Hello, World

Hello, everyone. 🙂

I have decided to start a blog. I am not a blogger. I'm a fifty-five year old retiree. But there are so many interesting things going on in software development, AI, online security and privacy, right to repair, etc. I'll also probably write about things I'm working on day-to-day, projects, hobbies, what I'm making for dinner, and anything else I feel like writing about.

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 initial 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. 🤔