After a little bit of thought, I've decided to retire the anime section of the site. It was fun while it lasted, but it was just a little too niche.. and honestly, I needed the space for something that better reflects what I actually do day to day.
In its place, I've added a brand new My Kit section. This is where I'll be listing the hardware, software, tools and general setup I use on a daily basis, everything from my PC specs and dev tools to my networking gear. If you've ever been curious about what's powering the chaos behind the scenes, now you can find out.
🔃 Project Ordering
Projects are now orderable via a drag and drop system on the admin side. Previously I was manually entering a numerical order value for each project, which.. let's be honest was a bit of a silly system. You can now just grab a project and drag it into position. Small change, big improvement to my sanity.
🖼️ Gallery Compression & Conversion
Image uploads to the gallery now go through an automatic compression and conversion pipeline. Any image uploaded, regardless of its original format is now converted to AVIF, which offers significantly better compression than JPEG or PNG without any noticeable loss in quality. This should help keep storage usage down as the gallery grows.
🙈 Gallery Category Visibility
Previously, hiding certain categories from the public gallery (like Blog and Project images which are internal) was hardcoded.. meaning every time I wanted to block a category I had to dig into the code and add it manually. That's now been replaced with a proper hidden toggle on each gallery category. Much cleaner, and no more touching code just to hide an image category.
Small steps, but the site is quietly getting better under the hood. More to come.
- Sloth