fLaMEd fury

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Changelog

Features and changes to fLaMEd fury over the years. New records and posts show up in the feeds and archive instead.

2026

11 updates
  1. August 17, 2026

    • New website design, who dis?

    • New colour themes in the top bar, choose from my new amazing options: fLaMEd Orange, Hot Magenta, Electric Cyan, Ultra Violet, Acid Lime or Hazard Yellow, it mostly persists through visits, lol.

    • New Activity page: everything I'm watching, reading, drinking, collecting, and playing in one feed.

    • New Sneakers page for my Air Force 1 collection.

    • Updated the Gaming PC History page walking through every machine I've built.

    • Rebuilt the Recordshelf.

    • Rebuilt the Archive as a dense year and month index.

    • Rebuilt Categories and Tags as proper directories with year dividers and breadcrumbs.

    • Added Atom and RSS feeds for every category, listed on the Feeds page.

    • Reworked the mixtapes page. Still in progress.

    • Having a go at an art-directed layout for feature posts, like Sliding Away.

    • Posts now link to the previous and next post.

    • Split the button wall in two and had some fun with it: Powered by and Badges.

    • New Credits page owning up to where I jacked various assets from.

    • Moved webmentions off webmention.io and onto my own self-hosted endpoint.

    • New share preview images for when posts get linked elsewhere.

    • Rebuilt this changelog as a year-grouped archive.

    • Updated the 404 page, check it out.

  2. May 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.

  3. April 5, 2026

    • Fixed the Trakt integration after their RSS feeds broke, now using their API v2 directly.

  4. March 24, 2026

  5. March 15, 2026

    • Refreshed the writing archive and added a new /web page collecting my web writing. Still a work in progress.

  6. February 26, 2026

    • Added a glow-up Eleventy transform that wraps every mention of fLaMEd and fLaMEd fury in rendered HTML with the flame gradient effect, plus 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.

  7. February 13, 2026

  8. January 30, 2026

    • Added a "Stuck In My Head" section to the homepage showing top Last.fm tracks from the past month.

  9. January 21, 2026

    • Refactored the links data structure: split the monolithic links.json into individual YAML files for better organisation and maintainability.

    • Redesigned the links pages to be easy to scan through and read.

  10. January 19, 2026

    • Added an 88x31 Button Wall to the homepage displaying friend site buttons and decorative badges.

    • Integrated the button wall and webrings into the homepage bento for consistency.

  11. January 5, 2026

    • Added the new 2026 posts directory structure so 2026 posts are added to the posts collection.

2025

20 updates
  1. December 24, 2025

    • Simplified beer posts with a unified design system.

    • Updated beer tables and fetched the latest beer data.

    • Refactored the gallery component with utility classes.

    • Added navigation to gallery/dialog components per Eleventy Excellent.

  2. December 22, 2025

    • Added garden status indicators (🌱 Ongoing) for living documents.

    • Improved post metadata layout with a clearer structure.

    • Added support for displaying last-updated dates on posts.

    • Implemented CSS View Transitions and improved the theme switch and details components per Eleventy Excellent.

    • Cleaned up the Bookshelf page structure and fixed some template errors.

  3. December 21, 2025

  4. October 30, 2025

    • Implemented a comprehensive categories and tagging system across all posts (2019-2025).

    • Updated CSS, links, music collection, and record shelf data.

  5. October 22, 2025

    • Fixed surfacing tags for EchoFeed.

    • Fixed post categorisation and tagging.

  6. October 8, 2025

    • Fixed tags and frontmatter formatting across 2019-2025 posts.

    • Fixed the monthly template.

  7. October 7, 2025

    • Fixed RSS/Atom feed dates and times.

    • Fixed the bookmarks feed and permalink generation.

  8. September 14, 2025

    • Added styled RSS/Atom feeds with XSL transformation and the fLaMEd fury design system, and updated the Feeds page based on Robb's.

  9. September 13, 2025

  10. September 4, 2025

    • Revamped the bookmarks pages and added tagging.

    • Separated the Blogroll from the Links page into its own page.

  11. August 31, 2025

    • Major performance improvements: build times reduced by optimising the image processing.

    • Fixed Steam games error handling when no recent games have been played.

  12. August 5, 2025

    • New homepage layout, leaning into the grid.

  13. July 25, 2025

    • New Beer Fridge page to collect my beer history from the past twelve years.

  14. July 24, 2025

    • Updated the dates for individual records on the Recordshelf. Re-releases and re-issues now show the original release year and the re-issue date.

  15. March 21, 2025

  16. March 8, 2025

    • Added Wowhead tooltip support.

  17. January 30, 2025

    • Improved the readability of the homepage heading.

    • Improved the Bookshelf page styling, and added the currently reading and just finished books.

  18. January 29, 2025

    • Deleted the Contact page and redirected it to my Hello page.

  19. January 24, 2025

  20. January 23, 2025

    • Backend updates based on the 4.0 changes to Eleventy Excellent.

    • Upgraded Eleventy Image to 6.0.0.

    • Changed the colour scheme, now WCAG 2.1 contrast compliant in both light and dark modes.

2024

30 updates
  1. December 31, 2024

    • Organised finished books by year on the Bookshelf.

  2. November 18, 2024

    • Changed the homepage layout, more changes to come.

  3. November 6, 2024

    • Added pagination to the Bookmarks page for easier browsing.

  4. October 30, 2024

  5. October 16, 2024

    • Added Mastodon author tag support.

  6. October 15, 2024

  7. October 5, 2024

    • Upgraded to Eleventy 3.0.0 stable.

  8. September 9, 2024

  9. August 20, 2024

    • Fixed the XMPP link on the homepage.

  10. August 17, 2024

    • Merged a few layouts and removed the rest.

    • Reduced the <h1> font size on sub pages.

  11. August 13, 2024

  12. August 12, 2024

    • Upgraded to 11ty v3.0.0-beta.1. All CommonJS modules converted to ESM, no issues this time round.

  13. August 7, 2024

  14. August 5, 2024

  15. July 14, 2024

  16. July 12, 2024

    • Added individual pages for each book in the Bookshelf.

  17. July 9, 2024

    • Added a JSON feed for my posts to better control my EchoFeed.

  18. June 21, 2024

  19. June 19, 2024

    • Fixed album artists matching.

  20. June 14, 2024

  21. June 8, 2024

    • Reverted the 3.0 changes.

    • Fixed a URL typo on the Hello page.

    • Refactored the code for the Links page and fixed a duplicate section description.

    • Refactored the code for the Homepage and re-ordered the content boxes.

    • Added pagination to the Posts page, plus a link to the Archive.

  22. June 7, 2024

  23. June 2, 2024

    • Added an Archive page, a list of all posts ordered by year.

  24. June 1, 2024

    • Added changefreq support to the sitemap.

    • Added multi-tag support on the blog card component.

  25. May 30, 2024

    • Removed the eleventy-bundle-plugin.

    • Introduced inline stylesheets where needed.

  26. May 28, 2024

  27. May 27, 2024

    • Added a Hello page to complement the Contact page.

    • Restored the Comics page with a workaround for automation.

  28. May 26, 2024

  29. May 23, 2024

  30. February 23, 2024

    • Merged the 2024 refresh.