration and Warranty pages.
  • Full dated log: Shopify changes since Nov 2025.

Reporting & tooling

  • This Reports dashboard: Cloudflare Worker + KV cache that aggregates weekly GitHub activity across all brand repos.
  • Extended it to track repos outside the main org (per-repo owner support) and added the new brands.

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