lol/content/changelog/2026/february-9th.md

title, date, updates

title	date	updates
February Update - v1.5.0	2026-02-09	Major update

This update introduces a brand-new branding, a new modal on the home page for announcements and updates, improvements to UI & UX & more.

Changes

• Highlights:

  1. This website now has an official logo! I've also updated the favicon and embed image to match.
  2. Added new dialog for site updates and announcements. You can temporarily dismiss this for your current session, or disable it until the next update. Check out Your privacy to see how this works.
  3. The Categories page now shows the number of categories & category pages now display the total number of pages within that category
  4. X/Twitter has been removed from the share section

• Content:

  • Edited text and added feedback section to Website info
  • Added link to website feedback section, removed old feedback section, rewrote social media section and cleaned up content in About
  • Added a new "Smart accessories" section & added regular main devices list back to What I use
  • Replaced Zed with VSCodium, updated Zen Browser screenshot in What software do I use?
  • Fixed missing colon in Happy New Year! - v2.00

• UI & UX:

  • Made colour scheme slightly brighter
  • Returned to the previous split layout + added Hugo version to the footer
  • No longer using ordinal numbers for dates
  • Removed shadows from notes and overviews
  • Removed border from page hero cover image
  • Now using new logo for site name/title in header

• Behind the scenes:

  • Converted Hugo.toml to hugo.yaml
  • Removed devices.yaml data file
  • Removed redundant code for header classes in menu.js
  • Renamed main.css to styles.css
  • Removed redundant css.html and head.html partials
  • Added dark reader lock to head
  • Added dialog partial
  • Overview and note shortcodes now use new shared block classes
  • Improved pagination page control markup
  • Simplified share section markup, changed share section title
  • Moved What I use to the main navigation menu
  • Now using ContentWithoutSummary for page content
  • Removed single layout for old list in What I use
  • Added a separate set of Favicons for when the site is being developed locally (actually added in December Update 2 - v1.50)
  • Now using .Data.Singular for term taxonomy
  • Fixed missing spaces in home layout template
  • Card title links are now just anchor tags
  • Converted all shortcodes to use {{</* */>}} instead of {{%/* */%}}
  • Removed page card partial and page card from archetype templates

• CSS:

  • Far too many changes to write. In summary, I changed variable names and colours, fixed some uneccessarily complicated selectors, greatly simplified certain sections, added the new .block styles and removed old ones, alongside many other changes.