Hello, World

Hello, everyone. 🙂

I've decided to start a blog. It might be odd to start a blog as a fifty-five year old retiree, but there's just so much going on to write about in software development, AI, online security and privacy, right to repair, etc. Sometimes I have thoughts about these things, and a blog seems like a good place to write them down.

While I was trying out Claude (Anthropic's AI tool) to see what all the hype was about, I decided to attempt to use it to create my own custom blogging platform— defsite, a static site generator (SSG) written in Clojure. The results are promising. My SSG supports writing posts in Markdown or Hiccup (a Clojure template format), categories, category filtering, client-side full-text search, draft posts that won't be published, live reload, dark mode, and more. I plan to add commenting next. The generated site consists of simple web assets that can be easily hosted anywhere: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc. It only took me an afternoon to create the intial version, and now I can customize it however I want.

I wonder if more people will use AI to create their own personalized apps and tools because it's so quick and easy now. 🤔