Why I'm rebuilding my IndieWeb projects with Claude

I recently came across Brennan's post noticing that Claude Code has been showing up in the commit history of a bunch of my IndieWeb projects lately. That's true! I was wondering when someone would notice. I haven't been hiding it, but I also haven't written anything about why I'm doing it, so this seemed like a good time to finally get my thoughts down. The principles are about what you own Brennan's post summarizes the IndieWeb as: the main idea being to empower individuals to own their own identity, data, and web presence rather than relying on centralized social media silos That's a pretty good summary. But notice that no part of it talks about what tools you use, or what you use to build your tools. That was a very intentional part of the IndieWeb principles, which start with "Own your domain and your data." The principles are about owning your data and being able to choose where your data is hosted, not about how the code behind it was created. It's not even about everyone…