PatrickJr.Virtual Photography

Changelog

October 22, 2026

Redesign

  • Redesigns the homepage, album index, album pages and text pages around the photographs.
  • Opens the homepage on Selected Work, with the site name in the header as “PatrickJr. Virtual Photography”.
  • Shows the licence, social links and this changelog in a compact single-row footer that stays at the bottom of short pages.
  • Lists Latest Albums by publication date and shows clearer album counts.
  • Adds larger navigation and outline hover and focus feedback on screenshots.
  • Adds an image viewer with keyboard and touch navigation, zoom, pan and fullscreen.
  • Rewrites the About page and tidies the Contact and Privacy pages.
  • Removes the Platforms, Genres, Themes, Photo Mode Features and Did You Know panels from every album.
  • Removes emoji support, jQuery, Swipebox, Font Awesome and MathJax.

Typography and interface

  • Uses Poppins for all text and headings, self-hosted at 400, 500 and 600. The Inter and Newsreader fonts are removed, which cuts the text font download from about 71 KB to 24 KB.
  • Shows the album index as four columns on wide screens, so the 16 albums fill four even rows.
  • Adds a thin dark scrollbar with a muted purple thumb that brightens on hover and while dragging. Browsers that use native overlay scrollbars and high contrast modes keep their own.
  • Keeps the viewer controls visible while they have keyboard focus and respects reduced motion for every transition.
  • Fits the header, footer and text pages to large text sizes and to browsers without JavaScript.

Images

  • Hosts all 179 screenshots on this site as optimised WebP files at several sizes, plus a full resolution version.
  • Replaces the Lensdump uploader with an offline gallery generator. The README describes the workflow.

Analytics and privacy

  • Asks before loading Google Analytics. Nothing loads from Google until a visitor accepts, and rejecting or ignoring the banner sends nothing.
  • Adds a Privacy page, a footer link and a way to change the choice at any time.
  • Records which screenshots and albums are viewed, the first zoom, fullscreen and download, and clicks to other sites.
  • Fixes keyboard shortcuts in the viewer stopping after the zoom buttons reach their limit.

Dependencies

  • Reduces the Gemfile to Jekyll, jekyll-feed, jekyll-seo-tag and jekyll-sitemap, plus WEBrick and wdm for local development.
  • Removes jemoji, jekyll-mentions, jekyll-admin, Sinatra, Rack and the unused Sass and Node tooling.

October 1, 2025

Content

  • Updates 16 game posts with current information and corrections:
    • Grand Theft Auto V: sales figures of 195+ million copies, GTA Online information.
    • Fallout 4: PS5 and Xbox Series X S platforms, the 2024 next-gen update.
    • Red Dead Redemption 2: sales figures of 55+ million copies.
    • The Division 2: corrected release date, removes the discontinued Google Stadia platform.
    • Control: awards and ray tracing achievement.
    • Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut and Iki Island expansion.
    • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: post-launch expansions.
    • Cyberpunk 2077: corrected date format, Phantom Liberty expansion.
    • Starfield: Xbox Game Pass launch, Shattered Space expansion.
    • Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valhalla prequel context.
    • Horizon Forbidden West: corrected PS5 release date (2022), PC release (2024).
    • Little Kitty, Big City: indie success.
    • Once Human: free-to-play launch.
    • Star Wars Outlaws: reception and atmosphere.
    • Infinity Nikki: free-to-play model.
    • Assassin’s Creed Shadows: delay from November 2024 to March 2025.

Technical

  • Fixes the hamburger menu: resolves an undefined menuLinks variable, adds the missing main.js script tag, and fixes layering.
  • Fixes ESLint errors, replaces var with let and const, and fixes lexical declarations in case blocks.
  • Upgrades Jekyll to ~> 4.4.1 and updates jemoji, jekyll-mentions, WEBrick, Rack and wdm. Adds Sinatra and ostruct. Removes jekyll-minifier.
  • Removes the dynamic colour palette and Vibrant.js, which also fixes CORS errors from external image analysis.
  • Applies the Catppuccin Mocha theme across headers, footers and content.
  • Replaces the Font Awesome CDN stylesheet with the Font Awesome kit script.
  • Moves all JavaScript files to assets/js/: jquery.swipebox.js, main.js and pig.js.
  • Removes the background effect from the envelope icon in the social links.
  • Updates the README to replace Imgur with Lensdump and removes the outdated Imgur API notes.

