Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog,
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[0.6.0] - 2025-02-17

Added

time_header() javascript function added to thetime.js. Now updates the time
in the header of The Time v2 once at the top of every minute.
Posts now have a published date. Posts with a published date in the future
are not shown on the posts list.
There is a new view for adding blog posts that is not within the admin. It
is intended to be more friendly for mobile devices than the admin pages are and
have some other features in the future.

Changed

animate_time() javascript function added to thetime.js. Refactor of the time
animation function used in The Time.
All Javascript in The Time was refactored to include advanced concepts like
“let” and “const”.
Updated Django to 4.2.19

Deprecated

thetime:timescript.html template - use animate_time() instead

Fixed

Changelog menu link restored
“Guarantee” is now correctly spelled in the Coming Soon list
Countdowns now display correct elapsed times after the event completes.

[0.5.1] - 2024-12-22

Changed

Countdowns now start with a black background before transitioning to green,
yellow, and eventually red within 4 weeks of the target date.
This changelog is now read from disk instead of being maintained as a separate
flatpage.

Fixed

Unix timestamps of events now include milliseconds, in order to be consistent
with the displayed time.
Prevented the evaluation of unix timestamps as telephone numbers on iOS
devices by adding a meta tag to the event list template.

[0.5.0] - 2024-12-21

Added

“The Time” application - a lift-and-shift from a dorky page I wrote
Version 2 of “The Time” - now reads events from the database and counts down

Changed

Updated “Coming Soon” list
Redacted one word from this changelog

[0.4.1] - 2024-12-08

Added

New page to redirect to for unauthenticated users who try to stick their nose
where it doesn’t belong.

Fixed

Updated “Coming Soon” list
Corrected markup and styling of the Dungeon Tools header
Corrected markup of headers in Blog templates

[0.4.0] - 2024-12-05

Added

“Dungeon” application - a deployment of my Dungeon Tools utility library
and a few views that showcase it. Version 0.0.0 of the library will be deployed.
Dungeon application can generate random dungeons using the rules in Appendix
A of the D&D 5th Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Dungeon application can persist generated dungeons for authenticated users.
Options application. Calculates the value of my stock options by looking up
the current price with the Finnhub Quote API.

Changed

Updated Django to 4.2.17

[0.3.0] - 2024-12-01

Added

Routine Patrol 0.2, after 3 pre-releases on the same day.

Changed

Updated Django to 4.2.16
Updated django-otp to 1.5.4
Updated qrcode to 8.0
Updated the Coming Soon list

Fixed

Routine Patrol URLs now direct to starbasezebra.com instead of dev server.
Routine Patrol URLs use HTTPS instead of HTTP

[0.2.6] - 2024-08-23

Changed

“Dungeon Tools” box on the front page now replaced with “Coming Soon”
Front page now lists the 5 most recently updated blog posts.
Updated Django to 4.2.15
Updated Gunicorn to 23.0.0
Updated Markdown to 3.7

[0.2.5] - 2024-03-08

Added

Flatpage template that uses the blog markdown templatetag.
This changelog now published as a flatpage publicly.

[0.2.4] - 2024-02-22

Added

Blog posts now have navigation links

Fixed

Markdown syntax is now stripped from blog meta descriptions

[0.2.3] - 2024-02-13

Changed

Suppressed django.security.DisallowedHost output

Fixed

Removed all ALLOWED_HOST entries except the domain name
Rolled back python-discord-webhook to 1.3.0 given dropped Python 3.9 support

[0.2.2] - 2024-02-11

Added

Environment information now shown on navbar when authenticated
All pages now specify canonical links

Changed

Flatpage links are also underline to not rely exclusively on color
Updated python-discord-webhook to 1.3.1
Updated Django to 4.2.10

Fixed

Links in blog text are now underlined to not rely exclusively on color
Horizontal rules are now darker
Incorrect year on changelog entries

[0.2.1] - 2024-01-21

Fixed

Environment variables are now parsed into their appropriate Python data types
Syndication feed logo tag now has alt text
Syndication feed logo tag now has explict dimensions specified

[0.2.0] - 2024-01-21

Added

Blog now supports Markdown
Strikethrough extension for Markdown
RSS and Atom feeds for the blog.
Logged errors now invoke a Discord webhook if Debug = False
Oops button available to authenticated users.
Buttons to add blog posts available to authenticated users.
Every page now has a meta description

Fixed

“OTP_TOTP_ISSUER” is now just “Starbase Zebra” instead of mentioning the
development server.
“SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT” is now permanetly set to False - all it does is break
production. NGINX can handle the redirect fine.
Console logging takes place again if Debug = True

[0.1.0] - 2024-01-18

Added

Sitemap
Favicons
TOTP based MFA

Changed

Headings are now sequentially decending
All top level headings are always h1 tags

Removed

robots.txt is no longer under Ops static files. I’m keeping this on
the server itself unless and until there’s a reason to keep it in the
application.

[0.0.2] - 2024-01-12

Added

README.md

Changed

Blog post list now has the newest entries on top
Blog posts now have an absolute URL (“View on Site” in admin works)

Fixed

Thrown exceptions are now caught if there are no blog posts in the database
Hamburger menu now works on mobile devices

[0.0.1] - 2024-01-09

Fixed

Line breaks on blog post template
Line breaks on flatpages default template

[0.0.0] - 2024-01-09

Added

“Ops” application - base templates and admin customizations
“Blog” application - for a blog
“Contact” application - a simple contact form that calls a Discord webhook
New dependency on Django 4.2.9
New dependency on Python Discord Webhook 1.3.0
New dependency on Gunicorn 21.2.0. This is really just to make setup on production slightly easier.