Site updates

This is the developer log for devel.tech.

March 2021Link to section

March, 20th, 2021Link to section

• Move from django to gatsby
• Move from reStructuredText to Markdown

February 2020Link to section

February 1st, 2020Link to section

• Update Django to 3.x

December 2019Link to section

December 29th, 2019Link to section

pipenv -> poetry

Based:

Is gone. Anything remaining has been ported directly into the codebase.

Remove dependencies on django.contrib.auth.

December 28th, 2019Link to section

Based:

• Decouple into python package
• Port over ux from based -> this website

December 27th, 2019Link to section

• Remove auth (user registration, accounts), taxonomy

Based:

• Open source reStructuredText parts into tony/django-docutils

• Remove stock-assets, saaskit, gfx, taxonomy

  These were tangled ORM parts / constrained by templates

December 7th, 2019Link to section

Based:

• Update npm packages, including raw-loader
• Minor python package updates

November 2019Link to section

November 29th, 2019Link to section

Based:

• npm package updates

November 28th, 2019Link to section

Based:

• Remove TOML lexer, pygments includes already
• Fix regular expression issue effecting code snippets

November 17th, 2019Link to section

Based / saaskit / develtech:

• flake8 fixes via autoflake, black, isort
• python 3.x updates via pyupgrade

October 2019Link to section

October 22nd, 2019Link to section

Based / Internal:

• Move webpack configs to typescript
• Update npm packages for bulma, etc.

develtech:

• Webpack: Use chunk splitting for django-webpack-loader
• Static files now served through cloudfront
• More python package updates

October 21st, 2019Link to section

• Update node-sass, fixes for node-12.x
• Update django and django-related packages
• Fixes to deployment scripts

August 2018Link to section

August 25th, 2018Link to section

Internal updates:

• Run python code through black
• Run JS code through prettier

July 2018Link to section

July 7th, 2018Link to section

Internal updates:

• Update Python dependencies
• Update a fixture for new pytest version

April 2018Link to section

April 28th, 2018Link to section

• Update bulma 0.6.2 to 0.7.1

April 8th, 2018Link to section

• Update webpack 3.x -> 4.x

March 2018Link to section

March 18th, 2018Link to section

• Update dependencies

March 6th, 2018Link to section

• Update Django (security release)

February 2018Link to section

February 24th, 2018Link to section

stock-assets

• Removed a couple of hard-to-see thumbnail backgrounds that didn’t jive with the color schemes

February 19th, 2018Link to section

devel.tech

• Update packages for django, pytest

January 2018Link to section

January 26th, 2018Link to section

saaskit

• stripe_mock:
  • Consolidate object storing methods to use generic functions to stay DRY (_add_object for high-level stripe object, and _add_customer_object for customer-bound objects)
  • Wrap functions in new wrapper
  • Remove unused fake data functions for sources
  • Rename factory to mock_api

January 25th, 2018Link to section

saaskit

• (stripe_mock) wire-in support for customer sources / card mocks:
  • lookup all sources for customer, including listing only bank and card
  • global lookvia via sources/
  • tweaks to regex patterns / capturing for URL’s
  • (internal) tweaks to pulling combined sources by customer id, and flattened output of all sources

January 24th, 2018Link to section

saaskit

• Rename mocking library to stripe_mock
• Begin support for mocking object listings, including ones tethered to customer objects
  • Subscriptions (globally)
  • Subscriptions per customer
  • Sources per customer
• Split functions/variables into modules: patterns, response_callbacks, and helpers
• Fix regular expression / base url patterns

January 23rd, 2018Link to section

saaskit

• Add support for mocking unavailable resources with a 404 using regexes
• Add add_callback helper function
• Initial tests for StripeMockAPI
• Add fake module for generating default mock billing responses
• StripeMockAPI learned to match URL patterns
• StripeMockAPI learned to give dynamic responses via callbacks

January 22nd, 2018Link to section

based

• ux
  • make title on articles bolder/italicized/darker
  • fix the background stretching on articles in grid layout
  • small touchups to whitespacing in grid layout

saaskit

• rename stripe_mock_responses to stripe_mock_api
• rename StripeResponses to StripeMockAPI
• begin writing tests for StripeMockAPI class

January 21th, 2018Link to section

saaskit

• Create a customer object to simulate a stripe API server via getsentry/responses.

