Add new link to website footer

Add new link to the footer of an existing nonprofit website built with Rails.

At some point I decided to give version numbers to my site. I think that might have grown out of the fact that I do a changelog for Do the Woo.  This is just how my brain works.

https://dothewoo.io/do-the-woo-v3-3/

I successfully updated both my personal blog and my homegrown Pastebin site to use Laravel 9. And without any hiccups!

Color

is a significant part of the new updates on the Refuse website. The palette was generated algorithmically using Oklab by Björn Ottosson.

Refuse.ink just had a massive update.

I've given it a full redesign, with better typography, better color, and an easter egg.

Video content on roofsimple.com is now lazy-loaded using facades, rather than rending iFrames directly, on page load.

If you’re new to all this, facades are just a fancy name for a static image that looks similar to the actual embedded video. Video is expensive in terms of performance, so it makes far more sense to render a static image on page load, then swap out the image for the iFrame, when a visitor clicks the play button. A simple but effective way to improve speed and user experience.

If you use a lot of video on your websites, the performance gains from such a simple enhancement make it well worth looking into. For more on the various techniques I recommend checking out Lazy load third-party resources with facades from web.dev.