Changelog

Probably nobody cares but I would like to track how my blog improved day-by-day.

28-02-2023

• New logo and header on Facebook page
• Disable creating multiple sizes of images
  • This change reduced the whole website size by 60%
• Optimize images on homepage
• Hide some tags on homepage

25-01-2023

• Darker background color and darker font color for better readability

23-01-2023

• Rethinking of menu structure
• Put Changelog link into the footer
• Small color modifications in footer
• Compress CSS code

15-01-2023

• Redesign and resize header images for perfect display
• Small CSS modifications

16-11-2022

• Small grammarly improvements on the whole blog
• Compress & optimize big pictures to save bandwidth, and increase website speed
• Optimized URLs for social sites

22-12-2021

• "Recent Incoming Payments" box has been added to the sidebar

20-12-2021

• Increase website speed by compressing and resizing profile picture from 61KB to 3KB

11-12-2021

• Small modifications regarding social buttons and links

10-12-2021

• Instagram page created
• Twitter page created
• Speed-up by reducing size of images

26-05-2021

• Improved Contact Form
• Fix color issues
• Cleanup the theme

25-05-2021

• The theme has been changed to Technews and turns into dark mode
  • Speed improvement and reduce bounce rate

09-05-2021

• feriman.com domain has been moved to Namecheap

30-04-2021

• Refactored backup script (due to the host change)

29-04-2021

• This blog hosted from Netlify instead of my own Raspberry Pi
  • Click here to get more info about that

28-04-2021

• Restructure articles for better readability

23-04-2021

• Google AMP disabled
• Faster page load by adding charset to Apache configuration file

22-04-2021

• Optimize .png images with pngquant
  • Faster and more efficient compressing method compared to optipng

16-04-2021

• Improved page style
• The backup script has been improved again

15-04-2021

• Improved backup script by implement test archive function before restoring/uploading it to Cloud
• jQuery updated
• Contact Form

14-04-2021

• Security level increased on the server side

13-04-2021

• Disabled image hotlinking
• SEO

12-04-2021

• Improved automated restore/failover/update script
  • Extend storage automatically if necessary
  • Upload backup to Cloud
  • Alert when something is wrong AND cannot fix by the script
• http to https redirect
• Healthcheck script
  • gzip
  • SSL
  • HTTP/2
  • etc.

09-04-2021

• Configure automated backup and restore strategy on the backend
  • Yes, it can automatically restore from the last backup if something is wrong
    • This is why I love shell scripts :)

08-04-2021

• Secure Apache2
• Enable HTTP/2

07-04-2021

• Create Facebook page
• Create a logo (probably temporary)
• Set favicon
• Customize theme

06-04-2021

• Found Publii (Excellent tool to create a static website like this)
• Configure Apache2 on Raspberry Pi 4
  • VirtualHost
  • SSL
    • with auto-renew
    • alert by email if expire is close
• Publish the first article at night