June 9, 2025

• spacing fixes on the homepage for different screen sizes
• removed slide-in animation from mobile menu button
• changed cotton candy theme border color (just a tiny bit)
• fixed theme and mobile menu button styling

June 2, 2025

• more opengraph embed fixes
• minor css update for new blog post
• removed preview link for update 2.9 as it wasn't working correctly; these may need to be redone or dropped completely as the lack of relative links in some parts break things a lot

June 1, 2025

• embed fixes
• minor visual fixes

June 1, 2025

• homepage overhaul
• fancy new grid layout
• got rid of the menu bar, the idea is that the homepage should be able to take you to specific pages directly, if not each widget has a "more" button
• moved external links to their own section
• restyled links linking to full pages to look more like buttons
• added recent changelog entries to homepage
• added fancy image embeds using 11ty opengraph service ( some code borrowed from beeps )
• changed one of the UI colors to lean more into glassmorphism ( i liked it before everyone started using it ok )
• moved the blog button above "cool links" in the sidebar
• increased line spacing a tiny bit
• increased UI blur
• updated image style on biid blog post

May 18, 2025

• changed how relative links work internally
• fixed double link underline bug in safari

May 17, 2025

• updated footer, linked to the git.gay page where the code is hosted

May 17, 2025

• restyled inline links
• removed gallery & secret project pages
• the gallery will be back eventually, i just need to Remake It From Scratch
• i've given up on the secret project unfortunately
• moved external icon indicator to the left of the "view" button in changelog
• i'm hoping to add these indicators to all links at some point but it's more difficult than i thought
• removed my location from the homepage
• it's still on the about page i just really don't need it front and center
• rearranged themes in the theme selector
• consolidated themes into one css file
• moved css code that's reqired by old things but no longer actively used to its own "legacy" file
• went through the main css file and removed unused code
• i originally had more planned for this hence the 2.x version jump but i haven't felt like working on this in a while and there's no reason to further delay pushing the finished changes i did make

May 3, 2025

• new theme: outskirts
• based on the rainworld region of the same name
• renamed all themes to be more descriptive
• "dark" is now "abyss"
• "light" is now "cotton candy"
• "light blue" is now "sky blue"
• default dark theme (abyss) is now tinted blue
• sky blue theme's main theme color is now darker to increase contrast

April 30, 2025

• fixed article contents displaying on pages where they shouldn't on mobile

April 29, 2025

• moved article contents under the title on mobile
• fixed a safari rendering issue for the main image on the homepage
• fixed article contents box not scrolling with the page below a certain page width

April 29, 2025

• added an automatic list of contents feature for pages where it's useful
• disabled hover animations on devices that do not support hover
• reduced motion setting is now fully respected
• the main homepage image is now customizable with css
• this lets me change it with themes
• each theme's image now varies slightly
• added an easter egg when clicking on the image with the dark theme enabled
• removed reliance on special classes for paragraph spacing
• added some supporting code for the null surgery follow-up blog post
• replaced pre-formatted asides in blog posts and pages with dynamic float ones using semantic tags

April 25, 2025

• overhauled theme selector
• now also available on the homepage
• mobile menu buttons now change to reflect whether the menu is open or closed
• all menu buttons are now html buttons instead of divs in disguise
• slight change to the homepage header hover effect
• removed unused colors etc from theme files

April 18, 2025

• fixed rss icon on the blog page

April 17, 2025

• removed header from non-homepage pages
• the relevant sidebar button is now highlighted to show which page you're on
• mobile menu look and behavior is now consistent between pages (mostly)
• reworked changelog page
• fixed RSS link on the blog page being broken

April 11, 2025

• new default light theme (pink !!! vaguely inspired by signal spires from rain world: the watcher)
• the old (blue) theme is still available as a choice
• fixed the spacing of some items on the homepage on mobile
• renamed "fediverse" to "social (fedi) on the homepage

April 10, 2025

• added a "recent blog posts" section to the homepage with new artwork by creepycrawlies
• removed all links pointing to the gallery; it might come back later if i find the time / motivation to rework it (it's still accessible by going to pebble.pet/gallery
• removed link to the changelog from the homepage, it's still accessible through the about / links / blog pages
• link directory button on homepage renamed to "more"
• rss button on homepage moved to navbar
• added a rss button to the sidebar
• rearranged sidebar a little
• made some changes to the text on the about page
• added some new fun buttons to homepage / about page
• fixed index social links hover effect hitbox
• fixed issue with links in the blog directory not rendering properly

March 22, 2025

• made some small behind the scenes accessibility changes based on the accessiblity audit done by beeps (still lots more to be done)
• added alt text to most images
• added a warning to the gallery page that it's not up to my standards

February 4, 2025

• added an rss feed
• updated fediverse icon on the homepage to the new critter.cafe reggie icon
• updated to the latest version of 11ty on the backend

January 21, 2025

• theme switcher !!!
• for now there's a light and dark theme, there will be more in the future
• defaults to "system" which will switch the theme depending on your system theme
• preferences saved using local storage (different thing from cookies!!)
• a lot of the javascript code was borrowed from beeps (with permision, thanks !! <3)
• updated the dark theme a little bit to look a little cleaner
• social links removed from sidebar to reduce clutter
• theme switcher still needs to be added to the homepage

January 18, 2025

• changed the colors a little bit to improve contrast

January 1, 2025

• removed dates from about and cool links as i kept forgetting to update them and they don't feel necessary
• moved the mobile homepage menu button to the left for consistency
• updated some links
• temporarily removed side panel with version numbers from changelog until i figure out how to style it better
• continuing work on a light theme and theme switcher, it's almost done!

