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Everything changes, as has been observed by insightful folks from the Buddha to Heraclitus to David Bowie.

Here are some particularly noteworthy changes.1

2026

  • 2026-08-16: Customized the Posts by Category & Posts by Tag layouts so that the list within each category or tag is reverse chronological (i.e. displays the newest post on top).
    • If you’re using the same Minimal Mistakes theme or just are curious about Jekyll & Liquid, you can see how I did this by going to the GitHub repository for this site.
    • Once there, look at the categories-custom.html or tags-custom.html layouts, each of which I altered to refer to a new posts-taxonomy-reverse-chronological.html include. Line 30 of this new include has a single simple change from the theme’s default. It now reads
      {% for post in taxonomy.last reversed %}
      Adding the word reversed to the end of the for loop does the trick!
  • 2026-08-15: Realized that there were two H1-level headings on my /now page, which I promptly fixed by adding a new now page layout. This is exactly like the default page layout, except it now displays the page title as an H2 heading (instead of the default H1) in lines 33 and 35.
  • 2026-06-10: Added reading percentages to my /reading page and reading notes.
  • 2026-02-05: Added a /watching page, refined relevant pages in the notes section, and added enough relevant items to test it all out.
  • 2026-02-01: Added conditional MLA citation to pages, not just posts. Refined the /ai page a bit.
  • 2026-01-31:
    • Added this changelog page, an /ai page, and a slashes page.
    • Changed the /now page code.
    • Changed the sitewide footer section (adding 3 links & 2 buttons, having made sure the styling could accommodate many more).
    • Changed the Liquid code that generates the RSS/Atom feeds to limit each to only include the most recent 20 posts.
  • 2026-01-26: Added ID Portfolio page and four project retrospectives. Add Jekyll-Tagories plug-in.
  • 2026-01-11: Styled the RSS/Atom feeds.
  • 2026-01-07: Add conditional citations (in MLA style) to pages & posts, minimally adapted from code shared on GitHub by the awesome folks at the UVA Library’s Scholars’ Lab.
  • 2026-01-03: Add Shaarli-based Bookmarks section.

2025

  • 2025-12-29: Added a new Semi-schematic category, to use like a professional newsletter.
  • 2025-12-13: Changed the /notes page to only have the Evergreen notes section open when the page initially loads.
  • 2025-09-13: Updated Webmention includes so totals are displayed.
  • 2025-09-03: Add Webmentions.

2024

  • 2024-05-10: Improved how Reading pages display.
  • 2024-01-16: Add backlinks to notes & posts.

2023

  • 2023-12-22: Add Liquid-based Bookmarks section.
  • 2023-06-11: Add an automatic light mode.
  • 2023-01-10: Added /reading page.

2022

  • 2022-04-17: Added a workflow.yml GitHub file. This lets me use extra plug-ins beyond the standard ones allowed by GitHub Pages.
  • 2022-04-11: Added Liquid- & Jekyll-based Digital Garden.

2021

  • 2021-09-21: Updated the color theme for CWI 101 and other CWI-related talks to use CWI’s new branding color palette.

2020

  • 2020-07-19: Added /now page, refined many other pages.
  • 2020-01-06: Started using remote version of Minimal Mistakes theme.

  1. Put differently, this is not a full, proper “semantic versioning”-style changelog, as much as I appreciate that format for software releases. ↩

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