I wanted this blog live as fast as possible so I could stop thinking about writing and start writing.

Lately I’ve wanted to move fast and think about the details later.

I love getting something on the screen regardless of what I’m working on. LLMs make that process quick. I knew I wanted a minimalist blog with Markdown and images. I also didn’t want to pay much, if anything, and I wanted hosting to be a breeze.

ChatGPT first tried pushing me down the Firebase route. Luckily I knew enough to know there was an even faster, easier, and free option: GitHub Pages. It gave me the project structure for a Jekyll blog. The nice thing is GitHub Pages handles a Jekyll blog without any installation on your end. Once you make the repo a GitHub Pages site, it creates a deployment action and pushing code takes care of the rest. The entire setup took about five minutes.

I’m happy with the quick win. I can make it prettier, fix layouts, and automate a few more things later. Right now I just want to say hello world, and I’m glad to be writing again even if almost no one ever reads this.

I think this blog will focus on what I’m learning about living with LLMs as a software developer, and how they’ve extended my reach, made me faster, and let me venture into domains beyond just writing code.

Chat GPT image of my blog setup

Quick note

This blog is powered by GitHub Pages + Jekyll, and I’m writing posts in Obsidian.