v0.9.2 — copy cleanup
- Removed invented personality copy and kept the public labels direct.
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Changelog
What changed on the site.
v0.9.1 — bug sweep
- Kept Beat archive codes stable when new files arrive.
- Fixed the Beat session sheet wrapping on narrow phones and checked every public route.
v0.9.0 — about removed
- Removed the About pages and every public link to them.
v0.8.9 — a shorter address
- Moved the main entrance to julesinternet.pages.dev and updated the site's own links to match.
v0.8.8 — less explaining, more site
- Cut the developer-sounding filler from the public rooms and let missing details stay quiet.
- Cleaned up empty states and labels across Beats, Music, Comics, Movies, TV, Games, Recipes, Search, Site Files, and Webrings.
v0.8.7 — the studio header shrinks
- Replaced the oversized newest-Beat artwork feature at the top of the Beats room with a compact title, readout, player, and download strip.
v0.8.6 — every bounce can leave the site
- Added a direct MP3 download control to every Beat player with a published audio file, including Home, the Beats index, and Beat detail pages.
v0.8.5 — the chatbox gets out of the way
- Reset the public Chatbox history without touching the moderated Guestbook queue.
- Moved Home's Chatbox below Latest Stuff and reduced it to a compact composer with a short scrolling message window.
v0.8.4 — the chatbox moves into the lobby
- Put the live public Chatbox directly below the Home welcome so visitors can speak without first finding a side room.
- Moved the update ledger beneath the current music and newest Beat, keeping recent site maintenance from dominating the entrance.
v0.8.3 — the sky moves and the front hall opens
- Added seven rare ambient sightings, including shooting stars, meteors, a distant plane, a briefly lit window, a moth, a strange signal, and a 3 AM-only UFO.
- Expanded the cursor cat with late-night sleep timing, yawns, stretches, sitting, external distractions, and faint temporary paw prints after long runs; audio and night now change the favicon.
- Opened a moderated Guestbook, rate-limited public Chatbox, honest Webrings receiver, and working Navlink Ads wall backed by a small Cloudflare D1 visitor ledger.
v0.8.1 — a ghost, a fresh bounce, and sixteen exits
- Put the most recently modified Beat on Home with the same accessible seekable player used in the studio room, and date-sorted the full Beat folder.
- Added sixteen researched Internet destinations, including Julian's three requested producer-resource indexes with honest licensing and download cautions.
- Added a night-only pixel ghost plus navigation sparks, secret keyboard transmissions, a pickle frequency, a hidden room shift, and reduced-motion safeguards.
v0.8.0 — Julian's TV dial and game shelf
- Filed Julian's ten favorite shows and eleven favorite games as real records with permanent detail routes.
- Cached exact title artwork locally from TVmaze and official Steam/Xbox listings so the shelves do not depend on hotlinked images.
- Kept ratings, watch/play status, dates, progress, and notes unfiled until Julian supplies them; empty current and history modules now disappear cleanly.
v0.7.9 — covers, bounces, and the player line up
- Moved the Musicat preview player out of a disclosure box and placed it directly beside the current listening signal.
- Verified canonical Apple Music releases and the artist's Bandcamp release to complete all 34 favorite-album covers.
- Installed a daily noon local sync that checks Julian's Desktop Beats folder, verifies changes, and publishes only from a clean repository.
v0.7.8 — the player follows the signal
- Removed the stale fixed-song embed from Home and replaced it with a native player for the latest Musicat track preview.
- When Musicat reports an active song with a preview, the player changes title, artist, and audio source alongside the now-playing signal.
- Kept seeking, volume, keyboard controls, no autoplay, and an honest note that preview length depends on the music service.
v0.7.7 — now playing actually listens
- Replaced the fixed sidebar and homepage now-playing labels with Julian's newest Musicat play.
- Added a lightweight live check every minute: active listening changes the title, artist, cover, and state without reloading the page.
- Kept the latest cached play as the offline and between-listens fallback, while relabeling the manually saved Apple player honestly.
v0.7.6 — Musicat sends a listening signal
- Connected Julian's public Musicat profile to a compact recently played log in the Music room without storing an account credential.
- Cached album artwork and listening data locally so the page remains stable if Musicat is temporarily unavailable.
- Added a six-hour scheduled refresh to the existing verified publishing workflow.
v0.7.5 — the shelves match the folder
- Removed the homepage obsession list and the duplicate sidebar TIME control, leaving the header as the single scene switch.
- Made the Internet directory entirely text-first and removed its decorative link thumbnails.
