After 12 years on WordPress, I rebuilt my site with AI
After 12 years on WordPress, his site The BIMsider has a new home. He rebuilt it with AI, with a fresh look and new features.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI moved my old site off WordPress in 10 minutes
A PHP flaw finally pushed him to move an old site off WordPress. Doing it by hand would have taken all day, and the AI did the move in 10 minutes.
Built a trade-alpha dashboard from confirmation emails benchmarked against SPY
Someone had the AI build a trade-alpha dashboard from his trade confirmation emails and benchmark the results against SPY. The agent turned scattered confirmations into a performance benchmark.
Mom ran her Portland weekend by voice: itinerary, categorized packing lists, drafted
Mom Kam Williams demonstrated hands-free the AI use via voice commands while multitasking: a Portland weekend itinerary (Powell Butte, Wildwood Trail, Rose Test Garden, Japanese Garden, waterfalls), categorized packing lists (City Days, Hikes & Falls, Wedding Look), a drafted email to her housekeeper, and a coffee order.
A vision model walked a humanoid robot to a table and described what was on it
An LLM with vision controlled his Unitree humanoid, walked slowly to a table, steered to it and described objects on it, avoiding crashes better than other models tried.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
Agents helped him build a catalogue site for his historical murder stone research
Agents found sources, produced summaries, and helped build murder-stones.org, a catalogue site for his own historical research.
The AI built a tool that syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive
He used AI to create a small tool on val.town that automatically syncs his GoodReads updates to BookHive. The val.town blog featured the tool as one of his experiments.
The AI pulled all his photos out of the cloud into his own archive
The AI made a PHP script that used the Google Photos API to pull all his photos to his archive location; the extraction is done.
The AI set up his whole media stack in an hour on an old mini PC
The AI set up the whole arr stack for him in an hour on an older NUC under Proxmox.
The AI made his animation and voiced it by working around the container limits
He had the AI produce an animation with a voice-over inside a sandboxed setup. The direct routes to the audio tools were blocked by container limits, so the AI found another way to generate the voice, and the finished piece plays.
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