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The AI helped me bring my old newsletter directory back to life

With the AI’s help, mainly converting his site from Craft to 11ty, he revived an old side project. Subscribe to is a searchable directory of email newsletters and RSS feeds, and it is back online.

How it works

  1. The AI converts the site from Craft to 11ty
  2. The directory is revived
  3. The searchable site goes back online

Why it’s worth knowing

An old project he had left behind is a working public directory again, after one platform conversion.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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