Updated : 8 May 2026
New Adventures in AI
I’ve been continuing my experimentation with AI, specifically Claude Code, and you’re looking at the results. Claude Code has helped me resurrect an old site design that I built years ago but had to abandon as I couldn’t make the media queries work for modern devices. I tried to fix it with both Claude and ChatGPT in the middle of last year, and neither could fix the issues. It’s amazing how much the tools and specifically Claude Code have advanced in just a few months.
I’ve been seriously impressed by Claude Code and have enjoyed working with it. At work, my team of designers and developers are all remote, and so working with them tends to be asynchronous and via the medium of text, so working with Claude has essentially been like that, but much quicker… Which has me thinking that my experience and UX expertise combined with Claude Code and Design could replace much of the initial phases of a digital transformation project.
So what has Claude helped me deliver? A fully responsive, fully accessible, lightweight blog theme tailored exactly to my needs. I have a dark mode theme for the first time, which was actually my starting experiment with Claude Design. In the space of a year, I’ve gone from AI cynic to AI proponent. I just wish I could use AI in my workplace.
Ghosts of Blog Posts Past
As part of the design process, I’ve revisited every post on here, fixing either presentation or structural issues. I’ve removed a few old posts, some of the many broken links, and tried to avoid rewriting some of the slightly suspect writing. One thing that came across to me re-reading the older posts is how much more optimistic both I and the world felt back in the day.
I was a little sad to revisit the weeknotes I used to write when I can barely fill this Now page on a monthly basis.
If this is what I’m doing now, what was I doing then?