Site Build Log

A custom article image pointing outside our approved image hosts could previously crash the page it appeared on — the article page, its preview, and every homepage/category/tag/collection card showing that article. Custom images now safely fall back to the category illustration (or, on the article page itself, a plain image tag) instead.

"Report an error" on the contact form now feeds a public, per-article correction log.

Real-user Core Web Vitals (loading speed, responsiveness, visual stability) are now being measured site-wide.

Swept the site for images not yet using Next.js's optimized image pipeline and converted the ones that were.

Cmd+K-style jump-to-anything navigation, extended into the admin panel.

The dark/light toggle now includes a "System" option that follows your device's setting.

The admin panel now has a calendar view of draft, scheduled, and published articles.

Anyone can now react to an article with 👍 🔥 🎉 or 💡 — no account needed.

Tagging someone by name in a comment now notifies them.

A public log of changes to the site itself, separate from the article archive.

Signups arriving via a `?ref=` link are now attributed to that referral.

Admin can now approve, delete, or mark spam on multiple comments in one action.

Every admin action across the panel is now recorded and reviewable.

Articles can now carry multiple tags alongside their category, each with its own indexable archive page.

Short, evergreen "What is X?" explainer pages, linkable from inside article bodies.

Past newsletter issues are now browsable on a public archive page.

The admin dashboard now shows per-article view counts from our own data, alongside third-party visitor analytics.

Closed a gap where a reader could bypass automatic comment moderation by editing their own comment's status directly.

Renaming an article's URL now automatically redirects the old link instead of 404ing.

Logged-in readers now get a history of what they've opened, separate from what they've explicitly saved.

Comments can now be upvoted, with threads sortable by top or newest.

Readers can follow a whole category, not just save individual articles.

GetCoreTech goes live: categories, articles, comments, saved articles, likes, reader accounts, and notifications.