News

0.5.0

20 Jan 2025

Minor

• Tailwind stripped out. Fuck it—we're making a design system. Eventually. But this was the first step towards that.
• News section created. More to look forward to here.

Patches

• Illustrations gallery given a facelift.
• Updated Svelte and other packages to latest 2025 builds.
• Switch socials from Twitter to Bluesky and updated the little squirrel's mug. All is right with the world.

Bugfixes

• Notion fetches for blogs were failing with ISR revalidation. Patched for now, but will refactor to webhook-based revalidation.

0.4.1

27 Feb 2024

Refactors

• Moved application into a monorepo alongside some other projects.
• Internal Notion fetching wasn't super typed, but now it is.

Bugfixes

• There was an edge case where you could hit a 404 by trying to visit a blog, which happened if you hard refreshed the homepage and then navigated to the blog + an article. This is fixed.

Goals from Last Changelog

• SvelteKit -> Next.js (cancelled). After playing with React and Next.js quite a bit, I decided I like the semantics and native performance of SvelteKit more than I like some of the conveniences of Next.js, like component-level data/caching and font optimization. I'll continue to be on the lookout for how to optimize my own workflow within SvelteKit, especially with 5.0 launching soon.

Adjusted Upcoming Goals

• Upgrade to SvelteKit 2.0 and prepare for Svelte 5.0
• Monorepo foundations improved
• Design system foundations improved
• Increased type safety across the application
• Test suite begun
• Fix CLS on homepage and subpages for better Core Web Vitals.
• Use SvelteKit 2 image optimization.

0.4.0

21 Nov 2023

Honestly, this release is just a lot of random shit I've been working on.

Features

• New studio homepage! (/studio)
  • Lots of projects coming here, lots of new links. Highly recommend checking it out to see what's coming, creatively speaking.
• New poems page! (/studio/hfc)
• New illustrations page! (/studio/illustrations)
• New arcade page! (/studio/arcade) (But let's be real, this is just a weird place where I'm playing and learning HTML canvas.)
• Vercel Analytics added for shallow info (Basically number of requests coming in for which pages. Nothing too user-tracky.)
• Blog now has categories and auto-generated read times.

Enhancements

• Pong loading spinner for blog images bc why the fuck not.
• Lots of pages that didn't have metadata/OG images now have that.
• HR added to Notion parser.
• Notion synced blocks get fetched on the server rather than client now, which allows for caching the result with ISR.
• Mastodon verification.

Refactors

• Continuing to eliminate Typescript squigglies across the application. (Mostly now down to the way I fetch data from Notion—which needs some sort of schema implemented. Actively searching for a way to generate types from Notion so I don't have to write them myself.)
• Big cleanup in my notion.ts server fetching. Functions are fewer, shorter and more reusable at this point, with params to customize behavior moved over to the individual API layers.
• Tailwind more or less app-wide at this point. I keep switching as I see it, but it's pretty well integrated.

Bugfixes

• Homepage transition to other pages was rocky at slow loading speeds. Smoothed this out. (Going to implement View Transitions API in a future update.)
• Various instances of Notion CMS erroring out that have been smoothed over time.
• Various background image behavior fixed on mobile.

Goals from Last Changelog

• Typescript app-wide. (Check, just working on passing for data schema.)
• Tailwind app-wide, design system solidified, class variance authority used for dynamic design cases. (Tailwind is app wide, but I've used Svelte native functionality for dynamic cases.)
• Light mode / dark mode. (Nothing here yet, besides the blog.)
• CMS further implemented with Incremental Static Regeneration. (Check, esp. with moving more dynamic behavior to the server.)
• More blog content. (Check.)
• More studio content. (Check.)
• Newsletter begun. (Honestly backlogged in favor of other things.)

Upcoming Goals

• Incremental migration to Next.js + Turborepo. I don't take the decision of abandoning SvelteKit lightly, but I also can't ignore Next's feature set at the moment, primarily around React Server Components, which would drastically help me organize my data across the app. There's a whole lot of other longterm goals I have that really need a more solid foundation than what I have currently. So, all that said: the 0.5.0 milestone will (likely) be when I have all current functionality over on Next.js. Wish me luck!

0.3.0

10 March 2023

The Notion CMS has landed.

Features

• Blog posts populated from Notion database.
• Blog entries populated from Notion.
  • Automatically generated Table of Contents for each post.
  • Custom subscript and superscript tags.
  • Space made for custom Notion components that will map to certain Svelte components, like a "real" CMS.
• Blog post light mode / dark mode.
• Syntax highlighting for code examples on the blog.

Enhancements

• Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) implemented throughout blog, for fast cached data.
• Github added to social media area.
• Home button on landing pages and blogs has been given an animation for clarity.
• Scroll smoothing on the blog.
• Open Graph images and descriptions added.

Refactors

• Typescript implmented, app-wide. Will fix all my red squigglies eventually.

Bugfixes

• Images from Notion properly updated when Notion link expires.
• On the dev side, got Prettier to work correctly with sorting Tailwind classes.

Upcoming Goals

• Tailwind app-wide, design system further solidified.
• Design improvements to site to match homepage aesthetic more.
• App-wide light mode / dark mode.
• Homepage transitions cleaned up (currently using timeouts but should be listening to transition end).
• Vite ImageTools fixed up to function.
• Fleshing out the studio pages with content.
• More content moved over to the CMS to separate concerns.

0.2.0

21 February 2023

Features

• Notion backend for commissions form, including email notification system.
• All landing pages now have their own dedicated routes.
• Transition added between homepage and landing pages that fits the vibe.
• Images now imported via Vite Image Tools and converted to webp, making size much smaller.
• Blog added and started.
• Coming soon content for all studio pages.

Enhancements

• All animations converted to GSAP and finessed.
• Landing page animations now on scroll.
• MDSvex implementation for simple content.
• A11y more intuitive for homepage.

Refactors

• Sass => TailwindCSS
• Change "news" to "connect."
• Store deprecated in favor of blog.
• Bio updated.

Bugfixes

• Commissions button no longer reveals email.
• Graphical performance issues on Safari across devices.
• Fixes numerous FOUCs.

Upcoming Goals

• Typescript app-wide.
• Tailwind app-wide, design system solidified, class variance authority used for dynamic design cases.
• Light mode / dark mode.
• CMS further implemented with Incremental Static Regeneration.
• More blog content.
• More studio content.
• Newsletter begun.

0.1.0

August 2022

Site is functional, though missing content and working forms.