June 4, 2026 Navigation for the End Times web-developmentProject: samnavweb-designclassificationanti-extractionnonsensestart-here 6 min read SamNav is a tiny independent index for Sam Altman’s blog, built because the posts are worth reading but the navigation is almost comically minimal. It adds search, topics, reading paths, related posts, and an admittedly dry Navigation Severity Score without republishing the original writing. It’s part joke, part web repair: a small Dockerized map for a corner of the internet that needed one.
May 15, 2026 Rebuilding My Portfolio With AI, Static HTML, and Stubborn Taste web-developmentapplied-aiProject: portfolio-rebuildweb-designai-workflowscraftlocal-first 10 min read The original version of my portfolio was built in 2021 from downloaded themes, hand-edited HTML, layered CSS overrides, and an unreasonable number of animated GIFs. The visual identity still felt right, but the underlying structure had become difficult to maintain and extend. This rebuild became an experiment in preservation through reconstruction: using AI-assisted workflows, static publishing, structured content, local admin tooling, and a lot of small human judgments to modernize the system underneath the site without sanding off the parts that still felt personal.