based

• Articles in grid now use text + CSS to render titles

January 20th, 2018Link to section

based

• Upgrade jQuery to 3.3.0

saaskit

• Add tests / mocks for the other two callbacks on signup

January 19th, 2018Link to section

stock-assets

• remove more hard to see backgrounds

January 18th, 2018Link to section

open source (pytest-dev/pytest-django)

• pytest-dev/pytest-django#568
  • rebase against master
  • squash typo fixes
  • use django_ prefix for new fixtures (pytest-dev/pytest-django#432)

stock-assets

• remove hard-to see backgrounds

based

• switch to grid-style view for listing articles universally
• option to switch between grid and list view via sidebar (session-based)
• caching for thumbnail generation
• rudimentary scaling for thumbnails, in preparation for retina sizes

January 17th, 2018Link to section

based

• Add git-lfs dependency and setup command to deployment scripts
• New repository for stock graphics / licenses
• ux: New, super cool thumbnails for articles

January 16th, 2018Link to section

saaskit

• Split up tests for find_or_create_customer()
• Rename hooks to be more human-readable

January 15th, 2018Link to section

saaskit

• Move more functionality for discrepancy when billing to callbacks in settings
• More tests for for billing system and callback system
• Add pytest-mock for testing callbacks

based

• Remove Roboto webfont inclusion. Rely completely on system fonts

January 13th, 2018Link to section

• Create a customer find/create lookup
• Assert correct model send to customer lookup

January 12th, 2018Link to section

• Split up billing cases / inconsistencies into fixtures
• Create a function to resolve remote customer lookups
• Add utility function to lookup callbacks in SAASKIT_SETTINGS
• Allow functions in saaskit to be overwridden via settings at various levels / places. Maintains ability to override low-level exception cases, while allowing high-level functions to be switched out too.

January 11th, 2018Link to section

• Initial wiring in of exception framework for subscriptions and handling local / remote data discrepancies.

January 10th, 2018Link to section

• Update bulma to 0.6.2

January 9th, 2018Link to section

• Add customer_relation field to customer model
• Allow customer_relation to be nullable (toggle via setting)
• Create a settings getting for saaskit, falls back on default settings.
• Adjust article listings in Feature section to handle multiple rows
• Only show subtitle on feature listings if it exists

January 8th, 2018Link to section

• More tests for membership setup scenarios

January 7th, 2018Link to section

• Split ecommerce apps into “saaskit” package
• Split up saaskit subscribe fixtures
• New saaskit response fixtures for different cases
• Test case for initial response cases when creating a new membership

January 5th, 2018Link to section

• Tests for final step of wizard (backend)

January 4th, 2018Link to section

• Refactor: Switch from tokens to sources (long-lasting tokens) for billing
• Additional validations and tests for user objects
• More work on backend subscription system

January 3rd, 2018Link to section

• Initial tests to validate backend bundles/payment system

January 2nd, 2018Link to section

• Groundwork for backend of membership system
• Link to switch plans from within registration wizard

January 1st, 2018Link to section

• UX: add gradient image to bundle columns
• Migrate subscription page to BEM/ITCSS
• Support for months/yearly
• Link to switch between yearly/monthly in wizard
• Add a timer to generating shapes in thumbnails/hero images to prevent hangups

December 2017Link to section

December 31st, 2017Link to section

• Wire in initial support for yearly plan

December 30th, 2017Link to section

• Freeze submit button on ordering page while stuff processes
• Add progress bar to top of subscription wizard
• Make back button work on wizard
• UX: make login/register buttons full-width

December 28th, 2017Link to section

• Error notification if card/token invalid
• Tests for subscription wizard step 1 and 2

December 27th, 2017Link to section

• Sick day. Norovirus.

December 26th, 2017Link to section

• Update :site_url:open source page <site:open-source> page with new contributions to pytest-dev/pytest-django

December 25th, 2017Link to section

• Happy Holidays!

  I pray this 2018 I can sustain myself and work even harder.

