Changelog

I made this page so I could collate somewhere all the things I’ve updated in this website so far + so I don’t “spam” people blog posts that are all just me talking about my website updates.

Some of them are really small changes now, so this is where they’ll be housed for the meantime. If I do make a big change, I might reference that here, too!

30 Jul 2026

• I moved my comments server to something more long term for me
• … because of the move, I also made a Privacy page 😆

29 Jul 2026

• finally brought in my old posts from WordPress and clearly marked my old micro.blog posts
  • though I still have to figure out what to do with the bluesky or old URLs for microblog, but for now i focused on WP since that site is already down and I can’t access it anymore 🥲
• also included the tags from my WordPress (and microblog) posts into my Tags page
  • … got lots of cleanin’ up to do here lol

22 Jul 2026

• fixed a broken link in my Tags page pointing to the Archive
• changed my MuxPlayer from using @mux/mux-player-astro to @mux/mux-player (Web Components mode)
• fixed some styling for Blog posts and Archive posts on awkward sizes and also overall with the responsive sizing of the site (saw them while doing Inspect mode on my website locally 😆)
• also fixed the responsive styling for the Table of Contents and when it floats

14 Jul 2026

• made updates to my About page
  • realized I haven’t updated my profile picture there yet so I just went and did that
  • also added some layouting so it looks nice on desktop too
• also added a new entry in my Blogroll—wondering if I should add notes here every time this list grows…
  • also thinking what if I just pull this data from some link saving service I use, which at the moment is OMG.LOL’s Linkding instance at later.place, but for now manual is the way to go

11 Jul 2026

• removed Umami Analytics from my site
  • there was a time—forget when—when there was an issue with the server that was hosting the analytics tool I was using and I ended up “losing” website visitor data. I eventually set it up again but at that point I didn’t really look at it as much as I did before. There was also a time when I’d see a lot of “people” supposedly coming from Singapore visiting my site, but… I dunno. I do wanna see if that still happens now (more to see if it stops when I put up some stopgaps (?) rather than to see if actual people from Singapore are seeing my site) but I guess the other way to “solve” that is to make it not an issue anymore by not tracking it. For now that will do.
  • also mentioned in this post where I initially talked about adding personal site analytics
• set up comments on my blog posts
  • so at least if people have stuff to say about things there, they don’t need to course it through Webmentions! Give it a try 😁
  • making use of Remark42 for this!

5 Jul 2026

wow I was gone for a few months here wew

• trying to fix my site to be Astro 6 Astro 7 ready (in the middle of this update I think I missed another big version bump and since I wanna be updated, I am really just utilizing all tools avilable to me so I could make the upgrade cleanly)
  • set up a custom implementation for my Backlinks instead of the one relying on @braindb/astro since it’s not in the latest Astro anymore
  • fix my feed.xml.ts so it generates a simple Atom feed without the full blog entry in the feed
  • cleaned up my astro.config.mjs because I was apparently declaring MDX plugins twice, after checking the Astro docs for MDX it seems like MDX extends the markdown integrations by default, so the config is updated to reflect that, plus put it all within unified() since apparently that’s how it’s supposed to be done now

5 Apr 2026

• cleaned up my package.json to remove unused packages
• also cleaned up a bunch of code based on the flags in npx astro check
• removed the auto updating script for recent Manga since I haven’t really read a lot of manga lately and I want to rework it.

14 Mar 2026

• updated the strong CSS styles because it looks weird when the text is wider haha

5 Mar 2026

• brought back the hardcoded updatedDate frontmatter in these pages (since I still have to fix this specific issue):
  • Now page
  • Colophon
  • Blogroll
  • Stuff I Use

1 Mar 2026

• Tags: Link now redirects to Tag: Links

7 Feb 2026

• Made the total manga to show in my Recently Updated Manga section from 5 to 10

6 Feb 2026

• Fully removed the auto hyphens in my blog posts because they’re making me a bit annoyed now when I’m reading thru a blog post and the word just jumps to the next line (even if there’s space on the right, or whatever) 😆
• Also increased the line height to 220% because I wanted to make sure the <ruby> elements I render―in case I have them―doesn’t make the whole line move down a bit more than the previous lines.