December 19, 2024

• made mobile sidebar not take up the whole screen
• most phones are wide enough where it didn't look right

December 18, 2024

• updated the blog's landing page to have a more clear and prettier layout
• it also includes each blog post's short description now!

December 14, 2024

• changed font size units to rem so text size is more consistent across devices

December 14, 2024

• added a secret new section :3c

December 5, 2024

• added fedi webring
• slightly adjusted how webring buttons display on mobile

November 24, 2024

• removed the 18+ warning from the homepage as this page does not actually contain any adult content
• added a version list with clickable links to the changelog
• added various links for my other online presence to cool links

November 16, 2024

• completely redesigned the website
• the new design focuses on being clean, pretty, easy to theme and easy to parse
• new homepage
• featuring lots of art of my sona, some of it by cobalt
• blog
• i added a blog! the blog page is compiled automatically by 11ty so i can make new blog posts very easily
• i also added functionality for inline images, 33/66 40/60 and 50/50 column splits, galleries, text boxes - lots of cool stuff that'll make it easy for me to make my blog posts pretty
• gallery
• a simple and clean gallery of some of my art
• it's for personal highlights, i'm not going to be updating it frequently - it mirrors the "highlights" folder i have on itaku
• i tried using a simple in-page image viewer but javascript is hell so instead it's simple open-image-in-new-tab functionality
• minor changes
• the header now gets out of your way when scrolling on mobile
• rewrote the about me page a little
• added some light on-load animations
• the new background is a screenshot from signalis i remade (go play the game)
• dates on entries are now dynamically formatted to be pretty
• new font - D-DIN (a free recreation of DIN 1451)
• i also archived some of the test versions from throughout the development of v2, feel free to have a look at these!
• i recommend opening these in a new tab as none of the navigation buttons on them will take you back here
• v2_test1 // v2_test2 // v2_test3 // v2_test4 // v2_test5 // v2_test6-1 // v2_test6-2 // v2_test6-3 // v2_test6-4 // v2_test6-5 // v2_test6-6 // v2_rc1 //

October 22, 2024

• rewrote the about page & added lazy section links
• removed the stamps from the main page and instead added a link to the beta version of v2
• the main idea of this update is to add the few important changes from v2 without having to actually finish v2 as i'm not feeling like working on the site much right now

September 20, 2024

• added more buttons
• merged the two buttons sections on the links page, there wasn't much point in separating them

September 19, 2024

• replaced cohost tile with fedi
• thank you for everything, cohost

September 6, 2024

• added some buttons to about and cool links

September 5, 2024

• rebuilt the website using 11ty framework, functionally it's the same but this is going to let me add new pages and edit existing ones really quickly

September 3, 2024

• changed main site background color to be slightly darker

September 2, 2024

• minor visual overhaul
• added background pattern
• new font: IBM Plex
• adjusted font size
• more muted background colors
• profile pic no longer takes up most of the main page on mobile
• added new stamps to the about section
• added links to some versions in the changelog that let you view what that version looked like
• note: some links may be broken in the archived versions
• moved all mobile css into its respective elements instead of its own dedicated section

August 27, 2024

• fixed 404 page rendering

August 26, 2024

• ""fixed"" borders not rendering properly on mobile (in a very unintended way) ((i'm tired))
• 404 page rendering is broken on mobile but i'm too tired to do anything about it
• self hosting / website designing is such a thankless hobby

August 26, 2024

• joined a webring!
• added a proper 404 page (finally ,)

August 23, 2024

• fully implemented cool links page!! and a new stamp for this website to go with it :3
• increased font size of main pages for easier readability, also updated spacing of text elements a bit
• changed the grey backgrounds to a dark blue
• added embed code for each page
• removed projects page and all links to it as i don't currently have enough projects to put there, i'll readd this if it's ever needed
• fixed content of main pages not being centered
• removed cool 3D hover animation from all stamps because javascript is extremely buggy and causes GIFs to not play
• switched to using variables for all colors for easier future updates

August 20, 2024

• changed text size on the main pages to look better on mobile
• changed how the main pages are laid out internally, this makes things work a little better and allows mobile browser interfaces to collapse when scrolling
• this also allows for the sidebar to be transparent with the background showing behind
• updated the games list in the about section, added sections
• moved stamps in the about section above games and gave them their own section

August 18, 2024

• updated favicon to a svg ( you can do that now!! )
• fixed top and bottom borders of the screen going white when scrolling on mobile

August 9, 2024

• initial public release!!
• changed landing page background
• created framework for general pages
• added about, projects, cool links and changelog pages
• only about and changelog pages are populated right now
• projects and cool links pages to be fully added later :3
• full desktop and mobile browser support
• god this one was so much work
• worth it tho