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The last redesign I did on this blog was sometime in 2020, back when COVID was still a thing and I had plenty of free time. Since then, I haven’t really changed much around here.
And even though I really liked that design, I’ve kind of gotten bored of it, and it started to feel a bit too cluttered and outdated for 2026.
So I used some credits I had on Claude Code to switch things up to something a bit more… simple. A lot of elements are reused or kept, but now the focus is more on the content. I even removed a bunch of extra stuff from the homepage that was just unnecessary, and I replaced the “magic” photo with one I quickly took on my iPhone.
I actually started thinking about this when the well-known Russophile BobbyD took a jab at me, saying I called him fat, and then dug up a photo of me from 2020 when I was still at 136 kg and decided to shame me with it. That’s when it hit me how outdated everything was—both the content (old photos) and the design.
The new design is probably not perfect yet, but if I notice anything that feels off or looks wrong, I’ll tweak it. For about an hour of work though, it’s honestly pretty decent. Claude Code Opus did a great job.
I started by building a design based on the old one using Google Stitch, and then asked Opus to reproduce it. Of course, it’s not exactly like in the mockups, but it’s close enough.
The new design also has both dark mode and light mode, it’s clean and easy to read. I personally like it. Now all that’s left is for me to actually post more on here :)).
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