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Another day, another website

Some thoughts about this iteration of oddessay.com

AI Usage

The code assembling this website is driven AI generated: Using codex, and OpenAI’s Astra model.

The first prompt for the site was simply

We are going to set up a new version of my personal website, using Astro 7.3, and the blackchalk ui library (https://github.com/free-agent83/blackchalk) Use the SketchAppShell for the layout. Initial sections: Projects, Restaraunts, Essays

Projects:

  • is.today.blackfriday?
    • Tech: Cloudflare Serverless

Restaraunts:

  • Each card has an image, title, location, tags: (Vegan, Vegiterian, Spicy, Small Plates, Beer, Wine)
  • Should have url filtering for location, and one tag: Eg, /restaraunts/<location>/<tag>

All the content is all free-range human written content by myself, with images lifted from my camera roll.

An AI Skill creates the “sketch” version of my original photo for the aesthetic covers, the irnory of using clankers to get a hand-drawn effect is not lost on me.