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+title: February Update - v1.5.0
+date: 2026-02-09
+updates:
+- Major update
+---
+
+This update introduces a brand-new branding, a new modal on the home page for announcements and updates, improvements to UI & UX & more.
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+## Changes
+
+- **Highlights:**
+  1. **This website now has an official logo! I've also updated the favicon and embed image to match.**
+  2. **Added new dialog for site updates and announcements. You can temporarily dismiss this for your current session, or disable it until the next update. Check out [Your privacy](/website-info/#your-privacy) to see how this works.**
+  3. **The Categories page now shows the number of categories & category pages now display the total number of pages within that category**
+  4. **X/Twitter has been removed from the share section**
+
+- **Content:**
+  - Edited text and added feedback section to [Website info](/website-info)
+  - Added link to website feedback section, removed old feedback section, rewrote social media section and cleaned up content in [About](/about)
+  - Added a new "Smart accessories" section & added regular main devices list back to [What I use](/what-i-use)
+  - Replaced Zed with VSCodium, updated Zen Browser screenshot in [What software do I use?](/posts/software-i-use)
+  - Fixed missing colon in [Happy New Year! - v2.00](/changelog/2026/janurary-1st)
+
+- **UI & UX:**
+  - Made colour scheme slightly brighter
+  - Returned to the previous split layout + added Hugo version to the footer
+  - No longer using ordinal numbers for dates
+  - Removed shadows from notes and overviews
+  - Removed border from page hero cover image
+  - Now using new logo for site name/title in header
+
+- **Behind the scenes:**
+  - Converted Hugo.toml to hugo.yaml
+  - Removed devices.yaml data file
+  - Removed redundant code for header classes in menu.js
+  - Renamed `main.css` to `styles.css`
+  - Removed redundant css.html and head.html partials
+  - Added dark reader lock to head
+  - Added dialog partial
+  - Overview and note shortcodes now use new shared block classes
+  - Improved pagination page control markup
+  - Simplified share section markup, changed share section title
+  - Moved [What I use](/what-i-use) to the main navigation menu
+  - Now using `ContentWithoutSummary` for page content
+  - Removed single layout for old list in [What I use](/what-i-use)
+  - Added a separate set of Favicons for when the site is being developed locally (actually added in [December Update 2 - v1.50](/changelog/2025/december-27th/))
+  - Now using `.Data.Singular` for term taxonomy
+  - Fixed missing spaces in home layout template
+  - Card title links are now just anchor tags
+  - Converted all shortcodes to use `{{</* */>}}` instead of `{{%/* */%}}`
+  - Removed page card partial and page card from archetype templates
+
+- **CSS:**
+  - Far too many changes to write. In summary, I changed variable names and colours, fixed some uneccessarily complicated selectors, greatly simplified certain sections, added the new `.block` styles and removed old ones, alongside many other changes.