feb 2026 blog flow

I want to post more here. My bottleneck is that I've never had a website/blog setup that was truly frictionless.

I always needed to DIY more things myself... which ended up in me creating website code that functioned similarly to messy research code. It would work, but I wouldn't want to return to it 3 months later.

Case in point: old setup involved building locally in PyCharm and doing a bunch of surgery on markdown files to build them into html.

New setup

I switched to Decap, an open-source CMS. Now I can edit online...

hit publish, and that syncs with github and my website builds in 30 seconds.

Coding agent attribution

The obvious subtext is that it's 2026. Coding agents are all the rage now. Building a simple static website builder should be their forte.

Needless to say I hadn't even heard of Decap, before this afternoon.

It was very useful to ask both Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Codex GPT5.3 to suggest improvements. It feels like we're in an interesting transition period where both models have their own strengths and weaknesses. It also feels a bit clunky that it's my job as the human right now to relay messages between the two models.

Beyond finding this approach, the agents helped me fully migrate, which was pretty sweet.