Changelog

2024

Nov 2024

Renamed the “is” section to “Currently”.

Aug 2024

Started getting my product management work at Webflow up on the site, starting with Tiny but mighty updates.

July 2024

Added an Observing Nature page, mostly for my bird identifications with Merlin app. This likewise uses the Airtable API, as Merlin/eBird only enables you to export personal data as a CSV (rather than directly providing an API).
Added a Watching page, for movies I’ve been watching. This uses the rss-parser npm package to parse my Letterboxd RSS feed. Notably, this only gets the most recent “diary” entries, vs an exhaustive list.
Added a Listening page, for music I’ve been listening to. This includes tracks-of-the-year playlists on Tidal, as well as a list of live shows I’ve marked as attended on Setlist.fm. The latter uses Setlist’s API.

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. Learn more about how I built this

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 <pre> 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.