This week I’ve started with a few of the Claude courses that are freely available on their site, including Claude Code 1011. Now using it to rework the theme for this site I’m really impressed.
Throughout my career I have been pulled towards backend development as I believed we are closer to absolutes of right and wrong solutions. When working with frontends, everyone has their own personal opinion on look and feel, the wrong shade of blue or the border should be two pixels not one!
This blog has been using a default PaperMod2 theme for style and formatting. I like the simplicity of it, but there were some changes I wanted to make, for example the additional navigation tree for permanent articles. However, my frontend skills are a little lacking.
Enter Claude. I started with Claude design asking for a colour scheme. Then started the process of iterating with Claude code to update the theme template. Add this, move that, change the colour of this, etc.
After a couple of hours I can see how a little vibe coding has people feeling that they can do anything. This is where I am already wondering if I need PaperMod any more, or can I start a new theme from scratch including some of the IndieWeb3 ideas from the beginning?