5 Feb 2026

• Added a Table of Contents element to blog posts that have headings in them!
• Also adjusted the width of my website’s view in desktop view to be wider, to make space for the TOCs I’m adding (if they do appear)

3 Feb 2026

• Updated the feed.xml.ts so it has a <summary> tag only if I indicated it in the post.
  • Also realized I didn’t update this yesterday when I updated my feed.xml so it could work better with Echofeed 😆 so now this is the update that captures that :))

2 Feb 2026

• Changed the body font to Source Sans 3 just to make it a bit more readable. Still keeping Victor Mono around though since I still think it’s nice 😆
  • reflected this change in my Colophon!
• also made the max-width set to 60rem so the text in my intro page doesn’t get auto-hyphenated awkwardly
• updated some of the internal links (ones formatted [[/blog/link-to-post|like this]]) into [[/blog/link-to-post/|this]], where I added the trailing slash 😆
• Also set up Echofeed so posts in my Blog get cross-posted to both my Mastodon account and Bluesky account 😄
  • I think because of this, I need to update my Stuff I Use page… Been thinking about it for a while now but the format I wanna change it into is too much work at the moment; I’ll just note it as an Issue in my repo for the meantime :))

1 Feb 2026

• made the recently finished list in my Now page to just show the latest 3 recently finished entries

24 Jan 2026

• My now page shows a dynamic list for my Manga based on the recently updated manga entries, and are segregated to Recently Updated and Recently Finished
  • I still have to figure out how to get these either rendered as Markdown so it gets the auto heading links generated for it, OR I change how that plugin works and it processes the HTML (?) output instead? I’ll see. For now this is fine haha I have since figured this out by moving the rendering of the manga list into an Astro component named MangaRecentList.astro 😁

22 Jan 2026

• finished importing the rest of the items in Manga (from my now page)

21 Jan 2026

• Made a Media page so I could group Games and Manga (and eventually stuff like Anime, TV Shows, Films) could be grouped together
  • not sure if I’m going to keep the formatting of the URLs for these pages as is or if I’ll append them first with /media/* then everything can be housed there. Technically speaking it makes sense to have that as the URL format, but I’d rather not place my Games and Manga content folders into more folders 😬
• Stripped emojis from the title and description when rendering the social image URL, all set up in BaseHead.astro
• I was in the middle of adding all the things I have listed in my Ongoing Manga list into Manga but I’m not done yet 😅 There’s so many!

10 Jan 2026

• Added some styles for the <details> tags, for when I mark spoilers in posts
• Added Manga to my website, though I have yet to fill it up with entries!

9 Jan 2026

• Fixed how content shows up in my feed.xml as it used to show the MDX content, now it processes the HTML content properly and also makes YouTube embeds into links for the feed specifically

7 Jan 2026

• finally got my website up and running again, this time with images now hosted on Cloudinary instead of my repo 😆
  • surprise surprise, for a long while I just kept having all the images in both /blog/ and /archive/ saved in my own repo. I mean, I know that can be done, but long term it’s… not the best thing ever :))
  • I added more items in my Blogroll list (and I think I did these changes the day before, but I couldn’t release it until I fixed the media management on my site 🙈)
• I also changed how the last updated timestamps show up for the following pages: Blogroll, Colophon, Stuff I Use
  • I made a @utils/getUpdatedDateFor.ts that gets the path for the file I want to check the latest modified timestamp and output that 😁
• I also moved the links from my Contact page from just declared in the .mdx file itself into a file found in my @data directory!

6 Jan 2026

• my site had to be deleted off our self-hosting server because my deployments kept using up a lot of memory and space 🥲

5 Jan 2026

• Decided to make this page so I could have a space to log the different changes to my website moving forward, instead of making a blog post every time I do a change 😆
• added my social links and a way to reach out to me via email in my 404 pages
• Updated the email listed in my rel=me tags to the “proper” email format of mailto:<email>