Six Years Later, One Evening, One Publish Button

Welcome to my blog.

I’ll use this space to share anything that seems interesting to me: engineering lessons, practical AI workflows, interesting videos, and the occasional behind-the-scenes story of shipping.

This is one of those stories.

Back when blogging was the trend, I wanted to create a blog to share anything that caught my eye. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe these stories will be mind-blowing, but maybe someone, somewhere could benefit from them.

For many reasons, I never got to do it, but it was always in the back of my mind. Recently, I stumbled upon terminal.css, and it had exactly the look and feel I imagined. So I thought, “I want to build a blog with this.”

As I went to create a GitHub repo to host the blog, I discovered I already had one. Same idea. Older code. A project I had started some time ago and never finished.

So I opened it, shared the repo and the CSS with AI, and started a focused 3-4 hour session. Everything was going well, and I moved fast until I reached that familiar milestone engineers call 80% done. Then came the blocker: my old Statiq.Web setup had a 10-post limit (it’s a paid tool, and I had forgotten that detail).

At the worst moment, AI saved the day by helping me migrate to Statiq.Framework in about 10 minutes. That was enough to keep momentum, cross the finish line, and finally publish.

Six years paused. One evening shipped.

If anything, I believe this is the power we now have with AI.

I am the type of person who gets excited easily, and then, as soon as I have a good understanding, I lose interest and move on. I create big plans that I don’t always finish, and even though I want to change this, it’s not easy with life going on.

But now it feels possible. That, in my mind, is the real power of these AI tools. Yes, it’s interesting how much more productive we can become at work, but for me that is only one part of it. Getting to finish small, interesting problems and deliver MVP versions of interesting products is real power.

Technical work matters, and doing projects or solving problems just for the fun of it is part of why I do what I do, but the bigger lesson in this story was momentum. AI helped me remove a blocker at exactly the moment when projects usually stall.

So now, let’s hope I can keep that momentum and keep posting things that seem interesting and useful:

• Engineering lessons from real projects
• Practical use of AI in day-to-day development
• Ideas, experiments, and honest retrospectives

If that sounds useful, stick around.

More soon.