¶I spent another hour or so working with Claude Code this morning to tweak the Daystream static site generator. I’m pretty happy with where it’s at and amazed how little time and effort it took to get there. Claude Code is nothing short of amazing in that regard.
¶That being said, I did have a few frustrations along the way. Claude seemed to ignore my instructions on specific styles I wanted to be implemented, requiring three or four repeats in the worst example (photo captions, for some reason). My knowledge of the code base helped as I was able to troubleshoot a few things and provide very specific instructions when needed.
¶My frustrations are minor when considered alongside the actual accomplishments, though — in just a few hours across two days, I’ve got a custom static site generator ported from a Rails app and a site built with the generator that includes my entire archive from the old site. I can’t imagine how long that would have taken me, acting alone, to accomplish.
¶Actually, I can. It would have been exactly never because the intimidation factor would have been too great to overcome.
