Technology Tales

Busying oneself with website alterations

Published on 27^th March 2026 Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Much has been happening on this little part of the web over the last few weeks. Firstly, it has gone from a pure WordPress instance to a hybrid with WordPress and Grav coexisting on here. The latter makes the Coding Notebook, AI & Data Science Jottings and Collected Snippets sections a bit more friendly than they used to be. Instead of one long page, which used an older live blogging plugin, everything is broken over multiple pages with navigation between these. That has not brought too much variation in how things appear, so everything comes together cohesively.

For a time, there were link scrapbooks accompanying the rest of the content, and all that has gone. Turning those links into more substantive content became a task that leaned on the capabilities of AI more than might have been ideal. The main bugbear was I got lured into a gargantuan task that I would have attempted otherwise. Expansions into longer descriptions take a while when done en masse, and some of these became much longer articles on the main blog. At the beginning of all this, though, a local AI model served through Ollama became pivotal when migrating content from WordPress to Grav, especially when it came to renaming Markdown files to something more meaningful than a number.

While a lot is made of AI's impact on human employment, hardly anything gets said about the capabilities that it offers you. Articles that would not get written come into being, running the risk of producing something without that much of a human touch; orchestration is never the same as composing things all by yourself, and may cause one to become less attentive than should be the case. The possibility of solely human origination of entries on here is something that appeals to me now, not least because it adds a spot of individuality to what is there to be read. After all, AI is not sentient and cannot experience its surroundings like we can.