Release notes for the site, newest first. Pick a year on the right to jump around.
Release notes
October 2026
- Added Film Log to Misc: a JSON-driven movie diary with profile, activity, films, diary, reviews, watchlist, and individual film pages.
- Added Tier Lists to Misc: JSON-driven ranked lists with a listing page and a responsive S–D board. Coffee, Memes, Artwork, Notes, and Calendar are hidden from the launcher for now.
- Added Top 10s to Misc: searchable JSON lists with a ranked item page, similar/new side panels, and no voting.
- Added Random Quiz to Misc: a hundred early-2000s chain-mail questions with dummy answers, search, newest/oldest sort, ten per page, and a JSON file for submitted questions.
- Built out Projects with a shared template: overview, log, kit, jobs, photos, and notes, all loaded from JSON, with related blog posts matched by tag.
- Rebuilt Photos around the JSON album catalog: Drive-style search and filters, a rounded cover grid, album pages, and a previous/next photo viewer. Removed the Me tab and the Photos tabber.
Release notes
September 2026
- Rebuilt the site as a responsive Blazor web application (Version 4) while keeping the original carbon-fibre style.
- Moved photo album metadata to XML for every album, replacing remaining albumInfo.txt files.
- Added SQLite storage for albums and photos, with a config setting to choose XML or SQLite at runtime.
- Added a PowerShell script to synchronise album and photo data between XML and SQLite in either direction.
- Redesigned the Info section as a Facebook-style profile, with About sections at URLs such as /info/work and /info/personal-details.
- Added a Blog section with JSON-stored posts, title/tag search, paging, and an archive tree at URLs such as /blog/2026/09/we-are-so-back.
- Added a Projects section with a card grid of current work and a dedicated page for each project.
- Added a Misc section, presented as an app launcher, for smaller pages such as Coffee, Memes, Artwork, Notes, and Calendar.
- Moved Links from the main navigation into the footer common links, and simplified the page to associated websites.
Release notes
December 2011
- Re-wrote photo album list generation and manage, implement the use of PHP XML DOM.
Release notes
March 2011
- Added new sub-section links 'Social Networking' and 'Associated Websites' to the 'Links' drop-down menu on the navigation bar.
- Fixed bug causing certain sections to align to the left due to previously removing the 'text-align: center' CSS property from the 'body' tag element.