Changelog

2.80 - 29th May 2026

• Steam Deck price hike / Steam Machine outlook post (EN + NO): New news/commentary post on the ~40–50% Steam Deck OLED price increase and what it signals for the still-unpriced Steam Machine, with a DIY-build reality check. Uses a still hero (mpv-shot0005.jpg) plus an embedded oled_orb_2.webm loop, both credited Valve. Also adds shorter Norwegian versions of the two articles it links back to (steam-deck-oled-utsolgt-minnemangel and valve-steam-maskin-pris-lansering-usikker) so the NO piece's internal links resolve under /nyheter/. Reciprocal translationSlug added on all three EN/NO pairs for hreflang. Trimmed ~6.5 MB of unused source frames + overview_oled.webm before commit. (Article content shipped in b69457e; this entry + version bump follow it.)

2.79 - 28th May 2026

• Review dice (terningkast) on cards: Review cards now surface their 1–6 dice rating bottom-right of the image, scaled to 32px and translated 35% downward so it sits roughly two-thirds on the image and one-third over the content area without colliding with the title. Reuses Dice.astro and the same mint→white gradient square + --die-shadow-* tokens as the hero badge. Card.astro gains a rating prop; non-review posts pass undefined and render unchanged. Hidden on the compact variants (card--latest, card--mobile-compact) where badges are already suppressed. rating is wired through every Card call site that surfaces posts: HomepageGrid, ContentGrid (+ its callers review/index, test, keyboards, tastatur, mice, mus), TopicSection, [brand] and toppliste-tastatur. /design documents the card variant under the existing dice section.

2.78 - 27th May 2026

• 404 "Recent posts" heading: Changed the EN error_recent_posts string from RECENT POSTS to sentence-case Recent posts, and overrode the recent-posts heading on the 404 page to render as a normal h2 (plain text colour, bold, no gradient or all-caps). Scoped to the 404 page only via a recent-grid wrapper class, so every other ContentGrid section heading across the site keeps its gradient treatment.

2.77 - 27th May 2026

• Starpath role typo fix: Corrected Jonathan Smårs' Valheim credit from "lead designer" to "lead engineer & designer" across all four Starpath posts (EN + NO announcement and follow-up) — in titles, meta descriptions, and body prose. Also reframed the follow-up post meta descriptions to call him Starpath's solo developer ("Starpath's solo developer" / "Starpaths soloutvikler"). URL slugs and translationSlug pairing are unchanged; the summary-tts.txt scripts and generated audio were left as-is.

2.76 - 27th May 2026

• News hero eyebrow leads with the first tag: The hero eyebrow on non-review articles now reads [first tag] [category] [year] (e.g. ARC RAIDERS NEWS 2026) instead of collapsing to NEWS 2026. News posts don't set productName, so Hero.astro now falls back to tags[0] (the brand/topic, per the "brand first" card convention) when no product name is present. Reviews are unchanged (they still lead with productName), and posts without either token fall through to the prior CATEGORY YEAR form.

2.75 - 26th May 2026

• Text-to-speech "Hear summary" trial (EN + NO Starpath post): Articles can now surface a short narrated summary. A new optional audioSummary frontmatter field (on basePostSchema) points at a static mp3; when set, Hero.astro renders a compact AudioPlayer in the hero meta row, above the author/date/reading-time line. Gated on the field, so every other post renders unchanged. Wired up on both the EN (Hear summary) and NO (Hør oppsummering) Starpath posts.
• Offline generation pipeline: scripts/generate-tts.mjs (run via npm run tts) turns an approved summary-tts.txt (written in Kay's voice, kept beside the article) into audio via OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-tts (onyx voice). Output is named public/audio/<yyyy-mm-dd>-<slug>-<lang>.mp3, auto-derived from the sibling index.mdx frontmatter so files stay findable. Generation is local-only — the Vercel build never calls OpenAI and needs no API key; the mp3s are committed as static assets. openai added as a devDependency.
• i18n + design system: Added the listenToArticle key to i18n.ts + translations-no.txt. New .hero-listen compact variant of the player (30→27px button) and a :focus-visible ring on .audio-play-btn in global.css; both the default and compact player variants are now documented in /design.
• NO Starpath copy tweaks: Reworded the opening section heading to "Valheim-veteran bytter Midgard mot SPACE" and moved the Skandinavia intro paragraph above the announcement trailer.

2.74 - 25th May 2026

• Homepage news cards collapse to compact rows on mobile (fix/interview-mdx-style-propagation branch): After the first two "big" cards in document order, every news-category card on the homepage now collapses to a horizontal thumb + headline row on mobile (max-width: 719px), mirroring the LATEST ticker anatomy but keeping the News/Nyheter kicker instead of the LATEST label, and dropping the description, date and overlay pills. Shortens the mobile scroll and breaks the wall-of-big-cards rhythm without changing what's shown — item count is identical and desktop (≥720px) is untouched. Card.astro gains a mobileCompact prop → .card--mobile-compact, styled only inside a max-width: 719px media query; HomepageGrid.astro runs a pre-pass that counts big cards (anything but the latest strip) and tags qualifying news cards.
• /design documents card + homepage-grid logic: Expanded the Cards section with the size variants (default/feature/hero/spotlight/strip/latest, with a live latest render) and the mobile-compact rule, and added a "Homepage grid" section covering the src/content/homepage.ts config model — cell types (card/stack/news_list), pin-vs-rule content sources, the dedupe + fallback behaviour, and the current row-by-row layout — so front-page control is discoverable again.

2.73 - 25th May 2026

• Interview Q&A restyle (fix/interview-mdx-style-propagation branch): Redesigned the interview Q&A blocks and fixed the styles being dropped in MDX builds. Scoped <style> blocks inside the interview/*.astro components don't survive being rendered through MDX <Content />, so all rules now live in the shared src/styles/interview.css (imported by PageComponent.astro for interview posts and by design.astro). The question marker is a large Syne ? rather than a name pill; answers run flush-left to line up with normal paragraphs, tied to their question by a hairline.
• Answer first-line indent: The opening line of each answer now indents 2em (.qa-turn--a .qa-body > p:first-child), giving each turn a typeset paragraph break without affecting later paragraphs.
• Editor's note aligns to content width: .interview-note was insetting its text by its 16px horizontal padding, leaving it narrower than the answers. It now bleeds out by that same 16px (margin: var(--space-6) -16px) so the note text lines up flush with the rest of the article. Guarded below 768px, where the page gutter is too small to absorb the bleed, so it never overflows the screen on mobile.

2.72 - 24th May 2026

• New Herman Miller Coyl news post (EN): Added news-2026-05-herman-miller-coyl-gaming-desk/ covering the Coyl launch — Walnut + black-frame configuration as hero, intro video at the top, finishes gallery + standalone allfinishes.avif inside the Finishes section, two extra galleries in the market-tier walkthrough and Europe sections, and a closing "Who is this for?" beat questioning whether the gaming segment can support a desk at this price. Tagged Herman Miller · Desk to land brand-first in the card pills.
• Auto-run card-accent extraction on dev/build: predev and prebuild npm hooks in package.json now run scripts/extract-card-colors.mjs automatically, so any new post gets its src/data/card-accents.json entry without a manual step. The script is idempotent via image mtime caching — warm runs are near-instant. Backfilled the entries for herman-miller-coyl-gaming-desk and starpath-announced-by-valheim-designer, which were silently missing their corner glyph.
• Per-card hero-derived colour scoped to image border only: Card.astro .card--latest variant was using --card-accent-color on three surfaces. Reverted the kicker (.card-kicker) and the title hover underline (.card-title::after) to var(--color-accent); only the image's right border still picks up the per-post hero colour. Stops the per-post tint bleeding into typography.
• Slug collision fixed in DeathAdder V4 Pro review folder: Removed a stray indexcopydotmdx backup file inside src/content/posts/en/review-2026-04-razer-deathadder-v4-pro/ that was emitting a duplicate razer-deathadder-v4-pro-review slug alongside the real index.mdx.

2.71 - 24th May 2026

• Homepage editorial grid (grid-may2026 branch): Replaced the old homepage card stream with a rows-and-cells editorial grid driven by HomepageGrid.astro. Includes the v1.5 fallback chain + news ordering rules, the v2 rows-and-cells model with UX polish, deliberate rhythm breaks across rows 2–3 to avoid back-to-back trios, and a fill-the-empty-space rule so short cards no longer leave dead area beneath them. Hero is hidden on mobile in favour of the grid. Planning lives in docs/TODO-redesign-may-2026.md plus the ticker-strip plan and the lab grid mockup reference.
• Upcoming section restyled as NewsList-style 8-col list: UpcomingSection.astro now matches the homepage NewsList pattern — mono-uppercase kicker heading, hairline-divided rows, 8-of-12 column span on desktop, muted/grayscale items that brighten on hover. Drops the previous boxed-card treatment.
• Related Posts restyled to match the homepage list pattern: RelatedPosts.astro ("You may also like") rewritten — display-font h2 heading with gradient text-fill (matches .post-content h2), hairline-divided rows replacing the boxed cards, 140×140 thumbs (96×96 on mobile), category kicker (mono uppercase accent) above each headline, vertically centered text, accent-color hover with animated underline. Description retained over date for stronger click-through framing.
• Card hover toned down: Card.astro reduces the homepage card hover motion — lift -6px → -3px, perspective rotation 4°/-3° → 2°/-1.5°, tag/title translateZ pop 14px/10px → 7px/5px, and a slightly softer hover shadow. The effect stays visible but no longer feels dramatic when scanning long grids.

2.70 - 22nd May 2026

• Astro 6 upgrade: Migrated from Astro 5.16 to 6.3 alongside @astrojs/mdx 5, @astrojs/vercel 10, astro-embed 0.13, astro-indexnow 2.1. Adopted the Content Layer API, made slug required in the post schema, and codemodded every post.render() / || post.slug fallback to the new shape. Two post-upgrade regression fixes folded in: (a) moved ReadMyReview / ModelViewer / AudioPlayer styles into global.css because Astro 6 + MDX 5 drops scoped CSS for .astro components imported only via MDX; (b) scoped .post-content a and .post-content img rules with :not() so the global hover underline + image-margin reset no longer override ReadMyReview's own framing. Renamed the NO razer-blade-16-2026 slug to razer-blade-16-2026-skapere so v6's glob loader no longer flags it as a duplicate id. Plan + audit in docs/upgrade-astro.md
• Hero image zoom fix under Astro 6: Hero requested 1200×600 (2:1) but CSS displays it in a 4:3 box with object-fit: cover, so the image got upscaled vertically. Astro 6's no-upscale image-service default made the artefact visible. Now requests the source at 1200×900 (4:3) so it matches the display box natively
• <UrlLink> alias for <ReadMyReview>: New src/components/UrlLink.astro is a thin wrapper that forwards every prop to ReadMyReview.astro with a neutral default label="Read more". New posts should use <UrlLink>; the 46 existing <ReadMyReview> usages keep working unchanged. README and docs/TODO-rename-readmyreview-2026-05.md updated to describe the alias-first approach — codemod is now optional / lazy
• /design rebuilt as living component catalog: Replaced the stylised demo divs (.card-demo, .hero-demo, badge mocks) with real <Card> and <Hero> renders fed by live post entries (Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro for the featured/review hero, Noctua 3D CAD for news, Razer Ornata V3 X for first-impressions, Keychron M4 for top-pick). New "Content components" section renders <UrlLink> / <ProsAndCons> / <Gallery> / <YouTube> / inline image+caption / <Lightbox> against the actual components. Wrapped the page in [data-article-content] and mounted the real <ToC /> in a .post-layout-with-toc sidebar — the ToC is now a self-referencing live demo of itself. Reordered sections so hero/cards/content components/pills come first; dropped the noisy --radius-none swatch from the radii display (token kept). Falls back gracefully on the .no build when EN slugs aren't present
• Dead token cleanup: Removed the 16 dead Aurora --bg-* tokens from src/styles/variables.css (--bg-sage, --bg-deep-teal, --bg-forest, --bg-steel-blue, --bg-mustard, --bg-burnt-orange, --bg-ember-red, --bg-dusty-plum, --bg-slate-blue, --bg-sky-1…--bg-sky-5, --bg-shadow, --bg-star). Verified zero references across src/ before removing
• Hyper Games interview headline tightened (NO): Shortened "Mummitrollet" → "Mummi" in the heroHeadline so the editorial cover line breaks cleanly without crowding the bolded "mørke temaer"
• Keychron + Noctua 3D models render on transparent background: Passed background="transparent" to the <ModelViewer> instances in the Keychron Hardware Designs and Noctua 3D CAD posts (EN + NO) so the canvas blends into the page instead of sitting on a dark plate
• Roadmap: Added "Fix ToC on older reviews" under Future Enhancements in docs/TODO.md — heading/anchor audit needed for pre-current-format reviews where the opt-in ToC renders inconsistently
• Changelog typo fix: Corrected "Richard Svensson" → "Jonathan Smårs" in the v2.69 Starpath entry — Smårs is the actual lead designer credited in the post

