Changelog

This fLaMEd fury's changelog — it details changes to pages, layout, and content.

Changes

May 7-13, 2026
– Big Recordshelf glow-up: new Stats, Favourites, and Labels pages
– Record detail pages now surface other variants, more by the same artist, and other records released the same year
– Standardised the variant and title naming convention across the collection — old URLs redirect to the new ones
– New Recordshelf feeds (Atom, RSS, JSON) for new vinyl additions, listed on the Feeds page
– Glow-up of the Feeds page with format cards and copy-URL buttons
April 13, 2026
– Added RNZŌ - SZN to the Recordshelf
April 5, 2026
– Fixed the Trakt integration after their RSS feeds broke — now using their API v2 directly
March 24, 2026
– Moved bookmarks workflow off GitHub Actions and onto a self-hosted Linkding instance — see Moving My Bookmarks To Linkding
March 15, 2026
– Added Bic Runga’s Drive and Lisa Loeb’s Tails to the Recordshelf
– Refreshed the writing archive and added a new /web page collecting my web writing. Still a work in progress.
February 26, 2026
– Added glow-up Eleventy transform — automatically wraps every mention of fLaMEd and fLaMEd fury in rendered HTML with the flame gradient effect, with a CSS hover fire animation
– Added indieweb.txt following the indieweb.txt standard, extended with reference information
– New Colophon page detailing how the site is built and how a post is made
– Updated the About page
February 13, 2026
– Added new Guestbook powered by webweav.ing
January 30, 2026
– Added “Stuck In My Head” section to homepage showing top Last.fm tracks from the past month
January 28, 2026
– Added A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (IVC Edition) to the Recordshelf
January 21, 2026
– Refactored links data structure: split monolithic links.json into individual YAML files for better organization and maintainability
– Redesigned links pages to be easy to scan through and read
January 20, 2026
– Added The Massacre (20th Anniversary), Hooray for Boobies (Anniversary Edition), 2001 (Anniversary Edition), Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water, and Cheers (IVC Edition) to the Recordshelf
January 19, 2026
– Added 88x31 Button Wall to homepage displaying friend site buttons and decorative badges
– Integrated button wall and webrings into the homepage bento for consistency
January 5, 2026
– Added new 2026 posts directory structure so 2026 posts are added to the posts collection
December 31, 2025
– New year-end posts: What I Listened To In 2025 and Books I Read In 2025
December 29, 2025
– Added Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ to the Recordshelf
December 28, 2025
– New post: Orakei Korako Cave & Geothermal Park
December 26, 2025
– Added Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (Red) and I Love It to the Recordshelf
December 23-24, 2025
– Simplified beer posts with unified design system
– Updated beer tables and fetched latest beer data
– New post: Drinking Less, Enjoying More Beer in 2025
– Refactored gallery component with utility classes
– Added navigation to gallery/dialog components per eleventy-excellent
December 22, 2025
– Added garden status indicators (🌱 Ongoing) for living documents
– Improved post metadata layout with clearer structure
– Added support for displaying last updated dates on posts
– Implemented CSS View Transitions and improved theme switch/details components per eleventy-excellent
– Cleaned up the Bookshelf page structure and fixed some template errors
December 20-21, 2025
– Added Whole Lotta Red to the Recordshelf
– Started unifying the look and feel across Beer Fridge, Recordshelf, Bookshelf, and Comics pages
– Fixed up a bunch of CSS and improved card layouts across collection pages
Novemnber 30, 2025
– Added all my latest vinyl to the Recordshelf: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours, Tadpole - The Buddahfinger, Tadpole - The Medusa, Stellar* - Mix, Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (Expanded Edition), and D12 - Devil’s Night (IVC Edition).
October 29-30, 2025
– Implemented comprehensive categories and tagging system across all posts (2019-2025)
– Added new Categories & Tags page for future reference
– Updated CSS, links, music collection, and record shelf data
October 22, 2025
– Fixed surfacing tags for echofeed
– Added 4 new vinyl records: Anitya, Mokomokai, Pono, and Whakarehu to the Recordshelf
– Fixed post categorisation and tagging
October 7, 2025
– Fixed RSS/Atom feed dates and times
– Fixed bookmarks feed and permalink generation
October 1-8, 2025
– Fixed tags and frontmatter formatting across 2019-2025 posts
– Fixed monthly template
September 14, 2025
– Added styled RSS/Atom feeds with XSL transformation and fLaMEd fury design system integration and updated the feeds page based on Robb’s
September 13, 2025
– Added a Blog Stats page that uses PostGraph by Robb Knight to visualise posting frequency
September 04, 2025
– Revamped the bookmarks pages and added tagging
– Seperated the Blogroll from the Links page into it’s own page
– New vinyls added to the Recordshelf
August 31, 2025
– Major performance improvements: build times reduced by optimising the image processing process
