Just a page letting you know what has changed and when (in reverse chronological order), since the launch of this incarnation of the website in October 2023. For previous incarnations of this website, please see the History page.
Version History
5th August 2024: version 7.6.3
- Various site performance improvements,
- Added support for forthcoming fediverse:creator meta element,
- Improved ActivityPub implementation (still not ready) using the FediTest suite,
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework.
22nd June 2024: version 7.6.2
- A few CSS improvements and tweaks,
- Multiple back-end improvements,
- More work on my skeleton implementation for ActivityPub (still not ready for use yet),
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework.
7th June 2024: version 7.6.1
- Various performance and code standards improvements.
28th April 2024: version 7.6.0
- A few CSS improvements and tweaks,
- Improved server-side caching to boost performance,
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework (with multiple breaking changes to previous version).
31st March 2024: version 7.5.11
- Added RSS and Atom feeds for my latest artwork.
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework.
12th March 2024: version 7.5.10
- Added microformats2 markup to all artwork pages,
- Moved detailed text descriptions on artwork to a
<details>
element, - Some minor tweaks to CSS (done as part of the IndieWebCamp Brighton 2024 hack sessions).
5th March 2024: version 7.5.9
- Added ability to add detailed text descriptions to Complex Images.
27th February 2024: version 7.5.8
- Added a sparkline graphic to my blog (on blog index and homepage),
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework.
20th February 2024: version 7.5.7
- Some curious changes for the 404 (page not found) error page,
- A few CSS improvements and tweaks,
- Upgraded required module for the third-party MVC framework.
3rd February 2024: version 7.5.6
- Implemented an initial version of Dark Mode if you have set a preference for it in your browser or OS,
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework.
23rd January 2024: version 7.5.5
- Inital (minimal) implementation of POSSE Posts functionality,
- Tag Clouds for blog and posts,
- Back-end improvements to the sending of Webmentions,
- A few CSS improvements and tweaks for smaller desktops and mobile devices.
10th January 2024: version 7.5.4
- Added an Atom Feed to the blog (in addition to the existing RSS and JSON feeds),
- Added an ai.txt file to block (compliant) AI bots from using the site’s content as training data (I’m not holding my breath for this to work!),
- More work on a skeleton implementation for ActivityPub (still not ready for use yet),
- A few CSS improvements and tweaks.
6th January 2024: version 7.5.3
- Added badges to this page (right column on desktop, bottom on mobile) for valid HTML and RSS, and support for Microformats, Webmentions, and IndieWeb (these last three from indieweb.org/buttons).
- Fixes for various RSS validation errors detected by the W3C Feed Validation Service.
- Fixes for various HTML validation errors detected by the W3C Markup Validation Service.
5th January 2024: version 7.5.2
- Added “Produced by human, not by AI” badge, courtesy of https://notbyai.fyi/, to site footer,
- Added microformats2 markup to “Latest Artwork” and “Latest Blog Posts” sections on site homepage,
- Added XSLT and CSS to my site news RSS feed,
- Some minor HTML and CSS changes to the homepage to fix W3C HTML Validation errors.
4th January 2024: version 7.5.1
- Added XSLT and CSS to my blog RSS feed,
- A few more minor CSS tweaks across the site.
2nd January 2024: version 7.5.0
- Added JSON Feed to blog as per JSON Feed version 1.1,
- Changed the Bluesky social media icon to their new logo and added Apple launch icons,
- A few CSS improvements and tweaks,
- Various substantial back-end improvements, re-organisation of version control, etc.,
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework.
18th December 2023: version 7.4.1
- More intelligent server-side caching for blog posts,
- Blocked a few more AI scrapers in my robots.txt file,
- A few minor bug-fixes and improvements for security and accessibility.
7th December 2023: version 7.4.0
-
Moved blogroll from being a large chunk of static HTML to being database-driven, and added
XFN 1.1/XOXO
1.0 XMDP, and
h-card
microformats2 markup to it, - Added ability to download the blogroll as an OPML for importing into an RSS feed reader.
- Added
domain
attributes tocategory
elements in blog RSS feed, - A few minor bug-fixes and improvements for security, performance, and accessibility.
29th November 2023: version 7.3.2
- Added a good old-fashioned blogroll to The Artist’s Notebook,
- Added a “Date Modified” date to blog posts if the post has been modified after publication,
- A few minor improvements to schema.org and microformats2 markup.
2nd November 2023: version 7.3.1
- Added social sharing links to blog posts, and ability to subscribe to blog via email,
- Improvements to implementation of Open Graph protocol metadata,
- Improved print styles for blog posts,
- Upgraded third-party MVC framework.
18th October 2023: version 7.3.0
- Initial skeleton implementation for ActivityPub (not ready for use yet),
- Fixed some incorrect canonical links in HTML meta,
- Some minor tweaks to blog post layout and styling,
- A few minor bug-fixes and improvements for security, performance, and accessibility.
12th October 2023: version 7.2.0
Hopefully the last in the flurry of post-launch fixes and additions, and now I can hope to move to a more considered and thoughtful schedule for the continual development of the website.
- Initial implementation for sending Webmentions and PingBacks,
- Link added to blog posts to provide ready-formatted citations in common academic formats,
- Added full pagination links to the bottom of pages listing blog posts,
- Fixed some non-validating elements in RSS feeds, and formally discontinued a few long-obsolete RSS feeds,
- A few minor bug-fixes and improvements for security, performance, and accessibility.
9th October 2023: version 7.1.0
- Implemented receiving (not sending, yet) Webmentions and PingBacks using Webmention.io,
- Implemented microformats2 on blogposts, as part of IndieWeb,
- A few minor post-launch bug-fixes and accessibility improvements.
6th October 2023: version 7.0 (re-launch)
A whole new codebase. This new version is a little more up-to-date, introducing newer and faster-loading image formats (AVIF and WebP), and discarding JavaScript libraries since I only ever used 1% of their functionality anyway. It uses a slimmer and more up-to-date MVC framework as well.
Future Roadmap (in no particular order)
- Ability to follow my blog using ActivityPub e.g. on Mastodon, PixelFed, etc.,
- Ability to follow my artwork using ActivityPub e.g. on Mastodon, PixelFed, etc.,
- Display responses to blog posts received via Webmentions and PingBacks.