Changelog: Hugo Development and Blog Updates

v3.4.7 — 2026-06-04

Added

• New page called /⁠style-guide that showcases visual elements

Improved

• Mastodon embeds now are cached in data/mastodon/POSTID.json reducing the need to fetch from Mastodon API on every build
  • Requires manually running curl -s "<https://INSTANCE/api/v1/statuses/POSTID>" > data/mastodon/POSTID.json creating the .json cached data file
  • Bash script runs weekly check to fetch updates

v3.4.6 — 2026-06-03

Added

• New tabs shortcode from Hugo Book theme

Improved

• Use a class for floating images, float-left or float-right

Removed

• Unused front matter parameters

v3.4.5 — 2026-06-01

Improved

• Support integrated Mastodon comments on single notes and likes pages
  • Update comments partial to read from two types of params (manual and Indiekit), extracting the necessary variables to form the URL used to fetch comments via Mastodon’s API

v3.4.4 — 2026-05-31

Added

• New section on homepage called Notes Stream that displays the last three notes in a <details> element
  • A short, pure JavaScript is added to improve UX by only keeping one element opened at any one time

Changed

• Remove styling of the Top 10 section on the homepage to a plain text ordered list of links

Improved

• Revamp the Firehose page
  • Better responsive UX
  • Limit each entry on a single line (previously the meta section would be wrapped on the next line causing an inconsistent look)
  • Add syndication links to Mastodon for all post types with param present in front matter (previously only supported Indiekit generated content and not manual syndication content)

v3.4.3 — 2026-05-29

Added

• Add pre-deploy script step to check the status of the draft parameter of Markdown content, preventing accidentally publishing anything else other than draft = false (i.e. ready to post)

v3.4.2 — 2026-05-18

Fixed

• Copy code button only worked when syntax highlighting was present (i.e. the language was recognized)
• For the publishing spread, use stats from all post type, not just long-form content (weeknotes, blog articles & pages)

Changed

• Start using a Pagefind config file instead of command line flags
• Updated mentions of Tuta as my email provider to Mailbox.org

v3.4.1 — 2026-05-13

Improved

• Start using a config file for Pagefind (/pagefind.toml) for better exclusion by using a class .no-index instead of the the built-in attribute, <div data-pagefind-ignore="all">
  • This fixes XML feed validator issues as data-pagefind-ignore is not a valid attribute
  • Add missing exclusions to index/list pages to clean up duplicate results
• Include all content (adding likes, notes, photos) to the graphs under Publishing Spread instead of only including long-form content, i.e. pages, posts (articles), weeknotes

v3.4 — 2026-05-09

Added

• New CSS class,plain-text, to remove default heading styling, used for /⁠changelog page making it more readable

v3.3.9 — 2026-05-07

Improved

• New codeblock style in dark red

  • More streamlined look, copy code button now at the top along with code language (no longer cluttering / covering the code)
  • Tested on Safari and Firefox

  

v3.3.8 — 2026-05-05

Changed

• Home page ASCII art now has caption, improve style responsiveness of on mobile
• Update home page blurb and subtitle
• Hide Noticeboard and Embracing IndieWeb section under <details> element

v3.3.7 — 2026-05-03

Changed

• Update robots.txt to cover latest bots and scrapers
• Add Bing specific opt-out of AI training with <meta name="robots" content="noarchive">

v3.3.6 — 2026-04-30

Fixed

• Update deprecated language methods and config for Hugo v0.158

Improved

• New blockquote style (with red double border square bracket)
• Header has new cursor blinker (off when prefers-reduced-motion is true)
• If Markdown headings are used in notes, use that for “psudo-title generation” instead of truncating the beginning of .Content

Changed

• Add Related block to single Note pages

v3.3.5 — 2026-04-26

Added

• Sparkline charts on /⁠stats and at the bottom of every Hugo section, i.e. post type index pages (IndieWebCamp: Düsseldorf 2026)
• Join new webring: Polyring

v3.3.4 — 2026-04-24

Added

• New /⁠contact method: XMPP
• Create a separate/dedicated XML feed for Notes
  • Use XSLT to give the XML feed a styled look in the browser

