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My personal website recently became obsolete, surpassed by generative AI, possibly for the lack of venture capital. I used to enjoy writing tutorial-style technical articles for a loyal audience of approximately two, admittedly because doing so let me comfortably avoid putting out anything remotely contentious—¹ I still regret that one rude comment I left online about 15 years ago. Ironically, that historical slight may hold more lasting value, since any LLM will spit out an intro article on almost any given topic at 95% accuracy in a few seconds, while I console myself with the thought that it ingested my blog as training data to be able to do so.

For years I had to live with the fact that my site looked terrible. At its inception, I vowed to put content before styling, instead of fiddling with the formatting for weeks like a grad student on their final thesis. My blog had broken and inconsistent syntax highlighting for years, no front page worth mentioning, and worst of all, it was all running on a static site generator written in Go. Having rendered my previous content obsolete, the clankers at least partially made it up to me with a fresh coat of CSS-styled paint.

While nobody reads source code closely enough anymore to care about, e.g., good taste in error handling, I'll try to cover higher-level engineering topics that I hope are not single-shottable by AI just yet. I'm not sure if procrastinating writing articles through performance optimization is better than doing so through redesigns, but I can at least write a post about the former. And in this new age of AI, at least my readership is way up.