Posts tagged “blog”

A blank text box is definitely my kryptonite. I’ve always liked the idea of writing for my blog but I’ve never really had the motivation to keep at it. After using Claude to rewrite my blog in Astro, I felt it was the right time to write a post and I had a recent experience to get down in writing.

I don’t want Claude to write a blog post for me, Claude already has a blog. Instead I asked Claude to review what I had written which was only a few paragraphs at this point. Claude gave me really good pointers on which areas to expand upon and how to finish with something for the reader to think about. It all made sense and it was very helpful in creating a more rounded and interesting blog post.

What surprised me was how different Claude was from Copilot which has a tendency to rewrite whatever you give it, even when you just ask for a review.

Hopefully with Claude as an editor I will be inclined to write a little more often than the ten year gap between my last two posts.

Well, I’ve updated the site. Unfortunately all my posts are now marked as being created in the last few days. So that’s on my “to fix” list.

In the mean time though, you can now browse my site on a phone.

I’ve been playing about with Twitter’s Bootstrap and decided to convert my blog over to use that.

I’ve got an offline version complete and will be updating the site shortly, it will also be responsive and look lovely on mobile devices.

I think I’ve been to BadgerBadgerBadger more times than I’ve written blog posts. I keep thinking something I’ve done would be interesting to blog about but when it comes down to it I can never think of what to write.

For now though, I’ve just converted my blog over to Umbraco, only took me a couple of evenings. I’m hoping the nicer backend than my custom site with it’s out the box asp.net styles will encourage me to write more.

I will have a few things to blog about in the near future too. I am currently building a remote control rover robot based on a QWERK control board. I’ve hit a bit of a snag trying to step down my 7.5v battery to 3v for the motors but hopefully I’ll get that sussed out soon then I can crack on and focus on the wireless part of the project.

Finally got round to fixing an issue where a 404 was being recorded as error. Should save some disk space :) I’ve also added a new friend link for Greg and Jen who are off traveling round the world.

Hopefully this will inspire me to get my ass in gear and do a bit more work on my blog and maybe even write some blog posts! One thing I really want to do is update the design and javascript so when I post code it fits on the page and is syntax highlighted automatically.