Changed

• Firehose Atom feed now includes full-text not just summary

Fixed

• Update Site.Data to hugo.Data for Hugo deprecations for v.0.156

v3.3.4 — 2026-04-22

Fixed

• Severe bug causing all HTML attributes to have missing quote marks " after running `hugo –minify

  • Add this to hugo.toml to stop quote marks from being removed:

    1[minify]
    2  [minify.tdewolff]
    3    [minify.tdewolff.html]
    4    keepQuotes = true

v3.3.3 — 2026-04-20

Changed

• Use self-hosted Indiekit server instead of Render.com

v3.3.2 — 2026-04-18

Improved

• Automate OG image generation for weeknotes to auto-fill date details using ISO dates

v3.3.1 — 2026-04-17

Improved

• Significant update to /⁠stats page with additional graphs and stat cards
  • Total reading time
  • New cumulative word count line graph
  • Monthly patterns
  • Treemap chart for tags
  • Radar chart for day of the week patterns

Fixed

• Broken Mastodon inline comments due to DOMPurify failing after Hugo minification
  • Update to latest version 3.4
  • Use non-minified version in static/js

v3.3 — 2026-04-15

Added

• New Mastodon embed shortcode (first use in 2026-W15)
  • Data fetched at build time with resource.GetRemote using Mastodon API (/api/v1/statuses/ID)
  • No JS, runtime calls, reliance on third-party services
  • Supports OG image display
• New Mastodon Helper popup when Mastodon links are clicked (JS needs to be enabled) to help users open link on their instance
• New backend Python script to help generate Markdown links used in /⁠weeknotes Link Roundup sections
• New JS time zone widget on /⁠contact page

Improved

• Migrate to HTTP API instead of SFTP for uploading to Bunny Storage (affiliate link)
• Add <noscript> warnings where appropriate for JS-off visitors
• Increase spacing and improve readability of /⁠colophon table

v3.2.8 — 2026-04-09

Added

• Create local Bash script to handle deployment to static host (SourceHut CI down from DDoS)

Improved

• Simplify SourceHut .builds.yml manifest by utilizing a Makefile to handle script tasks -img shortcode now supports SVG (for D2 Lang generated diagrams as Mermaid.js gets transitioned out)

v3.2.7 — 2026-04-08

Added

• New blockquote style for inline quotes with new bitmap font (Spleen)

v3.2.6 — 2026-03-24

Added

• humans.txt andhuman.json. Links: humans.txt and human.json protocol

Fixed

• Increase spam protection on forms

v3.2.5 — 2026-02-24

Changed

• Fork Anubis2 Hugo theme and migrated custom overrides (will be managing my own Hugo forked theme going forward)

v3.2.4 — 2026-02-20

Added

• New partial that generates titles for title-less post types, e.g. likes, notes

Improved

• Streamline comments block

v3.2.4 — 2026-02-18

Added

• New Hugo section: /⁠likes
• New 88x31 button for Kagi Small Web
• New flourish shortcode with a lightbulb + plant design (CC0 licence for SVG)

Improved

• Add numbered list to 100DaysToOffload
• Use minimal hCard (microformats) for all pages for use with Webmentions
• Use better placeholder text for forms

Fixed

• Exclude ASCII art and terminal emulator art from Pagefind
• Global update to punctuation. Colon of bolded text should also be bold, e.g. **Note:** and not **Note**:
• Bunny CDN edge rule for adding trailing slash to all site pages broke Pagefind (fixed by excluding `/pagefind/)

v3.2.3 — 2026-02-14

Added

• PGP public key under Email on /⁠contact page
• New /⁠guestbook page
• Missing OG images for some pages

Fixed

• Improve usage for multiple static forms (contact and guestbook)

v3.2.2 — 2026-02-11

Added

• Join Retronaut webring
• Create terminal emulator style codeblock for displaying ASCII art / graphics, e.g. /⁠caw page
• New ASCII art profile picture on homepage

Improved

• Use fix width and height for feed image badges on /⁠subscribe

v3.2.1 — 2026-02-03

Improved

• Metadata section on single photo template

v3.2 — 2026-02-01

Added

• Refine and add metadata to the previously basic (and buggy) single photo template
  • Support multiple image per photo post using a CSS-only carousel
    • Support keyboard arrow key navigation
    • Large tap area on the left and right of photo on mobile/desktop
    • Have dots as indicator of which image you’re viewing (it is also clickable)
    • Display a small number on top right on grid view to indicate a photo is a multi-photo post
  • Add metadata at the bottom of the single photo post card (responsive design)
  • Full details + screenshots in Weeknote 2026-W05

