TL;DR: Series are now their own content collection with their own pages, a post can belong to more than one project, the graph gained series hubs and layout controls, and Mermaid diagrams got a viewer for reading large ones.

Series moved from code to content

What changed: Series definitions used to live in src/lib/series.ts. Each series is now a file in src/content/series/, with a /series index, a page per series, a nav link, and series cards on project pages.

Why: Adding a series meant editing code and the verifier. Now it is a content file like everything else, which fits the goal that content changes should not need script edits.

A post can belong to more than one project

What changed: projectRef accepts a single project or a list, and a series declares the projects it relates to. A post’s project refs must be among the projects of its series.

Why: Some writing spans projects, such as the homelab and Phred, and a single value forced a false choice.

Series in the graph, with layout controls

What changed: Series nodes pull their member posts together and link to their projects. The graph has a layout panel with sliders for pull and spacing that persist in the browser, and the menu is a bordered collapsible.

Why: Adding series nodes made the graph denser, so readers need a way to tune it instead of getting one fixed layout.

Mermaid viewer and label fix

What changed: Diagrams stay at natural size in a scrollable area, with an opt-in Pan mode and a full-size viewer with Zoom in, Zoom out, Fit, and 1:1. A CSS fix stops the page’s prose line-height from clipping wrapped diagram labels.

Why: Shrinking a wide diagram to the article column made its labels unreadable. The label clipping was a real bug that the diagram checks turned up.

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Which of these changes would you want explained further, and which belong in the project page instead of the changelog?

In this series: Site Changelog

A running record of what changed on johnmcdougal.com and why: the automation, the rendering features, and the structure behind the site.

Complete series

1. Part 1How The Site Started Validating Itself Before I Can Commit It
2. Part 2Mermaid Diagrams in Astro with Local Bundling
3. Part 3Series, Graph, and Mermaid UpdatesCurrent article