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About This Site
About This Site — and Its 2026 RebuildThis site was first made in 1997, when the web was young and hand-coded HTML was just what you did. It has lived mostly unchanged since then — a personal museum, as I call it.
In early 2026 I decided to modernize it, partly because it needed it, and partly as an experiment. I wanted to test whether an AI coding agent could handle a real-world project: messy legacy HTML, inconsistent structure, no framework, no build system — just 25 years of accumulated web archaeology.
The agent I used was Claude, built by Anthropic. The process was genuinely collaborative. I described what I wanted, Claude wrote the code, I reviewed it in a local browser, gave feedback, and we iterated. Over several sessions we rebuilt the navigation, made the site responsive, restructured the i-files archive, added new content, and eventually deployed everything through a Git-based pipeline to this server.
Did it work? Better than I expected. The agent made mistakes — sometimes confidently — but it also caught things I missed, remembered context across a long project, and generally kept the work moving. The hardest parts were not the coding but the deployment plumbing: DNS, FTP, Git branch confusion, case-sensitive Linux file systems.
The result is what you see here. Same content, same yellow, same spirit — just a little more at home on a modern screen.
Guestbook
This guestbook has been here since 1997. The server it used to
talk to is somewhere at the bottom of the internet ocean. The entries are gone.
The technology is gone. But the little TV stays — because some things are
too charming to delete.
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