• Get billing information successfully submitting in billing step

• Test for subscription wizard for users logged in and logged out

December 24th, 2017Link to section

• Theming for billing field
• Add name and phone number to billing step
• Tests for available bundles in subscription feature

December 23rd, 2017Link to section

• More helpful error messages for users
• Wire subscription plans in settings to wizard workflow
• Make more space for non-field errors on login/signup

December 22nd, 2017Link to section

• Fix issue where server error’s didn’t hook into exception pages
• Make subscription wizard compatible with authenticated and logged out users

December 21st, 2017Link to section

• Initial work on subscription wizard
• UX: Plan page with best plan

December 20th, 2017Link to section

• Initial work on subscription UX
• Footer overhaul, make more narrow, make copyright lighter color
• Fix 404 pages

December 19th, 2017Link to section

• Soft border around content
• Thinner scrollbars on bar Table of Contents menus

December 14-18th, 2017Link to section

• More work on Ecommerce support and testing for it

December 13th, 2017Link to section

• Initial Ecommerce support
• Run codebase through yapf

December 12th, 2017Link to section

• Improvements to robustness of favicon catching
• Tests for handling edge cases when prefetching favicons
• Support for drafts (unpublished) forms of posts

December 11th, 2017Link to section

• Simplify url generation for posts
• Split out favicon prefetching into separate module
• Tag version 3.1.0 of django-robots and django-model-utils

December 10th, 2017Link to section

• Add consistency checks for Post/PostPage models
• Refactor tests inside based to not rely on devel.tech code
• Isolate test settings from website settings
• Support for Amazon Native Ads

December 9th, 2017Link to section

• based: Post and PostPage are now abstract models
• based: Simplify Post -> PostPage connection, speeds up listing of posts

December 8th, 2017Link to section

• Improve performance on post lists by cutting number of queries by 75%
• Simplify post / page data schemas

December 7th, 2017Link to section

• Fix links in “related posts”
• Upgrade to Django 2.0
• New open source contributions:
  • jazzband/django-model-utils#298
  • jazzband/django-robots#83

December 4th, 2017Link to section

• Drop django treebeard/mptt
• Internal factorings of taxonomy system

December 3rd, 2017Link to section

• Massive internal refactors to simplify posts
  • Move off django-polymorphic
  • Simplify feature posts
  • Simplify templates when finding content type

December 2nd, 2017Link to section

• Finishing touches on new article: :postdjms3tTe
• Added documentation of tony/django-slugify-processor at https://django-slugify-processor.git-pull.com.

December 1st, 2017Link to section

• Switch slugification in based to use tony/django-slugify-processor

November 2017Link to section

November 30th, 2017Link to section

• More work on PJAX integration, merged into based

November 29th, 2017Link to section

• Add partial PJAX reloading to all pages on site
• Add progress bar for partial page reloads

November 28th, 2017Link to section

• Begin switching page components to BEM style

November 27th, 2017Link to section

• Split social sharing links and pagination into inclusion tags

November 26th, 2017Link to section

• Move social sharing feature into based
• Add social sharing buttons to post page

November 24th, 2017Link to section

• Normalize sidebar text size in based
• More updates to :postdjms3tTe
• New article: :posttMuXrSz9

November 23rd, 2017Link to section

• Have tables scroll resolutions smaller than widescreen

November 22nd, 2017Link to section

• Support for tables on tablet devices

November 21st, 2017Link to section

• Tweaks to image generation / thumbnail creation
• New article: :postdjms3tTe

November 19th, 2017Link to section

• based learned command to prefetch favicons
• checking for favicons on documents now builds a query to get results faster

November 18th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Support for favicon downloading
• Internal: refactor based.applications to based.app
• Move cross-reference node/transforms to based.app.references

November 17th, 2017Link to section

• More efforts to improve resiliency of rST fixture imports
  • assure creation dates, modified dates, and slug titles stick if manually specified
  • reduce complexity of code for loading m2m relations into models
• Reduce complexity of visit_title in Writer
• Move filtering / search logic to models
• Fix filtering logic to include all ancestors, instead of just root taxonomy, for available filters.

November 16th, 2017Link to section

• rST Fixtures learned to import time of day
• Refactor text extraction and their tests into separate modules
• Split metadata processors into a pipeline, configurable via settings
• Refactor reStructuredText post and page publishers
• Internal: adjust linting setting for single quotes

November 15th, 2017Link to section

• Improvements to the resilience of fixture loading

November 14th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: refactor rST fixture system
  • rename rst.growth -> rst.fixtures
  • rename growth/ to fixtures/
• Improve ad injection to append to end of section, fix issue where ads could show up inside admonitions
• Add table of common terms to changes
• New role, :file:, supports files and directories, examples:
  • :file:`/root/ -> :file:/root/`
  • :file:`$HOME/vim/ -> :file:$HOME/vim/`
  • :file:`./vimrc -> :file:./vimrc`
  • :file:`./path/to/file -> :file:./path/to/file`
  • :file:`./path/to/directory/ -> :file:./path/to/directory/`
• New role: :exe:, for applications that are executable
  • :exe:`./node_modules/.bin/webpack -> :exe:./node_modules/.bin/webpack`
  • :exe:`/usr/bin/vim -> :exe:/usr/bin/vim`
• New role: :manifest:, for artifacts and configurations:
  • :manifest:`package.json -> :manifest:`package.json

