Changelog
What changed on this site, newest first.
2026
- Fix Centred each photo and its words on phones in trip stories
- Design Laid out Writing newest first, every post with a cover
- New Started telling trips in photos, one slide at a time
- Fix Closed the tiny gap at the top of the back-to-top ring
- Design Gave the Now page pictures, a line on each thing and what came before
- Improved Gave the projects video its own player, with chapters and music
- Design Put Town, Markdown Preview and Image Editor on the home Lab card
- Design Renamed Speed Check to Speed Test and dropped "Jack's" from tools
- Improved Starred the tools I recommend at the top of the Toolbox
- New Added a Projects page, with a short video of things I've built
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- Improved Let you zoom post pictures and drag the line between Preview sides
- New Added Image to Text to the Lab: copy the words out of a picture
- New Added PDF Pages to the Lab: merge, split and turn PDF pages
- Fix Made the loading screen come before the page, not drop over it
- New Added a Toolbox to the Collection: the tools I use
- Design Swapped the home page's toy for doors to Exact Time and Speed Check
- Design Lined up the Lab card's world buttons one per row
- New Added Jack's Speed Check to the Lab: your download speed and ping
- Design Polished the small stuff: finer lines, springier buttons, softer edges
13–21 Oct 2026
- Design Turned focus rings, selections and the menu teal
- Improved Each commit on the Build Log now flies into its list as a light
- Design Gave Jack's Site Check the site's own cards, as the Build Log
- Improved Gave the QR Code Generator an orange card with my logo
- Improved Made the loading screen stay a second and fade out instead of blinking
- Improved Livened up the Build Log with flares and a slow wave of light
- Design Gave the Build Log the site's own cards
- Fix Fixed two broken links in old posts
- New Added Jack's Site Check: a spider that checks every link here
- Design Gave each Collection card a shine by its stars
- Improved Showed my top 5 in each Collection tab, the rest in a pile
- New Added six more games to my Collection
- Design Made selected text, scrollbars and the Copied tick match the site
- Fix Fixed a white blink going dark, and the town freezing meanwhile
- Design Made switches slide, search fade away, and hovers ease in
- New Rebuilt Jack's Town: a new town every day that grows and changes
- Design Made pages flow into each other, and things answer your mouse
- New Added Magnetic Liquid: black liquid that spikes under a magnet
- Improved The Build Log's Ring looks round now, and sends out signals
- Improved Jack's Build Log moved into the Lab, and flips over into a Ring
- New Added Jack's Build Log: this site's history, replayed in lights
- New Added Image Editor: crop, resize, flip and compress, with Undo
- New Added Convert Image: pictures to JPG, PNG, WebP or PDF, many at once
- New Added Compare Text: paste two versions and see the words that changed
- Design Drew new pictures for the Little Worlds' cards: roads, rails and a pond
- New Gave Effects a dice button for another effect, never one you just saw
- Design Put all the Lab's effects on one Effects page, a single card in Misc
- Improved Took Change Case and Clean Text out of the Lab
- New Added QR Code Generator to the Lab
- New Gave Jack's Pond a moonlit night, in the dark theme
- New Gave Jack's 2048 soft sound effects
- New Gave Jack's Blocks sound effects and music of its own
- New Opened a Guestbook: please say hi!
- Fix Stopped Jack's Exact Time from sometimes being a second out
- New Added Jack's Pond, a koi pond, to the Lab
- Fix Stopped Jack's Exact Time from claiming a ±0.00 s margin
- New Added Jack's Exact Time to the Lab
- Design Gave the mini games new colours, with a switch back to the old green
- New Added a calendar of this month's changes to About
- Design Put every Lab effect on a card
- Fix Long lines of code now wrap on phones
- Improved Hid Surprise me for now
- Improved Small tweaks
- Fix Removed a faint line beside the current page in the menu
- New Added a loading screen with my logo for pages that load slowly
- Design Gave the welcome screen my logo and a sweep of light
- Design Swapped my picture for the new logo on the home page and posts
- Design Gave the site a logo: my pixel face, in the tab and the menu
- Design Gave the Changelog's labels bold colours
- Design Signed the footer: built with Astro and love
- Design Gave the light theme a pale blue-to-white fade, toy on a dark screen
- Design Gave every page bold colour cards, like the home page
- Design Turned the dark theme into a near-black grey
- Design Put the Travel Map and the Little Worlds on cards
- Design Coloured each Collection card from its own cover
- Improved Folded older Changelog days behind an Expand button
- Fix Stopped Jack's Train World breaking on tablets
- Design Turned the home page into bold colour cards
- Design Gave the menu a coloured icon for each part of the site
- Design Made the home page calmer: what I'm up to, the Lab and a few doors
- Fix Stopped the Collection galleries jumping two pictures at a stray click
- New Gave every game in my Collection a gallery of its own
- New Swapped the notes in my Collection for galleries of covers
- New Added my own notes to things in my Collection
- Improved Rewrote my About intro and added where I've worked
- New Lit up Jack's Town in the dark theme: glowing lights and lit windows
- Improved Counted Little Worlds in the Lab tile on the home page
- Fix Put the newest changes of each day first
- Fix Made the drop-off bars in Jack's Train World fill as trains unload
- New Trains in Jack's Train World light their way in the dark theme
- Improved Cars in Jack's Town start and stop more gently
- Improved Traffic lights in Jack's Town now turn green when nobody's coming
- Fix Stopped traffic jams in Jack's Town on big screens
- New Added buttons to bring cars into Jack's Town or send them away
- New Cars in Jack's Town now think of where they're going; click one to ask
- New Opened Jack's Train World: trains you can follow, add or remove
- New Opened Little Worlds in the Lab with Jack's Town
- New Added a Bot to Jack's 2048 that plays the game for you
- Design Swapped underlined links for little pills with an arrow
- Design Turned the home page into tiles, with a new toy every day
- New Gave every page its own picture for link previews
- Improved Turned About into a page about who I am
- Design Gave each Lab game a cover from a game in play
- Improved Moved the visitor numbers to a new counter, counting since 1 Oct
- Improved Added a Start here list to Writing and notes on old Hexo posts
- Fix Made Taiwan easy to point at on the flat Travel Map
- Improved Folded Archives into Writing, which lists every post
- New Hid a little surprise somewhere
- New Added Surprise me: one click to something at random
- Improved Made search find pages, Lab tools, games and effects
- New Started this Changelog
- New Added a Now page about what I'm up to
- Improved Livened up Orbits, Garden, Flock, Spotlight and Sand
- New Opened my Collection and a Travel Map
- Improved Gave 2048 an Undo button
- New Added Effects to the Lab: toys that follow your mouse
- New Added Markdown Preview and JSON Preview to the Lab
- New Added Most Popular to the Lab
- New Added Snake and Blocks, with leaderboards
- New Made my own 2048 and Catch the Cat
- New Opened the Lab with five little text tools
26–29 Sep 2026
- Improved Refreshed the About page with my job and links
- New Added a welcome screen to the home page
- New Rebuilt Jack's Space from scratch with Astro
2023
23 Feb – 5 Oct 2023
- Design Gave the site a fresh look and added two mini games
- New Added confetti, fireworks and hearts wherever you click
- Design Added background pictures and a typing title
- New Started Jack's Space on Hexo