- Resynced Beats to 43 unique files in Julian's current folder and expanded exact album-art coverage through MusicBrainz and the Cover Art Archive.
v0.7.4 — Julian files the favorites shelf
- Added Julian's first journal entry, 34 favorite albums, and eight named favorite films without inventing notes or missing ratings.
- Added exact-match artwork syncs for album and movie records, with honest missing-art treatments when a catalog match is unavailable.
- Made the bundled pixel font the primary typeface on every device and replaced the DAY scene with a genuinely bright original daytime coast.
v0.7.3 — only Julian's stuff stays on the shelves
- Removed fictional sample records from the public media rooms and replaced empty catalogs with short, honest states.
- Rebuilt NOW from Julian's real current listening, making, interests, obsessions, location, and welcome note.
- Closed unconfigured side rooms until they contain real material, and kept search, RSS, Random, and the sidebar on the same real-content boundary.
v0.7.2 — Julian's real long boxes and bounces move in
- Replaced the fictional Comics fixtures with 60 issues and their real cached covers from Julian's local YACReader library, preserving its read/unread state without inventing ratings, favorites, creators, or notes.
- Replaced the sample Beat catalog with 51 unique MP3 bounces from Julian's folder, skipped two byte-identical duplicate exports, and preserved BPM values that were already present in filenames.
- Added a scalable unfiled-bounce ledger with full accessible players that load audio only when requested; dates, keys, statuses, versions, favorites, and notes remain honestly unfiled.
v0.7.1 — the sky gets an almanac
- Turned the TIME control into a real five-state scene switch with separate original dawn, day, evening, and night pixel landscapes; AUTO follows Oneonta time.
- Added a visible America/New_York clock and live Oneonta weather from Open-Meteo, with a short local cache, honest offline fallback, and weather-sensitive rain density and speed.
- Added a compact sky almanac for lunar phase and illumination, moonrise/moonset, tropical solar season, planetary day, and traditional planetary hour without presenting symbolic astrology as science.
v0.7.0 — the site keeps time
- Added subtle dawn, day, evening, and night light states driven by the visitor's clock, with a locally saved manual override and New York site clock.
- Added an original file-backed two-axis mood signal, honest NO SIGNAL state, local visit memory, idle status, and time-aware homepage greetings.
- Added a tiny animated favicon, visibility-aware title, gentle arrival and hover feedback, long-page back-to-top control, keyboard shortcuts, and slower ambient weather variation without new dependencies or autoplay audio.
v0.6.2 — the rooms stop leaning into each other
- Reworked Music, Beats, Games, and Internet compositions to fit the actual middle rail instead of relying on the full browser width.
- Kept players, record stacks, active-game spines, and long metadata inside their own rooms at desktop and tablet sizes.
- Made compact filters and dense layouts wrap cleanly on narrow phones without clipping content.
v0.6.1 — the type joins the same old computer
- Changed the shared font stack to the MS UI Gothic and NEC APC3 combination used for Dimden's main body text.
- Bundled the CC BY-SA 4.0 Web437 NEC APC3 regular and Nix8810 bold fallbacks with visible attribution.
- Kept the site's existing sizes and hierarchy while using unsmoothed rendering for the intended pixel-screen texture.
v0.6.0 — the rooms get quieter
- Narrowed the shared three-column frame and reduced the global type, spacing, border, shadow, and color intensity.
- Rebuilt Home as a compact personal page made from prose, ordinary lists, current music, and direct links instead of a room-card dashboard.
- Simplified the directory and gave the right rail several quieter treatments while keeping rain, the cursor cat, audio, and each media room intact.
v0.5.3 — the current song can play in the room
- Added the official Apple Music web player for Julian's current song on Home and Music.
- Kept playback user-started with no autoplay and retained a normal external Apple Music link as a fallback.
- Wrapped the third-party player in the site's own compact signal label without trying to fake or restyle Apple's controls.
v0.5.2 — a real song enters heavy rotation
- Filed KickAss (Pull Up Pls) by Che & Nettspend as Julian's current track using the exact song, single, genre, release date, duration, and Apple Music link.
- Added the song's public square artwork as a credited local asset and made it the homepage and sidebar Now Playing signal.
- Added a small typed Track model so future current-song notes stay distinct from albums and playlists.
v0.5.1 — first real record-shelf signal
- Filed Julian's public Apple Music playlist trimley as the first real Music item without inventing ratings, notes, or favorite-track claims.
- Replaced the homepage listening placeholder with the playlist and added a safe, visibly external Apple Music link.
- Added the playlist's actual public square artwork as a credited local asset and separated the real feature from fictional Music layout fixtures.
v0.5.0 — Julian moved into the front room
- Reworked the homepage opening into a personal front-door note using only Julian's supplied details: 21, from New Paltz, and currently at SUNY Oneonta.
