/changelog

A running log of what's changed on this site - because self-hosting means you're the one who keeps track.

Git history for this site starts 2026-07-10 - the very first commit's own message describes it as importing an already-live setup. So this log covers everything trackable from 2026-07-10 onward, not the full history of the site itself.

2026-07-24:

• New INFO callout (orange, circled-i icon), replacing NOTE (too similar to TIP)
  • TIP/WARNING callouts now also have icons (lightbulb / alert-triangle), and can take an optional custom title (> [!INFO] Title, blank line, then body) instead of the default label
  • Optional Quelle: [text](url) source line(s) below a callout, right-aligned and italic
• Site-wide accent-color consistency: post/latest/discover boxes now get the same left accent stripe as callouts
• Lighter typography site-wide: headings and emphasis moved from Inter 700/800 to 600, body copy to Inter 300 (small/dimmed UI text like nav, meta lines, and footer kept at 400 for legibility); self-hosted the new weights, dropped 700 since nothing needs it anymore
• content-authoring-reference.md updated for the callout changes (and caught up with the already-live pullquote shortcode, which was missing from the doc)

2026-07-21:

• Added fediverse:creator meta tag for Mastodon attribution
• Fixed missing bottom padding under footer on scrolling pages
• Updated AI-generated note title handling to write into frontmatter
• Baked beige background into avatar-512.png for notes' og:image

2026-07-20:

• Simplified footer layout to plain centered 3-line design
• Fixed home widget entry-meta styling to match /posts and /notes pages
• Adjusted header logo lockup spacing between wordmark and underline
• Enhanced header functionality with additional hook logic in config/hooks.php
• Refactored documentation writeup in content/docs/tags-and-heading-hierarchy-writeup.md
• Updated version number and language files across all supported locales

2026-07-18:

• Enhanced functions.php with additional functionality
• Added styling for custom CSS features
  • Updated both standard and minified stylesheet versions
• Expanded content authoring reference documentation in content-authoring-reference.md
• Updated hooks.php configuration
• Added feature assets (OG image and SVG) for blog post
• Modified post masthead layout in masthead.php
• Renamed and refactored ADHD/autism-related blog post

2026-07-17:

• Added custom stylesheet with new typography (custom.css, custom.min.css)
  • Integrated Caveat font (caveat-600.woff2)
• Enhanced header and footer layout with structural improvements
• Implemented webmention outbound functionality (webmention-outbound.php)
• Added changelog auto-processing system (changelog-update.php)
  • Tracks last processed changelog entry
• Extended Markdown parser with custom syntax support (ParsedownPureblog.php)
• Updated version number
• Refreshed multiple page templates and content references
• Added optimized profile image for about page

2026-07-16:

• Pure Blog core auto-updated (nightly)
• /home, /notes, /discover, and /slashes converted from raw custom-route PHP files into real, admin-editable Pages
  • New markdown shortcodes: :::latest-posts:::, :::latest-notes:::, :::notes-list:::, :::discover-search:::, :::discover-tags:::, :::discover-archive:::
• Discover's archive now shows AI-generated titles for notes (read-only lookup, doesn't touch slugs or existing Fediverse links)
• Footer W3C/WAVE validator badges now link to the current page instead of always the homepage
• Fixed /notes/feed: missing bootstrap caused fatal errors when the file was hit directly instead of through the router
  • Feed now also advertised via <link rel="alternate"> on /notes and individual notes, not just the site-wide feed
• blog-dev added to the nightly auto-update cron (previously production-only; the two had drifted two releases apart)
• Cleanup pass: removed dead CSS and an orphaned favicon, consolidated duplicate widget functions, fixed stale doc references, added analytics tracking to post/note pages (previously page-only)

2026-07-15:

• Rebrand: wordmark redesigned as icon + real text instead of an image, new favicon set (light/dark + apple-touch-icon)
• Large expansion of automation helpers: AI-generated note titles, AI-generated tags, Mastodon sync helpers
• Feature images backfilled for existing posts
• New markdown shortcodes: image galleries (:::gallery:::), callouts (> [!TIP]/[!WARNING]/[!NOTE]), and image captions
• Content-authoring reference doc added, documenting all shortcodes
• /discover built out: search, tag cloud, and year-by-year archive
• Tags overhaul: post tags (local) vs. note Fediverse hashtags, unified in a combined tag cloud
  • Heading hierarchy fixed site-wide (h2/h3 restructuring across listings)

2026-07-14:

• robots.txt and sitemap.xml converted from static files into dynamic, PHP-generated routes
• Pure Blog core auto-updated
• External links now automatically open in a new tab (target="_blank", rel="noopener noreferrer")

2026-07-11:

• Narrative project writeup on the webmentions/IndieWeb/timeline work
• /posts and /notes unified onto shared card styling
• Notes go Fediverse-first instead of a local comment form
• AI-generated short titles for notes, Fediverse tag links
• Updated to Pure Blog 3.5.7
• Page weight cut by ~39KB/page (SVG compression, wordmark, favicon)
• gzip and cache headers restored/enabled
• /homelab gallery localized, then moved to a lightbox with thumbnails
• Blog post published: "Setting up Pure Blog and teaching it webmentions"
• Admin autosaves gitignored
• Ops/maintenance notes and the auto-commit cron documented

2026-07-10:

• Initial git import of the already-live Pure Blog setup; secrets extracted out of tracked config
• Microformats2 markup added, plus rel=webmention/rel=me
• Self-hosted webmention receiver + Mastodon/GoToSocial backfeed
• Reactions displayed in the site's theme
• Unified timeline combining comments and webmentions
• Hidden headings added for Notes (0 W3C warnings)
• Avatars cached locally as WebP
• Merriweather dropped, Iosevka replaced by the system mono font stack