The Honeymoon Is Over

I rebuilt this site as a terminal to see what Claude Design could do. It was a fun experiment that just didn't work for me long-term.

A couple of months ago this site was a terminal — boot sequence, blinking cursor, a command palette, fake homelab telemetry down the side. You opened posts by typing cat <slug>. It started as an experiment with Claude Design: hand it a vibe, see how far the wild idea could go. It went pretty far, and it was a blast to build.

It just wasn't something I wanted to live with. Cute the first week, in the way every week after. For a blog, all that chrome fought the one thing the site is actually for: reading.

So in 2026 I'd rather return to the basics than relive the early-2000s web — all gimmicks and JavaScript for its own sake. What you're looking at now is deliberately plain: one column, a real reading font, a list of posts. No build step, no framework, nothing to compile. You click a title, you read the post.