This website
A static personal site with three sections: work-life for the product writing, life-life for the poems, side-projects for the things I’ve built.
There’s no content management system behind it, no framework, and nothing that has to be installed or kept up to date. I built it myself rather than starting from a template, to learn how the pieces fit together.
How it’s built
Four building blocks, handing off in one direction:
- AI design tools — how it looks: layout, type, colour, the images in posts
- AI coding tools — turn that into the actual pages
- GitHub — holds the source and every version of it
- Cloudflare — builds it, serves it, and provides the domain
Every change gets its own preview link before it reaches the live site.
None of the four needs specialist knowledge to start with, and the chain from idea to live URL runs in a few minutes.
What it costs
Trade-offs
No toolchain means there’s nothing to maintain or keep current. It also means nothing is shared between pages, so a change to the nav or the footer means touching every page it appears on.