And we're done already. I used the last days to heavily test all the support you can get from models like claude.ai, Github Copilot and ChatGPT. All the models knew about Kirby and it was a blast to run through the changes and adjustments I wanted to do. And I learned a lot on the way.
What's new
The first thing to recognise is the new layout: I tried to keep the simplicity, but give it more structure. I was able to reduce the whole design to 1 media query for the mobile first approach. Font sizes for the different elements like headlines and text are now easier to differentiate. We have a nightshift mode now. I had to kill some image quality by going down to a maximum width of 760, but I can live with that. I just need to invest more into the compression work.
Function-wise I finally added a tag list. I use tagging extensively and now I show them in the blog posts as well as on the bottom of the page. Now you can filter the blog archive with a tag so I hope that you can find the content you are looking for. This feature made me work over all entries to set correct tags, which was a little bit tedious, but it's done now. Even more, the archive and single article pages now have a pagination.
Actually, with the help of Claude and Copilot this was all done in a day - and I added some backend magic to improve the way how I create content.
Working with A.I. models
As you can imagine, working with models to do the changes worked like charm. The deep knowledge with the Kirby CMS helped a lot and I even learned a thing or two about modern CSS. After my little python learning project last week I get a more and more fascinating insight into what it means to code with an A.I. There are some downsides - models forgetting requirements or principles that were already set - but probably there are solutions for them already - I just don't know them yet. Overall it's incredibly fast to work with while you sometimes have to be a little bit creative to get what you want. This will surely all sort out in the next weeks or months.
It all started while we were spending a weekend in beautiful Utrecht and with the help of my assistants it was done blazingly fast. I cannot think of why you should not be using models for your daily work.
Coming up
The next thing will be my mind garden. There is this long-term plan to make my website the center of my knowledge. However, there is still some concept work to do: Do I want to mix tags? That would imply that you will find mind garden entries as well as blog posts under each tag. But then again I may want to have a slightly different semantics for my mind garden tags...
Well ... I will put some thoughts into it in the next days. This mini project would be a good option to check out GitHub's project management and understand how Microsoft thinks we should structure our development process.
Conclusion
There is still some minor stuff missing. A set of favicons/app icons, the tiny dragon/dinosaur needs to find his way back on the page. The logo/the initials could use a little bit of personality.