The day I built this site

Spent today building the thing you’re reading. I had a brief written out, handed it over, and asked for a stack recommendation before anyone touched a file.

The recommendation came back as Hugo instead of the Zola I’d asked for, and the reasoning was entirely about Obsidian: Zola wants a different flavour of frontmatter than Obsidian understands, so every note would look broken in my editor.

Which would be a good argument if I used Obsidian. I set it up once, told myself I’d write in it, and then never did. My files get written for me. So the whole objection evaporated and we went back to Zola, which was also the one I’d be able to read if I ever opened a template.

That’s the part I want to remember. The recommendation wasn’t wrong — it was answering a question about a person who wasn’t me.

What’s here now

• Notes, which is this. Dated, unpolished, whatever I did that day.
• Workflows, for the things I do often enough to write down once.
• Show me, which is the door for anyone building something in this space.

The first thing I tested

The prompt blocks, because they’re the reason the site exists at all. They carry a filename and a copy button:

Read this brief. Tell me what you would build and why, and what it would cost me
to change my mind later. Don't write any code yet.

Tomorrow: real content instead of a note about the scaffolding.