lol/content/changelog/2025/november-8th.md

title, date, updates

title	date	updates
November Update - v1.1.0	2025-11-08	Major update

Major news

The category and share sections have been merged in to their own area below page content with brand new "Copy Link" and Email options. The category section now says "Category" instead of "Categories" if only one has been specified.

The mobile menu has nice new animations and a border on the bottom. It now closes if your browser window goes beyond 640px in width while it's open. You can now also close it by pressing the Escape key.

The header is now translucent and blurry once again. It turns opaque while the mobile menu is open.

You can now filter by Category on the Search page.

Many templates and partials have been simplified and consolidated wherever possible.

All post and review covers are now in the .webp file format.

The list of gadgets from About have been moved to What I use.

Changelog entries are now in Major Update and Minor Update categories

Footer links are now better organised and text has been made smaller and more unobtrusive. Footer menus now highlight the page you are currently on, just like the main navigation menu.

I have implemented view transitions with the new View Transitions API. It will not yet work on Firefox as it currently does not support view transitions on multi-page applications.

All animations including the mobile menu, links, the header and view transitions now respect the user's "Reduce motion" setting.

A link to the parent of any content you're reading is now above the page title. This excludes pages whose parent is / aka Home.

Important license information

I am now excluding images from the permissions granted by the license.

Please do not share or redistribute any of my images elsewhere.

As of the time I am writing this changelog, all images on this website are my own.

In the future, I will be adding a "Credits" section to the bottom of any page that is using another individual or company's work/intellectual property. It will likely be above the new combined Category and Share section.

I may also create a dedicated page outlining what you can do with my content, both based on the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 deed and my own wishes regarding images.

Other changes

• Changed title of /posts to Blog
• Changed title of /about to About
• Changed title of /ai-models from "Regarding "AI" models" to "Use of AI"
• Fixed SVG layout issues on share section buttons
• Changed Dell 27 Plus 4K - S2725QC cover image to my own
• Fixed missing Summary text in Apple iPhone 13
• Added original changelog entry names and removed dates from some titles
• Corrected post links in previous changelogs
• Tweaked hero & card title font sizes
• Made header site title text smaller
• Fixed markdown issues in overview.html and note.html shortcode
• Fixed how shortcodes were being called in Markdown files
• Replaced share section "X" text and logo with Twitter
• Simplified Note design and removed rounded corners to be consistent with images and other elements
• Overview summary font size is now clamped
• Changed homepage hero update notice text to "vX.XX - Date"
• Tweaked colours for better contrast and readability
• Added an additional darker border colour
• Added a border to the top of the footer for better separation
• Changed scrollbar colours to match the website itself (only on Firefox, Chrome and derivatives)
• Reduced size of homepage hero update notice
• Corrected a typo in the Threads URL in share section
• Started using Catppuccin Frappe style for pre elements
• Simplified the Contact page
• Reduced font weight of links
• Organised and added links to Website info
• Links now have a 200ms transition for text colour or background colour to match other new animations
• Made code background darker and added a small border for better visibility
• Changed "Share on..." to "Share page link" in share section
• Fixed search page UI colours
• Fixed figcaption font size
• Fixed horizontal layout shift when viewing a page without a scrollbar
• Tweaked clamped font sizes to start shrinking later
• Added a needsupdate front matter paramater for future use

Removals

• Removed the "View all posts" and "View all reviews" buttons on the homepage
• Removed gradient background from the Note shortcode
• Removed AI disclaimer text from Website info
• Removed AI disclaimer shortcode and repurposed it for the footer

What's next

I am planning on writing a blog post about my progress with HTML and CSS. It should be out before Christmas day.

Light mode will be added back soon. It's not that much of a concern right now aside from potential accessibility issues.

Speaking of accessibility, this is something the website doesn't particularly excel at right now. I need to work on a focus trap for the mobile menu, along with writing alt text for every image on every page.

I hope to work on my own UI implementation for Pagefind soon. The default one, while functional, doesn't completely fit in with the rest of the website.

I was experimenting and had a proof-of-concept layout for content with a table of contents available on the right side of your screen on desktop, inspired by Josh W. Comeau's website. I may implement this in the future.

I am making a commitment to provide detailed changelogs for every major update to this website going forward.

That's all for now.