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title: Website update - October 2025
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date: 2025-10-24
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updates:
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- Major update
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Hi! I am still not dead.
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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!
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In the spirit of Halloween, enjoy this unnecessarily long and comprehensive list of updates!
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## Major news
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**Search is here thanks to the [Pagefind](https://pagefind.app) static search library. I am currently using its default UI, but this may change in the future.**
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**Blog and Reviews have been merged into a new [Posts](/posts) page! I have set up redirects with Cloudflare so indexed links on search engines aren't affected.**
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## Other changes
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- Reviews now have their own **Review** category.
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- Added [Changelog](/changelog) + a bunch of old Devlogs and changes
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- Improved typography, text sizing, margins and consistency
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- Made button padding smaller and made corner radius bigger
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- Added a link icon to button on the homepage
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- Simplified categories partial
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- Updated [Website info](/website-info)
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- Fixed incorrect heading size on this post
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- Mobile menu no longer prevents scrolling while open
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- Latest content now only shows the two latest posts
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- Mobile menu no longer extends to the bottom of the viewport
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- Moved and renamed template files to ensure compatibility with future Hugo versions
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- More site elements are now using reusable classes, like `prose` for text-centric content or `width-content`, `width-page` and `full-width` for an element's max width
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- Switched to logical CSS properties for better compatibility with right-to-left and other layouts
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- Now using regular font files instead of Google Fonts
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- Changed homepage hero text
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- Improved contrast and colours
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- Link underlines in blog post abd review pages are now thinner and lower down
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- Made the header blurry and translucent (opening the mobile menu makes it opaque)
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- Made header more compact
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- Simplified and shrunk footer
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- Improved wrapping for category links
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- Changed body background colour
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- Changed favicon and fixed favicon links in `<head>`
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- The page you are currently on is now shown in the navigation menu
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- Added more to [Website info](/website-info)
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- Replaced **"The top 5 Mac apps I use daily"** with [What software do I use?](/posts/software-i-use)
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## Removals
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- Removed "My iPod Touch (it's older than me)"
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- Removed about section at the bottom of the homepage
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- Removed homepage hero background image
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- Removed **Updates** page
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- Removed colour fade transition when hovering links
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- Removed redundant cover image credit (may add again if needed)
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- Removed silly accessories list in [About](/about)
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- Removed unnecessary text on the 404 page
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- Removed the quote in the footer
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- Removed useless `og:logo` opengraph tag in `<head>`
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## What’s next?
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I am going to be cleaning up and editing pretty much all existing content over the next few months. Reviews will be the priority.
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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.
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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.
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## Other news
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I have officially moved this site’s source code to GitLab.com.
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