Site Expansion
I've had this site around for a while, but have been inspired by what I've seen around the internet and a little bored with what I've had around in the past. So I'm changing it up a bit. I've added a new theme all around the site (except for Tapehendge, it's a little big right now.) to have something more striking with splashes of color still around where you look for them. I've also started to move into the realm of a digital garden. There are topics I know I'm always thinking about that don't fit squarely into an update-style blog post. These parts are like the new movie section where I post movie reviews of recent things I've watched with enough attention.
New Philosophy
The dital garden idea for maintaining a site isn't new, but its one that I hadn't felt fit what I was interested in for a bit, until I saw a breakdown that made sense for topics I wanted to write about. So I'll be rapidly adding new pages that just generate from some markdown using a vibe-coded Rust CLI that spins it all up. That means updating or adding new pages is easy (I can just use cider to make the pages available in Apple Notes that I can update on the go) and have Opus 4.5 or Sonnet update the CLI with the new generated page when I'm ready to get it online.
Why?
Opus 4.5 has been an inflection point to hand off front-end code to a LLM and get back interesting and unique results that are well put together. So I figured this was a good time to make my website look more distinct but still follow the values I cherish (simple design with colorful and whimsical elements). Whether it results in actually more content on my blog is still shrouded in the mist. It's been a nice break from the two lil' babies that have entered our family in the last few months.
