This post is not being written by AI. I am using a speech to text transcriber, and am talking up my machine into a markdown file, hoping this comes out okay. Forgive me if this reads as too conversational, but I'd like to give it a go and see if it encourages me to write more often in future.
So I had the itch that I tend to have every few years where I remember I have a website and I decide it need a new coat of paint.
This time around, however, I had AI to assist me. And that meant of course I have to rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Yay.
My previous site was made using Hugo, a static site generator that worked quite well. It was a minimal site that was probably more appropriately scaffolded for somebody like me who only tends to write a blog post every few years. A framework that does the behind the scenes work and lets you focus on just writing up some content and firing it into the cloud.
I've never really liked these static site generators though; the themes available never quite match what I'd like to see or how I'd like to present my website. Generating a new theme is also a pain in the ass.
So I decided to take up Codex on its ability to just build things quickly and had it spin up the site. It's using mostly vanilla CSS and HTML, though I did have it generate some scripts so that I could write out my blog post in markdown and have the appropriate page generated with formatting.
So why this blog post? To be honest. I just needed something to test my next script. I'll try to post something more useful next time around.