Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[7.0] - 2026-03-29

Changed

  • Full LaTeX typography overhaul: CMU Serif across entire site (sidebar, search, home page)
  • Featured articles table restyled as booktabs table
  • About section now uses prose styling from post.css
  • Search modal restyled: booktabs table results, no border-radius, CMU Serif
  • Footnotes restyled to LaTeX standard: 40%-width rule, superscript refs, no back-arrows
  • Post date/metadata line now uses primary text color
  • Sidebar footer text now uses primary text color
  • post.css loaded globally via BaseLayout

[6.2] - 2026-03-29

Added

  • VS Code-style minimap on article pages with click-to-scroll
  • Scroll ruler on sidebar with active position indicator
  • Gradient mask at top/bottom of content area
  • Auto-open sidebar folders to show active page on navigation
  • Post navigation now follows global blogtree order across all sections

Fixed

  • Gradient mask now listens to .site-grid scroll instead of window
  • Minimap recalculates height after images load

[6.1] - 2026-03-29

Added

  • Folder open/close emoji animation (📁/📂) in sidebar
  • Book open/close emoji (📘/📖) for index pages, updates on navigation
  • Sound effects system: real paper flip and folder sounds via Web Audio API

Changed

  • Removed chevrons from sidebar folders (emoji handles open/close state)
  • Hidden native sidebar scrollbar entirely

[6.0] - 2026-03-23

Added

  • Frontmatter order field for article ordering (replaces filename-based hacks)
  • Mandatory index.md for every content folder with build-time check
  • Root-level index page linking to all sections
  • “Choosing High EV Goals” series: Taleb and Asymmetric Bets, plus 5 follow-up stubs
  • Blue book emoji (📘) for index files in sidebar
  • Folder display names derived from index file titles (no more hardcoded map)
  • Scripts: generate-indexes.mjs, check-indexes.mjs, rename-to-slugs.mjs, rename-to-title-slugs.mjs

Changed

  • Renamed all files site-wide to match article titles as slugs
  • Merged all preface/overview files into folder indexes
  • Sidebar header: ”📘 index” linking to root index
  • Font changed to Calibri
  • Sidebar sorting: order field takes priority over folder-vs-file type
  • Folders inherit order from their index file for sorting

[5.9] - 2026-03-22

Added

  • Homepage recent writing section with 10 featured essays
  • New essays: A Farewell to Arms, Red Star Over China, Fast 5K, Goal Gradient, Shurik & Gaidai

Changed

  • Revised existing essay drafts

[5.8] - 2026-03-22

Changed

  • Restructured content: merged Books/Movies/Writing into Essays
  • Promoted PythonTA and MarkUs to top-level folders

[5.7] - 2026-03-19

Added

  • Sleep & Nutrition section under Athletics
  • 16-week aquathlon training plan v4

Changed

  • Athletics sidebar section with Sleep & Nutrition folder routing fix
  • Tilde font rendering fix

[5.6] - 2026-03-16

Added

  • Effective goal setting content

Changed

  • Sidebar scrollbar moved to left side with hover-only visibility

[5.5] - 2026-02-16

Added

  • Interview sim challenges: Job Board and Day Calendar
  • Vanilla JS crash course
  • Sim components MDX page

[5.4] - 2026-02-15

Added

  • React learning materials: quick start, intermediate, advanced posts
  • Practice components with live React embeds
  • MDX live component demos with border/padding boxes
  • MiniCalc exercise

Changed

  • Converted practice posts to MDX with live React component embeds

[5.3] - 2026-02-05

Changed

  • Updated about page: softened quant research mention, removed writing section

[5.2] - 2026-01-29

Added

  • Feature mapping, regularization, and linear classification notes
  • OG preview image for social sharing
  • JH favicon
  • Software Design articles
  • Top 5 albums list
  • Interactive world map for analytics visitor locations
  • Country tracking at view time with IP geolocation
  • Visitor locations section on analytics page

Changed

  • Rewrite dreadnought essay, renamed all essay titles
  • Updated about page writing section formatting
  • Renamed Calculus folder, updated prefaces
  • Clean up ML folder structure, created linear classification folder
  • Map highlight changed to black scale
  • Simplified album list to titles and years
  • Locations count views per country instead of unique IPs
  • Persisted sidebar across page transitions, only animate content

Fixed

  • Font loading on View Transitions navigation
  • White screen bug on page transitions
  • Reading list link, added watchlist link to homepage
  • Consistent humanToday view counts
  • IP pagination for locations fetch