2.69 - 22nd May 2026

• New Starpath news post (EN + NO). Added news-2026-05-starpath-announced-by-valheim-designer/ (EN) and news-2026-05-starpath-annonsert-av-valheim-designer/ (NO) covering Jonathan Smårs's reveal — slugs lead with starpath for clarity, paired via translationSlug.
• Gallery lightbox arrow keys now work. Lightbox.astro was instantiating GLightbox with a single-element array on every click, so prev/next chrome and ←/→ keyboard navigation never activated even on <Gallery> blocks. Now reads the trigger's data-gallery attribute, collects all siblings in the same group, and opens with startAt set to the clicked index. Gallery.astro switched from a hard-coded data-gallery="gallery" to a per-instance UUID so multiple galleries on one page stay separate. Auto-wrapped article images (no data-gallery) keep the single-image behaviour.

2.68 - 22nd May 2026

• Merged main into the late-May redesign branch. Folded in the changes that landed on main after the redesign branch split (originally tagged 2.62 on main):
  • Mobile hero stacks again — featured/article hero variants were stuck 2-column on phones because the desktop .hero-layout.is-featured, .hero-layout.is-article { grid-template-columns: ... } rule beat the mobile reset on specificity. Added those classes to the @media (max-width: 768px) reset so the layout collapses to image-on-top (the same fix was independently re-applied at 2.65 on the redesign branch — both branches now agree)
  • Mobile hero — one pill each side — hide the secondary .hero-badge.category pill below 768px so only "Featured" (bottom-left) and the review/top-pick pill (top-right) remain
  • Cards now show max 2 pills — Card.astro default maxTags lowered back to 2 (the redesign branch had bumped it to 3 for non-badged cards). This wins on the merged tip
  • Tag order — brand first — reordered tags: frontmatter so the first two card pills read brand-then-product. Applied to Steam Controller launch + sold-out posts (EN + NO) — now lead with Valve. Wooting interview leads Wooting · Interview/Intervju; Wooting 80HE travel case leads Wooting · Travel case; Wooting PBT keycaps leads Wooting · PBT keycaps / PBT tastehetter
  • Orphan hero image cleanup — removed leftover public/images/first/ornatav3x-hero.webp (the Razer Ornata V3 X draft has its hero in its own post folder)

2.67 - 21st May 2026

• Per-article accent: tinted / mark leads the hero description: New getArticleAccent(slug) helper in src/lib/cardAccent.ts returns the WCAG-tuned hero-image colour without the 20% skip or glyph picker (sibling to the existing getCardAccent() used on card grids). Hero.astro renders a <span class="hero-description-mark">/</span> inline before the description on both the review/article hero and the news-article hero, tinted with the article's accent colour. Featured-variant heroes are skipped to avoid double-tint with the homepage card grid glyph. Sized at 1.2em, IBM Plex Mono, with text-indent: 0 override on the description so the slash itself acts as the lead-in.

2.66 - 21st May 2026

• Featured hero badges no longer overlap on mobile + mirror the review-pill placement on the left: Wrapped the Featured + category pills in a new .hero-badges-left flex container in Hero.astro so they sit in a row with a var(--space-2) gap. Previously both pills were absolutely positioned at the same left on mobile and stacked on top of each other. Container now mirrors .hero-badges-top: left: calc(var(--space-3) + 10px) desktop (compensates for .hero-image-wrapper's 10px padding so the pill aligns with the image edge), left: var(--space-3) mobile (wrapper padding is removed). The old per-badge left: calc(... + 90px) hack is gone — flex flow handles spacing across both languages.

2.65 - 21st May 2026

• Tame card hover on touch devices: Wrapped the .card:hover rotateX/rotateY rotation and the .card-tags/.card-title translateZ pops in @media (hover: hover) and (pointer: fine) in Card.astro so phones and tablets keep only the translateY(-6px) lift + shadow on tap. The full 3D effect is preserved on mouse-driven devices. Fixes the scrolling-through-long-grids dramatic-hover regression flagged in the redesign pre-merge checklist.
• Restore featured/article hero stack on mobile: Re-added .hero-layout.is-featured and .hero-layout.is-article to the mobile single-column rule in Hero.astro so those hero variants collapse to one column on phones, matching main. The v2.64 rating-badge inset rule is preserved.

2.64 - 21st May 2026

• Mobile rating badge sits inside the hero image: Added a mobile-only left: var(--space-3) rule on .rating-badge in Hero.astro so the featured-article star score insets from the image edge instead of hugging the viewport. Desktop still bleeds 10px outside the image via the wrapper padding (intentional).

2.63 - 21st May 2026

• Card accent marks from hero image colours: every post card now carries a tiny ASCII glyph in the bottom-right, tinted with a dominant colour extracted from the post's heroImage. Extraction runs once via scripts/extract-card-colors.mjs (sharp downscale to 16×16, HSL-filtered, saturation-weighted average) and writes a committed cache at src/data/card-accents.json keyed by slug; re-runs are near-instant via image-mtime check. New helper src/lib/cardAccent.ts exposes getCardAccent(slug) with a 33-symbol glyph pool (▲ ▽ • ✽ ▰ ▱ ◽ ◇ ✦ ✱ ▴ ▾ ◆ ◈ ◉ ◎ ○ ● □ ■ ▪ ▫ △ ▵ ✧ ✺ ✶ ✷ ✵ ‣ ▸ ▹ -), a WCAG contrast guard (clamps L≥0.62 / S≥0.5 against #161616 when ratio <3.5), a white fallback (rgb(240 240 240)) for bright low-saturation hero images, and a deterministic ~20% skip rate so the grid breathes. Glyph rendered at 1.1em in IBM Plex Mono. New showAccent prop on ContentGrid and TopicSection enables the treatment per grid; rolled out across the homepage, /news, /review, /videos, /interview, /portfolio, /keyboards, /mice, /tastatur, /mus, /nyheter, /test, and /[brand]. Documented in /design.

2.62 - 21st May 2026

• Reverted aurora background and palette shift from v2.61: SiteBackground.astro is back to a single grain layer over the body background; the --bg-* aurora token group has been removed from variables.css and /design. Palette restored to v2.60 values (--color-bg #111111, --color-text #f5f5f5, --color-accent #99FFCC, --color-accent-hover #7fddbb, --color-accent-tertiary #4800fb, --color-border opacity 0.10). FOUC inline style back to #111111
• Hero subtitle — handwritten mint underline on "by a human": Wrapped the closing phrase in <span class="hero-handwritten-underline"> (by a human on EN, av et menneske on NO) and rendered a tapered Nike-style swoosh in mint underneath via an inline-SVG ::after in PageHero.astro
• Header z-index above main: Promoted body > header to z-index: 10 (main/footer stay at 1) so the nav dropdown's solid #000 background paints over page content instead of disappearing behind <main>
• Card pills stay in front through the full hover transition: Set .card-tags resting transform to translateZ(1px) so the pill sits ahead of the image in the card's preserve-3d stacking context — previously, returning to translateZ(0) put the pill at the same Z as the image and the image (later in DOM) painted over it. Also bumped .card-tag to position: relative; z-index: 2 so the badge layer is explicit
• 3D card hover applies site-wide: Dropped the redesign-cards body class gate from index.astro and made perspective: 1200px apply unconditionally to .content-grid, .news-grid, .topic-grid in global.css. /design doc updated to drop the opt-in language

2.61 - 21st May 2026

• New atmospheric site background (SiteBackground.astro): Replaced the flat --color-bg body fill + site-grain overlay with a fixed full-viewport aurora composition — base sky gradient (near-black), screen-blended aurora curtains, plus-lighter wisp highlights, edge vignette, and a star field + grain layer. Driven by a new --bg-* token group in variables.css (sage / deep-teal / forest / steel-blue / mustard / burnt-orange / ember-red / dusty-plum / slate-blue, plus sky stops, shadow, star). Header and footer go transparent so the background reads through the whole page; main/header/footer get position: relative; z-index: 1 to sit above the fixed layer
• Palette shift to match aurora: --color-bg #111111 → #030606 (near-black under aurora), --color-text #f5f5f5 → #f3f6ef, --color-accent #99FFCC → #a8f6cc, --color-accent-hover → #88dab1, --color-accent-tertiary #4800fb → #4b16f6, --color-border opacity 0.10 → 0.13. FOUC inline style updated to the new bg
• Card hover redesign (homepage opt-in): New redesign-cards body class (set on /) enables 3D card hover — translateY(-6px) rotateX(4deg) rotateY(-3deg), image swaps the 1.05 zoom for a saturation/brightness bump, tag pills float forward (translateZ(40px)), title lifts (translateZ(18px)). Requires perspective: 1200px on the grid container (added to .content-grid, .news-grid, .topic-grid under .redesign-cards). Cards now also carry a subtle dark gradient fill + drop shadow by default. Fully disabled under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce
• BaseLayout accepts bodyClass prop so individual pages can opt into surface-level treatments (currently used by the homepage for redesign-cards)
• /design updated: New "Aurora (background only)" colour group documents every --bg-* token with intended use and the explicit warning that they are background-only and not for UI. Card hover docs updated to describe the redesign-cards 3D variant alongside the default 1.05 zoom

2.60 - 19th May 2026

• New draft — Razer Kiyo V2 X first impressions (EN): Staged src/content/posts/en/first-impressions-2026-05-razer-kiyo-v2-x/ with draft: true, toc: true, and category: "first-impressions". Press-sample disclosure formatted with <div class="disclaimer"> at the end (matches the DeathAdder V4 Pro pattern). Hero image placeholder copied from public/images/upcoming/razer-kiyo-v2-x.webp. Detail-shot and video-embed slots left as MDX comments for Kay to fill in