– Fixed Steam games error handling when no recent games have been played.
August 05, 2025
– New homepage layout, leaning into the grid.
July 25, 2025
– New page, Beer Fridge to collect my beer history from the past twelve years.
July 24, 2025
– Updated the dates for individual records on the Recordshelf. For re-releases and re-issues the page will show the original release year, and the re-issue date.
June 13, 2025
– Added Femme Fatale, Something Beautiful, and Godzilla to the Recordshelf.
June 04, 2025
– Added Fuel to the Recordshelf.
March 21, 2025
– Complete revamp of the Recordshelf. Let me know what you think.
March 15, 2025
– Updated the links page with two new additions to the Webdirectories section.
March 08, 2025
– Added Wowhead tooltip support.
January 30, 2025
– Improved the readability of the homepage heading.
– Improved the Bookshelf page styling, and added the currently reading and just finished book.
January 29, 2025
– Deleted my Contact page and redirected it to my Hello page.
January 24, 2025
– Created a new Default Apps for my annual default app updates.
– Added a new search engine, Raw Web to the Search Engines section of the links page.
January 23, 2025
– Backend updates based on the 4.0 changes to Eleventy Excellent.
– Upgraded Elevent Image to 6.0.0.
– Changed the colour scheme, should be WCAG 2.1 colour contrast compliant in both light and dark modes now.
January 17, 2025
– New links added to the Blogroll and Cool Sites.
December 31, 2024
– Organised finished books by year on the Bookshelf.
December 13, 2024
– Added Kaupapa Driven Rhymes Uplifted to the Recordshelf.
November 27, 2024
– Added The Death Of Slim Shady alternative cover art to the Recordshelf.
November 18, 2024
– Changed the homepage layout, more changes to come.
November 6, 2024
– Added pagination to the Bookmarks page for easier browsing.
October 30, 2024
– Major backend overhaul, caught up with Lene’s recent config structure.
October 16, 2024
– Added Mastodon author tag support
October 15. 2024
– Added capability to embed a https://musicthread.app/ thread.
October 05, 2024
– Upgraded to Eleventy 3.0.0 stable
September 09, 2024
– Created an Interests, and Favourites page.
August 25, 2024
– Added a new small web search engine Teclis to the list.
August 20, 2024
Fixed XMPP link on homepage.
August 18, 2024
New Bookmarks & Link Blogs and a new Directory added to the links page.
August 17, 2024
– Merged a few layouts, removed the rest.
– Reduced the <h1> font size on sub pages.
August 14, 2024
– New Bookmarks & Link Blogs added to the links page.
August 13, 2024
Reimplemented Webmentions with the latest version of eleventy-webmentions-cache. Shoutout to Chris for the support. Will post a write up on my intentions for webmentions later.
August 12, 2024
– Upgraded to 11ty v3.0.0-beta.1. All CommonJS modules converted to ESM. No issues this time round.
August 8, 2024
– Updated the Comics page with the latest additions.
August 7, 2024
– Fixed the Bookmarks pages and Atom feed.
– Added a new Bookmarks & Link Blogs section to the links page. Let me know if you’ve got a similar page that I should link.
August 5, 2024
– Updated the top navigation to highlight popular pages like the Bookshelf, Recordshelf, and Bookmarks pages alongside Posts, and Now page.
July 24, 2024
– Updated the Links page with a new personal site and two new directories.
– Added section links for easy navigation.
– Submitted fLaMEd fury to A Blog Directory.
July 14, 2024
– Movies and TV shows now link to The Movie DB on the Now page.
July 12, 2024
– Added individual pages for each book in the Bookshelf. Need to tidy up meta data.
July 10, 2024
– Gaming PC History page has been updated with my latest upgrades.
July 9, 2024
– Added a JSON feed for my posts to better control my EchoFeed.
June 21, 2024
– Implemented 301 redirects with .htaccess
June 19, 2024
– Fixed album artists matching
June 14, 2024
– New record, Relapse added to the collection.
– Adjusted homepage cards.
– Applied Cory’s robots.txt to robots.txt and .htaccess.
June 08, 2024
– Reverted 3.0 changes.
– Fixed a URL typo on the Hello page.
– Refactored the code for the Links page, fixed a duplicate section description.
– Refactored the code for the Homepage, re-ordered the content boxes.
– Added pagination to the Posts page as well as a link to the Archives page.
June 07, 2024
– Attempted updating to Eleventy 3.0 and Eleventy Excelletn 3.0.
– Lots of stuff broke 🫣
June 02, 2024
– Added an Archive page, a list of all posts ordered by year.
June 01, 2024
– Added support for changefreq added to sitemap
– Added multi-tag support on the blog card component.
May 30, 2024
– Removed elventy-bundle-plugin
– Introduced inline style sheets where needed
May 28, 2024
– Upgraded to library-pals v9.0.0
– Adjusted the logic for looping through books for the Bookshelf and Now pages.
May 27, 2024
– Added a Hello page to compliment the Contact page.
– Restored the Comics page with work around automation.
May 26, 2024
– Rolled out the new homepage layout.
May 23, 2024
– Added the Slashes page to list all my slash pages.
February 23, 2024
– Merge 2024 refresh