Changelog

This site is a complete redesign of nortonandreev.com, rebuilt with SvelteKit. Version numbers below start at 1.0 for this generation (first public release in January 2024).

The previous website was a Ruby on Rails app, maintained from 2018 to 2022, with its own changelog running from version 1.0 through 2.7.5 (September 2018 – June 2022). That history belongs to the earlier stack and is not continued here as 3.x.

2.4.1

September 30, 2026

  • Education section updated ("Professional" page)
  • Mentoring section updated ("Personal" page)

2.4

September 25, 2026

  • Personal page renamed "Beyond Work"
  • Hero sections updated
  • Highlights redesigned as an editorial list ("Professional" page)
  • Contact section redesigned, with an availability note ("Professional" page)
  • Footer redesigned, with contact links up front
  • Beyond Music split into Travel, Wellbeing, and Mentoring sections, with updated copy ("Personal" page)
  • Travel section redesigned — countries grouped by continent ("Personal" page)
  • On-page navigation added ("Personal" page)
  • Music section rewritten ("Personal" page)
  • Kurrent Navigator portfolio photo updated ("Professional" page)
  • "Къде си?" and "NarcoBOSS" singles shown as a pair ("Personal" page)
  • Nortware section simplified ("Professional" page)
  • Project descriptions and section introductions tightened ("Professional" page)
  • Professional / Personal switch refined — instant switching, back-button support, and larger touch targets on phones
  • English translations added to Bulgarian song and playlist titles ("Personal" page)
  • Initial page download reduced by about 70% — project images load on scroll and are sized to the screen
  • Pages appear sooner on first visit — styles are now embedded in the page
  • Typography refined across the site
  • On-page navigation highlights the current section
  • Accessibility improved — a “Skip to content” shortcut for keyboard users, visible keyboard focus, and screen-reader announcements for links that open in a new tab
  • Spacing refined across the site
  • Page-not-found screen redesigned, replacing the automatic redirect
  • Favicon redrawn for legibility at small sizes
  • British spelling used consistently across the site

2.3.2

September 9, 2026

  • Tajikistan added to visited countries ("Personal" page)

2.3.1

September 5, 2026

  • Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan added to visited countries ("Personal" page)

2.3

August 26, 2026

  • Project cards simplified by removing tags for a more concise mobile experience ("Professional" page)
  • Independent end-to-end ownership clarified for the Locking System Configurator ("Professional" page)
  • Product-planning contributions clarified for Dusk Web Wallet and Explorer ("Professional" page)

2.2

August 25, 2026

  • CV refreshed — product-focused experience, design-system work, and skills
  • Project case studies rewritten around ownership and outcomes ("Professional" page)
  • Nortware clarified as the delivery company for contract and fractional engagements ("Professional" page)
  • Contact section refocused on Nortware contract and fractional enquiries ("Professional" page)
  • Project tags refocused on outcomes, ownership, product complexity, and distinctive technology ("Professional" page)
  • Page title updated ("Professional" page)
  • ClimaFever summary expanded — SwiftUI/Rails stack, market-first consumer and research functionality, and TestFlight evaluation ("Professional" page)
  • GE Aerospace placement moved to Background with C#/.NET and WPF context visible ("Professional" page)
  • Company names moved above project titles ("Professional" page)
  • Role dates removed from project cards ("Professional" page)
  • BWRE selected-work title shortened to Bond Investment Platform ("Professional" page)
  • Project evidence links added for BWRE Capital and Couchbase Capella ("Professional" page)
  • Nortware and contact cards unified around the Nortware blue palette ("Professional" page)
  • Favicon rebuilt for consistent contrast in light and dark browser themes

2.1.2

August 5, 2026

  • Finland added to visited countries ("Personal" page)

2.1.1

July 31, 2026

  • Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania added to visited countries ("Personal" page)
  • Arrows in selected-work migration tags replaced with "to" ("Professional" page)

2.1

July 19, 2026

  • University of Sheffield QS top-100 ranking added ("Professional" page)
  • Selected work refined — expanded cards, project order, work filters, and outcome-focused tags ("Professional" page)
  • Kurrent Navigator cross-platform availability added, with a Flathub link ("Professional" page)
  • Status notes added for Dusk Web Wallet and Explorer ("Professional" page)
  • Company and inline links styled consistently on project cards ("Professional" page)
  • Magic project card illustration added — animated brand mark ("Professional" page)
  • Compact banner media added for Magic and GE Aerospace project cards ("Professional" page)

2.0.1

July 17, 2026

  • Logo navigation from Personal mode fixed — switcher and page content now stay in sync

