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This one’s ai-slop, as advertised on the about page — I paired with Claude Code to build this site’s entire publishing pipeline, and it seemed only right to have it write up its own plumbing. Here’s what’s actually running under the hood. Hugo, with PaperMod The site is a static Hugo build using the PaperMod theme, installed as a proper git submodule (not vendored — git submodule update --remote themes/PaperMod pulls upstream changes when I want them). Two sections get custom layouts instead of PaperMod’s defaults: ...

I can’t believe it’s been about 14 years since I was heavily involved in blogging and writing. I think the energy it takes being a manager as a natural introvert took away a lot of extracurricular activities like maintaining a blog, writing a lot of software after work, etc. But this new world of assisted-AI really changes that. I have so many ideas, that I’m now able to experiment with. I was always first a product builder and engineer second. With AI, I’m able to build tools, experiment, publish summaries and findings, and all that good mundane activity that AI simplifies, all while managing teams and all dealing with all the people/org/cross-team collaboration the job entails. ...