v1.5.0: Violates Brand Guidelines

Current Status

• HTML: Accurate and accessible
• Content: Long and rambly
• CSS: Ready to become a mess
• JS: Who needs it
• Infrastructure: Half baked (lol)
• SEO: Prepped for virality
• Tooling: Command line muscle memory

Updates

• Finally got my CSS on. I think it looks good
  • Ridiculous header
  • Ridiculous footer
  • A big font...
• Lots of webperf improvements
  • Inlined CSS to style above the fold content instantly
  • Async rest of CSS loading
  • Async font loading with minimal FOIT I hope
• Lots of accessibility improvements
  • ARIA roles on page landmarks
  • Correct grouping of information into landmarks
  • More useful labels
• Cover photos show up as big twitter cards
• Acknowledgement of Country

v1.4.0: Please Update The Docs

Current Status

• HTML: Decent semantics
• Content: Long and rambly
• CSS: Yes look there I know the CSS ➡
• JS: Why bother at this point
• Infrastructure: Half baked (lol)
• SEO: Prepped for virality
• Tooling: Command line muscle memory

Updates

• Did some whacky stuff to host my Git LFS files in an S3 bucket, then wrote a blog about it. So meta
• Added a big dumb spinning picture to the front page header to show that I can have pictures now
• Enabled passthrough for images into an img/ folder (hopefully one day they can live next to their content though)
• Updated the docs!
• Removed special characters from URL slugs
• Fixed a character set problem that made em-dashes look weird

v1.3.0: Probably Behind A Feature Flag

Current Status

• HTML: Decent semantics
• Content: Obscured by plugins
• CSS: Already spaghetti
• JS: Why bother at this point
• Infrastructure: Half baked (lol)
• SEO: Prepped for virality

Updates

• Installed the aws-cdk but left it to use later
• Organised posts better and allowed them to be 'hidden' as drafts
• Bumped to 11ty v0.10.0
• Shoehorn ansi-to-html in to the Markdown It Renderer to make ANSI Escape Codes work in shell-session fenced code.
• CSS changes to allow a two-column layout
• Added a Git lightning talk

v1.2.0: Every Feature Is A Must-have

Current Status

• HTML: Decent semantics
• Content: Less important than the CMS
• CSS: Naively implemented
• JS: Why bother at this point
• Infrastructure: Not bad tbh
• SEO: Prepped for virality

Updates

• Added 11ty Syntax Highlighting plugin
• Added some basic CSS support to implement a Prism theme and do some basic styling
• Added post publication dates

v1.1.1: Hotfixed For Virality

Fixes

• Fixed descriptions not appearing on Twitter due to missing og:description meta
• Fixed handlebars vulnerabilities
• Updated CloudFront invalidations and distribution ID

v1.1.0: Prepped For Virality

Current Status

• HTML: Average semantics
• Content: Almost non-existent
• CSS: What is CSS
• JS: Why bother at this point
• Infrastructure: Not bad tbh
• SEO: Prepped for virality

Updates

• Added meta tags to improve sharing on Twitter and Facebook and various Lighthouse based SEO recommendations
• Added post pages with date based permalinks
• Added an index page with post excerpts

v1.0.0: Extremely MVP

• HTML: Average semantics
• Content: Almost non-existent
• CSS: What is CSS
• JS: Why bother at this point
• Infrastructure: Not bad tbh