Fixed

• Locations metadata from Indiekit-generated front matter were not readable by Hugo for auto-creating taxonomy and term pages
  • Require use of data/locations.yaml to help with place name rendering/capitalization on term pages
  • Extract location information to generate a Hugo-compatible parameter: locations = [country-name/locality-name]

v3.1.2 — 2026-01-29

Added

• Add webring.fun to webring collection

Improved

• Use weight parameter broke ranges—set descending date explicitly to bypass weight sorting
• Use a termux.toml specific config file to bypass Hugo image processing for hugo server to work on Termux (read my guide on using Hugo on Android)

v3.1.1 — 2026-01-27

Improved

• Use weight = <number> in front matter of posts that are popular = true, to rank/order content in the Top 10 section on the home page

• Add legend and custom layout for the #100DaysToOffload page

Removed

• https://wildwild.directory/ from web badge section (502 Bad Gateway/site doesn’t exist any more)

v3.1 — 2026-01-18

Backend

• Incorporate Indiekit/Micropub-created content into my existing blog content
  • Use Bash scripts locally and added step in .build.yml (CI) to fetch and sync content from the Indiekit content store to the Hugo content repo, before the Hugo build step
  • Include auto commit step after fetch

Content

• New slash page: /contributions to log open source projects

Feature

• Auto-generate truncated content as title for note post types (from Indiekit) as they do not have title fields

v3.0.5 — 2026-01-10

Feature

• Create progress element to track 100DaysToOffload

• Use sr-only class to have elements semantically labelled or for improved WCAG/a11y, but invisible on the frontend (sr means screen reader)

1.sr-only { position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; padding: 0; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); clip-path: inset(50%);white-space: nowrap; border: 0; } 

Style

• Improve Mermaid diagram styles and readability, see examples

v3.0.4 — 2026-01-06

Style

• Change style of Noticeboard section on home page

v3.0.3 — 2026-01-04

Feature

• Move light/dark mode (theme switcher) from footer to the header (nav bar), which changes the icon (moon/sun) depending on which mode you’re on
  • Add a subtle CSS glow effect to make it stand out more

• Add Apache Echarts line chart for yearly trends and stat cards on the /⁠stats page

• Add a partial age-warning.html that displays a warning message when a post is over 1 year old and is tagged as technical = true

• If a post has been updated, display last modified date on the /⁠blog archive page

v3.0.2 — 2026-01-01

Content

• New /⁠all Firehose page, with colour labelled post types, custom styling, with Microformat conventions (h-entry, h-feed)

Bugfix

• Improve copy code button on code blocks
• Whitespace removed in render-link markup template

Style

• Update social links buttons in footer (e.g. add IndieWeb, Codeberg)

v3.0.1 — 2025-12-27

Content

• New /⁠sitemap page
• Add new /⁠photos and /⁠notes pages to the top navigation (Explore dropdown menu), update /⁠about page with new content types

v3.0 — 2025-12-25

Note:

v3.0 marks the start of actively incorporating IndieWeb building blocks with Indiekit as the backend

Feature

• Add Indiekit Micropub server endpoints for Micropub client support
• New Hugo taxonomy: locations
• New Hugo section: notes, photos

v2.9.1 — 2025-12-23

Bugfix

• Fix incorrect range loop (heatmap calendar) over all regular.pages resulted in 96 repeated datapoints

v2.9 — 2025-12-20

Feature

• Upgrade layout/template structure to Hugo’s new template system (v.146)
• Improve the Hugo logic and conditionals of the recent/related posts partial at the bottom of pages
• Add HTML5 Validator badge to web badge collection

Bugfix

• Remove LibSass (deprecated by Hugo) and change to DartSass
  • Add step to install DartSass in CI on SourceHut
• Implement correct HTML semantics on baseof.html

