Change Log

3.2.4

2025-09-14

Behind the scenes tweaks to reduce the number of includes and templates
Cleaned up excess files and reduced the number of build items

3.2.3

2025-09-13

Readded comments for now with a new system
Tweaked site theme and added a placeholder favicon

3.2.2

2025-09-09

Transferred domain to a different provider
Set up some web analytics just for a bit of fun to see what's going on
Moved most of the images off git and to a service from the provider

3.2.1

2025-09-08

Added answer cards to AMA
Fixed some issues with input colors not being readable
Fixed issue with theme button not having the right color text

3.2.0

2025-09-08

Applied a new theme on top of bootstrap
Style is now built with SCSS to allow custom configuration
Light/dark toggle is now a button
Repo underwent some reorganization to clean up and organize files differently
Fixed dates in previous 2 versions
Updated navbar to be sticky

3.1.4

2025-09-07

Added photo gallery with some images from my bluesky account
This is a first iteration and will likely undergo changes
Updated style for related entries listing
Added description to related entries list
Updated wording in changelog entries
Added icons to various parts of the site

3.1.3

2025-09-07

Updated sidebar with a new style and rearranged components
Reverted scrolling behavior for journal entries since it sucked on mobile
Breadcrumbs are added to the archive pages and are more consistent

3.1.2

2025-09-06

Modified layout of entry preview cards
Journal sidebar is now less intrusive on mobile devices
Scheduled refresh of site occurs daily to force a re-render of static pages
Modified how journal entries scroll on the page
Added additional social media links
Added indicator if a social media platform contained NSFW content

3.1.1

2025-09-05

Began work on design for displaying AMA answers
Adjusted journal layouts a bit

3.1.0

2025-08-30

Ditched google forms for AMA
AMA is now a custom form with a custom worker to handoff questiong to a github issue

3.0.0

2025-08-29

Updated home page to show social media links in cards
Social media cards are rendered dynamically based on liquid templates
The journal welcome page is more dynamic and features information about the blog in a nicer way
Recent entries are featured at the top
Only the most recent update to the site is displayed
The full changelog is accessible in the new changelog page with a link in the sidebar
Configuration file is cleaned up with extra config settings being moved to their own yml files
Mood colors, social media information, releases, and ideas are stroed in separate yml files
There is now a useful 404 page to help you find your way back to other journal entries
Refactored how the moods, tags, archives, and other pages are templated to have less repetitive code

2.2.1

2025-08-28

Added a search box to the sidebar
Cleaned up JS and compressing it in the markdown

2.2.0

2025-08-27

Added search functionality
You can now search for entries based on their name, tags, moods, and content

2.1.2

2025-08-26

Fixed workflow caching to actually work and speed up builds
Consolidated the mood/ and tag/ pages into a single layout

2.1.1

2025-08-25

Changed permalinks to be UUIDs to allow private entries to have less predictable URLs
Added a minifier to compress down html and css

2.1.0

2025-08-24

Added a new AMA in the "Ask Me" navbar. You can submit questions to me through the provided google form.
AMA questions are submitted as github issues.
Mood tags are color coded (may revert)
Added mood index pages like tags
Refactored entry previews to be componentized

2.0.0

2025-08-23

Migrated home and gallery pages to liquid framework
Navbar contents are now configured in the site yml
Refactored includes/layouts in the templating engine
Fixed journal urls having a capital "J"
Fixed tags pages not being under the journal url
Added automatic highlighting of "active" navbar pill based on page url

1.4.1

2025-08-22

Added dark mode
The site theme will initially infer from your system settings and remember your previous setting by using local storage.

1.4.0

2025-08-21

Added dynamically generated archives pages to view posts by month and year on a separate page.
Clicking the year or the month in the breadcrumbs at the top of an entry will take you to the archive page

1.3.0

2025-08-17

Added a progress tracker to the sidebar to show stats about journal entries this month
Added support for journal entry series
Addec navigation buttons to previous/next entries in a series
Added breadcrumbs for navigation, which will be improved upon in the future
Technical design improvements and addressing technical debt in custom plugins
Added the ability to save entries as drafts to not be published yet
Entries can now be marked as private and are not accessible in the sidebar or in the tag navigation page

1.2.4

2025-08-16

Added support for images inserted into entries in a wikilink style
Added support for obsidian's callouts
Updated the journaling music callout to be a special case since it uses bootstrap collapse

1.2.3

2025-08-10

Tags on entries are now clickable to view all other entries with that tag
Added tags sidebar item to view and navigate tages
Made tags more modular for future enhancements

1.2.2

2025-08-03

Changed sidebar breakpoints
Updated sidebar to be interactive tree

1.2.1

2025-07-28

Updated how previews are built
Added descriptions to entries
Refactored layout of journal behind the scenes

1.2.0

2025-07-27

Added estimated read time
Tweaked journal layout to read more information from frontmatter
Added wiki-links support to link between journal entries
Added future topics list

1.1.0

2025-07-26

Added spotify music links
Added custom support for obsidian callouts
Reorganized asset structure

1.0.0

2025-07-20

Added sidebar navigation with entries grouped by year and month based on the date in the frontmatter of the markdown file
Added tags at the top of the entry based on the tags in the frontmatter of the markdown file
Updated journal layout

Journal

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