Successful AI project #3: website works
the last website revamp into 11ty (which was also assisted by AI lol) made posting not complicated, but a few manual steps:
- create markdown file in text editor
- spin up 11ty to render and preview
- make changes until it looks ok
- ftp new updated site to website
not super hard, but not super easy. and then i figured, is there a way for me just to write posts in Bear since that’s already markdown, and have it essentially post form there?
and the answer is YES! initially this involved it querying Bear’s SQLlite database, extracting all the notes with the proper tag, comparing them to the hash of previous posts so it didn’t have to reprocess, and on top of that i rigged it to just SFTP the whole lot up when i was all done and ready to commit.
of course, as soon as that had been done, Bear released a CLI which made accessing notes much easier. so i had to change that part of the workflow, but it’s now much cleaner.
on top of that, a little later i finally did a bit of redesign, taking inspiration from a soap label + some mechagodzilla nonsense to make it look like what you see today. but honestly i had claude do all the busywork of reframing all of the elements and fonts etc., i just complained to it until it looked like i wanted it to.