Changelog

Mar 22nd, 2025

• upgrade Astro to 5.10
• switched to Astro’s experimental fonts API
• starting to move assets back into CDN due to Astro supporting CDNs
• upgrade packages

Mar 21nd, 2025

• code cleanup
• internally moved from semver to calver. This is to reduce the complexity of coming up with the correct version.

Mar 10th, 2025

• upgraded Astro to v5.4
• upgraded TailwindCSS to v4
• cleanup code

Dec 25th, 2024

Merry Christmas everyone

• updated Astro to v5
• updated Content Collection usage
• moved away from Hono to NodeJS

May 29th, 2024

• updated Astro output to hybrid configuration
• the website is now using Hono for the server

May 20th, 2024

• changed layout & design of the website
• updated the Privacy Policy to reflect recent changes to the cookie consent
• added a resources page for visibility of utilised external resources

May 16th, 2024

• updated many elements across the site to improve SEO

April 1st, 2024

• rebuilt mobile navigation menu
• add new default fonts; Nunito for sans-serf, Sono for monospace & Playfair for serif
• update icons to Hero Icons, where applicable
• set Open Graph image to hero image for blog post pages

March 19th, 2024

• optimise SEO across the site
• fix multiple issues; JS scripts being deferred, meta tags

March 13th, 2024

• update Astro to 4.5.x & other packages
• add FSLightbox to Migrating Wordpress to App Engine: Deploying Wordpress page

March 1st, 2024

• add about page
• change image service/processor to third party
• refined file size optimisation

February 16th, 2024

First update of the year

• update infrastructure; upcoming post
• defer certain scripts

December 13th, 2023

• upgrade Astro to v4 from v2
• fix minor styling issue for rounded corners on hero image, for mobile view

November 30th, 2023

• improve accessibility with role, aria-* and alt tags for screen readers on homepage and blog post pages

October 30th, 2023

• update Migrating From Astro post’s hero image
• update hero image params on homepage and blog post pages

October 18th, 2023

• add Migrating From Astro post
• fix env detection logic for GA script

October 14th, 2023

• fix issue with chevrons not rendering on certain paginated pages

October 9th, 2023

• round corners for hero image

October 6th, 2023

• add changelog
• move blog post retrieval to Collections
• move non-blog post pages (privacy, changelog, etc) retrieval to Collections
• update RSS feed to filter out unwanted items and sort by pubDate descending
• add aria-label tags to links to increase accessibility

October 2nd, 2023

• initial release of re-worked website using Astro

May 13th, 2023

• last deployment of Ghost CMS