Add post: "Rebuilding my portfolio with an AI agent: the mistakes were the useful part"#15
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…e the useful part" The gadget (a React portfolio on the Cloudflare edge, with a self-hosted contact API + Chatwoot chat on the TrueNAS box) isn't the point — the story is pairing with an AI coding agent and the loop that kept it honest: an animation that ran in code but was imperceptible on screen, a count-up that finished behind its own fade-in, an outside-click handler guarding on a CSS class that never existed in the running SDK, and two "routine" dependency bumps that broke the build (brand-icon removal, ESLint major). Cross-links to the status-page post — same "a check that passes for the wrong reason is worse than no check" lesson. Verified with a strict pinned-Hugo build (hugo --minify --gc, 0 errors); renders at /posts/rebuilding-portfolio-with-ai/, listed on home + posts.
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Pull request overview
Adds a new Hugo blog post describing lessons from rebuilding the author’s portfolio while pairing with an AI coding agent, with emphasis on verification, debugging “invisible” UI bugs, and dependency-upgrade pitfalls—tying back to the existing status-page post.
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- Adds a new post at
content/posts/rebuilding-portfolio-with-ai.mdwith standard front matter (title/date/description/slug). - Includes narrative sections covering: imperceptible animations, a mistimed count-up, a Chatwoot outside-click bug caused by a nonexistent CSS class, and “routine” dependency bumps breaking builds.
- Cross-links to the existing status-page post and references the live portfolio/contact entrypoint.
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Rebuilding my portfolio with an AI agent: the mistakes were the useful part —
content/posts/rebuilding-portfolio-with-ai.mdThe portfolio itself lives on the Cloudflare edge, but its contact API and Chatwoot chat are self-hosted on the TrueNAS box — enough homelab to belong here. As with the rest of the blog, the gadget isn't the point; the reliability/debugging story is:
Honest, first-person about the AI pairing: it did the legwork, I made the calls and insisted on proof.
Verification
hugo --minify --gc, 0 errors) — matches CI./posts/rebuilding-portfolio-with-ai/; appears on the home page and the posts index; meta/og:descriptionpresent; 2 terminal-framed code blocks + 2 callouts render; internal cross-link target exists.