Changelog

This website is one of the biggest personal projects that I have. This page is to document all notable changes in functionality to this website. The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

11 May, 2020

Added

• Added twitter comments on post pages.

6 May, 2020

Added

• Added post comment, mention, like and repost counts on post pages, home and archive page.
• Added Twitter like and retweet links in post pages.

28 Apr, 2020

Added

• Added Changelog page.

Changed

• Switched from highlight.js based code highlighting to Pandoc based one.
• Wrote and switched to my own code emphasizer which works with pandoc-highlighting.

Removed

• Removed pandoc-emphasize-code library.
• Removed post PDF files. Less that 1% visitors downloaded them and maintaining the PDF generation toolchain was cumbersome.

22 Apr, 2020

Added

• Added dark and light themes for code page.

19 Apr, 2020

Fixed

• Fixed broken rendering of box drawing characters on mobile devices by switching to Fira Mono font files with full charset versions.

16 Apr, 2020

Added

• Added recent books to homepage.

11 Apr, 2020

Added

• Added post comment guidelines for better visual tracking.
• Added support for showing post comments from external websites:
  • lobste.rs
  • Reddit
• Adds support for fetching external resources concurrently.

5 Apr, 2020

Fixed

• Fixed post estimated reading time to included code sections.

25 Mar, 2020

Added

• Added support for Dark mode on non media-query enabled browsers.
• Added Dark mode toggler.

22 Mar, 2020

Added

• Added Dark mode.

14 Mar, 2020

Added

• Added activity type Workout.

16 Feb, 2020

Added

• Added yearwise sections in books read list.

26 Nov, 2019

Added

• Added support for highlighted code pages.
• Added support for file and snippet embedding in posts.

4 Nov, 2019

Added

• Added activity type selector on Activity page.

Changed

• Changed the recent activity bars to be most responsive.

28 Oct, 2019

Added

• Added slide download links on talks pages.

26 Oct, 2019

Added

• Added activity weekly bar charts on Activities page.
• Added activity details on Activities page.

Changed

• Moved from using RSS feed for activities to strava API.

30 Aug, 2019

Added

• Added Like/Repost counts for notes.
• Added Like/Repost mentions for posts.
• Added h-entry microformat support for posts.

23 Aug, 2019

Added

• Added historical Now pages.

9 Aug, 2019

Removed

• Removed ReCaptcha from post comment form.

6 Aug, 2019

Added

• Added Pandoc filter to emphasize parts of code snippets.

24 Jul, 2019

Added

• Added tags for notes.

18 Jul, 2019

Added

• Added Projects page.

19 Jun, 2019

Added

• Added notes feed.

14 Jun, 2019

Added

• Added Notes page.

14 May, 2019

Added

• Added random images section on homepage.
• Added bottom navigation links.

18 Feb, 2019

Added

• Added an index for Readings page.

2 Feb, 2019

Removed

• Removed Amazon affiliate links.

27 Jan, 2019

Added

• Added prev and next meta rel links.
• Added short URL support.

Changed

• Changed styles for better readability.

24 Jan, 2019

Added

• Added subscription form.

Changed

• Moved feeds to .atom from .xml for correct content type.

13 Jan, 2019

Added

• Added toggle notes button in slides on Talk pages.
• Added progress/seek bar for slides on Talk pages.

11 Jan, 2019

Added

• Added fullscreen button in slides on Talk pages.
• Added remark.js slides support to Talk pages.

5 Jan, 2019

Added

• Added remark.js slides hosting support.

8 Dec, 2018

Added

• Added Now page.

21 Nov, 2018

Added

• Added Talks page.

1 Nov, 2018

Added

• Added random shuffling of photos.
• Added lazy loading of photos.

22 Oct, 2018

Added

• Added Photos page.

9 Oct, 2018

Added

• Added support for Walk activities on Activities page.

1 Oct, 2018

Added

• Added page generation time in footer.

Changed

• Moved to self-hosted fonts and async CSS loading.
• Replaced fontawesome icons with SVGs.
• Reorganized CSS to have one file per page type.

29 Aug, 2018

Added

• Added post tags on Archive and Tag pages.

Changed

• Grouped posts by year in Archive and Tag pages.

27 Aug, 2018

Removed

• Removed Google Analytics code.

19 Aug, 2018

Changed

• Switched the default post comment gravatar to retro style.

15 Aug, 2018

Changed

• Changed styles for better readability.

11 Aug, 2018

Added

• Added Webmentions for posts.
• Added About section on homepage.

5 Aug, 2018

Added

• Added Drone CI setup.
• Added Amazon affialiate link for books.
• Added support for replying to comments on posts.
• Added support for nested comments on posts.
• Added links for navigation to previous and next posts in post pages.

Changed

• Increased post title font size for better readability.

Removed

• Removed Travis CI setup.

31 Jul, 2018

Added

• Added sidenotes support for posts.

28 Jul, 2018

Added

• Added tags in feed entries.

21 Jul, 2018

Changed

• Moved to hastatic as the base Docker image.

13 Jul, 2018

Added

• Made tables scrollable on small screens.

Changed

• Changed the navigation bar to be non-fixed.

7 Jul, 2018

Added

• Added self-hosted Matomo web analytics.

29 Jun, 2018

Added

• Added Twitter share button on posts.
• Added Drafts page to list all draft posts.

26 Jun, 2018

Added

• Added support to write non-published draft posts.

4 Dec, 2017

Added

• Added activities calendar heatmap on Activities page.

3 Nov, 2017

Changed

• Merged post tag pages and archive page.

28 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added navigation popup menu for small screens.
• Added Readings page.

Changed

• Changed the navigation bar to be fixed.

19 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added Activities page.

17 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added post PDF generation script
• Added post PDF download links.
• Added line numbers in code blocks.

10 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added ReCaptcha to comment form.

8 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added lightbox for images in posts.

5 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added site favicon.

4 Oct, 2017

Changed

• Switched to Noto Serif, Lato and Fira Mono fonts.

3 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added commeting functionality without JS.

2 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added Staticman based commenting for posts.

Changed

• Moved from CSS to SCSS.

1 Oct, 2017

Added

• Added Travis CI integration for automated building.
• Added font-awesome icons.
• Added microformat annotations.

30 Sep, 2017

Added

• Added Google analytics.
• Added sitemap.
• Added estimated reading time to posts.

Changed

• Changed code highlight style to atom-one-light.

29 Sep, 2017

Added

• Added post teasers on homepage.
• Added feeds for tag pages.
• Added Table of Content generation for posts.
• Added About page.
• Added highlight.js based code block highlighting.
• Added post Archive page.
• Added Tags page.
• Added post Atom feed.
• Setup the website.