September 30, 2025

  • Moves image hosting to Lensdump, because Imgur is blocked in the UK.

June 26, 2025

Content

  • Adds platforms, genres and themes to game posts.
  • Adds photo mode details and trivia sections.
  • Keeps existing image references working.

Technical

  • Expands the colour palette from 8 to 10 colours, sorted light to dark, with click-to-copy colour codes and extraction tuned for 30 unique colours.
  • Redesigns the game metadata grid, adds the Trivia section, improves colour loading feedback and the responsive layout.

June 22, 2025

  • Adds 1 screenshot to Red Dead Redemption 2.
  • Updates social media icons and links, and improves navigation and iconography.
  • Speeds up gallery initialisation and loading, and adds a loading spinner.
  • Improves the banner background fallback when Vibrant.js fails.
  • Tweaks the responsive banner and gallery, with minor fixes and cleanup.

April 22, 2025

  • Redesigns the whole site: new interface, better mobile layout, updated colours and typography.

March 31, 2025

  • Adds an Assassin’s Creed Shadows album with 5 screenshots.

February 25, 2025

Content

  • Adds an Assassin’s Creed Valhalla album with 6 screenshots and responsive loading.

Technical

  • Fixes Jekyll build issues, updates the Gemfile, removes jekyll-cache and tidies _config.yml.
  • Replaces Sass @import with @use and @forward, moves the partials to assets/css and scopes variables.
  • Updates the scroll bar design.

December 13, 2024

  • Adds 2 Infinity Nikki screenshots and 1 Star Wars Outlaws screenshot.
  • Updates this page.

October 19, 2024

  • Adds 2 Control screenshots.

October 4, 2024

  • Adds 3 Star Wars Outlaws screenshots and 2 Starfield screenshots.

September 26, 2024

  • Adds a loading spinner, lazy loading for banners and hover effects on gallery images.
  • Updates the banner height, adds a text shadow and smooths background transitions.
  • Adds a dark background fallback when Vibrant.js fails.

July 21, 2024

  • Adds 2 Cyberpunk 2077 screenshots and 2 Once Human screenshots.

June 18, 2024

  • Removes unused gallery descriptions.
  • Adds 5 Starfield screenshots.

June 1, 2024

  • Improves the banner controls and adds a darkeningFactor for dark mode.
  • Shows new images at the top of each gallery.
  • Reorganises the gallery scripts and removes duplicate code.

May 31, 2024

  • Updates Swipebox and jQuery.
  • Adds this page and a /changelog link in the navigation.
  • Fixes mobile image display.
  • Adds 2 Fallout 4 screenshots.

May 29, 2024

  • Adds Vibrant.js.
  • Re-uploads the Fallout 4 and The Division 2 screenshots.
  • Adds Ghost of Tsushima and Little Kitty, Big City.
  • Sorts the albums alphabetically.

March 29, 2024

  • Updates header.html.
  • Removes the 4-row hamburger menu.

March 25, 2024

  • Fixes the favicon and updates favicon.ico and footer.html.
  • Adds rounded corners and hover effects.

March 7, 2024

  • Adds the homepage grid layout and a custom 404 page.
  • Updates the Red Dead Redemption 2 and Control screenshots.
  • Updates Google Analytics.

March 3 to 4, 2024

  • Updates the styling in _header.scss, pig.js and main.scss.
  • Updates the layout and fonts for The Division 2.

March 2, 2024

  • Fixes the banner offset and thumbnails.
  • Updates README.md and the configuration.

For more detail, see the repository commit history.