2.59 - 19th May 2026

• Hero side-by-side restored on desktop, stack only on mobile: v2.56 forced the featured + non-news article heroes into a single-column image-on-top layout at every viewport. Restored desktop to 2-col text-left / image-right (minmax(0, 1fr) minmax(0, 1.2fr)) for .hero-layout.is-featured and .hero-layout.is-article; moved the order: -1 media flip inside the @media (max-width: 768px) block so stacking is mobile-only
• Hero gradient now covers interviews too: Interviews are long-form featured items, not flat news cards. Added hasHeroTreatment = isReviewPost || category === 'interview' in Hero.astro so the is-review class (radial mint glow + heavy grain) applies to both categories. Drives the homepage featured slot intrinsically when the featured post is an interview — fixes the Norwegian featured interview rendering flat
• /design — combined hero treatment preview + new card/badge documentation:
  • Added a .hero-treatment-demo block that stacks the radial glow + heavy grain together, mirroring exactly what .hero.is-review renders (was previously shown as two separate layers)
  • Pills, chips & tags section now also documents .hero-badge.featured (pink), .hero-badge (purple category), .hero-badge-pill (mint REVIEW / TOP PICK), .card-tag (small purple), .top-pick-badge, and .first-impressions-badge
  • New Cards section with two live sample cards (top-pick + first-impressions variants) mirroring Card.astro — overlay pills anchored to the image, gradient title, mint-underlined date
• First-impressions card badge restyled: Changed from outline (bg + accent border) to solid mint chip matching .top-pick-badge but at 0.55rem with tighter padding, so it reads as a smaller sibling marker when surfaced on topic hub cards (tastatur, mus, keyboards, mice)

2.58 - 18th May 2026

• News hero finally collapses to one column on mobile: The mobile media query in Hero.astro set .hero-layout { grid-template-columns: 1fr }, but .hero-layout.is-news (two classes) beat it on specificity, so news/video/portfolio/interview/first-impressions articles were still rendering image-left/meta-right at phone widths. Added .hero-layout.is-news to the mobile rule so it matches at equal specificity. Result: on mobile, the news hero now stacks as headline → full-width image → description + meta, matching the featured/article variants

2.57 - 18th May 2026

• Hero gradient scoped to reviews only: The radial mint glow (--hero-glow-color) and heavy grain overlay (--grain-opacity-hero: 0.18) now apply only when the post being rendered is a review. Added an is-review modifier class to <section class="hero"> driven by the existing isReviewPost check in Hero.astro; moved the gradient + ::after grain layer behind .hero.is-review. News, video, portfolio, interview, and first-impressions article heroes now render flat (inheriting the site-wide 0.08 grain only) — keeping the cinematic treatment as a signal that this post got the full review workup. Homepage featured slot picks up the gradient intrinsically when the featured post is a review (no code change to index.astro)
• /design: Hero treatment section copy updated to clarify the gradient + heavy grain are scoped to .hero.is-review, not all article heroes

2.56 - 18th May 2026

• Hero layout — image on top, text beneath at every viewport: Reverted the v2.53 text-left/image-right split for the featured (homepage) and article hero variants. Both now stack with the hero image first and headline/meta below — the image is the entry point on every screen size. News variant (image-left, meta-right on desktop) unchanged. On mobile the image goes edge-to-edge (negative gutter margins), with caption padded back to the text gutter and badges re-anchored inside the new image bounds
• Hero gradient now full-bleed on article pages: Removed the .container wrapper around <Hero> in PageComponent.astro so the radial mint glow + heavy grain treatment spans the full viewport on /review/*, /news/* etc., matching the homepage. Inner .hero-container still constrains headline + image content to --layout-max-width
• /design reference page: Added a “Hero treatment” section documenting --grain-opacity-hero: 0.18 and --hero-glow-color: rgba(102, 255, 184, 0.18) with live previews — the heavier grain and radial corner glow scoped to Hero.astro
• Gitignore: Excluded local Claude Code state (.claude/launch.json, .claude/scheduled_tasks.lock, .claude/worktrees/) so they stop showing up as untracked

2.55 - 18th May 2026

• /design and variables.css trimmed to what's actually used: Removed unused tokens that had zero consumers anywhere in src/: --text-h6, --shadow-sm, --shadow-md, --shadow-xl, --radius-lg, --radius-xl. Deleted from both src/styles/variables.css and the /design reference page so the design system has no orphans. The four internal var(--radius-lg) usages inside /design's own styles were swapped to --radius-md
• Added --radius-none: 0: New token for true-square corners, replacing the literal border-radius: 0 in .pros-and-cons (global.css). Now visible on /design alongside --radius-sm, --radius-md, --radius-full
• /design tag chip card layout fixed: The pills-row override flipped the whole card to row direction, causing the .used description to overflow outside the card boundary. Wrapped the four #tag chips in a dedicated .tag-row flex container so the parent card stays in column direction and the description sits below. Description also corrected to clarify .tag is used only in the post-tags row at the bottom of every article (PageComponent.astro); cards use .card-tag, not this class

2.54 - 18th May 2026

• /design reference page: New private (noindex) page at /design (and kaytomas.no/design) that catalogues every CSS custom property in src/styles/variables.css with live visual examples — colors with swatches and "used on" notes, heading gradient, font families (Syne, system-ui, IBM Plex Mono), full type scale rendered as actual h1–h6, body sizes, font weights, line heights, spacing scale bars, radii, shadows, transition buttons, layout widths, film-grain demo, and a pills/chips/tags gallery (.category, .tag)
• Editorial headlines section: Dedicated block on /design showing Syne 500 hero title with the **word** → Syne 700 gradient emphasis pattern used in heroHeadline, plus card-title and hero-summary variants — making it visible that default <h2> is system-ui bold + accent, and Syne is opted in selectively
• CLAUDE.md invariant: Added a rule that any new/changed design token, headline pattern, or pill/chip variant must be reflected in src/pages/design.astro so the reference page stays the source of truth

2.53 - 16th May 2026

• heroHeadline backfill (reviews): Added heroHeadline to 23 review posts — 8 Norwegian and 15 English — covering everything from flagship picks (Wooting 80HE, Steam Deck LCD, BenQ Zowie EC2-CW) to older catalogue entries. Each headline distills the review's thesis with one bolded thesis-word where it earned the emphasis. Title/description unchanged — heroHeadline is presentation-only. News, portfolio, and other categories still pending

2.52 - 16th May 2026

• Accent reverted to #99FFCC: Rolled the v2.51 softer mint (#93F5D2) back to the original #99FFCC value. --color-accent flipped in variables.css; rgba glow hardcodes in global.css, Header.astro, and toppliste.css realigned to rgba(153, 255, 204, X) so the variable and the soft accents stay unified

2.51 - 15th May 2026

• Accent swap: --color-accent updated from #99ffcc to #93F5D2 — a softer, slightly desaturated mint. All hardcoded mint hex and rgba(153, 255, 204, X) instances replaced with the new value (var(--color-accent) where possible, rgba(147, 245, 210, X) elsewhere) across variables.css, global.css, toppliste.css, Hero.astro, Header.astro, PageHero.astro, and the hub/changelog pages. Single-token swap — every consumer of var(--color-accent) inherits the new mint automatically

2.50 - 15th May 2026

• heroHeadline backfill: Added heroHeadline to the Hyper Games interview (Norwegian, featured) with **mørke temaer** bolded as the thesis phrase. Title/description unchanged — heroHeadline is presentation-only

2.49 - 15th May 2026

• Card reorder: Moved the date to the bottom of the card content (below the description) and promoted the title to the top. Date now sits under a 1px mint (--color-accent) hairline that spans only the date text width, with tightened padding so the date hugs the rule. Applies site-wide via src/components/ui/Card.astro (homepage, topic hubs, brand, news/review indexes)

2.48 - 13th May 2026

• Hero polish: Extended the news-style hero layout (full-width title, image left, meta right) to all non-review categories — video, portfolio, interview, and first-impressions now share the news layout. Reviews keep the dedicated text-left/image-right article layout
• Eyebrow order: Reordered article eyebrow from PRODUCTNAME · YEAR · CATEGORY back to PRODUCTNAME · CATEGORY · YEAR so the content type reads before the date
• Hero description: Bumped base description size (1.25 → 1.4rem) and switched colour from muted to default text for stronger editorial weight under the headline. Dropped the news-specific size override since the base is now large enough
• Featured card: Removed the maxTags={1} cap on the homepage featured hero so the full tag set renders
• Caption fix: DeathAdder V4 Pro review hero caption credit corrected from "Razer / kaytomas.com" to "kaytomas.com" (image is original, not Razer press)

2.47 - 13th May 2026

• News article hero: News posts now get a distinct hero layout — eyebrow (NEWS · YEAR) and full-width headline sit above a 2-column grid with the image on the left and description + author/date on the right. Reviews and other categories keep the v2.46 text-left/image-right layout. Implemented as a category === 'news' branch in src/components/sections/Hero.astro (new .hero-layout.is-news), no schema or page-level changes

2.46 - 13th May 2026

• Hero redesign: Article hero flipped so editorial text (eyebrow, headline, description, author/date) sits on the left and the hero image + caption sits on the right. Image column is 20% wider than the text column (1fr 1.2fr). Featured-variant cards on the homepage are unchanged
• Frontmatter cleanup: Removed the deck field — description now doubles as the hero subhead under the headline (one editorial subhead instead of two). Renamed displayHeadline → heroHeadline for clarity. Schema in src/content.config.ts updated, only post touched: Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro review
• Eyebrow order: Reordered the article eyebrow from CATEGORY · PRODUCTNAME · YEAR to PRODUCTNAME · YEAR · CATEGORY so the product reads first

2.45 - 13th May 2026

• Redesign — site-wide grain: New global film-grain overlay rendered once in BaseLayout.astro via a single fixed <div class="site-grain">. Tile and opacity are tokens in variables.css (--grain-svg, --grain-opacity: 0.08). One static SVG feTurbulence layer with an feColorMatrix flatten — no animation, will-change: transform so it stays compositor-only. Dropdown, mobile menu, and TOC drawer now reference the same --grain-svg token (keeping their denser local opacity)
• First impressions / Førsteinntrykk format: New category: "first-impressions" content type for visual-led quick looks (no rating, no pros/cons, no verdict). Schema in src/content.config.ts, routes share /review/{slug} (EN) and /test/{slug} (NO), JSON-LD emits NewsArticle. Surfaces only in topic hubs (/keyboards, /mice, /tastatur, /mus) with an outlined "First impressions" pill on cards. First piece: Razer Ornata V3 X
• Homepage reorder: Replaced the 7-day freshness window with pure newest-post sort — the section with the most recent qualifying post always floats to the top, ties fall back to default order. First-impressions posts now also feed the keyboards/mice section dates (so a fresh førsteinntrykk bubbles its topic up too)

2.44 - 11th May 2026

• Upcoming: Added Razer Pro Type Ergo to the upcoming content list with EN/NO descriptions and the wrist-rest WebP thumbnail. First ergo keyboard on the list — two B keys, two knobs, split in the middle

