User-visible changes to squalr.us, newest first. Format loosely follows Keep a Changelog and the site uses semver — see BACKLOG.md for how each backlog item gets versioned and migrated here.

[1.0.0] — 2026-05-30

The first versioned release — a full cyberpunk redesign, plus the backlog / changelog / versioning workflow the site now runs on. The story is its own blog post.

Added

  • Cyberpunk homepage redesign. An arcade-pixel hero (Press Start 2P) with a neon flicker on the lit word and a blinking cursor, a textured background (dot grid, horizon glow, CRT scanlines, vignette), project cards with screenshot-or-generated-terminal banners and corner-bracket hovers, color-coded status badges, and projects ↔ posts cross-linking ("◇ N field notes" on cards, project chips on posts). Teal / cyan / ember neon on blue near-black. (themes/squalr/layouts/index.html, themes/squalr/assets/css/)
  • Configurable hero. The kicker, heading lines, lit neon word, subtitle, status, and flavor chip all come from config.yaml (params.hero) — wrap a word in {braces} to make it the lit word, end a line with . for the ember dot. (config.yaml)
  • Project galleries + featured images. A project can carry a featured image (card banner + detail hero) and a captioned gallery on its detail page; image-less projects get an auto-generated faux-terminal banner (driven by an optional terminal: frontmatter block) instead of a blank box. (themes/squalr/layouts/partials/)
  • Public changelog + backlog + a version. /changelog and /backlog render straight from the root CHANGELOG.md / BACKLOG.md at build time, and the footer shows a version chip read from the top of this changelog — no separate version constant.

Changed

  • New type + color system. Space Grotesk (body), JetBrains Mono (code / labels), and Press Start 2P (arcade headers), with the whole site moving to the teal (#2ee6c8) / cyan (#37c0ff) / ember (#ff8a3c) palette on #0a0e12. (themes/squalr/assets/css/)
  • Projects support arbitrary links beyond repo / demo, and the squalr.us project now lives at a clean /projects/squalr-us/ instead of /projects/https/.

Fixed

  • Pagination paginates at 15 — it was silently defaulting to 10 from a flat pagination.pagerSize config key Hugo never read. (config.yaml)
  • SCSS theme colors compile again — restored the resources.ExecuteAsTemplate step a stale build cache had been masking, along with CSS fingerprinting. (themes/squalr/layouts/_default/baseof.html)

Build and CI changes a site reader wouldn’t notice — the Hugo 0.162.1 pin (local + CI), the SCSS migration to Dart Sass 1.100.0, the GA4 migration, and the GitHub Actions bumps — live in TECH-STACK-AUDIT.md and git history, not here.