Changelog

[2025-08-15] - Navigation, SEO, and Layout Standardization

✨ Added

• Injected `

` and <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="https://egorpol.github.io/atom.xml" title="Egor Polyakov" /> into default.html and custom.html.

🎨 Improved

• Reworked header title to a linked .site-title and added corresponding CSS.
• Modernized code highlighting initialization (hljs.highlightAll) and deferred script loading.
• Navigation now auto-lists page layout entries and excludes the Blog page via menu: exclude.
• Standardized blog usage to layout: post; adjusted README example accordingly.
• Demoted post-level H1 in 2023-07-03-blog1.md to avoid duplicate H1s.
• blog.md now has permalink: /blog/.

🔧 Fixed

• Removed unused pagination settings from _config.yml (left commented for future use).

[2025-08-15] - Major Site Refactoring

✨ Added

• Interactive Image Viewer: Click any image to view in full-screen with navigation
  • Keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys, Escape)
  • Navigation between images on the same page
  • Image counter and close button
  • Hover effects with magnifying glass icon
• Enhanced Theme Toggle: Visible sun/moon icons that change with theme
• SEO Optimization:
  • Comprehensive meta tags (Open Graph, Twitter Cards)
  • Structured data (JSON-LD) for better search visibility
  • XML sitemap for search engines
  • robots.txt file
• Accessibility Improvements:
  • Skip links for keyboard navigation
  • Enhanced focus indicators
  • Semantic HTML elements
  • Reduced motion support
• Blog System Enhancements:
  • Proper category/tag system with YAML arrays
  • Improved blog post layout with better typography
  • Category tags display
  • Enhanced post metadata
• Documentation:
  • Comprehensive README.md
  • Categories usage guide (CATEGORIES.md)
  • Changelog (this file)

🔧 Fixed

• Theme Toggle Button: Now displays proper sun/moon icons
• Categories System: Fixed parsing of multi-word categories
• Image Viewer: All images now properly clickable including VAE architecture image
• Layout Issues: Removed duplicate CSS links and fixed navigation
• File Management: Enhanced .gitignore and cleaned up empty files

🎨 Improved

• Visual Design: Better theme toggle styling and hover effects
• Blog Layout: Enhanced post cards with hover effects and better spacing
• Code Organization: Better structured CSS and JavaScript
• Performance: Optimized image loading and theme switching
• Print Styles: Optimized for printing

📚 Documentation

• README.md: Complete setup and usage guide
• CATEGORIES.md: Guidelines for proper category usage
• CHANGELOG.md: This changelog documenting all changes

🗑️ Removed

• Debug test pages and temporary files
• Console logging statements
• Temporary debug styling
• Empty/unused files

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Technical Details

Files Added

• assets/js/image-viewer.js - Interactive image viewer functionality
• sitemap.xml - XML sitemap for search engines
• robots.txt - Search engine directives
• CATEGORIES.md - Category usage guidelines
• CHANGELOG.md - This changelog

Files Modified

• _config.yml - Enhanced SEO and plugin configuration
• assets/css/main.css - Accessibility and theme improvements
• assets/js/theme.js - Fixed theme toggle functionality
• _layouts/default.html & _layouts/custom.html - SEO and accessibility improvements
• blog.md - Enhanced blog layout and category display
• _posts/*.md - Fixed category definitions
• README.md - Comprehensive documentation
• .gitignore - Enhanced file exclusion patterns

Files Removed

• assets/js/syntax-highlight.js - Empty file
• debug-test.md - Debug page
• test-images.md - Test page