Style

• Move web badges/buttons from homepage only to a collapsible widget in the footer

v2.8.3 — 2025-12-14

Feature

• Start using comments (invisible on the frontend) in Markdown content for reminders of to-dos mentioned in posts
• Add a table to the RSS/Atom /⁠subscribe page for better clarity between the different feeds offered
• Download shields.io SVG buttons for local use (Cloudflare Dec 2025 outage caused the icons to go blank)

Bugfix

• Mermaid diagrams not loading colours correctly
  • Big improvement to Mermaid diagrams (colour theme, styles)
  • Use a single colour theme, “base”, as that is the only one that supports custom colors
  • Change to mermaid.tiny.js instead of the modular.esm.js (not using CDN)
• skip-main link (a11y) was wrongly deactivated with display: none

A11y (Accessibility)/WCAG

• Improve WCAG colour contrast ratio to be ≥ 7:1 site wide
• Fix WAVE scan errors
• Use a11y-dark code syntax highlighting theme

v2.8.2 — 2025-12-10

Feature

• Add a noscript message for features requiring JS (e.g. email obfuscation, iine like/upvote button, Mastodon comments)
• Use Lychee to find orphan links with Python script
• Improve the look of heading anchor links

Bugfix

• Add relevant PageFind ignore <div> to cleanup search results

  • Update Pagefind styling

• Fix failing anchor link scrolling to the correct location due to lazy image loading (shifting the page)

  • Add a step to fetch the height of images to block off the space so links jump to the correct header location

v2.8.1 — 2025-12-07

Feature

• Output a JSON file of latest posts for fetching & displaying on my secondary blog
• Add the readership survey link to the homepage
• Create vocabulary cards for use in weeknotes

Bugfix

• Fix “Avoid non-composited animations” error in PageSpeed tests re: underline animation

v2.8 — 2025-12-04

Feature

• Add iine upvote button to bottom of pages (above comments section) for simple appreciation for readers

Bugfix

• Resolve intermittent failure (Firefox only) of anchor fragment scrolling. (No problems in Safari and Chromium browsers.) Fix using short inline script before the end of </body> with requestAnimationFrame to scroll reliably to the right heading anchor point (e.g. /#heading)
• Fix lone/ophan punctuation with CSS
• Fix “phantom link hover” on mobile devices with CSS (excluding rules with pointer: coarse)
• Fix buggy footnote indentation that broke when links are present (remove text-indent CSS rules)
• Resolve inability to select text in code blocks and prevent text selection on line numbers
• Similar to the jump-to-top button not working due to uBlock Origin, an image with the name of cloudflare_analytics.webp was blocked from showing in a post about Cloudflare
  • Fix by renaming image

Style

• Improve readability of comments section—increase padding, link styling, more info about manual webmentions
• Remove external link SVG animation when hovering over a link—too distracting and shifts text which is not desirable
  • Small SVG icon is visible all the time for any links that are external
• Simplify footnote styling
• Remove slight zoom-in when hovering over images—replace with glow border
• Reduce indent in lists
• New weeknote OG image style

Backend

• Improve OG image generation script to version 2 which improves on automation
• Use PNG instead of WEBP for Open Graph images

v2.7.2 — 2025-11-25

Feature

• New share buttons at the top of posts (Mastodon, X, Bsky, Email, Email, RSS, Copy-URL)
  • Mastodon share uses Advanced Sharer to Mastodon—no Javascript, all user data is only stored locally on user’s own browser, open-source
• Join webrings and add expandable widget to footer to display typical webring nav

Backend

• Improve img shortcode to read from static folder as well, but skip image processing/fingerprinting
• Create new OG image workflow using D2 and Bash script to generate images offline

Style

• Make theme switcher button at footer stand out
• Center site link element in default OG image
• Use non-breaking space for links with SVGs
• Improve comment section by using <li> instead of <p> and <br>, add padding, background separation

Misc.

