Finally got around to fixing the News RSS feeds. It turns out the signature of the feeds had changed. Not a difficult fix, but a bit time consuming. Who does that anyway?

It's been a while! This site has been rebuilt with NextJS. It went live back in January 2022 but there were quite a few things that needed fixing and I haven't had much time to work on this. This morning I added a fix for the syntax highlighting in the code blocks. It turns out that NextJS needs a little help for Prism to work correctly.

Replaced the NEWSApi feeds with RSS feeds. The first feed comes from CBC - World News. The NEWSApi was fun to work with but the production version of this website required an expensive license, so the alternative was to use freely available RSS feeds which of course meant rewriting the NEWS section.

The Code Snippet's pages were looking a little long and I wanted to bring the focus to the stage area where the widget lives. I added a 'Read More...' button to show/hide the detailed description. When the detailed description is showing, there is another button to 'Show me the code'. Less clutter is better I think.

Added an new code snippets widget: Weather App

The unnecessary footer was removed. The "latest updates" where moved to the top nav. On mobile, the icons were replaced with text descriptions. A background color for the modal was added.

The top nav item "Code" now maintains active state when navigating to individual snippets pages.

Refactored the Pizza Pie project. The pie now has 8 slices (not 10) and 'Starting Over' no longer causes a full page refresh.

Added this modal to keep track of what is new here - and when it was added. These notes come from the repos' commits file.

Converted the site to React hooks where possible. This is a big refactoring project but results in a more readable and maintainable codebase.

Added Google Site Tag to index.html - time to get onboard with Google Analytics for this site!

Added the Random Password Generator to the Code section.

This site is now a PWA (Progessive Web App). Check it out on your mobile device and add it to your homescreen!

Dark mode has been added! Click on the sun (or moon) icon in the top navigation menu - enjoy! Your settings are saved to localStorage.

Tweaks to the Todo List styling for Safari on iOS.

Added a FontAwesome icon for the delete button on the Todo List - the CSS wasn't cutting it!

Added react-helmet as a dependency to add unique titles to the pages. Hover over the tab in your desktop bowser to check it out. Another insightful recommendation from the Lighthouse audit tool in Chrome.

Added the Pagination Project (complete with Google Maps) to the Code Snippets page.

Added a zoom-out effect on scroll to the hero images (section landing pages) and tweaked some accessibility colour contrasts.

Added a colour changer for the list title and counter for the Apple styled Todo List.

Added code badges to the cards on the Code Snippets page.

Fixes to the mobile nav menu for iPad(Pro).

Resolved issues with the Netlify Contact Form.

Initial commit!!!