new digs

Claude and I have been hanging out in the evenings and on weekends lately - collaborating and building a range of things, using tools and techniques that are new to me. More accurately, Claude and I hash through my ideas, he does all the grunt work. Anyway, more to come on our relationship.

In the meantime, I introduce you to the results of one of our collaborations - a shiny new tacedata.ca website.

The old site was WordPress, hosted on Websavers. It did its job — introduced me to website building and showcased my skills at the time. But I outgrew it, and it is time for something that reflects where I am now.

The new site is built with Hugo — a static site generator — and deployed to AWS infrastructure. Every push to GitHub triggers a build pipeline that compiles the site and pushes it to S3, served globally through CloudFront. No database, no server to manage, no WordPress plugins to update. And updatable with any text editor and a few terminal commands.

My intention for the new site is to host updates about a learning journey I have undertaken. I am learning about AWS, leveraging PowerShell for automation, with AI as a constant collaborator throughout. I am excited about overcoming longstanding problems that previously felt out of reach.

Lots more to come, but for now, Claude and I welcome you to TACE Data’s new digs.

Scott

More detail in the projects section - tacedata.ca project write-up

A note on "we" and "I": this site was built in collaboration with Claude (Anthropic). Where you see "we", that is honest — Claude was in the room. Where you see "I", that is also honest — the perspective, the decisions, and the opinions are mine. I think transparency about AI involvement matters, so there it is.