Changelog
2024
June 2024
- Made this changelog: how meta!
- Started an “is” section of my site, with a page listing the books I’m reading. This pulls from an Airtable database where I’m maintaining my reading data.
March 2024
- Fixed the copyright year in my footer (oops).
- Made sure 2023 and 2024 show up in the “browse by year” navigation on the blog (also oops).
- Changed up blog post card sizes a bit, at larger breakpoints. Previously, the first two blog posts would be rendered large (two-to-a-row), and subsequent posts would be rendered small (three-to-a-row). I decided to simplify the layout so that all posts on the first page are large, and all posts on subsequent pages are small.
- Made blog post margins and type size look better on ~tablet.
- Gave captions a little bit of horizontal padding.
2023
November 2023
- Updated a couple pages to look nicer on tablet-ish breakpoints.
- Happened to fix a bunch of dark mode issues on the evening of a new moon. Coincidence or lunar magic??? 🌑✨
- Fixed a dark mode visual bug on the Product page.
- Fixed a weird galaxy brain thing where I had two different image treatments for my hobbies depending on whether “dark mode” was picked up by the system or via the theme preference in my footer.
- Also fixed the little quilt SVG on my home page looking “weird” in dark mode. I thought for the longest time it was a mobile Safari rendering issue. The root cause was me messing with image opacity in dark mode, without overriding that treatment for this special case.
- Fixed
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elements in blog posts causing funky rendering issues on narrow breakpoints. - Tweaked a project’s thumbnails so that the SVGs render better.
- Made the little red rectangle in my header slightly narrower on narrow breakpoints.
- Fixed a minor rendering issue with the theme switcher in Webkit/Safari.
2023 Q1
- Added The StoryGraph and Letterboxd to my social media links.
- Finally got around to adding code syntax highlighting.
- Added the Merge Schedule Github action to my site, so that PRs with new content will merge on a specific date (I don’t use a headless CMS on this site, through which I could control publication date).
October 2022 Version
![Home page with a tagline, recent work projects, a list of things I'm up to now, recent blog posts. There's a quilt-like shape of geometric, colorful blocks in orangey red, forest green, pink, and beiges.](/assets/images/content/melanierichards-2022-home-s.png)
Refreshed my site to use a more colorful and quilty aesthetic. Read the 2022 redesign blog post
Winter 2020 Version
![A collage of my tagline and recent projects and posts, in a black and white pixel theme with headings in a monospace font](/assets/images/content/melanierichards-2020-home-s.png)
Black and white and pixelly all over.
2019 Version
![Home page with a bio paragraph that links out to some projects. It's very simple, with black text in Space Mono on a pale blue background.](/assets/images/content/melanierichards-2019-home-s.webp)
2018 Version
![Home page with a black vertical navigation bar to the left of a main black-on-white area. There's a bio and a list of links to various projects. The body copy is sans serif, with decorations and headlines in a more pixely vibe.](/assets/images/content/melanierichards-2018-home-s.webp)
There are a lot of tweaks and churn in 2018 and 2019. This is when I first transitioned from design to product management.
2017 Version
![Home page with a large bio paragraph that links out to some projects. It's very simple, with nav sans-serif text on a white background. The logo is my initials in vector nautical flags.](/assets/images/content/melanierichards-2017-home-s.webp)
Nautical flag icons for my initials, and no portfolio section. Later in the year I simplified this even more, and inverted the color palette: white on navy.
2015 – 2016
I appeared to have added a portfolio section back to my site in 2015, but the Wayback Machine can’t retrieve screenshots from that year. In 2016 I’ve added some nautical flags for my initials to the header, and WM can fetch screenshots, but not all the CSS. So the capture looks a bit janky.
2013 Version
![A home page featuring a feed of blog posts, most recently announcing the release of a new project called Badass Lady Creatives. My logo at the top is a geometric vector drawing of a girlish head with a bun and glasses, done in a coral red.](/assets/images/content/melanierichards-2013-home-s.webp)
Looks like I went to a blog-style home page for a bit!
Older
Anything older than 2013 seems to have been too old for the Wayback Machine to have captured accurately, but I had a full portfolio up on my site in those years.