- Gave the shared header an original offset typographic wordmark and moved real site history ahead of the still-unfiled media shelves.
- Stopped fictional fixture records from posing as current sidebar activity; empty current shelves now identify themselves honestly until real picks are filed.
Phase 15 — ready to leave localhost
- Added configurable canonical URLs, complete Open Graph and social-card metadata, an original rainy preview image, and a small site favicon.
- Added a generated public sitemap, robots rules that omit the hidden After Hours route, and absolute production-aware RSS links.
- Added a real ESLint pass and a built-site audit for internal links, local media, dynamic routes, metadata, external-link safety, Random destinations, feeds, and indexing files.
- Switched the shared type system to MS Gothic with local system fallbacks and moved the retired Space Mono files outside the public deployment bundle.
Phase 14 — the shelves are easy to refile
- Added one practical content guide with exact files, copyable records, media locations, and NOW-to-Archive instructions for every primary content type.
- Gave the main data arrays predictable exported names so routine updates stay in content files rather than presentation components.
- Added lightweight, dependency-free development validation for duplicate IDs/slugs, dates, statuses, ratings, URLs, media, tags, and structured entries.
- Exercised the guide with a temporary Journal route and verified a deliberate duplicate slug fails with a direct section-specific error.
Phase 13 — quality pass across every screen size
- Audited representative rooms, detail pages, utility pages, and the real 404 across six viewports from 320px phones through 1920px desktops.
- Corrected narrow-screen overflow in Movie details, Collection shelves, and the decorative album record without flattening their visual identities.
- Let the mobile directory keep its native keyboard behavior, strengthened secondary-text contrast, and verified the site's key keyboard interactions.
- Reduced the deployable pixel-art night background to one quarter of its former byte size while preserving the full-resolution source outside the public bundle.
Phase 12 — every room keeps its own furniture
- Replaced repeated dashboard-like count panels with a record-bin label, comic long-box tab, game-manual memory page, and producer session sheet.
- Kept the stronger cinematic, broadcast, portal, live-transmission, and archive-cabinet compositions instead of redesigning them for novelty.
- Rebuilt About as a concise note by the front door rather than leaving the last primary route in the generic starter ledger.
- Formally reviewed Phase 11 and limited its new decorative animations to short, contextual motion with reduced-motion coverage.
Phase 11 — random frequencies and a side door
- Expanded the centralized Random portal from section links into Comics, albums, movies, games, Journal entries, archived months, and clearly marked external web exits.
- Added an accessible tune-before-enter interaction instead of forcing a timed redirect, plus a quiet after-hours discovery behind the site status light.
- Added a custom missing-signal 404 with obvious recovery paths and restrained motion that respects reduced-motion preferences.
- Moved homepage version/update signals back to the central site configuration and advanced the single configured release marker to v0.3.0.
Phase 10 — notebooks, recipe cards, and object shelves
- Replaced the generic Journal, Recipes, and Collection placeholders with dedicated indexes and static detail routes.
- Added lightweight structured Journal entries, kitchen-reference recipes with optional artwork, and data-derived physical Collection shelves.
- Connected physical objects to their canonical Comics, Music, Games, Movies, and Beats records without copying those sections' content.
- Added direct Journal links to homepage activity, local search, and RSS, plus clearly labeled fixtures for sparse, long, modified, and missing-image states.
Phase 9 — NOW and permanent monthly capsules
- Replaced the generic NOW and Archive placeholders with dedicated editorial pages inside the established rainy site shell.
- Added a flexible life-snapshot model, a shared renderer, a data-grouped archive index, and permanent year/month routes with chronological navigation.
- Kept the editable current snapshot structurally separate from historical month modules so future NOW updates cannot mutate old capsules.
- Phase 9 review added automatic archive discovery, duplicate/path validation, frozen historical records, category-specific chapters, larger artwork, quiet-month handling, and a scalable year jump index.
Phase 8.5 addendum — more rooms inside the same night
- Added gallery, reviews, friends, guestbook, junk drawer, webrings, site files, search, directory, credits, changelog, RSS, and about.txt architecture.
- Retuned the shared shell to a cyan-led cyberpunk night with restrained magenta, violet, electric-blue, and acid-green signals.
- Added low-resolution pixel rain, an original Oneko-style cursor-chasing Julian cat, and explicit user-started procedural rain sound, plus a compact site-tunes player using the existing native-audio component.
- Expanded the homepage activity signal and Internet link stream without starting Phase 9.
Phase 8.5 — independent-web visual migration
- Moved the site into a constrained left-directory, main-room, and right-signal shell.
- Added original 88×31 buttons, denser page rhythm, and the nighttime independent-web backdrop.