November 13th, 2017Link to section

• Upgrade bulma to 0.6.1
• 301 Permanent redirect missing and mismatched slug_title’s to the correct slug.
• UX: Center align login form / sign up form
• UX: Remove “remember me” from login form
• UX: Use sans-serif font for :kbd:

November 12th, 2017Link to section

• Refactor ad injection
  • Inject ads at end of sections
  • Large posts: Only show ads if they content inside the section is ample enough
  • Small posts: If post isn’t a minimum length, don’t inject any ad

November 11th, 2017Link to section

• Tweak styling in table of contents:
  • bold sections being scrolled into, instead of changing bg
  • minor css3 transition when bolding active item
  • lessen padding to o allow more space for text / nested sections
• Internal: Refactor filtering / facet engine

November 10th, 2017Link to section

• New article: :posttMuXz2lj

November 9th, 2017Link to section

• Change pink highlight color to orange

November 8th, 2017Link to section

• Overhaul code-highlighting

  • Inline code snippets (e.g. {{this}}) are now processed through pygments, just like code blocks.

    {# this is a "code block" #}

  • CSS for highlighting code has been normalized, removing any ambiguity between code blocks and inline code

  • Automatic detection of inline code snippets via pygment’s guess_lexer, in addition to improved detection of jinja-style template languages, reStructuredText, and shell commands

  • Support for TOML <toml-lang/toml> code blocks

  • Retire highlight.js. Improves performance by lowering JS/CSS file size.

November 7th, 2017Link to section

• Port webpack configuration into based. This makes reusing common components from based easier down the road.
• Make :hn: icon orange: example <1>

November 6th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: pluarlize taxonomy-related relationships

• New feature: related posts

• Roles learned to emphasize text, example:

  :leanpub:`*The Tao of tmux* <the-tao-of-tmux> -> :leanpub:The Tao of tmux <the-tao-of-tmux>`

• New role: :url:. It behaves like a normal docutils link but allows emphasis and strong formatting. Examples:

  • :url:`https://google.com -> :url:`https://google.com
  • :url:`link <https://google.com> -> :url:`link <https://google.com>
  • :url:`*emphasized* <https://google.com> -> :url:emphasized <https://google.com>`
  • :url:`**strong** <https://google.com> -> :url:strong <https://google.com>`

November 5th, 2017Link to section

• Results from Amazon :amzn: roles are stored in the database and checked for before calling Amazon product API
• Internal: Refactor view logic to move reStructuredText publishing into the view. This prevents duplicate renders.
• Internal: Refactor reStructuredText to publish from a doctree and decouple function to publish doctree from source. This allows direct usage of a function to extract ToC/sidebar from doctree. This prevents additional duplicate renderings.
• Internal: Improve role loading mechanism
  • Better detection of function/class style roles
  • Make all roles local
• Move ad injections out of Writer and into a pure transform that’s applied when publishing html
• Performance: utilize @cached_property memoization in views to avoid redundance method calls
• Remove redundant db requests when pulling metadata
• Internal: Pulling post abstract information (for metadata, and protentially previews in the future) is now done via doctree
• Internal: split up post views into edit/detail/list

November 4th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Increase accuracy of intersphinx cross-reference resolution in cases where the same target is specified.
• Internal: Roles are now specific in settings as import strings. This makes roles optional for any website using the based library.
• Removing some unused docutils-related css
• Convert some doctuils-related CSS to SCSS
• Beginning on work to make remote roles, such as Amazon, more resilient:
  • Better error handling. If API connection with amazon fails, inline the error instead of crashing the page rendering.