2.43 - 6th May 2026

• Homepage: Section blocks (Keyboards, Mice, Reviews, News, Videos) now auto-reorder by freshest post. Sections with a post in the last 7 days float above the default order; stale sections keep the existing Keyboards → Mice → Reviews → News → Videos sequence. Hero (featured) stays on top, Upcoming stays at the bottom. Logic lives entirely in src/pages/index.astro — no component changes

2.42 - 6th May 2026

• Content (EN + NO): Published "Valve releases 3D CAD files for the new Steam Controller" / "Valve offentliggjør CAD-filene til den (utsolgte) Steam Controlleren" — bilingual with reciprocal translationSlug, internal links to the Keychron and Noctua CAD pieces, and a <ReadMyReview> callout to the Noctua post under the trend section
• Sold-out piece (EN + NO): Replaced the static animated-WebP hero with a still poster (first frame, 61KB) plus a 132KB WebM that loops below the first H2. Fixes the black flash on cards and on the article hero while shipping ~10× less weight than the animated WebP
• Folders: Renamed the sold-out piece folders to match their slugs (news-2026-05-steam-controller-launch-sold-out-norway-update and …-utsolgt-norge-venter-fortsatt)
• NO copy: Tightened typos and grammar in the new CAD piece (hvor, dokumentasjonen, tilbehør, laderen, et printet tilbehør)

2.41 - 5th May 2026

• Content (EN + NO): Published Steam Controller launch-day news piece covering the 30-minute sellout, the second sellout on restock, scalper markups on eBay, AI-generated listing photos, early review quotes (GamingOnLinux, PC Gamer, RPS), and the Norway "still no news" status. Bilingual with reciprocal translationSlug so hreflang resolves both ways
• Hero asset: Animated WebP hero converted from controller2.webm (1200w, 12fps, q=25) — eager-loaded weight reduced from 1.5MB to 383KB to keep first paint snappy

2.40 - 5th May 2026

• Homepage: Added Razer Viper V3 Pro and Razer Ornata V3 X to the upcoming content list with EN/NO descriptions and WebP thumbnails
• Upcoming section: Capped row width at 56rem and centered the inner container so descriptions stay within a comfortable reading line on desktop. Header aligned to the same rail
• Upcoming section (mobile): Thumbnail now stretches to row height with auto aspect-ratio, so longer descriptions get a portrait-shaped image instead of a tiny 16:9 strip

2.39 - 4th May 2026

• Homepage: Refined the upcoming content section so planned items use product/topic titles instead of implying "review" by default. Upcoming data now supports localized titles, optional localized descriptions, optional explicit type labels, and accessible teaser images from public/images/upcoming/. The current five upcoming items now have EN/NO teaser descriptions and optimized WebP thumbnails

2.38 - 4th May 2026

• i18n: Norwegian publish-date format now follows Norwegian convention (14. april 2025) instead of the English APRIL 14 2025 order. CSS uppercase styling preserved, so cards and post headers render 14. APRIL 2025 on .no and stay APRIL 14 2025 on .com. Single change in src/lib/dateFormat.ts covers every surface that uses formatPublishDate
• Content: Replaced Norwegian homepage hero subtitle with «Om teknologi, spill og utstyr. Intervju, tester og nyheter. Skrevet av et menneske av kjøtt og blod!» (src/lib/i18n.ts + translations-no.txt)
• Typo: Fixed «Definately» → «Definitely» in the Wooting 80HE travel case review meta description

2.37 - 30th April 2026

• SEO: Tuned Norwegian <title> and meta descriptions across review, news, video, interview, and portfolio posts to better match search intent while preserving Kay's editorial voice. Product-led pages now lead more consistently with exact search phrases like Keychron G5, Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro, Steam Controller, Razer Synapse Web, MegaGear Torres Pro, and Wooting 80HE Zinc ISO
• Content: Reframed the Norwegian Wooting 80HE Zinc ISO title around the actual buying advice: it is one of the best complete keyboards, but not the cheapest way to get Rapid Trigger. English version kept unchanged because it already carries that nuance in title, description, and verdict
• SEO: Sharpened Norwegian interview snippets for Wooting CEO Calder Limmen and Hyper Games, including a clearer 8000 Hz polling hook and a more human Mummitrollet / norsk spillutvikling description
• Polish: Cleaned up several Norwegian wording and snippet issues, including gamingmus, tredetaljer, Treverk, location context for Ferry Corsten at Vulkan Arena in Oslo, and tighter descriptions for Noctua CAD models, Steam Frame, Razer Blade 16, and BenQ Zowie EC2-CW

2.36 - 30th April 2026

• SEO: Rewrote <title> and meta description on four priority review pages to better match search intent. Wooting 80HE leads with "does it make you a better gamer?", Keychron K3 Max leads with "battery life, low-profile feel, and the switch problem", Reebok Delta vest leads with the "12 lb vs 20 lb vs 40 lb" comparison angle, and BenQ Zowie EC2-CW leads with "weight, shape, and who it's for". GSC data showed all four converting well below position-adjusted CTR averages because their snippets didn't match the queries pulling impressions
• Content: Rewrote the Wooting 80HE verdict to directly answer the new title's question — yes, it makes you a better gamer, but that's not the reason to buy it specifically. The reason is that Wooting are the OG of consumer Hall Effect keyboards with a future-proof firmware roadmap. Removed the prior "you shouldn't spend €400 to win games" framing
• Content: Added an inline link from the Wooting 80HE review to the Calder Limmen CEO interview, immediately after the verdict where it talks about Wooting's roadmap
• Content: Fixed an inaccuracy in the Wooting 80HE review that called the keyboard a TKL. The 80HE is an 80%, which is bigger than a TKL by one column on the right
• Content: Added four anchored H2 sections to the Keychron K3 Max review (Battery life, Switch options, Low-profile feel, plus renamed Price and Market → Price and value) so the page can rank for spec-specific intent queries. Each section leads with the direct answer in the first paragraph
• Internal linking: Added <ReadMyReview> links from the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro, Keychron M4 fingertip, and Xtrfy M4 Wireless reviews to the Zowie EC2-CW review (page 2 flicker — internal links help push it onto page 1 reliably). Added a Keychron K3 Max → Wooting 80HE link in the conclusion for readers who want to step up to a Hall Effect board

2.35 - 30th April 2026

• SEO: Return 410 Gone for legacy Squarespace /Portfolio/* (capital P) URLs via middleware.js. These ghost URLs were still indexed in Google and rendered the rich Astro 404 page (28 KB), causing Google to scrape snippet text from the recent-posts card list — for example showing the Ferry Corsten portfolio description on /Portfolio/mekanisk-klippe. The 410 response uses an empty body and X-Robots-Tag: noindex so Google de-indexes faster and has no body text to scrape. Applies to both kaytomas.com and kaytomas.no (shared middleware)

2.34 - 30th April 2026

• SEO: Fixed Google Search Console VideoObject warning ("Either contentUrl or embedUrl should be specified") on the Norwegian Slay the Spire 2 video review. Self-hosted MP4 moved from the post folder to public/video/2026/04-23-slay-the-spire-2-videoanmeldelse/ (mirrors the public/models/<slug>/ convention) so it has a stable URL, and externalVideoUrl is now set in frontmatter so the schema emits both contentUrl and embedUrl

2.33 - 30th April 2026

• Content: Published Noctua 3D CAD-modeller news piece (EN + NO). Covers Noctua's release of public CAD files for nearly the entire fan lineup, the intentionally modified impeller geometry, and the broader DIY/right-to-repair trend (with Keychron parallel)
• Content: Embedded an interactive <ModelViewer> of the NF-A12x25 LS-PWM (.glb + .usdz) and an AR demo webm clip showing the fan placed in front of a Fractal North case
• Assets: Added /public/models/noctua-nf-a12x25/ (glb + usdz) for the inline 3D viewer and AR
• Typo pass: Fixed several typos in the Norwegian article (inspisere, omgivelser, tilgjengelig, bedriftshemmeligheter, motor, geometri, "tross alt at", duplicate "å")

2.32 - 29th April 2026

• SEO: Added bidirectional hreflang alternates between kaytomas.com (EN) and kaytomas.no (NO) so Google groups them as language versions instead of treating them as duplicates. Each paired page now emits <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en|no|x-default"> in <head>, with x-default pointing at .com
• SEO: Static page pairs (forsiden, /about ↔ /om, /keyboards ↔ /tastatur, /mice ↔ /mus, /news ↔ /nyheter, /review ↔ /test) are paired automatically via path lookup in BaseLayout.astro — no per-page changes needed
• SEO: Posts opt in via a new translationSlug frontmatter field. Set on both sides, the helper resolves the counterpart's URL across category-path differences (e.g. /review/ ↔ /test/). Posts without translationSlug emit no hreflang — correct signal for single-language content
• Content: Linked all 27 existing translated post pairs across both languages with translationSlug (54 posts updated). Reviews, news, interviews, portfolio, and videos are now grouped as language alternatives in search
• New: src/lib/alternates.ts centralises the static pair table and post-counterpart lookup. src/lib/categoryPath.ts gains getCategoryPathFor(category, lang) for explicit-lang URL building
• Schema: translationSlug?: string added to the posts collection schema
• Docs: README and CLAUDE.md document the requirement that bilingual posts must declare translationSlug on both sides — non-reciprocal hreflang is ignored by Google

2.31 - 28th April 2026

• Content: Published Steam Controller launch news piece in both NO and EN. Covers Valve's 4 May launch date, TMR thumbsticks, dual haptic trackpads, 6-axis gyro with Grip Sense, the magnetic 2.4 GHz puck (with looping webm clip from Valve's reveal video), 8.39 Wh battery, $99 price, and Norway availability question
• Content: Embedded Valve's official reveal video via <YouTube> and added a 3-second VP9 webm loop of the puck snapping onto the controller back

2.30 - 26th April 2026

• Content: Published Ferry Corsten at Vulkan Arena portfolio piece (EN + NO). Concert photo session shot for Welive on 24 April 2026, featuring Ferry Corsten and warm-up DJ Vivacity

2.29 - 24th April 2026

• Content: Published interview with Are Sundnes, CEO of Hyper Games (NO). Covers Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth, dark themes in family games, creative freedom under IP holders, funding a Norwegian studio, and AI in creative work
• Content: Set Hyper Games interview as featured on the NO homepage with featuredCta: "Les intervjuet her" so the hero CTA reads correctly (not "Les test")
• Content: Added studio and in-game screenshots throughout the interview's latter half for better pacing

2.28 - 23rd April 2026

• Content: Published Slay the Spire 2 review (NO) — flipped from draft
• Content: Added Slay the Spire 2 video post (NO) with inline mp4 clip, custom poster, and link to the full review

2.27 - 20th April 2026

• UI: New "Review" / "Anmeldelse" pill on review-category hero. When isTopPick is set, sits to the left of "Best i test"; otherwise takes the top-right slot on its own
• i18n: ProsAndCons now receives localised labels from PageComponent (label_pros / label_cons) — Norwegian reviews show "Bra" / "Mindre bra" instead of English fallbacks
• Content: Removed duplicate <ProsAndCons> block from Wooting 80HE Zinc ISO (NO) — already rendered by PageComponent
• Content: Slay the Spire 2 (NO) review drafted — currently draft: true
• Assets: Committed hero images for Keychron G5 (EN + NO) and DeathAdder V4 Pro — previously referenced but not tracked

2.26 - 20th April 2026

• Content: Published Keychron G5 news post (EN + NO). 43g ultralight gaming mouse with carbon fiber shell, 8K polling, PixArt 3950 sensor

