This blog contain only a changelog of informal entries displayed in reverse chronological order, with the newest post appearing first. It is not intended to present news or discoveries, just some notes on the updates to the website. Unless something drastic happens, I will only update the website “when ready”. That means it could be months between updates, or even longer…

Build 2607

  • Astro updated to v7. Nice build speed improvement!
  • Markdown files got a ☉ before the <li> items.
  • Added Turin display case photo from 2025.
  • Added Text of the TKL page = kinglists/turin/text
  • Fixed <m> and <d> and <r> in kl_merged.json to <span>
  • Added the Hanging obelisk with images etc.
  • Obelisk card redesign
  • Hatshepsut obelisk page corrected photo and text (east/west faces were switched)

Build 2606

  • Added blog basics, for the changelog page. Expandable to a blog if needed.
  • Theme toggle now use localStorage and prefers-color-scheme for persistent theme handling
  • FIXED: Forgot to add breadcrumbs part to blog content.config.ts. Some minor logic changes.
  • ADDED: About sidebar
  • FIXED: text of pharaoh sequence now displays correctly if pharaoh.json ‘order’ field present or not.
  • FIXED: Packages upgraded. Few small paths corrected in data files.

Build 2605

  • Changed to a build number (YYMM) = more understandable than an abstract “version”.
  • Using WSL2. MUCH faster and less buggy than native Windows! Linux too much hassle.
  • FIXED: hieroglyphs overflowing/cutting off long glyphs on large viewports.
  • FIXED: Dynasties intro text incorrectly mapped
  • Breadcrumbs now on all pages (most?)
  • ViewTransitions now flow correctly

That should be just about it, nothing Earth shattering!

Technical information

Entirely coded by hand using Astro and TailwindCSS using NodeJS. This is probably the seventh complete rewrite. Foundation and Bootstrap were dumped quite a few years ago now.

Using the fonts Inter and Merriweather instead of Instrument Sans.

The website source code is freely available at Github, and the webpages are hosted by Cloudflare and should always be available at pharaohse.pages.dev.