November 3rd, 2017Link to section

• Tweaks to coloring / padding of inline code
• Tweaks to headers
• Tweaks to code blocks, initial space will no longer show after prompt
• Internal tweaks to docutils settings
• New role, :twitter:, examples:
  • :twitter:`@develdottech -> :twitter:@develdottech`
  • :twitter:`Follow us on Twitter <@develdottech> -> :twitter:`Follow us on Twitter <@develdottech>
• New role, :email:, examples:
  • :email:`user@localhost -> :email:`user@localhost
  • :email:`E-mail me <user@localhost> -> :email:`E-mail me <user@localhost>

November 2nd, 2017Link to section

• Ensure directory-based projects get timezone information

• Filtering by taxonomy now shows the topic, programming language, or platform in the URL

• Fix issues where filters would sometimes return duplicates

• Internal: Move slugification / lower-case special words to import_string statements in settings. This keeps devel.tech-specific code out of based.

• :kbd: role learned tp split sequential keys, example:

  :kbd:`prefix,a -> :kbd:`prefix,a

• New role: :amzn:, examples:

  • :amzn:`My book <B01MG342KU> -> :amzn:`My book <B01MG342KU>
  • :amzn:`0981467342 -> :amzn:`0981467342

• New role: :hn:, examples:

  • :hn:`15609402 -> :hn:`15609402
  • :hn:`A New Twist on Neural Networks <15609402> -> :hn:`A New Twist on Neural Networks <15609402>

• New role: :leanpub:, example:

  • :leanpub:`the-tao-of-tmux -> :leanpub:`the-tao-of-tmux
  • :leanpub:`The Tao of tmux <the-tao-of-tmux> -> :leanpub:`The Tao of tmux <the-tao-of-tmux>
  • :leanpub:`read for free online <the-tao-of-tmux:read> -> :leanpub:`read for free online <the-tao-of-tmux:read>

November 1st, 2017Link to section

• UX: Move icons to the left of links (used to be on right)
• New docutils role: :gh:, examples:
  • :gh:`develtech -> :gh:`develtech
  • :gh:`fabtools/fabtools#360 -> :gh:`fabtools/fabtools#360
• New wikipedia role: :wikipedia:, example:
  • :wikipedia:`baseball -> :wikipedia:`baseball
• New pypi role: :pypi:, example:
  • :pypi:`django -> :pypi:`django
• New ReadTheDocs.org role: :rtd:, examples:
  • :rtd:`django-compressor -> :rtd:`django-compressor
  • :rtd:`python-guide:dev/virtualenvs -> :rtd:`python-guide:dev/virtualenvs
• New role: :kbd:, example:
  • :kbd:`esc -> :kbd:`esc

October 2017Link to section

October 31st, 2017Link to section

• Posts learned to link to other posts via their slug_id. This paves the way for resilient interlinking between articles.
• Consolidate jobs and cv applications back into based

October 30th, 2017Link to section

• Improved error pages

October 29th, 2017Link to section

• Split JS devDependencies into based
• Template simplifications for sister website

October 27th, 2017Link to section

• Improvements to resilience of ToC menu javascript. Fix issue where scrollbar would show prematurely.
• Internal: Refactor posts to use pages centrally, this sets the way to make templating / editing for multiple pages smoother
• Fix titles pages

October 26th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Decouple reST transforms and directives to be configurable via django settings / class string imports
• Split up RST transforms into separate files
• Split up meta view mixins to separate files to avoid race condition
• Refactor based base template to work on a sister website also using based
• Port jquery, smooth-scroll, and ScrollMagic to based
• Split up highlighting and ToC scroll navigation into separate bundles
• Implement based base template and update page on HSKFlashCards

October 25th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Remove unused context processors
• Internal: Spruce up templatetags, move over tags to based
• Internal: Move over bulma and rst templates to based
• Improvements to ToC menus when refreshing at bottom of pages
• Fix: green coloring on buttons / notifications was lime
• Internal: conslidate sidebar layouts so we always use the one that shows up well on mobile.

October 24th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: More sprucing up of template tags
• Pagination at bottom of multi-page articles
• Improve reliability of scrolling menus when at bottom of page
• Start linting JS airbnb style

October 23rd, 2017Link to section

• Table of contents learned to handle multiple pages

October 22nd, 2017Link to section

• Posts learned to have multiple pages

October 21st, 2017Link to section

• Update codemirror to 5.31.0
• Move default position of ads lower in content

October 19-20th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: consolidation of RST libraries
  • Improvements to RST data imports
  • Initial work on preparing multi-page posts

October 18th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Improvements to intersphinx importing

October 17th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Rename “nodes” to “posts” to avoid conflict with django template nodes and docutils nodes
• More internal refactoring to use intersphinx links / references without sphinx
• Consolidate “Features” to use same components as other posts

October 16th, 2017Link to section

• Improvements to cross-site documentation referencing speed
• Improvements to rendering RST pages (caching)
• Improvements to cross-site linking parsing and display

October 15th, 2017Link to section

• Non-sphinx pages learned to process and use intersphinx cross-references.

