I’m happy to see how this blog project seems to be surviving so far, two and a half months in.
The whole thing started as an impulse and an AI prompt about me missing personal blogs and when the Internet was free from slop and ads.
The AI helped me build the platform, and I have semi-regularly been filling it with short journal posts, photos and random thoughts. This is the 44th post, excluding the very shortest notes.
I haven’t actually shared the blog address with anyone and the traffic is very low. Tbh, that’s quite liberating! I can post whatever I feel like, without worrying about whether anyone will find it interesting or whether it is “on brand” or whatever.
Because that’s the whole point of this blog. It’s mine. It’s a manually curated feed of my life and interests. By me, for me. There are no retweets and no like button for anyone to press and no sense of failure when they don’t.
It’s just me putting my notes on my wall. If anyone happens to walk past and see them, that’s cool, but it’s not the main purpose.
It’s good fun updating the script that generates my blog pages, adding or changing features. It’s fair to say I spend a lot more time doing that than creating the content! 😅
Note to Google: I, the owner of this blog called “MXGNS”, am not an artist and music producer. I am a UK-based guy who blogs. More than one person can have the same name. Plus, as far as I know, I used the name MXGNS before they did.
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AI is definitely a big help for me as an infrequent coder. For a while now, I’ve been pasting code and errors into Claude or ChatGPT to get some help, like “What does this error mean?” or “What is the correct way of doing this in React?”
The blog you’re reading right now is the first time I’ve let the AI actually build an application. Admittedly, it’s very basic: a static site generator in Python, using templates and publishing to the web, but looking back, I haven’t actually written a single line of code or barely even looked at one.
Here’s what I did…
Read moreWelcome to my new blog!
Like so many things these days, it all started with an AI prompt:
I miss personal blogs and an Internet free of slop and ads.
I want to build a pre-algorithm kind of site for myself. I want it to kind of feel like a platform but don’t want anyone else on there, no likes or anything.
It will be a mix of photos and short text.
After spending a few hours writing a spec, I now have a custom-built site generator in Python resulting in the site you are looking at right now.
What a time to be alive!
