Spent the better part of today modifying a CMS to generate blog posts from my Obsidian archive. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for, literarlly, years.

And sure, I could have done it, but, I’m rusty on modern web techniques (even in my prime I got frustrated by complex object-oriented programming because, well, I’m not a programmer!). I tried a bunch of years ago, but then gave up.

Then, vibecoding.

And after a couple of hours during the weekday mornings and a full day today, I’ve got something I’m almost happy with. Almost because there are gaps in the functionality, and errors constantly introduced, and protections (tho understandable) that make it slower going than it could (even tho it’s faster than I’ve been able to do!).

I’ve also osked to generate update CSS files to make it more contemporary, because, as much as I once owned this space, I very much don’t now.

It’s been a fun experiment and humble example of how old dogs may not learn new tricks, they can learn to help new dogs learn how to do those new tricks.