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Changelog

December 2025
Date Changes
Added a guestbook at /guestbook. Replaced Projects from navbar with Guestbook.
Added /poems page.
November 2025
Date Changes
Moved the thumbs up button to above the webmentions section for better visibility.
Added thumbs up button to content pages (in the Leave a Note section) for quick appreciation.
Moved all Kindy content to new directories based on the year.
Added RSS feed for Photos at /photos.xml.
Allow videos to have 'thumbnails'. Still requires manual thumbnail generation for now.
October 2025
Date Changes
Introduced a new page that looks back at previous content: /previously. (So far it's not a lot, I only started fully in November 2024)
- Added a new creature to my collection: the Crabsquid.
- Fixed a bug for timeline's Next and Previous links.
Added "Next" and "Previous" links to content for easier navigation.
Finally added RSS feed for blog posts at /feed.xml.
- Fixed a bug in the timeline code, where filtering by date would not work correctly when there were less than 20 entries.
- Improved favicon error handling for opengraph fetcher, so it doesn't show a broken image when the favicon URL is invalid.
- Added some octothorp.es metadata to Kindy posts.
Added an image field to Kindy, allowing me to add pictures to blog posts. Also used in the og:image metadata field.
Added a Listening section to the Home page, so there's more guidance towards the /listening page.
Added a Featured Photos page, that only lists my favourite photos. It looks for the #Featured tag.
Added a bunch of tags to old photos. Mostly #Norway, #Sweden and #Spain from old holidays.
April 2025
Date Changes
Changed CSS and use background-image on photo thumbnails to get a better grid.
Moved the site to another host. Added markdown to opengraph results.
Moved over my blogposts from blog.gerbenjacobs.nl, via #BlogMigration project
Added "View Source" to most (if not all) pages to link directly to GitHub repository.
Created a proper index page, moved original page to /projects
Caught a Vaporeon for my collection. 😂
December 2024
Date Changes
Added filtering options to /timeline
Added pagination to Photos, with infinite scroll
Changed Timeline to show only week's worth of content, added infinite scroll with HTMX. Timeline XML truncated to 3 months.
Added Sitemap XML: https://gerben.dev/sitemap.xml
Added RSS XML feed for Timeline: https://gerben.dev/timeline.xml
Added opengraph fetcher for reposts, likes and replies in /timeline and their respective pages.
Added Markdown support to Kindy Editor, fixed Open Graph data
Added caching for most (Kindy) pages; posts, photos, timeline, sitemap
Added /timeline to create this site's 'social media' page.
Updated /tags (#indieweb) to show content snippets (summary, description or thumbnail)
Imported Flickr to my /photos page.
Updated /tags pages to have links to content, only URLs so far..
Added /listening with my Last.fm RSS feed.
Created thumbnailer script to make 300px thumbnails, applied to /photos.
Added /photos page, imported my Instagram archive.
Added /posts page, still WIP.
Allow for dynamic title and descriptions (and og:image for Photos)
Updated /sitemap to show Posts, Photos and Notes.
November 2024
Date Changes
Added /posts/20241128-bringing-the-indieweb
Changed font to Atkinson Hyperlegible.
Added /sitemap, added a navbar.
Added /changelog.

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