June 2, 2024 | Added a Now page | Followed Derek Sivers' advice and added a Now page (https://nownownow.com/about) |
April 6, 2024 | Complete upgrade of site to new template. | Re-did the whole site to an Astro 4.0-based template found at https://github.com/chrismwilliams/astro-theme-cactus |
March 25, 2024 | Converted two components from React components to Astro components | I want to Astro-ify this as much as possible. Looking into how to convert the Search component which is a bit harder to do. |
March 21, 2024 | Built up the info content collection. | I learned about Astro's Content Collections, and now all content is using them. Great feature. |
February 10, 2024 | Added Amazon affiliate links to books, as well as the disclaimer | Note: I make money if you click on one of these links and order anything at all during that session. So please feel free to do so. |
February 3, 2024 | Simplified Layout structure | I was overcomplicating the layouts and not using them properly. Now things are a bit streamlined and simple. I understand layouts a bit better |
December 24, 2023 | Added page for each quote. | Each quote now has its own link on the Quotes page, and it can display an individual quote on its own page. |
December 13, 2023 | Added Quotes page back | Created component and added quotes back. |
December 10, 2023 | Migrated site to Astro | Major overhaul. I decided that Astro was a great framework and migrated my whole site to use it. |
August 14, 2023 | Added Support page | This page lists a few ways to support me or otherwise give a little back to what I'm up to here. |
July 31, 2023 | Added a footer to the layout | Just a simple copyright message for now. I'd like to make it sticky at the bottom eventually. |
July 18, 2023 | Converted the Favorite page to be JSON-based | |
July 18, 2023 | Converted this changelog to be JSON-based | Much easier to manage the data. Should think in terms of JSON more. |
July 14, 2023 | Now you can list and link to all blog categories | Yep, works for categories. Thank you again, ChatGPT. |
July 8, 2023 | Added pagination to blog | Don't have a lot of posts yet, but it works. Thank you ChatGPT. |
July 5, 2023 | Added ability to serve pages from the /info directory | Now I can create pages without having to create NextPage objects in *.tsx files... |
July 3, 2023 | Added support for DOMPurify | Not strictly needed because there is no user input, but a good habit to have. |
June 25, 2023 | Added non-published blog entries | Allows me to add pages via markdown, and not a component |
June 23, 2023 | Added (Quotes)[Quotes] page | This is a JSON-based page. To add a quote, I just add it to the JSON file. Cool. ChatGPT 4.0 wrote most of the code for me. |
June 4, 2023 | Added this change log | |
May 20, 2023 | Added FavIcons | Created the FavIcons at the [Real Favicon Generator](https://realfavicongenerator.net/) |
Early April 2023 | Site debut | Shipped the very beginning stages. Much to come! |