I was lazy, and I decided that it was fair to my viewers (crawlers) that I create a placeholder site using AI. I thought that the shortcut was reasonable, but I was wrong. It's sets the wrong impression of what I, my content, and this website is going to be about.
As a way to offer my amends, I've cleared out the heavily Clauded style. From now on, anything visible on the webpage is going to be hand crafted. I may use AI to parse documentation, but the implementation will be all me.
What I mean by "hand-crafted" does not explicitly mean I will build all of the patterns from scratch each time they're implemented. That's never been what this is about. If robust patterns exist and they're easy to find and implement, I will obviously default to this. We're not reinventing the wheel. It means explicitly that we will not be asking LLMs to generate these patterns for us. If I find a good block for a form that I like on StackOverflow, or some other place, I will use it of course.
I haven't been a professional "Webmaster" or a designer in many years. We're talking Web1.0. Don't expect this website to take off in terms of visual complexity. Expect me to maintain style-free, text versions of the website alongside styled and scripted versions. Expect jank. I will be accessible over the usual channels for any tips, tricks, critiques and the like.