ersatz.website Changelog

There are a lot of little style changes, fixes, tweaks, and updates that happen on this website that aren’t posts and don’t make it into the RSS feed. I thought it would be fun to start keeping a record of updates to the site that aren’t very notable, but keep the place running. I am starting this record on September 20, 2026.

Sep 20, 2026

• Fixed an issue where Astro props were not getting used on markdown pages.
• Messing around with a new font style and appearance for headings.
• Removed some markup on the Page and Post layouts; can now better control the flow gaps of content. Makes room for some eventual CSS subgrid use.
• Added the 404 page to the caddy config. This got lost in the shuffle during my digital ocean exodus. Previously that was handled by their App Engine config. Now it is handled by ME.
• Added a hover style to page links; in the main text body of pages the link hover style will also change the text color.
  • Had to also change the footer “Back to Top” link to no longer be a block element as the hover style made it look wonky.
• Updated the BaseLayout component that renders all of the page’s meta tags to include a text-scale. This will let the page text scale with the underlying system settings.
• Updated astro project dependencies
• Added this changelog page!