Category Emojis: Added prefix icons/emojis to the left sidebar categories to improve readability and visual engagement.
Header Optimization: Replaced the "Articles" navigation link in the header with "Home" to simplify global routing.
Active State Refinement: Updated navigation links so "Home" is only highlighted when viewing the exact root path, keeping the header clean when reading articles.
Edge-to-Edge Layout: Refactored the bottom footer and its divider line to span the entire screen width, aligning it beautifully with the header.
v1.1.0 - June 2026
Unified Layout Grid: Refactored category and subcategory pages to utilize the same standardized BlogExplorer grid, establishing site-wide card hierarchy.
Flexible Hero Article: Enabled the hero card view conditionally on the homepage while maintaining a clean grid on listing and tag pages.
Category Tree Interaction: Restructured the left sidebar categories, converting the category expand/collapse icons into discrete, hoverable squarcle buttons.
Melb-Tram Payment Updates: Patched critical route rendering parameters for Melb-tram and iPhone articles, preventing production build-time failures.
v1.0.0 - May 2026
Digital Garden Launch: Set up Next.js 16 static export system with automatic Markdown parsing for articles, people, and entity records.
Interactive Knowledge Graph: Configured a custom Cytoscape interactive graph displaying bidirectional relationships between technical topics.