2.25 - 18th April 2026

• i18n: Hero category label now localised — hero_cat_* keys cover the full productCategory enum plus content categories (review/news/video/interview/portfolio). Norwegian site no longer shows "Mice" / "Review" in the hero
• i18n: label_featured changed from "Nylig" to "Featured" on the Norwegian site
• Content: DeathAdder V4 Pro (NO) homepage CTA now reads "Les DeathAdder testen" via featuredCta

2.24 - 17th April 2026

• Content: Published Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro review (EN + NO). Iconic ergonomic shape, 56 g, 8K polling, Synapse still the weak link

2.23 - 14th April 2026

• Content: Published Wooting CEO interview — Calder Limmen on 8000 Hz, knobs, stabilisers, and staying ahead
• Feature: featuredCta frontmatter field — any featured post can now set custom CTA text on the homepage
• Fix: Featured hero no longer restricted to reviews; any post category can be featured
• i18n: Added label_read_interview / Les intervju translation key

2.22 - 9th April 2026

• Content: Norwegian translations of all 4 portfolio posts (Mekanisk Klippe, Zowie EC2-CW, Steam Deck, 5 Awesome Keyboards)
• Assets: Added M4 USDZ model; Keychron article now surfaces it via ios-src for iOS Quick Look / AR

2.21 - 9th April 2026

• Content: Added Keychron hardware designs GitHub article (EN + NO)
• Component: New ModelViewer.astro using Google <model-viewer> — interactive 3D, material color overrides, IBL lighting, and Android AR
• Assets: Keychron M4 GLTF model served from public/models/keychron-m4/

2.20 - 8th April 2026

• Docs: Documented that English and Norwegian posts must not share the same slug because the shared Astro collection can collide and hide one route at build time
• Audit: Confirmed the current cross-language slug collisions are moomintroll-winters-warmth-release-date-demo and razer-blade-16-2026 (the latter is currently harmless because the English post is still draft)

2.19 - 6th April 2026

• Footer: Norwegian footer now shows the current build version with a changelog link, and footer build-version links use a cleaner non-underlined style

2.18 - 6th April 2026

• Content: Added Norwegian Steam Frame article with local hero, inline images and gallery
• Fix: Gave the Norwegian TV2 keyboard-shortcuts video a unique slug so it renders on kaytomas.no
• Git: Ignore brain/ for now so the local second-brain workspace stays out of GitHub

2.17 - 6th April 2026

• Content: Refined the English Keychron K4 HE review positioning copy
• Content: Updated the Norwegian keyboard toplist with new picks, tighter quick-picks copy, and refreshed labels

2.16 - 6th April 2026

• Design: In-article h2 and h3 headings now use the same gradient treatment as content card titles

2.15 - 6th April 2026

• Design: Homepage section headings now use tighter compact slash-style labels on the front page
• Docs: Updated README homepage docs to reflect the tighter slash-label treatment

2.14 - 6th April 2026

• Design: Switched display typography to Syne across article titles, author bio, 404, reaction time, and ReadMyReview
• Infrastructure: Added @fontsource-variable/syne and wired --font-display into the live font stack

2.13 - 6th April 2026

• Content: Added Norwegian Razer Pro Type Ergo news article with optimized local images and a Synapse Web cross-link
• Content: Added Norwegian Razer Synapse Web news article with local hero/UI images and the original English publish date

2.12 - 4th April 2026

• Design: Homepage section headers now use compact slash-style route labels such as /keyboards, /mice, /review, /news, and /videos
• Design: Rebalanced homepage section heading size after testing the compact slash-style labels
• Design: Frontpage section h2 titles are now about 30% smaller with slightly increased letter spacing for a tighter slash-label treatment
• Fix: Norwegian homepage topic sections now use Norwegian tag matches, Norwegian pinned slugs, and locale-correct review URLs (/test/...)

2.11 - 4th April 2026

• Design: Increased Syne headline weight from 400 to 500 across article titles, section titles, topic hub titles, cards, TOC labels, and in-content h2/h3 headings
• Docs: Updated README typography docs to match the current font stack and headline usage

2.10 - 31st March 2026

• Infrastructure: Norwegian category URLs — /nyheter/ for news, /test/ for reviews via shared getCategoryPath() utility
• Infrastructure: Norwegian dynamic route pages (nyheter/[slug].astro, test/[slug].astro) for individual posts
• Infrastructure: Renamed /tester → /test across nav, footer, listing page and all internal links
• Content: Norwegian Keychron K4 HE SE review
• Content: Norwegian Keychron K HE SE lineup comparison article
• Content: Norwegian BenQ Zowie EC2-CW review
• Content: 4 Norwegian video posts (Zowie EC2-CW, TV2 hurtigtaster, MegaGear Torres Pro, HeyGen AI)
• i18n: Fixed "Alkle" → "Alle" typo, updated footer strings (Om meg, Personvern og datainnsamling)
• About: Both /om and /about now show post counts for both sites with cross-links
• Fix: ReadMyReview component now maps Norwegian URL paths (nyheter, test) back to data categories
• Docs: Updated README and CLAUDE.md with category path documentation

2.09 - 30th March 2026

• Infrastructure: Moved English content to posts/en/, Norwegian stays in posts/no/ — symmetrical dual-site structure
• Infrastructure: Replaced all relative ../../ imports with @components/, @/lib/, @styles/ aliases
• Content: Added Norwegian Razer Blade 16 (2026) article
• Content: Copied shared images into Norwegian Keychron M4 post (no more cross-directory references)
• i18n: Added site_title and site_description translations for Norwegian OG embeds
• SEO: Added og:locale meta tag for correct language in social media embeds

2.08 - 29th March 2026

• Content: Added Razer Blade 16 (2026) news article — laptops

2.07 - 25th March 2026

• Content: Migrated Wooting articles to Norwegian site — 80HE Zinc ISO test, Travel Case test og PBT tastehetter test publisert på kaytomas.no
• Fix: AuthorBio now links to /om on Norwegian site instead of /about
• i18n: "Les alt her" corrected to "Les mer her"

2.06 - 21st March 2026

• Infrastructure: Placing the building blocks for future growth — single repo now builds both kaytomas.com (English) and kaytomas.no (Norwegian) via ENV-based dual-site builds
• Content: First Norwegian article published — Keychron M4 anmeldelse on kaytomas.no
• i18n: Complete Norwegian UI translation system — all strings wired through central t object across nav, footer, pages and article labels
• Norwegian pages: Dedicated Norwegian URLs — /tastatur, /mus, /nyheter, /tester, /om — with Norwegian content and correct internal linking throughout

2.05 - 15th March 2026

• Content: Added Steam Frame GDC article — can the Steam Frame fix VR's friction problem?
• Content: Homepage news section expanded to 8 items (two rows of 4)

2.04 - 15th March 2026

• Content: Added Silver Pines Future Games Show news article — new gameplay trailer, gallery, YouTube embed

2.03 - 9th March 2026

• Content: Making changes to about page — added Work with me section, updated privacy policy, reaction time FAQ updated to five attempts

2.02 - 7th March 2026

• Content: Added two news articles — Keychron K3 Max All-Wood Edition and Keychron K HE SE lineup comparison (K2 vs K4 vs K6 vs K8 vs K10)

2.01 - 6th March 2026

• Feature: Season 2 launched on reaction time — fresh leaderboard, season switcher (S1/S2) on leaderboard and stats panels, hardware/Hz stats now season-aware
• Feature: Reaction time now requires 5 attempts averaged for the final score (was 3)
• Security: HMAC challenge token prevents direct score submission without playing
• Security: Score floor raised to 101 ms; suspicious threshold tightened to 70 ms; presave deletes by IP

2.0 - 6th March 2026

• Security: Added more security measures for reaction time leaderboard

1.99 - 5th March 2026

• Security: Some leaderboard substance abuse mitigating efforts are implemented

1.98 - 4th March 2026

• Content: Published Keychron K4 HE SE review (3.5/5) — full write-up with images, pros/cons, and gallery
• Content: Added draft news article — Keychron K HE SE lineup comparison (K2/K4/K6/K8/K10)
• Fix: ReadMyReview component no longer overwrites provided title/image props when no matching post is found
• Featured: Swapped featured article from Wooting 80HE to Keychron K4 HE SE

1.97 - 4th March 2026

• Polish: Reaction-time go screen changed to solid neon green background

1.96 - 4th March 2026 — Reaction time: suspect detection + UX fixes

• Feature: Suspect/pre-click detection — if one of three attempts is significantly faster than the other two, the session is flagged, discarded, and the arena shakes amber with a "SUSPICIOUS" state; click or space resets as normal
• Feature: Hardware name typed before starting a test is now preserved when the result appears, instead of being cleared; persists across back-to-back rounds
• FAQ: Added "What does 'Suspicious result' mean?" entry explaining the pre-click detection and the data-collection purpose of the test
• Changelog: Consolidated v1.83–v1.95 reaction time iteration into a single entry

v1.83 – v1.95 — Reaction time test

Added /reaction-time — a browser-based reaction time tool backed by Supabase.

• 3-round averaging system with split display and round-progress indicator
• Global leaderboard (top 50, all-time + today), deduped by name
• "Your Best" personal history tab (localStorage, no account required)
• Hardware tracking — mouse or keyboard name stored per submission, with autocomplete
• Stats panel — global distribution histogram, hardware comparison bars, Hz vs reaction time scatter plot
• Share stamp — copy your result as text
• FAQ section and JSON-LD structured data (FAQPage, WebApplication, BreadcrumbList)
• Migrated API routes from Astro SSR pages to Vercel native edge functions to keep the site fully static

1.81 - 26th February 2026

• Feature: Stable og:image URLs — hero images are copied to /public/images/{category}/ at build time via a custom Astro integration; social share previews no longer break when Astro changes the content hash
• Feature: Reading time displayed in article hero (e.g. "5 min read") using reading-time package
• Fix: Hero date and "Updated" timestamp wrapped in a <div> so reading time sits on its own line beneath
• Content: Keychron K4 HE SE review — updated title, rating (4 → 3.5), product name, pros/cons, and body copy

1.80 - 23rd February 2026

• Content: Publish Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth release date and demo news post

1.79 - 23rd February 2026

• Content: Publish Valve Steam Hardware FAQ / memory shortage news post
• Content: Publish Steam Deck OLED out of stock news post — second Steam hardware piece, prepping for Steam Machine hub launch
• Feature: ReadMyReview component fetches OG image at build time for external URLs
• Fix: Reduce spacing between author and date in hero section (margin-top: space-2)

1.78 - 23rd February 2026

• Refactor: Organize src/content/posts/ into year subdirectories (2024/, 2025/); 2026 posts remain at root
• Refactor: Replace relative component imports in MDX files with @components/ alias
• Feature: About page displays live published post count from the posts collection
• Content: Rewrite about page copy — intro, AI content disclosure, and privacy policy sections

1.77 - 21st February 2026

• Fix: Add credentials: 'omit' to dashboard tracking fetch to resolve CORS error
• Feature: Add Vercel Analytics (@vercel/analytics) to BaseLayout

1.76 - 20th February 2026

• Content: Publish ASUS ProArt Keyboard KD300 news post

1.75 - 20th February 2026

• Fix: Same-day post ordering now uses datetime in publishDate (e.g. 2026-02-20T11:00:00); later time sorts first. Backwards compatible — date-only posts default to midnight.

