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A new design for this blog

Reading controls, an AI-assisted workflow, and the one manual step that never moves.

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What changed, part one

Reading options that weren't there before

Three controls. All persisted. None re-decided every visit.

ControlOptionsWhat it does
Font sizeS / M / LOne CSS variable — no more zooming the whole page for one paragraph.
ThemeLight / DarkAn explicit toggle, not a guess. Pick it once, it stays picked.
Eco modeOn / OffDrops images, freezes animation, cuts JS. Same words, a fraction of the weight.
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What changed, part two

Written with AI, published by me

Four steps. Only the last one is a hand on the keyboard.

1Outline — structure approved before any prose exists
2Draft — the full pass gets written
3Polish — generic AI phrasing gets rewritten
4Publish — a manual status flip, by hand, every time
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The AI drafts. I still decide what's true and what gets published — that part didn't change.

from the article

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The Takeaway

That last part is the whole point

What holds

  • Three reading controls, all persisted
  • An AI-assisted outline → draft → polish pipeline

What doesn't

  • Nothing publishes itself
  • No AI step can flip status to published
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