in the spirit of Dr. Franklin’s Junto, Philadelphia, MDCCXXVII — rebooted for the grove
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Notice is hereby given
The First Council convenes Friday next, the Eighteenth of September, 2026
at six of the clock in the evening · Northwest Arkansas · the table to be named upon petition
the council convenes soon
The Credo of the Club
as it is engraved in the grove, and spoken at every sitting
Ask better questions than the ones you are given.
Improve each other honestly; accountability, never blame.
Build for the town first. The barbershop, the artisan, the drone pilot.
Leave it better than we found it.
The Standing Questions
after Dr. Franklin’s own, put to every member at every meeting
I. What new thing have you made, mended, or learned in your trade since we last sat — and what did it teach?
II. Hath any citizen, or any shop among us, lately met with difficulty in their undertakings — and how might the council assist?
III. What defect have you observed in the tools of our town — and who among us is best placed to mend it?
IV. Where did you last leave something better than you found it?
Seats at the Table
the founding trades, and the seats kept warm for their neighbours
The Barbershopfounding seat
The Artisanfounding seat
The Drone Pilotfounding seat
The Woodworkerseat open — petition below
The Restaurateurseat open — petition below
The Builderseat open — petition below
No trade is too small; no apron too worn. The council sits to serve the town, not itself.
Works of the Council
what the grove hath already built for the town — each link live this day
tylergranlund.com — the steward’s own ground
The flagship: a personal site built, tested, and published by the grove — and, rarest of things, a colophon where the site declares its own stack. Each wing has its own work to do:
Under the hood, per the colophon: TanStack Start, React 19 with SSR via Vinxi, TypeScript in strict mode, Tailwind CSS v4, Radix UI primitives, and Vitest quality gates — the whole thing riding the grove’s end-to-end pipeline from spoken brief to deployed build.
Every inquiry geocoded, filed to the board, and on the dashboard before the kettle whistles. Python stdlib + SQLite at the core, Jira on the far end, Render underneath, Playwright at the gate.
A static, audited, owner-servable page for the chair: HTML & CSS by hand, accessibility checked by script, photos processed from the shop’s own camera, deployed with headers from the repo.
The machine that builds these works: a voice-first agentic CLI, its desktop shell, this page among its products, and the pipeline that carried every entry above.
tell the council why you would sit with it — your words go by post, unaltered
To the Council of the Leather Apron Club
the humble petition of —
The petition opens as a letter to the club’s steward — nothing is sent until you press send in your own mail. The council reads every word; answers come before the next sitting.