This was a thought experiment, and with the help of Claude I turned it into a real experiment. Just a curiousity really, but it also brings back that sweet blogosphere nostalgia for me (the admin panel mentions technorati).
You know, there's a good chance that my Claude scraped this. Also it needs way more image and way less map. I care more about browsing the gallery/stuff than where it is physically.
If you live outside San Francisco, you might not necessarily see all the _absolutely ridiculous_ AI startup billboards along the highway and throughout the city. The marketing copy is so "inside baseball" that sometimes I don't really know what it would mean to "Observe MDP workflows. With an agent".
I think I will always get more fulfillment from the rush of leaving work a bit early on a Friday afternoon, knowing I have a couple of plans for the weekend but not being too busy, picking up a treat for my wife and I on the way home, when the weather is good (cool and crisp or partly sunny and dry), and the city is alive; I will get more satisfaction from that feeling than any "dream" I could imagine.
technically, it was the supervising technical director.
The only reason this happened (I don't think "working from home" was very common in 1999) was because she just had a baby! I love this story because it feels like good karma – management providing special accommodations for a new mom saves the show.
It was on their SGI workstation that they lugged to home, but yeah, pretty much that's how they recovered most of the files. At the end they barely used the material.
TODO:
1. Automate registering the domain
2. Automate setting up the DNS
3. Better automate deploying to Netlify (Claude kind of choked on this one)
I also used my trick of immediately changing the Namechep NS records to AWS Route 53, to avoid getting a parking page and having to wait for an hour TTL to expire.
The most frustrating part was waiting for Netlify to figure out the Let's Encrypt cert. It takes ages and I have to manually recheck. Fix this Netlify! (If anyone from Netlify is reading this, it seems like I click "veryify DNS" it says "Success!" but if I reload the page it asks me to verify again).
Time spent: ~30 minutes
Total cost:
- Claude: $0.56
- Domain: 12 bucks of course ;)
- Hosting (Netlify): $0.00
All day in ChromeOS at work it's accidentally open the dev tools in chrome (you Ctrl-Shift-C'd when you should have just Ctrl-C'd) or kill my server in the terminal (opposite direction). All. Day.
Same in Firefox. Absolutely infuriating and trivial for them to fix/disable with an about:config even if you absolutely had to keep Ctrl-Shift-C for the masses. I suppose it only affects, oh, everyone in the world who uses both dev tools and a terminal. Which is almost a complete intersection with people who use dev tools! Or have they always been expecting AI to take over web design entirely and you no longer need terminals or something?
You can inject JS into every single page to fix it via an extension, but extensions don't have the ability to fix it otherwise. I suppose you could also intercept it in an IME?
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