• Add IRC to /⁠contact page
• Improve instructions for using webmentions

v2.7.1 — 2025-11-14

Feature

• New tag cloud design for term pages, using tutorial from Alvaro Montoro, varying size and opacity determined by post count.

v2.7 — 2025-11-13

Pages

• Update /⁠subscribe page with latest feed options, with badge buttons
• Keep styles consistent between the two archive pages (/⁠weeknotes and /⁠blog)

Backend

• Fix corrupted .git/refs with .DS_Store files

• Stop email obfuscate (JS) method from generating false href links

• Add partial for fingerprinting + minifying JS assets

• Move JS, CSS, images that require Hugo Pipes processing from static > assets directory

• Exclude RSS auto generation by Hugo outputs config for sections by overriding with front matter settings

• Pagefind was not configured properly from the beginning

  • Remove repeated search terms due to incorrect HTML structure of post tags
  • Clean up results page with one one link to the page when multiple results appear on one page
  • Exclude terms and taxonomy pages from search results

  

• Improve XML feed auto-discovery by using correct <link rel="alternate"> tags

• Fix cache-control headers for XML and HTML content using Edge rules on Bunny.net (affiliate link)

Feature

• New bash script (using D2lang) for generating different style Open Graph images for:
  • Weeknotes
  • Regular posts
• New Python script to automate watermarking (much improved workflow with higher quality), image compression, and conversion to webp format

Style

• New subtitle on homepage below H1 title
• New footer design with social link icons, removing the “find me elsewhere” card appended on the bottom of pages and posts
• Swap ‘Contact’ from header with ‘Subscribe’ in footer

v2.6 — 2025-11-02

Content

• Publish my first weeknote—a new post type on BurgeonLab

Style

• New hidden web badge section at the bottom of the homepage
• New carbon footprint custom web badge with dropdown menu (only HTML+CSS)

Backend

• New feature: Add JSON-LD structured data (aka schema markup) used by search engines to homepage and other pages
• Create new Hugo section / post type for upcoming Weeknotes:
  • Dedicated Atom feed
  • List template
  • Archetype template

Bugfix

• Mastodon verification failed, rel=“me” cannot be joined with other attributes
• Jump to top button disappeared—blocked by uOrigin as “cosmetic annoyances” (updated tutorial)
• Declare @font-face rules only once in critical.css (inline)
• Fix “force reflow” PageSpeed error caused by render-codeblock and copy-code.js

v2.5.1 — 2025-10-27

Style

• Found lightweight, variable font alternatives similar to Monaspace Krypton and Firava. Replace with Kode Mono and Nokora, saving about 200KB
• Fallback to system font stacks

Backend

• Update canonical URL to non-www domain instead of www and update redirect rules
• Add cache-control headers
• Add HSTS security response headers, considering preload list submission
• Compress web badges, use .png instead of .webp for og:image as it is more widely supported
• Use CSS only method to fix FOUC
• Improve PageSpeed score to 100% x4 on both mobile and desktop
• Fix all HTML validation errors on W3C
• Fix CLS issues, correct use of preloading resources, inline critical CSS

Feature

• Due to savings with font changes, burgeonlab.com is now in the orange team of 512KB.club, clocking in at 151KB

v2.5 — 2025-10-11

Feature

• Add a CSS-only loading spinning animation for contact form submit button
• Add post counter to heatmap calendar and move heading above year buttons

Style

• Simplify link hover underline CSS animation, stop relying on psudo-elements
• Make buttons more responsive (i.e. full width) on mobile devices

Backend

• Switch to W3’s critical css generator instead of npm critical
• Fix FOUC bug related to theme-switcher script

v2.4 — 2025-10-06

Feature

• Join two new web communities (darktheme.club and cookiezero)
• Additional web badges at the bottom of the home page
• Add SourceHut builds badge and tooltip with last deployed date

Style

• Render hook customized for links and headings:
  • SVG suffix added for external links on hover
  • Opens on new tab only for external links with security attributes to prevent clickjacking
  • New hover response for heading permalinks with simple CSS animation highlight/fade when a heading is clicked
  • Heading permalink SVG allows for quick “copy link” (but no auto copy as I didn’t want to rely on JS)
• Simplify post info section (i.e. date, revised date, word count, read time)

Backend

• Change all internal links from ref shortcodes to standard Markdown with render hook processing
• Update README.md with more information
• Add section indexes to pages and posts
• New dedicated /⁠support page, add image banners for referral/affiliate links, simplify support message partial with links to this new page

v2.3 — 2025-09-19

Feature

• GitHub-style heatmap calendar on /⁠archive showing days where posts were published, with the colour range being the length of the post (number of words)