2.0

July 16, 2026

  • Professional and Personal pages redesigned end to end, including sticky on-page section navigation
  • Projects presented as expandable cards with full case-study detail ("Professional" page)
  • Work filters added for browsing projects by focus ("Professional" page)
  • Music section rebuilt around a featured latest release, with refreshed release cards ("Personal" page)
  • Beyond Music section redesigned as Travel, Mentoring, and Fitness cards ("Personal" page)
  • Hero layout and typography refined
  • Copy reworked across both pages
  • Nortware card layout refined
  • Changelog published at /changelog
  • CV and Dissertation available at /cv and /dissertation, opening directly in the browser

1.18.2

July 7, 2026

  • Link to the live Kurrent Navigator product added ("Professional" page)

1.18.1

June 27, 2026

  • "yes baby" compilation playlist added ("Personal" page)

1.18

June 19, 2026

  • Kurrent Navigator project added — Remote Functions live data layer, Connectors UI, virtualised tables, and RBAC / quorum-aware admin flows ("Professional" page)
  • Professional positioning updated to Product Frontend Engineer ("Professional" page)
  • Page titles, meta descriptions, and Open Graph / Twitter previews refreshed
  • Nortware description updated ("Professional" page)
  • Favicon assets regenerated

1.17.2

June 18, 2026

  • Typeface updated to Atkinson Hyperlegible Next Variable
  • Font loading simplified around the single variable font

1.17.1

June 14, 2026

  • Layout fixes — section spacing on the Professional page and Nortware card alignment on small screens

1.17

June 11, 2026

  • Professional page restructured
  • Achievements presented as linked highlight cards with custom SVG icons
  • Selected work intro and Education content updated

1.16.3

June 6, 2026

  • Capella project description revised (replication, SSO, Capella iQ context)

1.16.2

June 2, 2026

  • Professional / Personal switch rebuilt as an accessible segmented control — clearer labels, with arrow-key, Home, and End support

1.16.1

May 31, 2026

  • Ukraine added to visited countries ("Personal" page)

1.16

May 30, 2026

  • Kurrent UI Kit & Handbook project added — Stencil to Svelte 5 component-kit migration, UI Handbook, and playground tooling ("Professional" page)

1.15.2

May 29, 2026

  • Locking System Configurator project description updated

1.15.1

May 26, 2026

  • Albania, Moldova, and San Marino added to visited countries ("Personal" page)

1.15

April 27, 2026

  • "Къде си?" single added as the featured latest release ("Personal" page)
  • Music copy rewritten ("Personal" page)
  • Spotify and Apple Music catalogue links added ("Personal" page)
  • Primary social link switched to Facebook ("Personal" page)
  • Dependencies updated (including Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights)

1.14.2

February 1, 2026

  • "Все по живота" compilation playlist added ("Personal" page)
  • "Лудница" playlist removed ("Personal" page)
  • Personal photos updated
  • Hero styling refined

1.14.1

December 31, 2025

  • Hero text updated ("Professional" page)

1.14

December 29, 2025

  • AI Training Engineering experience added — Svelte/JS code review, architecture annotations, calibration, and tooling feedback ("Professional" page)
  • Projects intro updated to cover the AI work ("Professional" page)
  • Canonical URL set
  • Open Graph / Twitter URLs moved to the www host

1.13

November 22, 2025

  • Contact call-to-action added — animated gradient card with email and LinkedIn actions ("Professional" page)
  • Images optimised with modern formats and responsive sizes
  • Layout enhancements and fixes
  • Page titles updated
  • En dashes replaced with em dashes where appropriate

1.12.5

November 16, 2025

  • Bahrain added to visited countries ("Personal" page)

1.12.4

October 21, 2025

  • Skill tags added to commercial projects ("Professional" page)

1.12.3

October 18, 2025

  • Professional introduction rewritten (Front-End Engineer / Product Designer positioning)
  • Commercial project descriptions rewritten
  • Personal page content revised

1.12.2

October 17, 2025

  • Section headers left-aligned with project content ("Professional" page)

1.12.1

October 13, 2025

  • Czechia added to visited countries ("Personal" page)

1.12

October 12, 2025

  • Page load performance improved — asset caching and build configuration
  • Fonts self-hosted
  • Font loading fixed
  • Service worker removed after a short trial
  • CV and Dissertation links handled via Vercel redirects
  • Dependencies updated (SvelteKit, Svelte, Vite, ESLint, TypeScript, and more)

1.11

September 7, 2025

  • Hosting migrated from Cloudflare Pages to Vercel
  • Site rebuilt on a fresh SvelteKit setup, with all content carried over
  • Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights added

