Ben Orrin

Changelog

Everything that's changed on this site since it first went live in 2022, newest first.

    • New project, Driftwood, a castaway survival game you can play in your browser
    • Partying like it’s 1999, complete with a MIDI button and a visitor counter
    • Eight pieces of sea glass have washed up around the site. Can you find them all?
    • Added Techdirt and awesome-selfhosted to the links
    • {“The site now dresses up for the seasons”=>”Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day, Easter and Brighton Pride”}
    • Added the uses, links and changelog pages, and a humans.txt
    • Rewrote the colophon, which still claimed the site ran on a PC in my bedroom
    • New footer, with 88×31 buttons as tradition demands
    • Switched on the RSS feed, ready for future blog posts
    • Hid a few surprises. View the source for a clue
    • Redesigned the About page
    • Added a light/dark theme switch
    • The 404 page is now a seaside scene with a buoy you can poke
    • A full redesign, with a new Experience page
    • Rewrote the portfolio case studies
    • Added OpenFive and Geekoffee to the projects
    • Redesign, with new layouts for projects and blog posts
    • Replaced the off-the-shelf theme with hand-written layouts and CSS
    • Added a proper 404 page
    • Added a page about the software I use, which has since grown up into /uses
    • Added a GPG key page and the first colophon
    • New header photo
    • orrin.uk goes live, on the Minimalistic Jekyll theme