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title, date, updates
| title | date | updates | |
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| Website update - October 2025 | 2025-10-24 |
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Hi! I am still not dead.
It’s taken me a while to get this done, but I have made some substantial updates to this website that make the experience better both for me and anyone reading this!
In the spirit of Halloween, enjoy this unnecessarily long and comprehensive list of updates!
Major news
Search is here thanks to the Pagefind static search library. I am currently using its default UI, but this may change in the future.
Blog and Reviews have been merged into a new Posts page! I have set up redirects with Cloudflare so indexed links on search engines aren't affected.
Other changes
- Reviews now have their own Review category.
- Added Changelog + a bunch of old Devlogs and changes
- Improved typography, text sizing, margins and consistency
- Made button padding smaller and made corner radius bigger
- Added a link icon to button on the homepage
- Simplified categories partial
- Updated Website info
- Fixed incorrect heading size on this post
- Mobile menu no longer prevents scrolling while open
- Latest content now only shows the two latest posts
- Mobile menu no longer extends to the bottom of the viewport
- Moved and renamed template files to ensure compatibility with future Hugo versions
- More site elements are now using reusable classes, like
prosefor text-centric content orwidth-content,width-pageandfull-widthfor an element's max width - Switched to logical CSS properties for better compatibility with right-to-left and other layouts
- Now using regular font files instead of Google Fonts
- Changed homepage hero text
- Improved contrast and colours
- Link underlines in blog post abd review pages are now thinner and lower down
- Made the header blurry and translucent (opening the mobile menu makes it opaque)
- Made header more compact
- Simplified and shrunk footer
- Improved wrapping for category links
- Changed body background colour
- Changed favicon and fixed favicon links in
<head> - The page you are currently on is now shown in the navigation menu
- Added more to Website info
- Replaced "The top 5 Mac apps I use daily" with What software do I use?
Removals
- Removed "My iPod Touch (it's older than me)"
- Removed about section at the bottom of the homepage
- Removed homepage hero background image
- Removed Updates page
- Removed colour fade transition when hovering links
- Removed redundant cover image credit (may add again if needed)
- Removed silly accessories list in About
- Removed unnecessary text on the 404 page
- Removed the quote in the footer
- Removed useless
og:logoopengraph tag in<head>
What’s next?
I am going to be cleaning up and editing pretty much all existing content over the next few months. Reviews will be the priority.
As a start, I’ve temporarily hidden and may possibly delete “My iPod Touch (it’s older than me)”. I never liked that post and I think it’s useless.
I’ll be working on new reviews and posts after Christmas, but in the meantime, I hope to work on a fullscreen image viewer for posts and reviews, improve accessibility and possibly overhaul the mobile menu.
Other news
I have officially moved this site’s source code to GitLab.com.