Changelog

Sep 25, 2024

I’m getting the urge to redesign this website, or at least parts of it. However, that likely won’t happen for some time.

• Disabled sourcemaps (they weren’t really working anyway :/).
• Added Alyxia’s web button to the buttons page.

Sep 25, 2024

• Gave height & widths to the web buttons.

Sep 18, 2024

• Updated some things on a secret page.

Sep 14, 2024

• Made Satorikeiko’s button a local image.
• Some other tweaks here and there (like changing the Inter font to use .woff2 files).
• Four new secret pages have appeared!

Jul 2, 2024

• Added a new project to the projects page.

Jun 29, 2024

• Added a secret page.
• Removed the analytics script (it’s been dead for a long time anyway, so it hasn’t event resolved since sometime last year).

May 21, 2024

• Third update post about my editor project.
• Blog images and videos now have a maximum height, and are centered.

May 19, 2024

• 💡

May 11, 2024

• Dinkus.

May 3, 2024

• 🚗
• Home page now links to the journal.
• Update the About Me page.

May 2, 2024

Wrote a short post about animating the SVG path d attribute.

April 26, 2024

Added a page for video game achivements.

April 14, 2024

Added Kauli’s art to the gallery! It’s the 19th artwork on there (not counting Cookie’s 15 emojis), and I didn’t comission a single piece (perhaps barring one, though it wasn’t paid), which is mind-boggling. Aaaa, thank you all so much for all the art! ❤️

April 2, 2024

Trans day of visibility banner is removed. See you in a year!

Mar 31, 2024

Trans day of visibility banner is up again!

Mar 26, 2024

• Second update post about my editor project! (look, even in the changelog I’m still referring to it as “my editor project,” I should really pick a name)

Mar 8, 2024

• Fixed a typo and missing sentence. (thanks Riptide!)

Mar 6, 2024

• New journal post about my progress on my most recent project (an RPG Maker MV editor).

Feb 27, 2024

• Fixed a typo on the most recent post (thank you OneHalf :D)

Feb 25, 2024

• Added a mention of Thefonze7 to the most recent post.

Feb 24, 2024

• Wrote a post about my experience modding The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. First part in a potential series!
• Added the Llamaware website to the projects page.
• I added some padding to the headers in blog posts. Hope that doesn’t break anything! (^^;)

Feb 16, 2024

I added Cookie’s art to the gallery! She made two new pieces, a big-eyed sad SpongeBob version of her catgirl design (which I adore), as well as an emoji of the character being mad that she got a Discord ping. I also added two older emojis that weren’t previously on the page.

Feb 2, 2024

• New post about my history with watching Hazbin and Vivie’s stuff.

Jan 6, 2024

• Finally got around to adding the new model to the Figura post. However, I also kept the old model and let you toggle the two!
• Updated the preview image for the TCoAaL modding wiki.

Jan 2, 2024

• Added someone new to the web buttons page! I didn’t realize this before, but Satorikeiko had my web button on his website (wow!). I bumped into him again today (I knew him from being in my now-defunct Discord some time ago), checked out his website, and saw that he had my button on there linking to me, saw that he also had a button, and so I linked to that on the buttons page. Neat! :)
• Fixed the web button code on the buttons page (resident moron here (me) somehow missed that I needed to actually add the https://basil.cafe part, to make the code I provided actually work).

December 24, 2023

• Wrote a post about what I got up to in 2023.

December 12, 2023

• Added some new projects to the projects page: Tomb, Grimoire, and the TCoAaL modding wiki.
• Wrote a blog post about setDragImage.

December 5, 2023

• Added Null Pixel’s art to the gallery! It’s a touch-up of an older, monochrome version he made based on my fedi profile picture (milk carton full of spider’s original Basil catgirl art).

November 19, 2023

• Wrote about my new project, Grimoire.
• Updated the post about my Figura avatar.

October 31, 2023

Happy Halloween, girls and others! 🎃

Cookie apparently decided to draw her catgirl character based on my leaf again, so—with her permission—I’ve added it to the gallery. Thanks again!!!

Also, because of that, I had to reset the Catgirl Tracker. It had been at 339 days, and now it’s back at 0. 😅 Oh well!

October 28, 2023

• Wrote about my new Figura avatar!
• Updated the UK petitions page to indicate that they’re over.

October 25, 2023

• Added the pumpkin carver.

October 9, 2023

• Updated some dead links and text. Minor stuff, really, but some tiny papercuts I’ve been ignoring for a while.

