Site refresh

Programming notice, 29th July: we're giving the site its annual service.

Content

The content here evolves over time. This idea isn't static: as the world changes, so do our ideas. Some of the stuff we've produced recently clashes with the advice on this site, which isn't ideal.

I consider the main pages of the site to be like the Johnny.Decimal user manual. So when we change them, we do it with great consideration. Which takes time. I don't like to just jump in and make edits.

Fortunately I have an actual editor sitting next to me: Lucy. She's going to review all of our content, and we'll do an update to make sure everything is consistent with our current thinking.

This will take a few weeks, but it'll be worth it. So please bear with us.

Style

You may also notice that some of the styling is a little wonky. This is because I am a very poor web developer. I need to separate some things out so that when I tweak one thing over there it doesn't have unintended consequences over here.

This will happen at the same time as the content update. Don't worry, no big changes. Just a spit 'n polish.

Control

I'll start to track these changes more rigorously. So I've added a version number to the site, directly under the list of pages.

I consider this the 5th major version (since 2013) so I've labelled it 5.0.0.

01.04 Version will contain a summary of every change.

Using Semantic Versioning, the numbers will increment as follows.

  • Third digit: 'PATCH' change.

    • 5.0.0 ā†’ 5.0.1
    • Fixing a typo or otherwise a minor tweak that doesn't fundamentally affect the structure of the system.
    • Any update to the style of the site that doesn't change the content.
    • You don't need to care about these changes.

  • Second digit: 'MINOR' change.

    • 5.0.0 ā†’ 5.1.0
    • A new page on the main site, i.e. not including blog posts.
    • Significant changes to content on a single/few page(s).
    • You should familiarise yourself with this change.

  • First digit: 'MAJOR' change.

    • 5.0.0 ā†’ 6.0.0
    • Significant changes to content on many pages.
    • You should familiarise yourself with this change.

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