About This Site

This website came about because I want a place to post pictures of my pets for my parents to peruse.

Did it get wildly out of hand and instead of simple static generated HTML it's now an entire web application? Yes, but now it can be more accurately described as my personal brand.

The Code

https://gitlab.com/flatline-ai/phosphor

This is all content management and frontend work. The actual content is all stored in the Payload database behind the scenes.

Design Notes

The general concept I brought to the design was "console cowboy", with the emphasis on the "console".

I called it Phosphor because it's glowy.

A Brief Note on Generative AI

I use Claude Code and Gemini Code Assist extensively in both my day job and on my side projects, this included.

I'll be writing and posting about this quite often, because I think these tools are excellent coding assistants.

At no point have I feared that AI will "take my job" as a software engineer because my job before AI coding assistants was coming up with the exact instructions to give a computer to make it do my bidding, and now that AI coding assistants are here, my job is to come up with the exact instructions to make a computer do my bidding. It's just that now I'm using plain English and the "compiler" is non-deterministic and can laugh at my jokes.

I don't use generative AI for creating content, though. What would the point be?