lol/content/changelog/2025/december-15th.md

title, date, updates

title	date	updates
December Update - v1.3.0	2025-12-15	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 page content
  • "About this site" is now About this website
  • 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 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 has proper alt text for images.

I am yet to implement a proper focus trap 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.