September 18, 2023

• I tweaked the web button page, moved some stuff around, added some links, and added the button of someone who actually added my web button to a page of theirs!!! Thank you for that! :D

August 8, 2023

• I’ve added a new project to the projects page! This doesn’t happen often—in fact, it’s the first new project since the last major redesign.
• I also tweaked some text on the gallery page.
• Oh, and Majoram’s project page icon was resized to the proper dimensions of the other icons.

August 1, 2023

• I’ve updated the contact page.
• I’ve also written a post about the long downtime.

June 11, 2023

Wow, exactly a month later. I wrote a blog post about converting HSL to RGB hex codes in Nix.

May 11, 2023

I made some updates on the 8th, but forgot to publish them (-_-) Doing so now!

I wonder, should I add something to the site header to indicate when the changelog has been updated? It might make the navbar area it more clunky though.

• I added an HTML snippet for my web button on the buttons page. I don’t expect anyone to use it, but I realized that some people might not know how to link to the image.
• Removed the journal RSS feed from the sitemap, as it’s on the journal page now.
• Added a theme selector! I’ve had this idea from the start, but seeing it on someone else’s website pushed me to implement it myself.

April 24, 2023

• I’ve now enabled source maps for this project. It admittedly doesn’t seem to do much, but hopefully it’ll make it easier to poke around.
• There’s now a link to the journal RSS feed at the bottom of the journal page. In addition, I’ve also added a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> element to the page. This means that you may be able to simply add the journal page to your RSS reader and have it automatically pick up the feed link.
• Finally fixed a mistake in the Boombox post I had known about for a while.

April 19, 2023

Removed the email link from the contacts page to prevent potential scraping. It’s still there, just in a sort of obfuscated manner.

Been a while since I’ve updated this, huh?

Mar 18, 2023

• Changed to a specific easter egg. Notably:
  • Removing the minification on the small amount of JS.
  • Updated information on the link on the page, which had been deleted.

Feb 28, 2023

• I changed a bit of the gallery-related text.
• Fixed some TODOs I had lying around.
• Added some of my Git account links to the contacts, and changed it to use HTML tables instead of li elements.

Feb 20, 2023

Today’s changes are all internal, since I ended up scrapping a post after realizing that it present a pretty useless solution.

• The changelog page now uses a separate layout so I could remove the global style affecting h2 elements. Now it won’t look bad in journal entries!
• I also moved the public/ folder to static/public/ so I had a place to put a copy of Everforest for syntax highlighting purposes. It’s currently not used anywhere.
• Wrote a smol wrapper around Astro’s Content system to filter out draft posts when building the site.

Feb 17, 2023

• I fixed the date sorting on the journal. It’s annoying that this was an issue in the first place, but I never noticed until looking at it now. Aaa!

Feb 16, 2023

• I spent somewhere in the ballpark of 9 hours recreating a Flash animation from the webcomic that inspired the Jamiroquai logo^{[citation needed]} with only CSS. For an easter egg. And it isn’t even linked anywhere. Stellar thinking, Basil.
  • I switched the changelog page from Markdown to MDX just so I could shove the ^{[citation needed]} snippet into a component. Due to some annoying quirks with how it works, I have a hidden (and aria-hidden for accessibility) element on this page where I complain about it.
• I also added a Matrix contact on the contact page. I don’t know if I’ll keep it running, but feel free to shoot me a message!
  • I’m planning on writing a short little blog post about configuring Dendrite (the server I’m running) behind Cloudflare Tunnels, since I ran my tricycle through a bramble bush trying to coerce it into submission.

Feb 12, 2023

Quite a few updates today!

• I finally got around to migrating the journal to Astro’s collections feature. Now, the Astro linter will yell at me whenever I forget to include frontmatter fields. Also, it generates TypeScript types for entries, which makes doing dev things with the content less of a hassle.
• Speaking of the journal, I wrote an entry on Boombox and my playlist.
• I already had a service section at the bottom of the sitemap, but I tweaked some text on it and added a link to my instance of Uptime Kuma. I’ve had it running for a while, but I finally decided to make it public.
  • I might add some icons eventually.
  • Might be cool to directly integrate uptime data into the site.
• Added some more padding to the bottom of the Header.astro component. It’s the one at the top of this page, with the little separator. Hopefully, this’ll make the site feel a little less cramped.

I wonder if I should have a changelog for my projects that aren’t strictly related to this website, i.e. Boombox.

