Changelog
jws.dev changelog
Everything I have documented about how jws.dev has changed, newest first.
7 documented changes
2026
Build output kept out of the repository
The static maps, social cards, site metrics and photo snapshots are all rebuilt from scratch on every build, so they no longer belong in version control.
A preview card for every page
Every page now previews with a drawn card of its own — a heading, a line of context and either my portrait or the site mark — instead of the bare app icon.
A state map opens on the state
Opening New Mexico showed the whole of the United States: the map set its zoom floor before framing the shape, leaving the fit with nothing it was allowed to do.
China, and New Mexico
Two additions to the travel section: the 2018 trip through Shanghai, Wuxi, Suzhou and Beijing, and a New Mexico page drawn from two family trips to Cimarron and Taos.
Travel maps shade countries instead of pinning them
The maps now fill in the countries, continents and American states I have visited, traced from Natural Earth boundaries, rather than dropping a pin in the middle of each.
Travel photographs survive an outage
Each destination now keeps a copy of its recent photographs in the build, so the carousel shows them straight away and refreshes itself once the photo host answers.
Destinations I could not illustrate
A number of places came out of the travel section: somewhere I had genuinely been, but had no photograph of my own worth putting on a page about it.