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# Spring Cleaning

**[Kitty says hi.](https://daily.dev/sources/kittygiraudel)** · [@kittygiraudel](https://daily.dev/kittygiraudel) · 11 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A personal blog site underwent a major spring cleaning overhaul covering navigation redesign using the Popover API, post header rework, git-based update dates in Eleventy, deprecation notices for old content, scroll-driven list animations, View Transitions API for theme switching, a Baseline status widget, responsive tab-size in code blocks, full migration to CSS logical properties, and several SEO improvements including JSON-LD structured data.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://kittygiraudel.com/2026/04/27/spring-cleaning>

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