Working in Claude Code to fix broken image links in this blog. For all the potential problems that come with vibe coded stuff, generating/composing one-off fix-it scripts can be damned handy. For example, this blog got a big tune-up over the past day: almost 2000 embedded images have been unbroken. For a lot of years I maintained a personal online photo gallery using Gallery2, but as it hadn’t been maintained since 2012, used a lot of server space, and had a very not-modern feel to it, I shut it down in mid-2020 and made a static archive that I just hosted at home. The biggest problem with doing so was that this blog had a lot of images hotlinked into there, so all those posts broke. Fixing this manually was a pain, and while I kept a copy of the database+images around, somehow using that to fix things was a Big Task that I never started on. Enter the modern world of AI-assisted coding and over the past few days of vacation, between riding bikes and walks and such, I prompted Claude…
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