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27-Oct-2025

  • fix some more typos
  • publish email
  • image optimization
  • enable and add some tags to posts
  • the wall of tees re-release (embed to page like before, relies on immich only at build time)
  • remove some unused stock photos

25-Oct-2025

  • deploy new website theme
  • update / recreate design elements: favicon, profile image, background etc. with GIMP and Inkscape

24-Oct-2025

  • configure blowfish and work on migrating / updating content
  • integrate functionality from old page (comments, js customization etc)

23-Oct-2025:

  • start implementing blowfish theme for hugo
  • reinstall remark42 on more powerful host
  • remove remark42 from the vps
  • update some pages, add a link to photos

10-Oct-2025:

  • experiment with self hosted photo gallery immich

09-Jun-2025:

  • add BOFH script & post
  • add typewriter effect for BOFH script
  • fix some more html, also fix what was fixed before
  • add footer menu again
  • make remark42 honor dark mode preference

08-Jun-2025:

  • Create a privacy policy (huh?) because I plan to keep the comments section for now
  • html: some fixes to the markup
  • css: make the page a bit wider
  • hugo: fixed path navigation issues
  • hugo: fixed thumbnails (only generate one), lowered to 500px to avoid upscaling lowres tee images

30-May-2025:

  • reconfigure logrotate on the VPS to delete all logfiles after 7 days
  • configure Telegram for comments
  • disable anonymous comments (due to fear of spambots)
  • embed checkip to comment form (displays visitor’s IP address)
  • fix latest posts html markup on front page (heading cannot be inside paragraph)
  • correct typo

29-May-2025:

  • experiment with self hosted comment system Remark42
  • make the mail contact a bit smaller
  • add countdown to towelday as well
  • fix index page latest tee link to posts
  • upgrade to hugo extended, convert all resized images to webp
  • fix some links

26-May-2025:

  • upgrade to Terminal CSS template
  • customize hugo-theme-console for my taste
  • backup & reinstall VPS to latest LTS. It’s only job is to redirect apex domain to www.
    • this time I am trying caddy instead of nginx
    • SMTPd no longer installed on the vps, also removed honeypot

23-May-2025:

  • decided to work on the site some more
  • found this old changelog.txt somewhere on my PC, please find below:

11-June-2019:

  • styling and compressing index.html

10-June-2019:

  • replace evil document.write() with document.currentScript.insertAdjacentHTML(‘beforebegin’, ‘’) in stolen sysadminday script
  • configured outbound only smtp
  • failed to add admin script

9-June-2019:

  • signed up for Http:BL
  • got ModSecurity working with nginx
  • removed X-Robots-Tag from headers
  • notified Google, Bing and Archive.org about my existence :)
  • created a friendly robots.txt
  • added my fav icon

8-June-2019:

  • “hardening” the VPS 7-June-2019:
  • Ubuntu install
  • Purchased VPS hosted at 1984.is
  • Set up DNS hosted at NS1
  • Registered domain at ISNIC

4-June-2018:

  • Started playing with this idea
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István Merza
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