The biggest point of friction with posting here has always been creating the file for a new post…getting the right folder, the frontmatter format, the slug. It’s a small thing, but enough to keep me from posting for a long time. That, and the fact that I’ve been busy adding daily photos on mutelife instead.

Anyway, I ended up creating a slash command for Claude Code that lets me spin up a new post with the right structure in seconds. No more excuses. It works like so:

/new-post New post title goes here

It then walks me through a few questions to set up the file. It asks whether the post has photos, which tags to use, and automatically generates most frontmatter for me.

Oh, also tidied up a couple of things around the site that were out of place.

• A new post is added to the blog.
• The script in GH Actions is triggered by a deployment status event.
• The script fetches the post from the blog, and formats it for Mastodon.

It’s a bit of a hack, but it works for now.

Decided to re-launch this micro blog and take it on as a learning side project.

I’ve rewritten the entire thing twice. First, with Astro, which was a fun but somewhat painful experience. Took me a couple of weeks to build what I wanted. Astro is great, but in the end it just didn’t click for me.

The second time I re-wrote it with SvelteKit, my favorite framework. Took me one day and a half to put the entire thing together. Svelte is super intuitive, exciting to work with, and very designer-friendly. Highly recommend playing with it!

This site now has maps, such as this one of Lisbon or this one of Tokyo. It also has blog posts and a neat about page and links to other sites such as keyframr.com.

Bonus, here’s a photo of a recent trip.

mutelife.com/2024/02/blissful-odaiba/

I am a creative. What I do is alchemy. It is a mystery. I do not so much do it, as let it be done through me.

alistapart.com/article/i-am-a-creative/

mutelife.com/2024/02/konnichiwa-tokyo/