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.
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!
"Av' fun developing, Av' fun learning, then Av'a crack at engineering it!"
On personal websites, using AI heavily to build things, and whether that makes them any less yours.
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.
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.
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.
Introducing GCM-Gen - a tool designed to help you generate meaningful commit messages quickly and easily, using AI to understand your code changes.
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!