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My Website Is Mine. I Used AI To Build It. I'm Still Figuring Out What I Think About That.
On personal websites, using AI heavily to build things, and whether that makes them any less yours.
$ cat post.md → deloughry.co.uk — login
login: mdeloughry
password: ••••••••••••
...
$ whoami
Dr_DinoMight
$ cat roles.txt
[01] Developer ACTIVE
[02] Gamer PLAYING
[03] Maker BUILDING
$ _
// README.md
[OK] IDENTIFIED
Aye up, I'm Matt (aka Dr_DinoMight), a developer of around 15 years. Full Stack Developer who loves to tinker with anything and everything. I love to build, be it personal projects or large scale community projects. As long as it's code it floats my boat!
// motto.sh
$ echo
"Av' fun developing, Av' fun learning, then Av'a crack at engineering it!"
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WebMCP — The Web Just Got a Bit Smarter (Whether It Wanted To or Not)
WebMCP is Google's browser-native API that lets sites expose tools AI agents can call—no backend MCP server. A tour of the spec, declarative vs imperative APIs, and the 'lethal trifecta' security concern.
Claude Code: Skills, Plugins, and the JSONC Design Spec Trick That Changed My Workflow
How I've been using CLAUDE.md, the frontend-design plugin, and AI-generated JSONC design specs to build production-quality frontends without the AI slop.
Building Glitch Effects with Pure CSS - A Deep Dive into Neo-Brutalist Design
A comprehensive guide to creating CRT scan lines, chromatic aberration, oscilloscope waveforms, and glitch animations using pure CSS. Learn how to build a cohesive glitch aesthetic for your website.
GCM-Gen: My New Git Commit Message Generator
Introducing GCM-Gen - a tool designed to help you generate meaningful commit messages quickly and easily, using AI to understand your code changes.
Integrating Webmentions with Next.JS
Let me introduce you to Webmentions - a recent discovery that brought back memories of pingbacks and Tumblr's social features. I had to implement it myself!
Using MongoDB’s Data API, Next.js with SWR to make a page click tracker.
While building my new website, I wanted to understand its traffic, especially the logs, which contain both short and long-form posts. I aimed to identify which posts performed better or worse.
Work in Progress
I am a big believer in striking while the iron is hot, and personal projects are no exception! So today I've deployed the new look website, but it is still very much a WIP.
It has to change! Shape up! Do Better!
Straight off the bat DON'T EVER think it's acceptable to fire misogynistic, racial or even for that matter general abuse at another person no matter the person!