Feb 8, 2023

• Added yet another easter egg! It’s a very secure UUID generator, and again isn’t directly linked anywhere in this café.

Feb 6, 2023

• Added another easter egg! It’s not linked to anywhere, so you’ll have to guess the URL.

Feb 5, 2023

• Added some icons to the contact page.
• Updated the changelog to fix the last date. It should’ve been Feb 4, not Feb 5, since I had woken up on the 4th but published it on the 5th. I have my system :P
• Added various subdomains to the sitemap.

Feb 4, 2023

• Added response compression to the server! The backend of my website (as of now) is just a static file server written in Rust, and the library I used, axum, doesn’t do this by default.

Feb 1, 2023

• Added two easter eggs. One about the furry cycle, and one accessible via Hatapon’s flag. Well, I technically added the former a few days ago.

Jan 26, 2023

• Updated the petition page to show the percentage of votes that originated from the UK, at the suggestion of Ella Fox.

Jan 24, 2023

• Fixed some typos in the changelog―I got an extension for checking the spelling, we’ll see how it goes.

Jan 23, 2023

• Added a tool (more of an informative page, really) for viewing the ongoing UK petitions about teaching LGBT content in schools.
• Tweaked the Sitemap page to display entries vertically instead of the horizontal flow that likely caused issues on smaller device widths.
• Finally published a post about tricks for beating Wound-up Windmill! I’ve been meaning to make this for a while, and the stars finally aligned.

Jan 21, 2023

• Added another strange tool I hacked together in maybe half an hour. More information is on that page.
• Oh my goodness. I’ve been using 2022 instead of 2023 in the changelog… Phenomenal job, me.

Jan 18, 2023

• Published a journal post on my suspicions about ChatGPT.

Jan 17, 2023

• Opened the Scrapyard! It’s a collection of some projects I’ve abandoned. This was on my list of things to add from the beginning, but I didn’t have it in my café when I first announced it, as I wanted to release it close to the new year.

Jan 16, 2023

If you’d like an RSS feed for the changelog, please let me know! Seriously, if even just one person goes out of their way to tell me they’d want one, then I’ll implement it.

• Bumped up the size of the dividers to match what I had originally designed.
• Removed the text here at the top of the changelog. It isn’t really needed.
• Moved the Journal RSS feed to /feeds/posts.xml. Even though I really doubt anyone subscribed to it, if you have the old version in a feed reader, you’ll have to update it again :/ Sorry!
• Updated the date of the first blog post to when it was actually published. Gah, why didn’t I catch this earlier!

Jan 15, 2023

• Updated the link to Majoram/“the quote site.” I just refactored the authentication system, cleaned stuff up, and moved to quotes.basil.cafe. I actually only realized that “majoram” is supposed to be spelled “marjoram” when a friend pointed it out to me sometime in the past week… Oops!

Jan 14, 2023

• Added a little tool for calculating the BPM of an audio file.
• Writing this a little late (after I published it), but I added a new project to the Projects page! It’s my enhanced version of Penguin Dash from Google Santa Tracker. I actually made this in December of last year, but I finally got around to publishing it.
• Fixed the list dash being aligned to the bottom text. I found that out as I was writing the above text. Why are dashed lists like these not natively supported?

Jan 9, 2023

• Added my own web button to the web buttons page! It’s a bit bland, but oh well.

Jan 8, 2023

• Finally added the gallery page! Alt text takes a lot of time… But at least the catgirls are back. I got permissions from all of the artists again.
• Added a little easter egg about going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu.

Jan 4, 2023

• Fixed some of the sitemap entries being incorrect URLs. It was very late when I implemented it yesterday.
• Added this changelog. It’s a bit unpolished and quickly thrown together, but knowing myself, I won’t change it.
• Added favicon.ico. Previously, I just had an SVG favicon (favicon.svg), and this should hopefully provide some backwards compatibility.
• Added an RSS feed for the journal. It’s available at /posts/rss.xml. This changelog could totally be an RSS feed too!
• Added a web buttons page, but watch for flashing lights.

Jan 3, 2023

• Released! 🎉🎉🎉
• Day 1 fixes, like:
  • Bottom page padding fix. Weird Astro conflicts that only showed up in the built output.
  • Forgot to put a description for Garden. Oops!
  • Fixed a typo on the Iteration 4 post.
• Added a sitemap. I probably should make something nicer, but this works for now.
• Made a few scripts for updating the site.

Doodl informed me about the wrong description, and Varedz told me about the typo. Thanks!