The TinyTorch announcement bar was reverted during the v0.1.10 publish
merge on 2026-04-22 (commit 0009f55a9) from the 4-line ecosystem template
shipped in PR #1505 back to a single-line release notice:
🎉 v0.1.10 released — v0.1.10 (retry after TINYTORCH_SITE path fix) · See release →
Three problems with the release-notice form:
1. Single-line + type: info breaks visual consistency with the other
eight Quarto announcement bars (all type: primary, 4 lines).
2. Copy reads like a commit message ("retry after TINYTORCH_SITE path
fix") — internal engineering language in always-visible nav copy.
3. Release news persists long after the release — "v0.1.10" is
already stale-sounding and will look abandoned when v0.1.11 ships.
Restore to the unified template used by vol1, vol2, kits, labs, mlsysim,
slides, instructors, site, and staffml: identity line + book link +
"Alongside the book:" sibling row (Hardware Kits / MLSys·im / Labs) +
newsletter. TinyTorch is the "build" lens of the curriculum; line 3 omits
TinyTorch itself and lists the three other learner-tool siblings.
Also documents in the file header comments that this reversion happened
so a future release publish doesn't silently overwrite again. If a future
release warrants a top-of-bar mention, the right pattern is an optional
release_note field on the shared schema that auto-expires — not
overwriting the ecosystem-navigation copy.
Every site's announcement bar now follows one template:
Line 1 — identity + primary CTA (what is THIS site)
Line 2 — the book (or, on book sites, the other volume)
Line 3 — "Alongside the book:" sibling row (3 most-relevant verbs)
Line 4 — newsletter
The book is the anchor of the curriculum; every other site is a verb
applied to it — TinyTorch (build), Hardware Kits (deploy), MLSys·im
(simulate), Labs (explore), Slides + Instructors (teach). Making that
shape visible in every bar turns nine independent sites into chapters
of one curriculum.
Removed stale copy: "Happy New Year!" on kits + labs, "coming in 2026"
on labs (we are in 2026; replaced with "Coming Summer 2026"), TinyTorch
v0.1.10 single-line release notice (belonged in a release changelog,
not the always-visible nav bar).
Normalized outbound links: /book -> /vol1/ and /vol2/, consistent
trailing-slash hygiene on every URL. Newsletter link points to
https://mlsysbook.ai/newsletter/ (the actual Quarto page) instead of
#subscribe (which only resolves on the landing page).
The landing site (mlsysbook.ai) uses a 5-line variant that covers all
four learner verbs + the teacher-tools row; every other site uses the
4-line form.
StaffML is a Next.js app, not a Quarto site, so its banner is out of
scope for this PR and will ship as a separate React component change.
Brings the TinyTorch lab guide's Quarto project in line with
book/quarto/, the only other in-tree Quarto publication that builds
both web and PDF outputs from a single source. The previous name had
three redundancies:
- already under tinytorch/, so "site-" prefix wasn't disambiguating
- also produces the PDF lab guide, so "site-" was misleading
- the top-level site/ dir made "site-quarto" read as "the site's
quarto config" rather than "the tinytorch site, in quarto"
After this rename the convention is straightforward:
book/quarto/ -> the textbook (web + PDF)
tinytorch/quarto/ -> the TinyTorch lab guide (web + PDF)
mlsysim/docs/ -> mlsysim API reference (kept as docs/, since it
really is API reference, not a publication)
Touches 7 GitHub workflows, both .gitignore files, the rename target's
own self-references (Makefile, _quarto.yml configs, STYLE.md,
measure-pdf-images.py), and 6 copies of subscribe-modal.js plus a few
shared scripts/configs whose comments documented the old path.
Verified: rebuilt pdf/TinyTorch-Guide.pdf (2.1M) cleanly from the new
location with 'make pdf' from tinytorch/quarto/.
