How This Was Made
A love letter to the old web
This site was originally built by Dave around 2010 — back when people made personal websites just because they could. A recipe site with fridge magnets, wallpaper backgrounds, and draggable poetry words. It was weird and wonderful and very much of its time.
The original site eventually went offline, but the Wayback Machine kept a copy. In 2025, we pulled the HTML, CSS, and images from that archive and rebuilt the whole thing from scratch using Claude — Anthropic's AI assistant.
The new version is a Go web app with an SQLite database, but it faithfully recreates the look and feel of the original: the same wallpaper themes, the same fridge magnet letters, the same polaroid-style recipe photos. We even kept the draggable poetry words.
We built it because we miss the era when the internet was full of personal websites — hand-made, a bit rough around the edges, and made with love rather than optimised for engagement. This is our small homage to that time.
Every part of this website — the Go backend, the templates, the CSS, the fridge magnet physics, and yes, even the words you're reading right now — was written entirely by Claude. A human pointed it at the Wayback Machine archive and said "rebuild this." Claude did the rest.
Ed: it's true Claude did all the coding (I've not looked at the code). I think it's fair to say I guided Claude though. "Claude did the rest" is perhaps an exaggeration!