1.10.2

September 6, 2025

  • BWRE Capital external project link removed
  • Dependencies updated

1.10.1

August 15, 2025

  • NarcoBOSS single added with cover art ("Personal" page)
  • Music copy updated for the official video ("Personal" page)

1.10

July 17, 2025

  • Design refresh across Professional and Personal pages
  • Music copy rewritten ("Personal" page)
  • Locking System Configurator updated to a completed delivery with achievement bullets
  • Mobile spacing improved
  • Project card radius and styling refined

1.9.4

June 27, 2025

  • Sitemap simplified to a static file

1.9.3

June 24, 2025

  • Locking System Configurator project updated
  • CV updated

1.9.2

June 13, 2025

  • Body copy line breaks balanced for more even paragraphs
  • Web Wallet contribution order updated

1.9.1

June 9, 2025

  • "It's a Feeling" playlist added ("Personal" page)

1.9

June 6, 2025

  • Dark mode added — follows the system preference, with colour tokens and logo inversion

1.8

June 5, 2025

  • Company Ownership section added for Nortware ("Professional" page)
  • Open Graph, Twitter, and page meta tags expanded
  • Company naming updated ("Ltd." dropped where redundant)

1.7

May 28, 2025

  • Locking System Configurator project added, with internationalisation (English and German) called out ("Professional" page)
  • Highlights section added with achievement-led copy
  • Professional page structure and content improved
  • Promotional single banner removed

1.6.2

May 20, 2025

  • CV updated

1.6.1

May 5, 2025

  • Music section updated ("Personal" page)
  • "Навсякъде си ти" cover artwork optimised ("Personal" page)

1.6

April 15, 2025

  • Site migrated from Svelte 4 to Svelte 5
  • SvelteKit, tooling, and build configuration updated alongside the migration

1.5.4

April 1, 2025

  • Personal and professional photos updated

1.5.3

March 18, 2025

  • Music copy updated with first-week stats for the "Навсякъде си ти" video ("Personal" page)

1.5.2

February 16, 2025

  • Site-wide banner added for the "Навсякъде си ти" single release

1.5.1

February 15, 2025

  • "Навсякъде си ти" streaming link fixed

1.5

February 9, 2025

  • "Навсякъде си ти" single added ("Personal" page)
  • "Лудница" playlist added
  • Featured music selection updated ("Personal" page)
  • CV updated

1.4.4

December 30, 2024

  • Projects reordered with Dusk Web Wallet first
  • Wallet description rewritten around the 2024 Mainnet launch ("Professional" page)

1.4.3

October 21, 2024

  • Personal and professional photos updated
  • Unused assets removed
  • Image lazy loading removed

1.4.2

July 24, 2024

  • colourBLIND playlist removed ("Personal" page)
  • Dusk Explorer description updated

1.4.1

July 3, 2024

  • Footer redesigned with a Website Carbon footprint note
  • CV updated

1.4

July 1, 2024

  • BWRE Capital Bond Investment Platform project added ("Professional" page)

1.3.1

June 27, 2024

  • Explorer project description simplified

1.3

June 13, 2024

  • Dusk Explorer project added ("Professional" page)

1.2.4

April 26, 2024

  • "If Love Could Have Saved You" playlist added ("Personal" page)
  • Music section expanded with colourBLIND, К'ъв съм як, and Аз съм един ("Personal" page)

1.2.3

March 17, 2024

  • Professional page copy shortened and refined

1.2.2

February 22, 2024

  • Layout and interaction refinements
  • Mode switch polish
  • Hero and project copy shortened
  • CV updated

1.2.1

February 8, 2024

  • Typos fixed

1.2

February 7, 2024

  • Dedicated /personal route added — mode switching now synced to the URL
  • Lazy loading for project and music images
  • Fonts loaded via CSS
  • Google tag moved into the document head
  • Mode switch and layout refined
  • Sitemap updated for the new route

1.1.3

January 31, 2024

  • Professional page copy refined
  • CV updated

1.1.2

January 30, 2024

  • Capella project information and image updated
  • Sitemap added
  • CV and Dissertation files updated
  • Badge support added to the layout

1.1.1

January 29, 2024

  • View Resume button added ("Professional" page)
  • Mode switch animation refined

1.1

January 25, 2024

  • Personal section added — music biography, releases, and Instagram gallery
  • Professional / Personal mode switch added, with fade transitions
  • Styling moved to Sass (SCSS)

1.0

January 24, 2024

  • First public release of the SvelteKit generation, deployed on Cloudflare Pages
  • Professional homepage with introduction, projects, and education
  • Projects featured Capella, ClimaFever, G9X / aerospace work, and Dusk Web Wallet
  • Dissertation download
  • Google Analytics
  • WebP assets and image optimisation
  • Favicon variants for light and dark system preference