1.74 - 20th February 2026

• Content: Publish Slay the Spire 2 Early Access news post
• Fix: VideoObject schema now falls back to YouTube thumbnail URL when no local youtubeThumbnail file exists
• Design: Hero image forced to 4:3 aspect ratio with object-fit: cover

1.73 - 20th February 2026

• Content: Publish Arc Raiders Hurricane map condition news post
• Fix: YouTube play button now renders correctly inside post content (.post-content a styles were overriding position and background-image on .lyt-playbtn)

1.72 - 13th February 2026

• Content: Added drafts of future content
• Feature: Add /draft page listing all draft posts with noindex and sitemap exclusion
• Layout: Add noindex prop to BaseLayout for hidden pages

1.71 - 13th February 2026

• Content: Publish Fractal Design North Momentum Edition news post
• News page: Remove linkposts section (component preserved for future use)

1.70 - 9th February 2026

• Content: Add TV2 video post - keyboard shortcuts viral interview
• Fix: External video embeds now use thumbnail + YouTube-style play button for sites that block iframe embedding (TV2, etc.)
  • Grey play button turns red on hover
  • 16:9 aspect ratio thumbnails
  • Opens video in new tab on click
• Homepage: Remove linkposts section (components preserved for future use)

1.69 - 7th February 2026

• Fix: Dashboard tracking script now uses define:vars instead of broken template expressions in is:inline script
• Content: Publish Red Wing Roughneck 5-year review (draft → live)
• Content: Remove featured flag from Keychron M4 review

1.68 - 6th February 2026

• Schema & SEO:
  • Review schema now uses summary text for reviewBody
  • Product schema now includes url and uses image arrays
• Content Rendering:
  • Summary blocks are stripped from MDX output to avoid duplicate DOM
  • Pros/cons parsing handles escaped quotes reliably

1.67 - 6th February 2026

• Docs:
  • Added planning docs for future improvements (analytics dashboard, summary de-duplication)
  • Added Planned Features section in README linking to plan documents

1.66 - 6th February 2026

• Homepage:
  • Added new "Reviews" section with smart filtering to avoid duplicating reviews already shown in Keyboards/Mice sections
  • Added automatic exclusion of featured reviews, keyboard reviews, and mice reviews from general Reviews section
  • Keyboards and Mice sections now exclude featured posts and videos
• Topic Sections:
  • Added excludeFeatured prop to exclude posts with featured: true
  • Added excludeVideos prop to exclude posts with category: "video"
  • Added excludeSlugs prop to exclude specific posts by slug array
  • Added categoryMatch prop for filtering by category instead of tags
  • Enhanced filtering logic to support both tag-based and category-based matching
• Hub Pages:
  • Keyboard and mice hub pages now exclude video category posts from collections
• Styling:
  • Changed section titles from all uppercase to capitalized (BlogGrid, ContentGrid, NewsGrid, TopicSection)
• Content:
  • Updated Red Wing Roughneck review with external link support, improved pros/cons parsing, and additional images

1.65 - 5th February 2026

• Layout:
  • Restructured article pages into three distinct containers (Hero → Summary/Pros → Content/TOC)
  • Summary now displays between hero and pros/cons instead of in hero or inline with content
  • Improved TOC alignment with first heading in main content
  • Added container structure documentation to README with visual diagram
• Styling:
  • Simplified summary styling (removed decorative borders, italic text, and text-indent)
  • Added .article-summary and .article-pros-cons classes for clearer component separation
  • TOC now has top margin to align perfectly with first h2 in content
  • Responsive: TOC hidden on mobile (≤1023px) with proper margin handling

1.64 - 4th February 2026

• Schema & SEO:
  • Added productName and brand fields to review frontmatter for improved schema.org structured data
  • Product schema now uses explicit product names instead of extracting from titles
  • Brand information properly structured as @type: "Brand" in schema output
  • Updated 10 recent reviews with productName and brand fields
• Docs:
  • Documented productName and brand fields in README under Review-Specific Fields

1.63 - 4th February 2026

• Content:
  • Added Red Wing Roughneck 5-year review draft article
• Config:
  • Added edge middleware to strip AMP query params (replaces unreliable vercel.json redirects)

1.62 - 3rd February 2026

• Config:
  • Fixed trailing slashes in Vercel redirect destinations
  • Consolidated duplicate baldurs-gate-3 redirects
• Docs:
  • Added AudioPlayer component documentation to README
  • Added ReadMyReview component documentation to README
  • Expanded video documentation with import pattern for autoplay/loop

1.61 - 3rd February 2026

• Content:
  • Added more images to recent Wooting reviews
• Styling:
  • Fixed caption positioning for video elements and YouTube embeds

1.60 - 2nd February 2026

• Content:
  • Added Wooting 80HE review with images, YouTube video embed, and typing sound test
  • Added Wooting 80HE Travel Case review with 9 images
  • Added Wooting Double-Shot PBT Keycaps review with images and typing sound test
• Components:
  • Added AudioPlayer component for inline mp3 playback with styled controls
  • Added ReadMyReview component for inline cross-linking between related articles
• Schema:
  • Added VideoObject structured data for embedded YouTube videos in non-video posts
  • Auto-detects <YouTube> embeds and resolves thumbnail from post folder

1.59 - 30th January 2026

• Lazy-load GLightbox: JS and CSS now only load on first image click instead of on every page. Moved lightbox from BaseLayout to article pages only, so homepage, listings, and 404 no longer ship lightbox code at all.
• Added fetchpriority="high" to hero images for faster LCP.
• Switched fonts to latin-only subsets and added preload for IBM Plex Mono to improve LCP.
• Set explicit width/height on header logo to prevent layout shift.
• Increased footer copyright text contrast.

1.58 - 29th January 2026

• Docs: sharpened assistant notes; moved ToC documentation into README.

1.57 - 29th January 2026

• Preparing future content
• Added Table of Contents component for long reviews

1.56 - 28th January 2026

• Added Razer Synapse Web article covering the new browser-based configuration tool for Huntsman V3 keyboards.

1.55 - 27th January 2026

• Added Arc Raiders 2026 roadmap update article covering Escalation phase (January-April) with new maps, ARC threats, Scrappy updates, and beach environment.

1.54 - 27th January 2026

• Added score badges to review articles - square badges showing X/5 rating on hero images, plus Top Pick badges that actually show up where they should.

1.53 - 23rd January 2026

• Testing linkposts again, now with (hopefully) better backend - because third time's the charm, right?

1.52 - 21st January 2026

• Gave the homepage's keyboard and mice sections superpowers to handpick articles while preventing duplicates, added accordion to changelog because nobody wants to scroll through 51 versions of "fixed a thing", and blessed the changelog title with that sweet animated gradient glow.

1.51 - 19th January 2026

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed summary paragraph breaks not displaying on mobile Safari and Firefox
  • Replaced all <br/> tags with proper paragraph breaks in 11 article summaries
  • Added proper margin-bottom to summary paragraphs for consistent spacing
  • Removed mobile responsive text size for summaries (0.95rem)

1.50 - 19th January 2026

• Content:
  • Added summary to Arc Raiders commentary article
• Styling:
  • Added .list CSS class for inline numbered lists with tighter spacing
  • Improved summary paragraph spacing with proper margin-bottom

1.49 - 19th January 2026

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed mobile menu allowing clicks on hidden links when closed
  • Added pointer-events control to prevent interaction with invisible menu items

1.48 - 19th January 2026

• Content:
  • Added Arc Raiders commentary article with gallery and YouTube embed

1.47 - 19th January 2026

• Navigation Enhancements:
  • Added accordion dropdown menu to header for additional pages (Videos, Portfolio, About, Changelog)
  • Dropdown features animated gradient background matching mobile menu aesthetic
  • Right-aligned dropdown items with hover underline effects
  • Accordion toggle styled with accent color
  • Mobile menu now displays all navigation items inline with consistent sizing
• Mobile Menu Improvements:
  • Fixed mobile menu height issue using dvh units for better iOS compatibility
  • Reduced text size and padding on mobile for improved spacing (clamp 1.2-1.5rem)
  • Added fallback from 100vh to 100dvh for proper viewport coverage across devices
• UI Improvements:
  • Removed article slug from breadcrumbs display (still present in schema for SEO)
  • Updated hero titles on Keyboards and Mice pages with animated gradient effect
  • Breadcrumbs now show simplified path (e.g., "kaytomas.com / mice")

1.46 - 18th January 2026

• Schema Enhancements:
  • Added aggregate ratings support for review products (shows rating count across all reviews of same product)
  • Created aggregateRatings utility for calculating product ratings across multiple reviews
  • Enhanced Product schema with AggregateRating entities for better search result display
  • Added aggregateRating support to topic hub pages for comprehensive product data
• UI Improvements:
  • Removed sticky header behavior and bottom border for cleaner design
  • Removed tags and category display from article hero sections (kept for featured homepage variant only)
  • Simplified breadcrumbs styling by removing custom font

1.45 - 16th January 2026

• SEO Improvements:
  • Added granular sitemap prioritization (1.0 for homepage, 0.9 for hub pages, 0.8 for category pages, 0.7 for content, 0.5 for static pages)
  • Configured different changefreq values per page type for better crawl optimization
• UX Improvements:
  • Shortened "View all" link text for better mobile readability
  • Removed arrows from section links (All keyboards, All the mice, Read all news, See all videos)

1.44 - 16th January 2026

• Major Release: Merged content-hubs branch into main
• Features:
  • Added content hubs for Mice and Keyboards with dedicated topic pages
  • Added productCategory and subCategory system for content organization
  • Added rich schema markup to topic hub pages for SEO
  • Added topic clusters with homepage restructure
  • Added --shadow-tag CSS variable for consistent tag shadows
• Fixes:
  • Fixed duplicate productCategory keys in frontmatter across 20 posts
  • Added subtle drop shadows to all badge/tag elements

1.43 - 16th January 2026

• Removed:
  • Removed linkposts feature from homepage due to errors in logic
  • Disabled Linkposts.astro component (renamed to .bak)
  • Deleted /data/linkposts.json (public data file preserved)

1.42 - 14th January 2026

• Features:
  • Added curated linkposts feature with News Stream section on homepage
  • Linkpost cards display title, source, relative time, comments, and tags
  • Collapsible list with "Show more" toggle button
  • Graceful handling for posts without images
• UI Improvements:
  • Redesigned "Show more" button with accent gradient underline
  • Updated fetch path to use /data/linkposts.json
  • Linkpost comments now expand fully instead of being truncated
  • Tweaked linkposts pixels width and height

1.41 - 13th January 2026

• Features:
  • Added backend for Inoreader news flow of consciousness
  • Created /data/linkposts.json for automated link commentary
  • Configured Vercel to ignore data folder changes (no rebuilds on linkpost updates)
• Documentation:
  • Added comprehensive Linkposts workflow documentation to README

1.40 - 13th January 2026

• Content Updates:
  • Added two Arc Raiders articles: "Arc Raiders success story" (published) and "Aggro-Based Matchmaking Confirmed" (draft)
  • Added "Commentary" tag to Sunderfolk article
  • Implemented flexbox layout for Patrick Söderlund image alongside blockquote in aggro lobbies article

