Twenty-nine (!!) years ago, I was updating this site on an dial-up ISP connection again off of a ~ label (http://interlog.com/~saila/ if I remember correctly). It was nothing fancy (and arguably never was), but was a place for me to hang my hat on the web, and learn some new skills. Turned out those skills would become the foundation of a career I’ve held for a quarter century.

Although I’ve not been active here for a long time, I have been lately considering how this new technology shift has created an opportunity for designers to return to code — to play with the raw material of UX design.

This vibedesigning is what also gave me an excuse to do what I’ve long wanted to do: Create a CMS enabling me to write without out worrying about the spaghetti code behind the scenes needed to make my words more visible. For almost 20 years, the pressure to create a dynamic website has inhibited my desire to have fun with the Web while staying essence to the spirit of the orignal intent: Sharing documents, not building software. But it’s been harder to do that, and too make the documents look good, without dealing with a level of coding I was never comfortable with.

But now it is possible.

Vibedesigning is allowing me to play again.

Much like I did nearly thirty years ago.

The result is this “reboot” — built on a Markdown repository (thank you John Gruber, thank you Shida Li and Erica Xu) and turned into a simple node.js CMS thanks to Claude.

While the design is nothing to brag about, I expect it will evolve and change as I learn how to play again. And maybe it will even inspire me to write more.

Who knows.

Until then, it’s fun to be back, viewing source, and seeing how close anonymous pages can reflect the ideas I have in my head.