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site updates
documenting the updates i've given to the site

This site has received a ton of updates over the past few years. This page aims to document all of them.

2024

April 21

Changes:

  • Specific Portfolio entries in the RSS feeds redirect to their respective group pages instead of dead links.
  • ‘lynk’ button replaces the ‘sstarm’ button in links section.

March

Additions:

Changes:

  • Portfolio added to main RSS feed (March 29)
  • Fixed formatting on the RSS feed (March 29)
  • Using Sass variables as fallback for devices that do not support CSS variables (March 29)
  • Changed the CSS button to redirect to that page’s RSS feed, if available. (March 30)

February

Changes:

  • Removed the ‘Razorback’ (no longer in service) and ‘sstarm’ (incorrect redir) buttons in the links section. (Feb 15)
  • ‘plasticity’ button redirects to his Neocities page again. (Feb 15)
  • Updated present year in the footer (Feb 27)
  • Fixed site colors for miscellaneous pages (Feb 27)
  • Rewrote the entire Prevue Guide Emulation Tutorial from scratch. Keeping old pages up temporarily as an archive. (Feb 27)

Additions:

January

Slowly rolling out updates to the site again.

Changes:

Additions:

  • Added ‘OK K.O.!’ (v2, late-2023) piece to 3D portfolio (Jan 23)

2023

November

Changes:

  • Added “meta” tag with viewport to article layout (Nov 5)
  • Scroll bars now change color depending on page styling (Nov 5)
  • Optimized the sidebar (on the homepage and blog pages) for mobile devices. (Nov 5)
  • Fixed a bug within the FrixCraft portfolio where a caption on the ‘3D Pinball: Space Cadet’ piece overwrote the other. (Nov 26)

October 30

3.0 (public beta 1) gets its first revision.

Additions:

  • Added metadata on pages where there is none

Changes:

  • Add viewport to pages that I forgot to include it on

October 29

After about 2 years of initial planning and about a year of development, site version 3.0 (public beta 1) finally goes live.

Additions:

  • Minecraft voxel art portfolio (Nov 2, 2022)
  • About page (Aug 30)
  • “Latest dream” in dream log (Oct 23)
  • Characters page, now with a custom layout! (Sep 30)

Changes:

  • Overall site layout refresh (May 13, 2022)
  • Entire codebase refresh (May 14, 2022)
  • Fonts self-hosted (Jul 17, 2022)
  • Cleaned up portfolio (Oct 23)
  • New landing page (Oct 26)
  • Update pages to match tilde format (Oct 29)
  • Temporarily removed radio link from Miscellaneous page (Oct 29)

2022

January 9

Very small update shortly after regaining access to web server

Additions:

2021

November 12

Park City web server migrates to a new server. No human changes were made to the website during this period.

Changes:

  • Various PHP pages break across the entire domain, including the “old sketches” page in the Portfolio.

March

Very subtle changes across the website.

Additions:

  • new 88x31 button (Mar 29)
  • new footer implemented on a few more pages (Mar 29)

Changes:

  • removed two pieces from portfolio (Mar 5)
  • radio station page relaunches on another web host, with its link being added back to the miscellaneous page (Mar 25)

2020

November

Additions:

  • Prevue Guide Emulation Tutorial (Nov 1)

Changes:

  • Portfolio and Miscellaneous pages given a new layout (Nov 8)
  • radio station page removed due to inactivity (Nov 8)

October 16

Changes:

  • A few pages were rearranged

August 1

Changes:

  • Blog layout changed to use tables and fit with other pages

July 14

Additions:

  • radio station page

early-2020

Additions:

  • Dream log

2019

December

Changes:

  • website moved to Park City (Dec 7)
  • portfolio now has proper thumbnails (Dec 20)

September 5

Additions:

  • pages now have metadata

Changes:

  • updated blog layout

August

Additions:

  • 404 page (Aug 28)

Changes:

  • overall color scheme inverted/”dark mode” (Aug 23)
  • site-wide font changed from Comfortaa to Lexend (Aug 27)
  • updated header graphics (Aug 28)
  • Lexend Mega and Lexend Exa used for heading font (Aug 28)

May

Additions:

  • 2D art portfolio (May 14)
  • sidebar added to blog section, displaying the most recent entries (May 29)

Changes:

  • pieces display title and year when hovered over (May 13)
  • some buttons in the footer were replaced (May 13)
  • one of the buttons in footer did not redirect to the proper website (May 15)
  • fonts page organized (May 15)
  • updated links section with 88x31 buttons for linking back (May 15)

April

Version 1.0 launches. The entire site is restarted from scratch.

Additions:

  • portfolio page + 3D art portfolio (Apr 16)
  • miscellaneous page + links & supported browsers (Apr 16)
  • fonts page (Apr 29)

Changes:

  • codebase refresh (Apr 12)
  • new landing page design (Apr 12)
  • navigation bar fixed (Apr 16)

2018

late-2018

Additions:

  • New website

Changes:

  • N/A

2017

mid-2017

Additions:

  • second domain created, later became primary
  • ‘site updates’ page
  • links page (titled ‘other sites’)
  • ‘programs i recommend’ page