1.39 - 12th January 2026

• SEO Improvements:
  • Added trailing slash redirects for collection pages (/review/, /news/, /portfolio/, /videos/)
  • Ensures consistent URL structure aligning with trailingSlash: 'never' policy
• Content Updates:
  • Updated Keychron Ultra article title to "Keychron Q Ultra series"
  • Updated Reebok weight vest review with 2026 refresh (18 months later update)
  • Updated pricing information for Reebok vest (US: $35, Norway: 1600 NOK)

1.38 - 7th January 2026

• Schema & SEO Enhancements:
  • Added comprehensive structured data for all page types with BreadcrumbList navigation
  • AboutPage schema with detailed Person mainEntity including knowsAbout, contactPoint, and email
  • CollectionPage schema for category indexes (/review, /news, /portfolio, /videos) with dynamic ItemList
  • BrandPage schema for brand pages (/keychron) with Brand entity and ItemList
  • WebPage schema for informational pages (/changelog) with auto-generated dateModified
  • All schemas now include BreadcrumbList for improved navigation and SEO
• Technical:
  • Created centralized schema system with constants in /src/lib/schema/constants.ts
  • New schema generators: about.ts, collection.ts, brand.ts, webpage.ts
  • Enhanced brand configuration with optional websiteUrl field
  • Fixed AUTHOR_EMAIL constant (removed mailto: prefix for schema compliance)
• Documentation:
  • Updated README with comprehensive schema documentation for all page types
  • Added brand page documentation with configuration examples
  • Updated project structure to reflect new schema files

1.37 - 7th January 2026

• Features:
  • Added comprehensive author bio section at the end of all posts
  • Author bio includes photo (linking to /about), name, title, description, and social links
  • Added email contact link (kay@kaytomas.com) alongside social media icons
• Technical:
  • Enhanced Schema.org Person markup with description, jobTitle, worksFor, and sameAs fields
  • Created centralized generatePersonSchema() function for consistent author data
  • Updated review, article, and video schemas to use enhanced author metadata
  • Improved SEO with rich author information for search engines

1.36 - 6th January 2026

• Features:
  • Added "You may also like" related posts section to blog posts
  • Smart matching algorithm prioritizes shared tags, then category, then recency
  • Manual override option via frontmatter relatedPosts array
  • Responsive horizontal layout (image left, content right)
  • Added --gradient-heading CSS variable for consistent heading gradients

1.35 - 7th January 2026

• Content:
  • Added news article: Keychron Ultra series with 8kHz polling and 4-month battery life
• Features:
  • Added gallery caption styling to match image caption formatting

1.34 - 4th January 2026

• Planning:
  • Added plan for content file restructure to improve external editor compatibility

1.33 - 2nd January 2026

• Technical:
  • Tidied up IndexNow implementation for better reliability
  • Updated to Astro 5 compatible configuration (static output)
  • Fixed deprecated Vercel adapter import
  • Updated IndexNow key from Bing Webmaster Tools verification
  • Removed custom API endpoint - GitHub Action now submits directly to IndexNow
  • Simplified workflow to fetch sitemap and submit URLs directly
  • Added URL logging to GitHub Actions for better visibility
  • Cleaned up unused API route and environment variables

1.32 - 2nd January 2026

• Technical:
  • Implemented post-deployment IndexNow webhook solution
  • Created /api/indexnow endpoint for URL submission after deployment
  • Removed astro-indexnow to avoid timing issues during build
  • Changed output mode to 'hybrid' with Vercel serverless adapter
  • Added @astrojs/vercel adapter for server-side API routes
  • Added GitHub Action to automatically submit URLs to IndexNow after deployment
  • IndexNow now triggered automatically via GitHub Actions workflow
  • Comprehensive README documentation for IndexNow setup

1.31 - 2nd January 2026

• Content:
  • Added comprehensive Review Policy to About page
  • Restructured About page with portrait image and improved layout
  • Added portrait photo with photographer credit
  • Added Review Policy link to footer navigation
  • Updated About page content with Prisjakt.no role and refined messaging

1.30 - 29th December 2025

• UI/UX:
  • Extended lightbox functionality to all article images, not just galleries
  • All standalone images in articles now open in lightbox when clicked
  • Added consistent hover effect (scale 1.02) across all clickable images
  • Updated caption styling to work with lightbox-wrapped images
  • Removed box-shadow from gallery images for cleaner appearance
• Content:
  • Updated Keychron M4 review with improved content structure

1.29 - 28th December 2025

• SEO:
  • Added IndexNow integration for instant search engine notifications
  • Automatically submits all pages to IndexNow on every build
  • Supports Bing, Yandex, and other IndexNow-compatible search engines
  • ~48 URLs automatically submitted per deployment
• Documentation:
  • Added IndexNow section to README with detailed explanation
  • Documented build process and automatic URL submission

1.28 - 27th December 2025

• UI/UX:
  • Updated main headline to "Real hardware, real opinions" with animated mint/white gradient
  • Enlarged section headings (Reviews, News, Videos) to h1 size with gradient effect
  • Changed section headings to primary font (system font) and normal case
  • Expanded featured hero container width to match full page width (1200px)
  • Updated footer credits to mention Astro instead of Claude

1.27 - 27th December 2025

• Experimental:
  • Dabbeling on brand-pages

1.26 - 26th December 2025

• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed Open Graph images showing as "[object Object]" in meta tags
  • OG and Twitter card images now correctly display full image URLs
  • Extract .src property from Astro image objects in PageComponent
  • Convert URL object to string in BaseLayout meta tags
• Content:
  • Added news article: Samsung Odyssey 3D (6K glasses-free 3D display)
• UI/UX:
  • Section titles (REVIEWS, NEWS, VIDEOS) now use Space Grotesk font
  • Made section titles clickable links to their respective listing pages
  • Added hover effect to section title links

1.25 - 26th December 2025

• Content:
  • Fixed typo in news page

1.24 - 26th December 2025

• Documentation:
  • Merged all README files into one comprehensive document at repository root
  • Complete documentation of page types (news, review, portfolio, video)
  • Typography system documentation (IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Mono, Space Grotesk)
  • Color system with hex codes (primary #99ffcc, secondary #ff006e, tertiary #4800fb)
  • Schema/structured data logic for all content types
  • Custom content fields and components documentation
  • Development patterns and content management workflows
  • Removed redundant README files from subdirectories

1.23 - 26th December 2025

• SEO Optimization:
  • Edited all meta descriptions to be sub 160 chars
  • Optimized 23 articles with descriptions over the SEO limit
  • Average reduction of ~50% in description length
  • Improved search result appearance and click-through rates

1.22 - 25th December 2025

• Content:
  • Added article: OG Steam Deck out of production :(
• Styling:
  • Reduced blockquote accent line width from 3.75rem to 2.8rem for cleaner appearance

1.21 - 25th December 2025

• SEO Redirects:
  • Added 41 WordPress migration redirects to vercel.json
  • Tag page redirects (32 entries): old /tag/* URLs redirected to appropriate category pages
  • Category redirects: /category/blog to /news
  • URL corrections: /reviews to /review
  • Sitemap redirects: legacy WordPress sitemap URLs to sitemap-index.xml
  • All redirects configured as permanent (301) for proper SEO link equity transfer

1.20 - 25th December 2025

• 404 Page:
  • Added custom 404 page with Drew blinking GIF
  • Hero-summary styled text with contact information
  • Dynamic grid showing 9 most recent posts
• SEO:
  • Created vercel.json with normalized redirects (no trailing slashes)
  • Added catch-all feed redirect
  • Removed duplicate URL variations

1.19 - 25th December 2025

• Content:
  • Added 5 older news articles from March 2025 for SEO purposes

1.18 - 25th December 2025

• Content:
  • Added 3 new portfolio pages (Steam Deck, 5 Awesome Keyboards, Zowie EC2-CW)

1.17 - 25th December 2025

• Navigation:
  • Added Portfolio link to header navigation (alongside Reviews and News)
• Typography & Styling:
  • Updated header navigation font to IBM Plex Mono (matching summary badge styling)
  • Reduced header navigation font size and spacing for more compact appearance
  • Added letter-spacing (0.15em) to header navigation links
• Portfolio:
  • Removed "Latest Projects" title from portfolio page grid
  • Added custom h3 styling for portfolio posts (IBM Plex Mono font, larger size, increased bottom spacing)
  • Portfolio posts now use unified article layout with hero component

1.16 - 18th December 2025

• SEO & Styling:
  • Added canonical tags to all pages (without trailing slashes)
  • Moved summary blocks to hero section (15% wider than main content)
  • Added Space Grotesk font (400 weight) for summaries and blockquotes
  • Updated summary styling: removed italics, gradient border, and indent
  • Updated blockquote font size to calc(var(--text-m) * 1.1)

1.15 - 17th December 2025

• Framework Update:
  • Updated Astro from 5.15.9 to 5.16.6
• Routing:
  • Added redirect from /review/red-wing-iron-ranger-8085-tested to /review/red-wing-iron-ranger-8085-review

1.14 - 17th December 2025

• Content Enhancement:
  • Added summary blocks to all review articles
  • Updated summary block styling with horizontal gradient bottom border

1.13 - 17th December 2025

• Performance Monitoring:
  • Added Vercel Speed Insights for real-world performance tracking
  • Integrated @vercel/speed-insights package into BaseLayout

1.12 - 17th December 2025

• Font Optimization:
  • Self-hosted IBM Plex Mono using Fontsource (weights 400 & 600)
  • Removed Google Fonts dependency for better performance and privacy
  • Removed IBM Plex Sans and JetBrains Mono (unused fonts)
  • Unified all body text, blockquotes, and inline code to use system fonts
  • IBM Plex Mono now only external font, used exclusively for captions, author lines, and UI elements
  • Reduced font weight variants from 300/400/500/600 to just 400/600

1.11 - 15th December 2025

• Analytics Migration:
  • Replaced Plausible analytics with Google Analytics (GA4)
  • Added Google Analytics tracking code to BaseLayout
  • Updated about page privacy policy to reflect Google Analytics usage
• URL Configuration:
  • Set trailingSlash to 'never' for consistent URLs without trailing slashes
  • Added redirect from /reviews to /review for SEO
  • Cleaned up Astro config for cleaner sitemap generation
• Codebase Cleanup:
  • Removed InoreaderStream component and related files
  • Removed redirect script planning documentation
  • Updated TODO list to reflect launched site status

1.10 - 10th December 2025

• Summary block color and padding tweaks (thx neXib)

1.09 - 10th December 2025

• Added summary block component for articles (experimental design)
• Fixed typos in Keychron M4 article

1.08 - 9th December 2025

• Published Keychron M4 fingertip mouse review
• Improved markdown table styling with centered text, accent border, and refined spacing

1.06 - 2nd December 2025

• Small file cleanup and tweaks
• Added credit1/credit2 fields for contributor attribution
• Increased spacing on author/credit fields for better readability

1.05 - 30th November 2025

• Schema.org Structured Data Fix:
  • Fixed review schema positiveNotes and negativeNotes to use proper ItemList format
  • Each list item now includes @type, position, and name properties per schema.org spec
  • Ensures compatibility with Google Rich Results validation