• Put contact links into a dedicated /⁠contact page with the addition of a new method: contact form (with Formspark.io)

  • Remove social links from home page, but kept them at the bottom of posts and pages

• Navigation bar:

  • Add a CSS-only submenu (based on the hidden checkbox hack/method)
  • Add a home icon next to search for usability

Backend

• Create ATOM feed with full text instead of the existing RSS feed with only short summaries (will keep both for reader to decide which to subscribe to)

v2.2 — 2025-08-13

Backend

• Migrate blog source code / Git hosting to SourceHut (from GitHub)

• Transfer GitHub Pages and GH Action CI/CD workflow to SourceHut Builds

• Replace free hosting on GitHub Pages (using their included Fastly CDN) to Bunny.net Storage and Bunny CDN

Style/Formatting

• New post-cards design, simplified border and delineate the area with post information

• Improve site logo readability (thanks Adam for the tip on changing the bottom text right-side-up) and new design for default Open Graph image

• Add badges section and support-me section to home page

Speed Optimization

• Improve load speed by reducing total number of requests by combining CSS, JS into bundles
• Start using critical.css for improving render times

v2.1.2 — 2025-07-26

• Join 512kb.club at 455kb
• Tidy up implementation of PageFind
• Improve .png and .webp image compression
• Remove all series and created new ones with broader subjects or themes, so tags and series don’t overlap in function

v2.1.1 — 2025-06-23

Styling/Formatting

• Simplify top navigation bar by moving all social link icons to its own section on the home page

• Add box-shadow to the nav bar, post-cards, social-links

Feature

• Create new separate section for pages, link to /⁠pages in top menu
• Update all links to have noopener, nofollow and target="_blank"

Pages

• Add custom 404 error page

v2.1 — 2025-06-21

Styling/Formatting

• Increase color contrast of light & dark themes according to WCAG compliance levels for improved readability and accessibility

• New tree style on Posts Archive page

• Streamlined nav bar/header, takes up less vertical space

• Footnote indentation convention as per Vancouver/AMA styling, i.e., indent only on second and subsequent lines
• Passing underline link hover effect from css-tricks

Feature

• Post comments: Comments can be left on blog posts using a Mastodon/Fediverse account (modified base code from Carl Schwan)
• Pull recent posts from other blogs: Add script to home page template fetching latest posts from two of my other blogs (Hugo and WordPress)
• /tags and /series pages: Use display: grid for tags and series links instead of just one long list that is not responsive
• Remove external dependencies: Host fonts, icons, css, js locally

Content

• /colophon, /about, /changelog: Expand upon original /about to separate pages. /⁠colophon covers website technicalities, /⁠about covers general information, /⁠changelog covers changes to the site over time.

v2.0.1 — 2025-05-26

Style/Formatting

• Footer menu: Add links to footer menu with custom icons (Home, RSS feed, Theme switcher)
• Fonts: Change fonts from .ttf to variable .woff2, add preloading, use minor third scale for headings, switch from Fira Sans to Firava & Inconsolata to Monaspace Krypton
• Mobile view: Optimize font sizing, margins, word-wrap, etc

Bugfix

• RSS: Fix failed validation, improve intraoperability, optimize feed, add images, correct author details, pubDate error
• Permalinks: Fix broken links due to changing permalink structure, add explicit slug and alias setting to front matter, add trailing slash in baseURL in hugo.toml
• Favicon: Favicons must be in the root of /static

Features

• Add light mode
• Pagefind search: Add search functionality with npx -y pagefind --site public on build
• Post info: Add word count, read time and last mod date
• Front matter: Add summary to be used in post-cards

v2.0 — 2025-04-27

Style/Formatting

• Customize blockquotes

Feature

• Add GoatCounter analytics

Pre 2.0

I only started using Git to record my changes some time in 2025; which is why I don’t have any logs of what I did. Screenshots below are from the WayBack Machine, by the Internet Archive.

v1 — 2025-06-03

I switched to my current theme (as of 2026), which was the second theme I’ve used for this site, in 2025. It’s called Anubis2.

v0.5 — 2023-12-31

I remember the first theme I started using Hugo with was Anatole, a minimal two-column theme.