[5.1] - 2025-01-28

Added

  • New analytics page at /analytics with daily views histogram
  • Movie reviews: Andrei Rublev, In the Heat of the Sun
  • “I’ve Written About” section on watchlist page
  • Y-axis scale on analytics histogram
  • Hover tooltips showing date and view count
  • Methodology blurb explaining how views are tracked

Changed

  • Rebuilt analytics system with Supabase Postgres backend
  • Session-based deduplication (2.5 min cooldown per IP per page)
  • Bot filtering via user-agent pattern matching
  • IP addresses stored as SHA-256 hashes for privacy
  • Page transitions now only fade content area, not sidebar
  • Improved font loading: preload Merriweather, use font-display: optional
  • Post views now fade in smoothly instead of showing ”…”
  • Standardized title format for movie/book reviews: “Title (Author/Director, Year)“

Fixed

  • Empty catch block lint errors
  • Font loading jank on production builds

[4.5] - 2025-01-25

Added

  • Emojis to folder titles (books 📚, firefox 🦊, data-structures-and-algorithms 🧮)

Changed

  • Consolidated sidebar footer into single line: Changelog v4.5 | Source | views today
  • Disabled CSS caching for faster development iteration
  • Reduced margins in sidebar footer section

Removed

  • Separate Analytics widget from homepage (moved to footer)

[4.4] - 2025-12-29

Added

  • Comprehensive analytics tracking with per-page view counts
  • Bot detection and human/bot separation in analytics
  • Browser fingerprinting for unique visitor tracking
  • Scroll depth and time-on-page engagement metrics
  • Analytics dashboard page at /analytics

Changed

  • Moved views display between likes and date on posts
  • Switched from middleware to client-side tracking (works with static pages)

[4.3] - 2025-12-29

Added

  • Comments system with threaded replies
  • Post and comment likes
  • Spam detection for comments
  • Social media icons in sidebar (GitHub, LinkedIn, Instagram)
  • Recent posts section in sidebar
  • Changelog and source links in sidebar

[4.2] - 2025-12-28

Added

  • New essay: “Reflections on Bonapartism”

Changed

  • Major typography overhaul for headings

[4.1] - 2025-12-24

Added

  • US Government course notes (25 articles across 5 sections)
  • Triathlon Program: OCD and anxiety post

Changed

  • Reorganized Department of Computer Science posts into subdirectories
  • Smaller serif font for analytics text
  • Track all page views including reloads

[4.0] - 2025-12-23

Added

  • Analytics feature with Supabase tracking
  • Visitor count display (today/all-time)
  • Analytics API endpoints

[3.2] - 2025-12-22

Changed

  • Reorganized posts and images structure

Fixed

  • Sidebar header improvements
  • Search modal improvements

[3.1] - 2025-12-18

Fixed

  • Code highlighting on View Transitions navigation

[3.0] - 2025-12-18

Added

  • Search functionality
  • Post navigation
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Fitness section
  • Media calendar

Changed

  • Major layout overhaul

[2.3] - 2025-12-13

Added

  • Quant finance applications to linear algebra series

Changed

  • Renamed “Algorithms” to “Data Structures and Algorithms”

Fixed

  • Path-based search template
  • Updated LinkedIn link

[2.2] - 2025-12-12

Added

  • Complete Data Structures and Algorithms series
  • Graph search frameworks and pruning documentation

Changed

  • Consolidated algorithms series into exam review notes

[2.1] - 2025-12-10

Added

  • Reorganized content structure
  • New articles and comprehensive eigenvalues chapter

[2.0] - 2025-12-05

Changed

  • Dense, document-like typography (textbook/newspaper aesthetic)
  • Comprehensive site improvements: security, performance, accessibility, SEO
  • Darker dark mode

Added

  • Linear algebra content series

Fixed

  • UI improvements: theme toggle, dividers
  • Removed music player
  • Blog tree moved to bottom on mobile for post pages

[1.4] - 2025-11-29

Added

  • Linear algebra chapter 1 and 2

[1.3] - 2025-11-28

Added

  • SDS Final Blog post

Changed

  • Improved navigation and breadcrumbs

Fixed

  • File tree formatting
  • Telemetry blog revisions and margins

[1.2] - 2025-11-25

Added

  • Image viewer
  • Font toggle functionality

Fixed

  • Site spacing bugs
  • File tree styles
  • Icon alignment
  • Image styling and blog font

[1.1] - 2025-11-24

Added

  • New post: “Dreadnought Closet”

[1.0] - 2025-11-22

Added

  • Initial site launch
  • Computer Modern font
  • Profile photos
  • About page

Changed

  • Increased font sizes for better web readability