The great tjp.lol rebuild of 2026

It was awfully quick and smooth for how ambitious the project was. I created a whole new design, built a whole static site generator to construct it, and back-ported old posts from my "gemini capsule" (a website in the obscure Gemini protocol). A lot of this speed came down to using LLMs for the busy work of writing the bulk of the code.

I will never publish AI-authored content on this site without a clear disclaimer

I'm ruminating on a post in which I'll lay out my stance on AI assistance with coding because it's a fraught topic with strong opinions on all sides, but I take a fairly nuanced view that probably won't satisfy anybody. The best I can probably hope to do is convince most people that I have at least taken the ethical questions around it seriously. But that's not this post. For now, suffice it to say that while I use AI assistance in coding, and I may even write on here about that experience, I will never publish AI-authored content on this site without a clear disclaimer (and while my promise is just that I'll tell you, I also have no intention of using AI for prose on my personal site).

But I derived a lot of value from using AI tools to make this transition happen, and it came rather cheaply as well. The authorship of the static site generator (weft), the porting of my gemini capsule pages, and the initial design all were made dramatically faster with AI assistance.

Going forward, I'm happy to have a better showcase for my coding projects, I want to get back into writing more frequently, and I hope the public exposure of my notes will help spur me on to filling those out as well.