mention vfs refactor in changelog because it has some user-facing consequences (lack of version history)

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- *revision 13:* [virtual insanity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE){.secret}
- removed version history :cry:
+ the quality of this feature was too low for my standards.
this was caused by the treehouse's codebase being one giant pile of spaghetti, onto which bolting a version history feature only caused more havoc :oh:
- if you've ever run across broken branch links, you can thank version history jank for that.
- I refactored treehouse (the software) to no longer generate files upfront!
instead, there's a _virtual file system_ from which the web server sources files.
- this virtual file system, or at least [the part that assembles the page as it's served to you][vfs target], generates pages lazily---which causes my dev experience to be _faaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA_
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[vfs target]: https://src.liquidev.net/liquidex/treehouse/src/commit/0f8d05adebfe323908be487187d9afe6aaa2df36/crates/treehouse/src/generate.rs#L511
+ this generally doesn't mean anything for you, but for me... man, does the treehouse feel fast to edit now!
- generating all the page versions upfront meant I needed to wait over a second for the page to refresh, which made editing any minute details _really_ painful.
imagine I did all the previous layout refurnishment with that...
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- *revision 12:* refurnishment