Changelog

Changes to the site will be logged here.

2025-02-20

Added a /slashes slashpage which simply lists all the slashpages I have on this site
Added a /blank page, inspired by the page on Blake Watsons site, and wrote a post as to why. (Getting the /blank page working took a bigger rewrite than I expected!)

2025-02-19

I investigated the state of SPF and DMARC at primary school email domains in the UK. SPF wasn't too bad but DMARC was pretty shoddy!
I've changed the footer a little, adding some links and some useless random text :D

2025-02-18

I've changed the default theme to something green (with light/dark preferences obeyed) and added it to the theme selection page, which actually is just a way to delete the theme preference cookie if you have one set.
This required some re-writing of the CSS file that and I've used it as an opportunity to touch some stuff up a little. Nothing major. If you notice anything is broken, let me know, yeah?
I wrote up how I organise tasks, a project... and then a method I use to organise so many projects your brain melts a bit just thinking about it all
I moved my contact info out of the about page and have given it its own dedicated slashpage: /hello inspired by Alastair. /contact also goes there, of course

2025-02-14

Added Dinosaur Comics and floor796 to /wander
security.txt expired on 2025-01-01, oops. Expire date updated +1 year!

2025-02-13

I checked the carbon rating of this site and it turned out pretty okay actually!

2025-02-12

One side effect of the work I did yesterday to add dynamic meta tags means I can now use data about a post whilst not looking at a post. To start with, I've added a description about the contents of the post to the list of posts on the homepage. Just hover your mouse over them to get a little more info! ~~I'll do the same for the RSS feed soon (tm)~~ that's done. I also output the description in a <p> in the list, but I've hidden that in the CSS for now. But it's there to use in a future theme!
I've quickly also added the post category (the article:section in metatag parlance) to the CSS class of each entry on the post list. For future styling purposes!
RSS feed has been updated to include the description of each post, as well as the categor(y|ies) which reflect(s) the content
I've added a /story /slashpage because why the devil not?? I mean, sure it's just another way to hit /about but that's not important! ^{(I also added /contact but that also just goes to the /about page.)}
I've slightly rewritten or added to the homepage blurb as well as the ~~/about~~ err sorry I mean /story page to make it a bit more... well, a bit more. Better? I hope so. Some additional contact info is on there too.

2025-02-11

Added dynamic meta tags to all content - page previews generated when links are shared in discord/teams/whatever will now reflect the content somewhat! Oohh, fancy.

2025-02-10

Posted about chickens
Added meta tags to the <head> so link previews work. They're not dynamic, reflecting each page, yet. Future me can sort that out. Thanks future me!

2025-02-09

Posted a post about passion projects

2024-10-22

Added the Afternoon of Bedtime post
Updated the paper theme to be a little bit more like having paper on a page (darker background vs the main content)

2024-10-17

I've made the paper theme (light) the default - feel free to change it if you want something a little different

2024-09-09

Added a post about the Paper theme(s)
Updated the IndieWeb vs indie web post, nodding at Starbreaker's updates to his own post
Added an RSS feed icon to the footer

2024-09-06

Added two new themes, 'paper' and 'paper night'. The paper theme is minimal and clean, with a light version and a night version. I really like it!

2024-08-28

Added a post replying to a post by someone else about the IndieWeb

2024-08-25

Added rel="me" to the mastodon links dotted about the joint
Added a couple /ideas I've been sitting on (maybe working on...!?)

2024-08-21

Added a post about the joy of the internet slow lane

2024-08-15

Added a post, which is a reply to a question posed in another post on another site. Community!
Updated the date on posts to be more human readable. Now with a time! Though only the post I added today has a post time. I'll need to go back and add approximate post times to the older posts. That'll be... fun?

2024-08-14

Added a post about Mastodon/the Fediverse. Why? Because I've created a Mastodon account for this site, of course
Fixed the RSS feed to make it valid, according to the W3C validator

2024-08-07

Added an image/logo to the rss feed, though I honestly have no idea if it works
Updated the Sims.Net migration article/guide with some additional information about configuring the database Compatibility level, which if not done, has some odd side effects it turns out

2024-08-05

Fixed a CSS bug that prevented posts with <pre> elements from shrinking down
Reverted the changes I made yesterday to one of the posts

2024-08-04

Updated the CSS on the site in response to some reader feedback
Updated two articles to use my <pre class="codeblock"> style for some of the bigger <code> blocks to help with readability

2024-08-03

Added a post about tomatoes and thinking a house is a person or something?

2024-07-31

Added an entry to the /yep and the /nope pages
Added an /idea for a tool. Sort of a tool. More like a resource... maybe I should rename that section...

2024-07-26

Added Windows93.net post
Added a humans.txt file

2024-07-25

Added The Month of Illness post
Added an idea for the site
Moved June's /now page into the /then archive, and updated the /now page to be current for July

2024-06-14

Added CSS Naked day support
CSS Naked Day is also a theme you can enable, even if it isn't April 9th, if you prefer the raw web
Added a post about the above stuff for good measure

2024-06-04

/now pages are now archived monthly(-ish) on a new /then page!
Added a post to go alongside the new /then page!

2024-06-03

Added a max-width to the content of the site - a reader emailed to tell me I hadn't done this and it made the site difficult to read on larger screens. Thanks! I've set it to be mostly full size at a 1920 x 1080 resolution, the content won't grow bigger than that. If you notice issues or have any other suggestions, let me know!
Fixed several typos in some pages

2024-05-21

Added theme support, with one theme
Added a post to go alongside the theme support
Added a couple useful links to the footer (about and themes)

2024-05-11

More-aura for-a your-a... uh... viewing pleasure. I posted more aurora pictures!

2024-05-10

I saw the Aurora and posted a few terrible quality pics of it :)

2024-05-07

Added a /nope page
Added a /yep page
Added a post about the /yep and /nope pages
Made some small font-weight changes which help with readability (in my opinion, anyway)

2024-05-05

Made some small changes to the css and <head> to make the site more compatible with more browsers and accessibility tools. If you notice problems, let me know

2024-05-01

Finally got a few minutes to type up a post about the h-card I added on 2024-04-29

2024-04-29

I've added a short intro which serves as a basic h-card to the homepage. Let the indieweb-ification begin!

2024-04-26

A wild RSS feed appears!
A wild post about the RSS feed appearing appears!

2024-04-23

Added podcasts to the /wander page. How did I forget these?!

2024-04-22

Added three links to the /wander page
New TV show added to the /now page
Added the tdmrep.json file and 'new icons/menu design' entries to the /ideas page

2024-04-18

Rebuilt old wordpress site to this new self-built thing!
- Created the theme, based on my old wordpress theme and the shellsharks.com site
- Migrated some of the posts over from the old site - mostly recent ones with some of the more popular older ones
- Rewrote the /about page
- Created a /now page!
- Created this very changelog page you see before you
- Created a page to write down all my silly /ideas for the site and other stuff
- Created a /wander page, which is a bit like a blogroll page but more general, inspired by jamesg.blog
Published one post about the new site