1.04 - 30th November 2025

• Implemented and testing Plausible analytics

1.03 - 29th November 2025

• Small UI fixes

1.02 - 28th November 2025

• Fixed post release typos and improved mobile hero centering

1.0.1 - 28th November 2025

• Schema Validation Fixes:
  • Fixed review schema to follow Google Product snippet guidelines (changed from standalone Review to Product with nested review property)
  • Added author URL (https://kaytomas.com/about) to all Person schemas for proper E-E-A-T signals
  • Resolves Google Rich Results validation errors

1.0.0 - 28th November 2025

• 🎉 MAJOR RELEASE - Production Ready with SEO Structured Data
• JSON-LD Structured Data Implementation:
  • Review Schema.org markup with star ratings (1-5), product info, pros/cons
  • VideoObject schema with YouTube integration and thumbnails
  • NewsArticle schema with author attribution and rich article cards
  • BreadcrumbList schema for improved navigation in search results
  • Organization schema with site branding, logo, and social links
• Type-Safe Content Schema (Breaking Changes):
  • Implemented discriminated union pattern in content configuration
  • Review posts now REQUIRE rating field (1-5 scale)
  • Video posts now REQUIRE youtubeId field
  • Build-time validation ensures all content meets requirements
  • All existing content updated to comply (9 reviews, 3 videos validated)
• Schema Generation Infrastructure:
  • Created centralized schema utility library (src/lib/schema/)
  • TypeScript interfaces for all Schema.org types
  • Automatic pros/cons extraction from reviewProsCons MDX exports
  • JSON-LD injected at build time (zero runtime performance cost)
• SEO Benefits:
  • ⭐ Star ratings visible in Google search results
  • 🎥 Video thumbnails in search results
  • 📰 Rich article cards with author info
  • 🔗 Breadcrumb navigation
  • 👤 E-E-A-T signals with proper author attribution
  • 🏢 Organization branding
• Author Updates:
  • Changed default author from "Kay Tomas" to "Kay Tomas Bertheussen"
  • Updated all content with standardized author name

0.91

• Video page enhancements:
  • Replaced hero image thumbnail with embedded YouTube video on video article pages
  • Added accessibility attributes (role and aria-label) to video embeds
  • Removed "Latest Videos" title from videos index page
  • Added tertiary accent color support for "View all" links
• Author field improvements:
  • Removed hardcoded "by" prefix from all author displays
  • Changed author text to lighter weight (300) with tighter letter spacing (-0.01em)
  • Switched to secondary font for more elegant appearance
• Hero component redesign:
  • Split hero into two-column layout with title on left, description on right
  • Both sections now centered vertically and horizontally
  • Added support for HTML in title and subtitle (line breaks with <br>)
  • Implemented conditional gradient system:
    • Main page: Tri-color gradient (white → orange → purple) at 180 degrees
    • Sub-pages: Two-color gradient (white → orange) at 90 degrees
  • Increased subtitle font size for better readability
• Typography and styling:
  • Updated date/time separator spacing with padding for better visual balance
  • Added gradient to article card titles (19deg angle, white to accent at 60%)
  • Rainbow gradient effect added to "ultrathinking" text on about page
• About page:
  • Created new about page with site information and AI content disclosure
  • Footer "AI usage" link now points to about page anchor (#ai-content)
  • "About" and "Changelog" links properly implemented in footer
• Featured article enhancements:
  • Added "Featured" tag badge with magenta color (#cc33cc)
  • Featured tag appears before category tag on featured article images
  • Improved visual hierarchy for featured content
• Footer refinements:
  • Reduced brand text size from lg to base
  • Changed credits text from bold to normal weight
  • Split version info to separate line for better readability
  • Added underline styling to version link for clear affordance

0.90

• Content migration complete! All articles migrated from WordPress and manually processed
• Migrated MegaGear Torres Pro review article:
  • Successfully migrated complex review with 4 galleries (39 images total)
  • Integrated YouTube video embed
  • Added ProsAndCons component for structured review format
  • Properly formatted disclaimers and affiliate links
• Brand assets implementation:
  • Added official logo and favicon from live site
  • Replaced text logo with image in header
  • Maintained header height for consistent layout
• Social media updates:
  • Updated YouTube link to @kaytomascom
  • Updated Instagram and X links to @ktbsen
• CSS improvements:
  • Enhanced image caption selector using :has() pseudo-class for better reliability
  • Improved caption positioning across all articles
• Site status: Content complete and ready for launch preparation

0.89

• Manual formatting improvements for review articles
• Gallery component updates:
  • Moved styles to global.css following architecture pattern
  • Changed to 2-column layout on all screen sizes
  • Removed rounded corners for cleaner look
• Article typography refinements:
  • Tighter list spacing with improved line-height
  • Hero description font size increased to 1.40rem
  • Added support for line breaks in hero descriptions
• Created comprehensive review template (reviewTemplate.mdx)

0.88

• Typography and spacing refinements:
  • Reduced article body text from 1.29rem to 1.125rem (18px) for improved readability
  • Reduced content max-width from 700px to 680px for tighter layout
  • Reduced article hero top padding from space-10 to space-5 for more compact design
• Component system improvements:
  • Created ProsAndCons component for review articles with Verge-style minimal design
  • Two-column layout on desktop with vertical divider, single column on mobile
  • Customizable labels (prosLabel/consLabel) with defaults
  • Uses default bullet points with accent colors for pros/cons titles
  • Added MDX compatibility comment to allow component as first content
  • Created Disclaimer CSS class for article disclaimers with accent underline
• Styling architecture:
  • Moved all component styles to global.css for centralized management
  • Moved prose/content styles (links, headings, blockquotes, code) to global.css
  • Moved utility styles (.category, .tag) to global.css
• Path aliases:
  • Added TypeScript path aliases (@components, @styles, @layouts, @/*) for cleaner imports
  • Updated README with path alias documentation and usage examples
• Blockquote redesign:
  • Changed to top border (15px wide, 60px length) in accent color
  • Removed italic styling, now uses IBM Plex Sans Medium
  • Changed to standard white text color (var(--color-text))
  • Uses var(--text-lg) on desktop, var(--text-m) on mobile
  • Added horizontal padding (1.5rem) for better positioning
• Header navigation updates:
  • Removed Videos and Portfolio links (pages kept for future use)
  • Changed nav links to uppercase (REVIEWS / NEWS)
  • Added accent-colored "/" separator between navigation items
• Documentation:
  • Created comprehensive README.md with development patterns
  • Documented component/styling architecture pattern
  • Added ProsAndCons usage examples with multi-line array formatting

0.87

• Rewrote the whole hero segment of posts and made them french chéf ready!
• Removed link underline styling from header and footer (now only appears in article content)
• Decreased global page margins from 24px/32px to 10px across all breakpoints
• Added hero image caption support with heroImageCaption frontmatter field
• Updated caption styling globally: 10% smaller, lighter weight, custom color (#cccccc), removed italics
• Added decorative quotation mark to hero excerpt in accent color
• Adjusted hero layout spacing and responsive behavior for better visual hierarchy
• Typography improvements:
  • Changed all heading colors (h1-h6) to use accent color globally
  • Added gradient effect to article h1 titles (white to accent color)
  • Adjusted h2 spacing: increased margin-top to space-8, reduced margin-bottom to space-3
  • Created new --text-m variable (18px) for better responsive typography scaling
  • Added 480px breakpoint for small mobile devices with reduced content font size
• List styling refinements:
  • Removed margin-bottom from ul/ol elements for tighter spacing
  • Cleaned up list item spacing for better readability

0.86

• Implement video pages with YouTube embed support
  • Add video category to content schema with youtubeId and relatedReviewSlug fields
  • Create /video/ archive page and /video/[slug] detail pages
  • Add Videos link to header navigation (between Reviews and News)
  • Integrate astro-embed for responsive YouTube embeds
• Migrate 3 video posts from WordPress:
  • Zowie EC2-CW gaming mouse video
  • HeyGen AI video translate test
  • MegaGear Torres Pro camera bag review
• Add VIDEO_TEMPLATE.md documentation for creating video posts

0.85

• Add comprehensive redirect script plan for WordPress image URLs (REDIRECT_SCRIPT_PLAN.md)
• Update TODO.md to reflect completed tasks:
  • GLightbox implementation verified
  • All documentation moved to /docs folder
  • CHANGELOG path already updated in version utility

0.84

• Migrated 13 articles from WordPress (9 news, 4 reviews):
  • News: MX Northern Light, Dune Awakening, Overwatch 2 Stadium, Marathon, BG3 crossplay, DaVinci Resolve 20, BG3 Act 2 mod, ASUS ProArt PA32UCDM, FreeDOS 1.4, Samsung Odyssey 2025
  • Reviews: BenQ Zowie EC2-CW, Red Wing Iron Ranger 8085, Reebok weight vest, Xtrfy M4 Wireless
• Enhanced migration script with major improvements:
  • Preserve exact content order (text and media elements)
  • Extract actual publish dates and update dates from WordPress
  • Fix list formatting to prevent extra line breaks
  • Auto-remove "KAYTOMAS" suffix from titles
  • Process entire list blocks to maintain compact formatting

0.83

• Delete duplicate Silver Pines article (old November version)
• Implement footer component with social links (Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, X), contact links, and build version display
• Add dynamic version numbering utility (reads from CHANGELOG.md)
• Remove version display from header (now only in footer)
• Update global link styling with accent-colored underlines and configurable offset
• Add --text-underline-offset variable to design system

0.82

• Add Gallery.astro component for responsive image grids
• Add WordPress migration script (scripts/migrate-article.cjs) with support for:
  • WordPress gallery blocks with automatic image downloads
  • YouTube embed detection (astro-embed integration)
  • Native WordPress video block support with file downloads
  • Complete Elementor content extraction
  • MDX output with proper imports
• Add video styling to global.css for proper container constraints
• Add comprehensive migration documentation

0.81

• Migrated "Meshify 3", "Sonic Racing Crossworlds", and "Keychron K3 Max" articles.
• Fixed build issues (missing marked dependency and config conflict).
• Taught the site to speak 'Meshify', 'Sonic', and 'Keychron'. Also fixed the build, because broken sites are so 2024.

0.80

• Fix broken content collections for reviews, news, and portfolio.
• Implement clean URLs for all content types.
• Implement Image Optimization using Astro <Image /> component.
• Update header link to /review.

0.79

• Migrate all images to Astro's Image component for automatic optimization and lazy loading.
• Move images to /src/assets/ for proper build-time processing (news WebP, review JPG).
• Remove unoptimized PNG/WebP files from /public (~4.4MB reduction).
• Update Card and NewsGrid components to use imported image assets.

0.78

• Add comprehensive SEO meta tags (Open Graph, Twitter Cards, canonical URLs) and optimize images (PNG → WebP, 97.5% size reduction).

0.77

• Update navigation to match kaytomas.com structure (Reviews → /reviews, add Portfolio link).

0.76

• Add changelog subsite at /changelog with site styling, header, and container layout.

0.75

• Add real review images from kaytomas.com (GeForce Now, Keychron K3 Max, ZOWIE EC2-CW).

0.74

• Refactor to reusable ContentGrid component with configurable columns and add placeholder images for news items.

0.73

• Complete UI/UX redesign with design system, new layout structure, and component library.

0.72

• Add header component with logo, navigation (Home, Blog), and version number linking to changelog.

0.71

• Update index page subtitle to "det er kjempegøy på skolen".

0.70

• Update index page subtitle to "mats mats mats is helping, so are agents".

0.69

• Initial changelog setup and project documentation update.