October 14th, 2017Link to section

• Improved support for subtitles
• Fixed issue where ads would be injected in changelog
• Fix issue where roles weren’t added correctly to docutils
• Smarter ad suggestions
• Overhaul reStructuredText tags

October 13th, 2017Link to section

• Remove unused sections (news, ask, jobs) for now until backends are done.
• Internal: Move to fabric3 + fabtools fork
• Internal: Upgrade back to python 3
• Internal: Improvements to reStructuredText ad injector

October 12th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Migrate to Pipenv
• Internal: Deployment script updates for migrating
• Internal: Deployment script update for flushing redis
• Internal: Site fixtures learned how to import directories. This will be used in future content shared in open source repositories.

October 10th, 2017Link to section

• Update bulma to 0.6.0

October 9th, 2017Link to section

• Fix mobile/tablet view menu color
• Internal: More decoupling of based framework form templates and SASS.

October 8th, 2017Link to section

• Pages powered by reStructuredText learned to toggle ads off
• Updated open source page with sphinxcontrib-websupport contributions
• Internal: Split off based into separate repo
• Internal: More organization of fabric files

October 7th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Fabric scripts for deploying on Ubuntu servers

September 2017Link to section

September 27th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Continued on job index features HackerNews jobs

September 26th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Initial work on jobs section and database

September 25th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Initial GEOS support

September 24th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: Automated install of geographic entities (borders, cities, regions, countries) for use in job index / ads.

September 23rd, 2017Link to section

• Taxonomy system now allows multiple programming languages, topics, and platforms in posts
• Autocompletion for content labels (https://twitter.com/develdottech/status/911469450288918528)

September 22nd, 2017Link to section

• Fix issue with extra line above text when importing posts

September 19th, 2017Link to section

• Update bulma to 0.5.3

September 18th, 2017Link to section

• Split out CSS/JS between based and devel.tech
• Only load JS for highlighting / scrolling when required
• Handle special cases when capitalizing titles

September 17th, 2017Link to section

• Refactor of front-end CSS/JS into based project

September 16th, 2017Link to section

• Performance: Shrink front-end JS by 66%
• Redesign email address change page
• Internal: mammoth refactor of reuseable of reuseable components into new package

September 15th, 2017Link to section

• Internal: switch from npm to yarn
• Internal: Refactor UX assets
• Internal: Simplifications to deployment process

September 14th, 2017Link to section

• Fixes for dropdown menu on touch sizes
• Fixes for hero height in bulma 0.5.2
• Re-wire in CodeMirror
• Styling for CodeMirror when focused

September 11th, 2017Link to section

• Upgrade bulma to 0.5.2

September 9th, 2017Link to section

• (backend) Intersphinx pages on sphinx pages are now db-driven

September 7th, 2017Link to section

• Improved copying of shell snippets. You can now select shell statements without copying the prompt.
• Added syntax highlighting for inline code statements

September 6th, 2017Link to section

• Feature pages now show roaming table of contents (a long time in the making)

September 1st, 2017Link to section

• Improved support for content without sidears
• Performance: Improvements for static file serving
• External links on docutils-powered pages now show icon next to them

August 2017Link to section

August 31st, 2017Link to section

• Performance: Minify CSS

August 24th, 2017Link to section

• Major refactor underneath the hood to make way for “threads”, our comment / answer system.

August 22nd, 2017Link to section

• Initial improved search and filtering
  • You can now filter through the available topic, platform, and programming language of currently indexed content.
• Open source contributions to django-filter
  • PR #760
  • PR #761

August 21st, 2017Link to section

• New section: :site_url:Snippets <snippets:index>
• Hide ToC on content pages where they are empty empty

August 18th, 2017Link to section

• Fix initial height of scrolling table of contents
• Experiment with colored BG on desktop resolutions

August 16th, 2017Link to section

• CSS fixes for tab colors on main listing pages

August 11th, 2017Link to section

• Begin hollowing out sphinxcontrib-websupport for use in Features.

