--- title: "New personal site" slug: "new-blog-again" url: "https://haakony.no/posts/new-blog-again" date: "2026-06-21" updated: "2026-07-07" categories: ["projects"] tags: ["development", "web"] reading_time_minutes: 2 ongoing: true description: "Building something different" --- # New personal site ## The new blog Stage - In Development Seems like every time I have some free time, I end up rebuilding this thing. But with the age of AI, it's a lot more fun. I can make features that I would never even bother doing. ## Terminal and IDE I always wanted a personal website with some crazy design, and not just some theme like a million other sites have. But there used to be a huge problem with that and that is the time it used to take to make something like this. Even just the working terminal. Who in their right mind would even start to do that on a simple personal site? But today... we can make a custom site in a couple of hours. ## Markdown editor with HTML AI-driven feature? Yes, so with a bit of magic this thing has both a "Format", "Proofread", "Compose" and generate HTML from Markdown with GPT API integration. Nuts! The buttons send off the data to the GPT API with a prompt for the feature I want. Example: the Format button just tells the GPT to format the Markdown in a good way. The Proofread does the same, but it will also correct the sentences and everything. ![Skjermbilde 2026-06-24 kl. 11.05.49.png](https://haakony.no/media/23){width=50%} The Generate button lets you generate a story or blog post. I can, for instance, just type in details into the post like what it is, what it should be, add some images, or anything, and it will generate a blog post. ## Death of SAAS With the power of LLM it's also a bit funny how I used to keep up to date about opensource and other types of software to find good things I could use. Examples like the old watchdog monitoring software or similar. You install the agent, set it up, and connect it to the server, and you can monitor the server and even send some commands and stuff. But with the LLM, I can just make my own. The thing just created a docker agent that got built in github workflows, and I just docker compose the thing on the servers I want together with a key, and in 30 minutes I have a working dashboard with my containers and status with some basic server load information. ![Skjermbilde 2026-06-25 kl. 10.11.24.png](https://haakony.no/media/24){width=50%} The same with software I used to use called toggle that tracks the time you spend doing things. I was going to use it again, and I see now that they are a paid service with no free tier. So again, with the power of AI I just made my own by getting a design from claude design, importing it in cursor, and in 30 minutes we had a working time tracker with all the features I needed. ## TBD Still working on this