New blog, who dis?

I've been watching all the great things that Vercel has been shipping lately, and two recent releases have caught my eye: is-agentic.com and vgpu.sh.

Those two combined have prompted me to finally move my blog off of Medium.com - that platform has served me well over the last 7 years I've been writing a Sitecore related blog. However the industry has changed, building is cheap thanks to AI agents, and I don't want to be constrained by some other platform, especially when I can use my own blog to be testing out some new ideas.

So I spent this afternoon putting this whole platform together, using a starter blog as a basis, I then set Claude loose, got it to migrate my 7 years worth of blog posts off of medium (only took about 20 minutes for that), then I noticed that starter blog was a bit behind on the stack so had to bump it all to run on bun and the latest next.js version.

After that time to get cooking with vgpu.sh - and the home-page hero banner is the outcome of that. On desktop devices it follows your mouse and has some cool effects. On mobile it reads your accelerometer and touch guestures for the same effects.

Then I got the is-agentic skill loaded and set it to do its best. So now this very blog has its own API and MCP server (?! yes really), llms.txt, RSS, privacy policy, and a bunch of other stuff that is definitely overkill for a blog, but after 1 hour and 23 minutes Claude got me from a baseline score of 60 up to the coveted 100. It actually did a whole bunch of SEO improvements as part of that so I'd highly recommend it and honestly I'll probably be folding this into some of my client work as it definitely is valuable. The live badge is in the footer. If it's not showing as 100 anymore.. sad face! It was 100, I swear!

This post from the CEO of Vercel was part of the inspiration too. I want to be building an ultra fancy human experience, and also something that any agent is happy to reference.

One other thing I'll note is that moving forward I won't be using AI to actually write any of my actual blog posts, or even proof / improve them. So you get the real me, not AI slop or ai:dr type of posts.

Thanks for reading, more posts to come soon, please feel free to give me feedback, you can find me on Sitecore Slack or LinkedIn.