August 10th, 2017Link to section

• Additional tweaks for sticky navigation sidebars
• Add sticky table of contents to site changes
• Smooth scrolling for internal navigation links

August 9th, 2017Link to section

• More effort to slim down CSS footprint to make the site experience faster
• UX improvements to node content pages
• Add ToC to content pages on right sidebar (works with mobile)
• Section titles now show an link icon on mouseover + link to internal reference
• Content ToC’s learned to scroll and activate upon reaching sections (scrollspy)

August 8th, 2017Link to section

• UX tweaks to features listing, content listings
• More SEO tweaks (structured data)

August 7th, 2017Link to section

• Adjustments for future compatibility with AMP-powered pages.
• Styling adjustments for list items
• Update bulma from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1

August 6th, 2017Link to section

• Support for twitter cards and open graph
• Friendlier URLs for content
• OpenGraph support
• Sitemap

August 5th, 2017Link to section

• Add content-type/app colorings to labels
• Fix redirects upon editing / deleting content
• Fixes for docutils scss

August 4th, 2017Link to section

• Internal changes to initial seed data import system
• Internal changes to URL system
• Users can now delete their own posts
• Lights on! Site index now has a list of content
• More! User profiles now list content

August 3rd, 2017Link to section

• Add styling for select boxes
• Fix author submission tag
• Enhancements for slugs in titles and labels, e.g. C++ will slugify as cpp

August 2nd, 2017Link to section

• Redo classification system

  • Remove subjects

  • Add Platform (OS), Programming Language, and Topic

    These were picked because they are the three main diagnostic classifiers of technical issues.

• Remove attachments (for now)

• Internal tweaks to javascript packaging

August 1st, 2017Link to section

• Internal updates for data imports

  This is something you won’t see directly, but it will power the initial writings I plan to put on this website. All content will be organic and drawn up by me to assure the highest quality.

  To begin, we’ve created our firsts :site_url:tips <tips:index>.

July 2017Link to section

July 31st, 2017Link to section

• Update date format on node pages

July 30th, 2017Link to section

• Tweaks to profile sidebar
• Tweaks to docutils-related CSS

July 29th, 2017Link to section

• Improvements to JS/CSS generation
• Improvements to CDN (Use Amazon S3)
• Upgrade bulma 0.4.4 -> 0.5.0

July 27th, 2017Link to section

• Open source: improvements to django-activeurl
• UX improvements for change password, forgot passowrd, login, and sign up page

July 26th, 2017Link to section

• Convert rest of website to use bulma
• CSS flexbox fix to keep footer at bottom
• Re-organize footer layout
• Remove remaining bootstrap4 pages
• Rename Philosophy -> Values
• Internal update to color schemes

July 25th, 2017Link to section

• Fix bug where CSS wouldn’t be available on Question pages
• Fix bug where ?next= url would duplicate on login/signup pages
• Clean up internal docutils Table of Contents code
• Add Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

July 24th, 2017Link to section

• Begin theming forms for new site style
• Fixes for top navigation colors on active links
• Notifications with site style
• New update page for open source contributions

July 23rd, 2017Link to section

• Begin rework of site design framework from Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 -> Bulma.

  See also: Tweet about site redesign

  • Beginning converting updates pages
  • Top navigation styling

July 22nd, 2017Link to section

• Internal improvements to allow table of contents in sidebars for pages using reStructuredText

July 20th, 2017Link to section

• Redesign app-specific sublinks to be on their own line in the footer

July 19th, 2017Link to section

• Dropdown hover/active colors now match theme
• Dropdown items now have icons
• User profile link moved to dropdown
• Theme password change page
• Add notifications users add and change things

July 18th, 2017Link to section

• Updates to sign in form
• Add page for changing email and password
• Internal improvements for error monitoring

July 17th, 2017Link to section

• Page titles should work for all content types

July 16th, 2017Link to section

• Don’t show usernames for author-less posts.

July 15th, 2017Link to section

• Use section-based schemes on nodes (used to be subject-based)
• Prohibit invalid usernames

July 14th, 2017Link to section

• Site colors now change upon section instead of subject
• Add colors to icon on active sections
• Make default site color blue
• Get email working on sign up

July 12th, 2017Link to section

• The :site_url:values <site:values> page now uses reStructuredText.
• Added a role to cite reverse django url’s via docutils roles.
• Start consolidating color-related SASS into maps

July 11th, 2017Link to section

• Deal with loading fixtures on polymorphic models. Follow up on django-polymorphic #175

July 9th, 2017Link to section

• Initial changelog