---
title: December Update - v1.3.0
date: 2025-12-15
updates:
- Major update
---

This update marks the last major update for the year 2025.

I hope to write a blog post around New Year's Day detailing my progress in learning HTML and CSS, along with what I plan to do with this website in 2026.

## Changes:

- **Content:**
  - **My author page has been removed & content will no longer list an author.** I had initially implemented this as I was improving the theme for it to be open-sourced, but I have since decided not go ahead with it.
  - Updated [About](/about) page content
  - **"About this site"** is now [About this website](/website-info)
  - Removed GitHub and GitLab from "Contact"

- **UI and UX:**
  - Tweaked colour scheme
  - Notes now have a nice drop shadow
  - Removed view transitions due to limited browser support and stuttering
  - Removed transparent header background
  - Removed gradient variables in favour of manually adding gradients where needed
  - Adjusted text sizing and margins
  - The score numerator is now larger than the denominator
  - Decreased left padding on lists
  - Removed background colour and text colour fade transitions
  - Changed search bar background colour
  - Changed list item bullet point colour
  - Removed mobile menu animations
  - Footer links now stack vertically on smaller screens
  - Adjusted the line height for mobile menu navigation links
  - Removed external link arrow icons
  - Removed Rybbit disclaimer from the footer
  - Code text background is now brighter
  - Reduced share section link icon size
  - Footer text now has a fixed maximum width on smaller screens
  - The home page now shows the latest post and latest review side-by-side once again
  - Home page latest post and review titles are no longer a link
  - Page authors are now displayed next to the date rather than below the description
  - Fixed share section email content

- **CSS:**
  - Styles for links with icons have been greatly improved
  - The pagination buttons now use the existing link styles alongside their own
  - Changed various variable names
  - Added styles for the `hr` (horizontal rule) element
  - Changed padding variable names and started using nesting where applicable
  - Now using `em` for most line heights instead of `lh`
  - Now using the logical equivalent of the `top` property, `inset-block-start`
  - Consolidated CSS link classes
  - Fixed styles for the `time` element
  - Removed redundant and unused styles
  
- **Behind the scenes:**
  - Deleted an old draft review of my 7th generation iPod Nano
  - For a brief period, I ran a self-hosted instance of [Rybbit](https://rybbit.com) analytics as a little experiment. I have since decided not to keep going with this.
  - Removed accidental duplicate fonts from the static directory
  - Hugo configuration file is now in YAML format to be in line with the Markdown files
  - Enabled unsafe markup in Hugo configuration file

## What's next?

As for this website, my aim will be on accessibility and the UI.

I need to add alt text for every image on every page. Right now, only [Dell 27 Plus 4K - S2725QC](/reviews/dell-s2725qc) has proper alt text for images.

I am yet to implement a proper [focus trap](https://css-tricks.com/a-primer-on-focus-trapping/) for the mobile menu.

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I hope to start learning JavaScript in 2026. I plan to move onto Svelte and SvelteKit once I have a decent understanding of JS.

Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and happy holidays!

I hope 2026 will be a better year for all of us.