This series documents the creation of a3l. Starting a small idea, coded by hand, to increasingly using AI driven development.

Articles

Initialisation
A cool breeze flows happily past. I head to hover.com and purchase alll.blog…

Migrate to Figma Components
Even though the sites design space is extremely small at this point, I know from working with component based UI how important it is to formally “componentise” UI designs early…

Initialise Implementation
This is my first time working with Astro. As a stubborn JSX lover I arrived looking to utilise React components. However, taking a look at Astro components there really is little between them…

Internationalisation with Astro
I love internationalisation (i18n). It’s one of those domain problems that is sufficiently easy, beneficial, and satisfying to solve early in a project…

Creating an LLM based content translation pipeline
The goal is to publish the sites content in every well LLM supported human language and to investigate how feasible this actually is…

Richer Content
Recent written articles have more images, utilise code blocks, and contain many links. It's time to consolidate the display of richer content…

In Search of a True Hero 🦸‍♂️
The Mount Fyffe article would benefit from a hero image. This definitely needs to be content-driven - i.e. specified in mdx files…