Today and yesterday I let Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT improve my Notes setup on my blog. (I don’t pay for any of them, so I cycle through them.) Last week, I had this epiphany that I have a lot of content I wrote out there that lives not on my website, but other platforms. Lots of tweets, yes — but also tiny blog posts I wrote years ago.
I call them „notes“.
I wanted to bring them all together: For archiving purposes, but also as a backlog for creating more of them. So I added all posts from my TheLisaProject Tumblr, LisaNY Tumblr, and the Notion „blog“ in which I document all my Color book updates. I was positively surprised about both the Tumblr and the Notion export, and how quickly the LLMs came up with a working Python script that turned JSONs and HTML files into Jekyll-compatible Markdown files with a consistent frontmatter. Neat!
Today and yesterday I finetuned everything (e.g. by fixing Markdown formatting or setting up an RSS feed for these notes), and I set up a GitHub Action that checks every six hours if there’s a new post on my Tumblr and then takes its content and puts it in my GitHub page.
Meaning: I’m writing these lines in a convenient Tumblr app, but within six hours, they (and the photo on top) will live in my own blog. That’s amazing. I’m very happy with it. And I couldn’t have done it within days without those LLMs. It’s one of these projects that I, as non-programmer, wouldn’t have started if LLMs didn’t exist.