Changelog — The life & works of Joshua Bartz

February 26, 2026

Articles & notes now sort reverse chronologically by "tended" (last updated) instead of original publish date
Fixed an issue where articles and notes were publishing to root directory instead of articles and /notes/ respectively

Added backlinks to article and note footers, generated on build
Heading permalinks are once again denoted with "§"
Bumped contrast on tomato colored bulletpoints and numbers
Fixed an issue where table of contents would slide into partial view if viewport was between 800 and 1200 pixels wide
Fixed an issue where table of contents would display as a two-column object when viewport was between 700px and 800px wide
Updated About page to explain site control scheme

We're calling it version 6.1 now
Fixed an issue where the webmaster broke caching, causing Netlify to re-deploy the entire site on every build
Fixed an issue where articles were appearing under Notes in the breadcrumb nav above the article title
Updated nunjucks calls to enable HTML attributes in frontmatter passthrough
Added my favorite-ever professional compliment to About page under "Career shtick"
Fixed an issue where OpenGraph images were not rendering special characters
Added notes to the RSS feed

Implemented speedlify.bartz.works for ongoing Lighthouse tests
Further revised styles and calls to other files to improve Lighthouse performance score
Better theme design
Implemented a table of contents on articles with two or more H2 headings
Implemented scroll tracking to highlight currently viewed section in table of contents
Implemented anchor links in all h2 and h3 article headings
Implemented main nav button highlighting when page.url starts with name of section, respectively

Launched v6 beta! Just don't call it a comeback.
Implemented an "under construction" banner in the primary page template on build
New color scheme, featuring shadows and lighting effects with standard CSS
OpenGraph image generation brought in-house. Design is not final.
Replaced Inconsolata with IBM Plex Mono
Introduced "Now" page
Introduced "Garden" area
Introduced "Library" area
Introduced "Notes" format
Renamed Writing to Articles
Moved "Reading" and "Listening" to "Library"
Fixed an issue where logos on About page were not displaying correctly based on user's light or dark mode preferences (switched to dark mode logo variants only)
Revised callout styles
Created callable components for navigation and callouts
Overhauled primary CSS stylesheet to follow CUBE formatting
Reintroduced breadcrumb navigation for first two tiers of hierarchy (third tier up next)
Placeholders for several new areas, mostly cues for me to keep making progress
[a11y] Reached WCAG AA-level standards across the board
All 100's in Lighthouse testing
A number of under-the-hood revisions, including increasing the number of Eleventy listeners on build and centralized common components

Converted Changelog to a JSON-fed looped template
Syntax cleanup: Stray classes, abandoned code, open or mismatched attributes, aria-labels, and such
Began implementing CSS styles to foreground elements that adjust to background color changes. Purely quality of life improvements for myself.

bartz.works!
Made 10 hours out of the 5 minutes required to implement eleventy-img, a lot of re-pathing ensued
Went absolutely HAM on animation and interaction with that illustrated face
Fixed an issue where post permalinks were not automatically generating during build
Reposted articles from Medium
Began reposting from Instagram
Added optional city/state location info to post headings

Upgraded to Eleventy v3.1.2
Fixed an issue where unordered lists were appearing numbered
Created a reusable component out of the callout container with Nunjucks macros
Added a callout to "Prompting readers to rotate their phones" post that the described behavior no longer works. Software be like that sometimes.
Brought bulletpoints back to the changelog
Replaced my name with my face in the nav
Changed the animated gradient colors
Change text selection colors
Added Reading and Listening to nav
Merged content of "Work" into About
Removed links to software case studies (for now)
Brought in Inconsolata for fixed-width font concerns
Replaced photo on About
Messing with my illustrated face in different places, but I'm not sold on it