How this site was made
The medium is part of the proof.
I claim AI-native building as a real skill, so I built this site the same way I built everything on it: with Claude Code, and with my hands on the wheel.
It’s a hand-built Hugo site with no theme. Dark mode is a cyanotype blueprint, white linework on drafting blue, the way real blueprints were printed. Light mode is the drafting paper it was drawn on. That’s a nod to where I started. The sun and moon toggle in the header is drawn in the same linework, dark is the default, and your choice is remembered in your browser with no cookies.
The motion is plain CSS plus about 15 lines of JavaScript, and it respects your reduced-motion setting. There are no trackers, no analytics, and no external requests. Deploys are a build and an SFTP upload to a family-run server. My dad hosts it.
The workflow is the same one from the AI workflow page. I set direction, make the calls, and review everything. Claude Code executes, checks its own work in a live preview, and keeps the git history clean. The commit log reads like a decision log because it is one.
One rule: everything on this site is something I actually did, described the way it happened. Where there’s something you can go click on, it’s linked.