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Site history · May 3–August 3, 2026 · 147 commits

Changelog

A record of new work, refinements, and the decisions that made the site sharper.

Latest: August 3, 2026

August 3, 2026

  • Added the AGFA logo to the design gallery.
  • Added privacy-bounded analytics for gallery filtering, artwork selection, lightbox navigation, and project-link visits.

August 2, 2026

  • Launched a standalone Gallery for web, brand, design-system, print, and illustration work.
  • Added discipline filters and a full-size lightbox with keyboard, pointer, and touch controls.
  • Presented artwork as an edited reel with natural image proportions instead of a uniform card grid.
  • Added work from Alamo Drafthouse, Kane Dies, The Overlook Hotel, The Thing, and other film and entertainment projects.
  • Preserved editorial order, image fidelity, fallback links, and stable frame geometry across loading and failure states.

Performance and media

  • Reduced initial homepage work by loading the first carousel image immediately and deferring later slides.
  • Added responsive AVIF and WebP variants for shared project and article imagery, with source sets sized to their rendered layouts.
  • Preserved the carousel crossfade while improving media delivery.

Discovery and resilience

  • Added a useful custom 404 page.
  • Aligned page titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, and internal routes around the site’s film and entertainment design focus.
  • Added visible authorship, stronger image descriptions, and corrected article metadata.
  • Published llms.txt as a plain-text guide to the site’s public content.

Accessibility and interaction

  • Kept gallery controls visible and usable at small viewports.
  • Limited focus rings to keyboard interaction while retaining accessible focus feedback.
  • Preserved decorative-image semantics on article cards.

August 1, 2026

Design system documentation

  • Rebuilt the design-system reference from the implemented interface, covering the Projection Gold palette, typography, spacing, responsive behavior, component states, motion, and accessibility rules.

July 29, 2026

Analytics foundation

  • Added optional Google Tag Manager support with validation that prevents malformed container IDs from reaching a production build.
  • Added privacy-bounded event templates for navigation, project links, theme changes, code copying, scroll depth, and homepage carousel interactions.
  • Added site avatar assets for external profiles and identity surfaces.

July 28, 2026

Reelizer project

  • Added a full Reelizer project story with desktop and mobile screenshots, refreshed copy, and featured placement.

June 11, 2026

Experience page

  • Reframed the Experience page as an era-based timeline, improved heading outlines, and added the Metro Cinema link.

June 5, 2026

Typography

  • Unified title weights and reading widths across project, article, and feed layouts.
  • Added a self-hosted monospace face for code without changing the site’s body typography.

May 25, 2026

Homepage refinements

  • Moved Recently Watched below Recent Writing so the portfolio and editorial work remain primary.
  • Added clearer framing and a scroll cue around the homepage’s lower sections.
  • Added Letterboxd to the site’s visible and structured social identity.
  • Updated Astro and MDX dependencies and corrected section-divider behavior under Tailwind CSS v4.

May 24, 2026

Recently Watched artwork

  • Upgraded the Trakt feed from individual episodes to a deduplicated show-level view.
  • Added TMDB poster artwork and show metadata while retaining graceful fallback behavior when artwork is unavailable.

May 23, 2026

Recently Watched

  • Added a homepage feed of recent television watches synced from Trakt.

May 22, 2026

Project presentation

May 17, 2026

Metro Private Cinema project

May 16, 2026

Portfolio artwork

  • Expanded the CineVegas project into a year-by-year archive covering 2007 through 2009.
  • Added platform-specific favicon assets for broader browser support.

May 14, 2026

Project detail updates

May 13, 2026

Reading experience

  • Redesigned long-form project and article pages with stronger hierarchy, improved reading rhythm, captions, metadata, and previous/next navigation.
  • Added a prose reference section to the private style guide.
  • Published essays about Heavy Rain and Death Stranding 2.
  • Added touch swiping and arrow-key navigation to the homepage carousel.
  • Improved screen-reader announcements, pause behavior, touch targets, theme contrast, and dark-mode chip legibility.
  • Simplified the homepage opening by removing the supporting subheading and byline.

May 12, 2026

Portfolio case studies

  • Redesigned project detail pages around clearer roles, dates, clients, technology, imagery, and supporting links.
  • Added the Film Cue project page with optimized product imagery.

May 11, 2026

Identity and contact

  • Revised the About page with more direct personal copy.
  • Added Instagram and Threads to the Contact page.
  • Replaced the original favicon with the RT wordmark and improved mobile tap targets and overflow handling.

May 9, 2026

Launch hardening

  • Added the privacy policy, crawler rules, sitemap support, structured data, social-sharing metadata, and security headers needed for launch.
  • Expanded the Experience page with a fuller career history.
  • Refined the site’s writing to remove generic portfolio language.

Mobile navigation

  • Reworked the mobile menu to prevent the logo and page content from shifting on iOS and other small screens.
  • Improved spacing, dividers, and touch behavior in the final dropdown treatment.

May 8, 2026

Design system

  • Added the public implementation of the Projection Gold color system, self-hosted typography, shared focus treatments, and reusable primary, secondary, and ghost buttons.
  • Added a direct-access style guide covering colors, typography, spacing, buttons, and contrast.
  • Introduced the animated theme toggle with a sliding knob and sun/moon transition.

Accessibility and responsive design

  • Completed a site-wide accessibility and responsive pass covering keyboard navigation, focus visibility, contrast, touch targets, reduced motion, semantic images, and small-screen layouts.
  • Improved SEO and Open Graph output and removed placeholder articles before launch.
  • Replaced text-only footer links with social icons and added Instagram and Threads.

May 7, 2026

Homepage and detail pages

  • Improved homepage hierarchy, carousel controls, mobile spacing, and keyboard access.
  • Reworked blog and project detail templates to give images, metadata, and long-form content more room.

May 4, 2026

Cinematic redesign

  • Replaced the scaffold styling with a cinematic, image-led visual system built around warm amber color, expanded display type, and a full-bleed homepage hero.
  • Added the first full portfolio set, including Alamo Drafthouse, CineVegas, Drafthouse.com, Fangoria, Kane Dies, NEON, The Press Room, and tinch.co.
  • Added an auto-advancing hero slideshow drawn from project imagery.

Writing and media

  • Added image and publication metadata to articles and improved blog rendering efficiency.
  • Imported the initial long-form archive across film, design, technology, and personal writing.
  • Self-hosted project imagery and removed external image hotlinks.

May 3, 2026

Initial site

  • Created the Astro portfolio and blog with Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, MDX content collections, and Cloudflare Pages deployment workflows.
  • Added the homepage, project index and case studies, blog index and article pages, About, Experience, and Contact.
  • Added reusable project cards, article cards, and a long-form prose layout.
  • Added flash-free light and dark themes, desktop and mobile navigation, the footer, and the first RT favicon.
  • Added preview deployments for pull requests and production deployment from main.