AI Worklog

A running record of AI-assisted work done on this blog using Claude Code. Newest first.

May 2026 — Active development

May 22, 2026

📡 Connected Google Analytics (PR #72)

  • Setup Google Analytics

May 21, 2026

🚀 Add About page (PR #71)

  • Added /about — personal intro and career highlight cards
  • Added About nav link to desktop sidebar and mobile drawer

May 21, 2026

🚀 AI Worklog page (PR #70)

  • Added /ai-worklog — a timeline of AI-assisted work on the blog
  • Added update-ai-worklog skill to auto-update the log on every PR

May 21, 2026

📋 This Page

  • Compiled the full project timeline from git history and session worklogs
  • Added AI Worklog as a standalone page with sidebar nav link (PR #70)

May 21, 2026

🔒 Security Fixes (PR #69)

  • Fixed npm install warnings and security vulnerabilities

May 20–21, 2026

📡 RSS Feed (PR #68)

  • Added /rss.xml endpoint with RSS 2.0 feed via @astrojs/rss
  • Stripped MDX imports and relative images from feed content (fence-aware)
  • Added auto-discovery in layout

May 20, 2026

🗂️ Image Co-location (PRs #65, #66)

  • Refactored posts to folder format (posts/post-name/index.mdx + co-located images)
  • Updated new-post script to generate folder-format posts
  • Cleaned up orphaned legacy image folders

May 19–20, 2026

✍️ Component Polish + New Post

  • Extracted SocialLinks component, sidebar color token sweep
  • Published "Migrating to Astro with AI" blog post (PR #62)

May 17–18, 2026

📱 Mobile Nav + Tailwind v4 Migration (PRs #58, #64)

  • Added sticky top bar + slide-in drawer for mobile navigation
  • Migrated every component from scoped styles → Tailwind v4
  • Extracted ButtonLink component, standardized font scale and color tokens

May 16, 2026

🖼️ Visual Design Refresh (PR #57)

  • Dark theme, slimmer sidebar, table of contents, reading time indicator
  • Switched to Lexend font, tags section in sidebar, layout shift fixes

May 13, 2026

🗓️ Maintenance

  • Investigated whether Google Ads were still active on the blog
  • Installed the addyosmani/agent-skills plugin marketplace in the project

April 2026 — Gatsby → Astro migration

April 22–25, 2026

🔧 Migration Cleanup + Tooling

  • Continued debugging the Gatsby → Astro migration on staging; investigated font mismatches between staging and master, explored CDN loading for cache hits
  • Yarn vs npm audit — reviewed mixed package manager situation, validated against Node 22 and Netlify build config
  • new-post script — documented in the README, created branch + PR

April 19–22, 2026

🎨 Blog Redesign

  • Collaborated on a new visual direction: clean, simple, modern
  • Produced and approved a Design Spec document (dated Apr 19)
  • Issue #36 — Began implementing the redesign from the spec
  • Fixed missing favicon (was present on production but missing in preview)
  • Navigation consistency fix — Next/Prev buttons aligned visually and directionally

April 17–18, 2026

🔨 Continued Feature Work

  • Multiple short sessions iterating on blog features post-migration
  • Continued embed polish, layout fixes, and style refinements

April 13–15, 2026

🚀 Gatsby → Astro Migration

Full rewrite across ~10 PRs in ~3 days:

April 13 — Astro + TypeScript setup, content collections, layout, global styles, all pages and routes

April 14 — React islands for PostBody + ThemeChanger, remove all Gatsby artifacts, ESLint, Netlify config; debugged TweetEmbed.tsx TypeScript errors (Issue #18), previewed Expo embed handling (Issue #16)

April 15 — Fix SSR embed issues: Expo Snack, Gist iframe with ResizeObserver auto-sizing, Tweet embed shim; implemented GitHub Gist embeds (Issue #17)