Devlog

Everything from the roadmap I started last week is now live. What began as a handful of fixes turned into a rebuild of most of the site, from the music section to a small admin that runs it all.

Music got the biggest upgrade: what I’m playing right now, my top artists and tracks, a listening clock, monthly eras and all-time charts from Last.fm, my Spotify playlists, and a form where you can recommend me songs. The ones I approve end up in my Liked Songs.

There’s a photo section too, grouped by month with trips as albums, and a viewer that goes full screen on phones. New photos go up straight from the admin, and the browser strips location and camera data before anything is uploaded.

The rest of the site got its turn: new About and Uses pages, a Now page that fills itself in from Spotify, AniList and Discord, a redone cats page, a home page that shows what’s new, and these project pages with devlogs. On phones, card rows now swipe sideways and photos sit in two columns.

Behind the scenes, recommendations go through a queue I review, and anime and manga land on my AniList automatically. The admin has editors for the Now page, changelog, projects and photos, so small updates no longer mean touching code. Scheduled jobs keep the stats and recommendations up to date, and a daily health check tells me when something breaks.

Next up: importing my older Spotify history, so the stats go back further than last week.

Started the next round of work on the site with a proper roadmap, and began with the foundation: the headings now render in the fonts the theme always asked for, and the public pages are prerendered, so they load straight from the CDN.

Next up, the recommendation pipeline is being rebuilt. After that come a photo section, these project pages with short devlogs like this one, and a bigger music section.