Site update

It was a long time coming, but I finally changed this site to be more of a personal portfolio rather than just a blog. I have a new landing page, new top navigation sections, and, most importantly, a projects page. The projects page is still a little simple and needs more work, specifically images for each of the projects, but I think it looks pretty good so far.

I've mentioned before that I'm not a frontend developer and have very little experience with CSS, so to make things easier for me I tried out GitHub Copilot for help with the styling. Fortunately I had already done some work with the badges on my about page, and I was able to build off of those for the new landing and projects pages. It really didn't take too much work to get close to what I wanted. Tweaking things myself got me to where I am now.

I do have a few personal rules for how I use AI-generated materials.

• First, I'll only use it for code, not content. I want my words to be my own.
• Second, I also only use code that I can understand myself. I want to feel comfortable with the code and know what it does when I use it. This means the CSS I used is all very simple, but I know what everything does and how to use it.
• Third, I won't try to pass AI generated code as my own. If something was written by an LLM, I feel the need to let people know what it is.

Really, that's it. This post was mostly just a way for me to celebrate the refresh of the site and hopefully get back into the swing of writing for it. I already have a lot of posts planned.