Jesse Clark Photo

Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 August 21st, 2019

Start of the 14th Year

Today concludes the 13th year of photo blogging and starts the 14th! This year has introduced many new components to this site.

Email - There is a twice-weekly email that gets sent out with updates from the blog with MailChimp. I'll be looking at rewriting this feature to take it out of Mail Chimp this year. 

Stats - In the past, I have listed the number of photos, dates, and tags. Now you can see the current stats on the About page.

React- The frontend application was rewritten into a JavaScript framework called React. The site now loads faster, and this language was something that I wanted to learn.

Videos - The site has had videos since 2009, but they were separate and usually just a single scene. I combined them into the photo database table, which allows them to have tags added to them. I have also started to add videos this month that are more creative and hopefully tell a story. I hope to continue making these.