Change History

From the first Let’s talk conversation, with Les (credited by first name):

• New story: Ninja, the talk of the town (no details of the house owner’s finances)
• New idea: Education & Awareness (sterilisation, accidental and deliberate poisoning, black cats, feeding and wildlife), with Carlitos as its cover
• New cat card: Carlitos; Tenkilo’s card explains the name; Ciccio’s notes she’s a girl despite the name
• Care Network, Privacy & Animal Safety, Stray or Pet, Encounters and The Building Blocks: love isn’t money, poisoning, many homes, cradle to grave
• Spanish: Ciccio is “gata” throughout, and in the NotebookLM prompt
• v2026.10.05.1 What’s New entry

• Add Let’s Talk / Hablemos to the top menu, in place of Tags (tags stay on each page and in search)
• Add a “Have an idea or a cat story? Let’s talk” box to the home page introduction and the Ideas page (talk-invite shortcode)
• Turn the reply box’s chat line into a second button, next to “Send a reply”, at the end of every story and idea
• Update the What’s New entry

• New Let’s talk page (Hablemos in Spanish): what a chat is like, how it’s transcribed, and how what people say is and isn’t used, with a button to book on Calendly (params.chatURL). Chats are in English; the Spanish page says so and invites Spanish speakers to write instead.
• Add a “Let’s talk” section to Give Feedback and a line to the reply box at the end of every story
• Add the v2026.10.05 What’s New entry

• Replace the 20-minute YouTube deep dive on The Building Blocks with the new NotebookLM deep dives, hosted on the site with the 1x / 1.5x player: Remembering the Cats Nobody Owns (38 minutes) in English, and Memoria colectiva para gatos sin dueño (24 minutes) in Spanish
• Convert them from 256 to 96 kbps for speech (74 MB and 47 MB down to 25 MB and 16 MB) to keep the site light
• Point the About page’s deep dive links at the new sections
• Add the v2026.10.04.5 What’s New entry

• Replace the five-minute YouTube overview on the About page with the new NotebookLM briefs, hosted on the site: Giving Stray Cats a Permanent History in English, and Un historial colectivo para gatos callejeros in Spanish on the Spanish page
• Add a listen shortcode: an audio player with 1x and 1.5x speed buttons (assets/js/listen.js), in both languages
• Update the home page and The Building Blocks links to the new length
• Add the v2026.10.04.4 What’s New entry

• Turn the release notes into What’s New (Novedades in Spanish), written for readers: one dated section per update, listing what’s New and Updated with links. It’s in the menu, linked from the home page and footer, and findable in search; old release-notes links redirect.
• Move the commit log to its own Change history page, linked from What’s New
• Show a “New” badge on pages published in the last 14 days (after the launch day) and an “Updated” date on pages with updated: in their front matter, on the pages and in the home page lists
• Mark the pages changed on October 4 as updated
• Update the README, CLAUDE.md and comments for the new release steps

• New idea, Meeting a Cat: one photo gets you the cat’s card; a list of cats you’ve met; sharing a card so friends can follow the cat; learning coats; gentle prompts; and what it won’t do (no popularity, no exact spots, no public photo links)
• New story, A photo is an introduction
• New principles: meeting, not owning; fun is the doorway, not the destination; no popularity contests
• Grow Encounters, Cat Identity, The Care Network, Stray or Pet, Privacy & Animal Safety, Open Data & Tech and The Building Blocks (new concepts: Meeting, Card), keeping all the original ideas
• Update the About page, home introduction and Feedback questions
• Add cat cards for the named cats (data/cats.yaml, cat-cards shortcode) and the v2026.10.04.1 release notes

• Name the cats in the photo descriptions and captions, in English and Spanish: Ciccio, Hootie, Lucia, Mika Ella, Ninja, Tenkilo, and Mountain Lion, whose real name nobody knows
• Correct the “Ninja, Naranja, or Milo?” cover: it shows Mountain Lion, not Ninja
• Let the gallery shortcode take one description per photo (alts=“a | b”)
• Add the v2026.10.03.2 release notes

• Embed the five-minute overview (“A Social Network for Stray-ish Cats”) on the About page, and point to it from the home page introduction
• Embed the 20-minute deep dive (“Why Street Cats Is a Hard Problem to Solve”) on The Building Blocks
• Note on both that the voices are AI-generated, and on the Spanish pages that the audio is in English
• Use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced (no-cookie) embeds
• Add the v2026.10.03.1 release notes

Same approach as terrybrennen.com, adapted to GitHub Pages:

• Tag releases vYYYY.MM.DD[.N] (Puerto Escondido time); npm run deploy runs scripts/release.mjs, which checks main is committed and pushed, tags, builds locally, then pushes the tag (removing it if anything fails)
• Deploy from release tags instead of every push to main
• Add a hidden Release Notes page in English and Spanish, with a change history grouped by release (scripts/git-history.mjs, git-history shortcode)
• Show the site version in the footer next to a Release notes link

• List stories (in reading order) then ideas on the home page, with prev/next links following the same order
• Rename the “Updates” section to “Stories”
• Fix the Instagram handle (mimos_cat_sanctuary)
• Stop claiming the site runs on its own domain
• Wrap the menu on narrow screens instead of hiding items off the edge
• Replace deprecated Hugo language keys and pin Hugo in the deploy workflow

• Add a “For Saibo” page (EN/ES) with his dates and photos
• Dedication line in the footer and a section on the About page
• Move Saibo’s photos off the stray-cat pages; new Encounters cover
• Keep the text-link underline off photo links

• Warm cream/ginger palette with amber dark mode, Nunito type, cat logo and favicons, paw-print bullets and footer trail, perched cat on the reply box
• Subtle motion (page fades, scroll reveals, hover lifts, blinking logo cat, tail swish), disabled for prefers-reduced-motion
• Turn on the “Respond to this idea” button and email links; encode mailto subjects with %20
• Show the full home title (unclamp) and hide the mobile menu scrollbar

• Convert illustrated pages to bundles with covers, inline photos and galleries (photo/gallery shortcodes), shared by EN and ES
• Search results show section, date and a highlighted text preview
• Search menu item gets a magnifying-glass icon
• Link the @mimos_cat_santuary Instagram account