I have had a blog for a long, long time. I mean, I was writing updates using open-source CGI script called News-Pro to update the News section of my website because the word “blog” didn’t exist yet, so we just called it “News."
(Incidentally, “blog” is short for “weblog,” which is what they were called at first. Now get off my lawn.)
Anyway, I’ve had a personal website of one form or another since the late 90s. The last several have run in Wordpress, the venerable CMS that powers between 40% and 50% of the internet. It’s powerful and easy to learn to use, but it’s more than I ever really needed and, more importantly, it’s a target for hackers, script kiddies and other assorted bad actors, so my sites would get hacked at least twice a year, requiring cleanup, reinstallation from backups, etc. Big pain.
So, given my recent infatuation with AI, LLMs, and Claude Code, I’ve rebuilt the site. I asked Claude to rebuild my entire Wordpress-powered site using nothing but HTML and CSS and it did. No sweat. Hardly an inconvenience. Took about three hours total.
That’s what you’re reading now. The entire site is simple text files or varying formats, so it’s fast, secure, and easy to maintain. Even the blog is straight text: I write the posts in Markdown:
I’m using an open-source app called MarkEdit to write the md file and then saving it to a local directory. ClaudeCode will then push the files up to GitHub which will, in turn, publish the post. Simple, clean, nerdy fun.
We certainly live in interesting times.