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title: December Update - v1.3.0
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date: 2025-12-15
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updates:
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- Major update
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This update marks the last major update for the year 2025.
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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.
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## Changes:
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- **Content:**
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- **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.
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- Updated [About](/about) page content
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- **"About this site"** is now [About this website](/website-info)
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- Removed GitHub and GitLab from "Contact"
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- **UI and UX:**
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- Tweaked colour scheme
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- Notes now have a nice drop shadow
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- Removed view transitions due to limited browser support and stuttering
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- Removed transparent header background
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- Removed gradient variables in favour of manually adding gradients where needed
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- Adjusted text sizing and margins
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- The score numerator is now larger than the denominator
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- Decreased left padding on lists
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- Removed background colour and text colour fade transitions
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- Changed search bar background colour
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- Changed list item bullet point colour
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- Removed mobile menu animations
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- Footer links now stack vertically on smaller screens
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- Adjusted the line height for mobile menu navigation links
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- Removed external link arrow icons
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- Removed Rybbit disclaimer from the footer
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- Code text background is now brighter
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- Reduced share section link icon size
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- Footer text now has a fixed maximum width on smaller screens
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- The home page now shows the latest post and latest review side-by-side once again
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- Home page latest post and review titles are no longer a link
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- Page authors are now displayed next to the date rather than below the description
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- Fixed share section email content
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- **CSS:**
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- Styles for links with icons have been greatly improved
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- The pagination buttons now use the existing link styles alongside their own
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- Changed various variable names
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- Added styles for the `hr` (horizontal rule) element
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- Changed padding variable names and started using nesting where applicable
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- Now using `em` for most line heights instead of `lh`
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- Now using the logical equivalent of the `top` property, `inset-block-start`
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- Consolidated CSS link classes
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- Fixed styles for the `time` element
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- Removed redundant and unused styles
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- **Behind the scenes:**
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- Deleted an old draft review of my 7th generation iPod Nano
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- 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.
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- Removed accidental duplicate fonts from the static directory
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- Hugo configuration file is now in YAML format to be in line with the Markdown files
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- Enabled unsafe markup in Hugo configuration file
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## What's next?
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As for this website, my aim will be on accessibility and the UI.
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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.
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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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---
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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.
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Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and happy holidays!
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I hope 2026 will be a better year for all of us.
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