The driver for this redesign was simple. The old site had a system for generating an AI image for every blog post, with structured prompts that kept everything in the same visual style. At first I liked it. Over a few weeks, that flipped. It was AI slop, and I disliked seeing it on my own site every time I opened the homepage. I decided I didn’t want AI-generated images on my posts at all; the design and the typography should do that work instead. Once that landed, the rest piled on. I’ve been writing more, and longer. The old layout didn’t have a real table of contents on a post. The archive wasn’t easy to browse. If I was going to keep posting essays of two or three thousand words, I needed the plumbing for it. So: redesign. A Journal-style direction, courtesy of Claude I asked claude.ai/design to come up with directions. It returned a Journal-style layout: serif display, numbered sections, generous margins. The shape was right immediately, so I stopped exploring layouts and started…
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