from the desk of lucinda
📅 july 17 2026
this week's side quest: reviving art-e-zine.co.uk, the art website my mum started in 2001. it's more than 500 pages, features over 8,000 artworks, pulled thousands of monthly visitors at its peak, and has 14,000+ backlinks. she designed every page by hand like one big creative scrapbook, in software that no longer exists, with zero mobile functionality.
so naturally, i got claude to build a script that converted every page into modern code, preserving her original designs pixel by pixel. while i was in there i:
- made it mobile-friendly
- added accessibility features
- introduced a logical structure for the content and linking
- re-added an ssl certificate (it had dropped off)
- moved it to a free host, saving her £100 a year
- added a randomize feature for wandering through the archive
- redid the donations page and giveaway
but more important than anything: her legacy is preserved!
📅 july 12 2026
current status: the return of fable resulted in more time spent in claude than i would like to admit. mixed results:
- shipped a 'mystery shopper' tool that gives a scorecard for the ai and human experience on (local) busines websites.
- replaced my $20/ per month superwhisper transcription tool with a free version i built myself
- shipped v1 brochure sites for uplift digital & new normal health, as well as this page :)
- upgraded my partner's backend (not like THAT): his massage business went from 5 scatterd tools to a single supabase with proper auth — one CRM, one login with five years of client history
- messed up my circadian rhythm. watching england play football until 2am certainly hasn't helped
i did manage to balance out all the code with many hours in garden, mostly pulling up meters of winding weed roots, perhaps with the naive hope that i've eradicated the problem (watch this space).
meanwhile in my NTP study we're currently learning about cardio-metabolic health. i have never heard so much about the biochemistry of lipids before. it's quite overwhelming and the first time in a while where my brain learning capacity has been genuinely stretched!
📅 june 2026
rescued 5,751 notes from anytype and converted them into a proper markdown second brain powered by obsidian. would recommend.
in slightly less nerdy news, i went to the dutch burning man - it was during a heatwave and intense thunder storm. somehow every workshop i tried to attend was canceled but the burn itself was epic - lasers, fountains, fire, movement and sound came together in one incredible sensory experience.
📅 earlier…
this diary starts here. everything before this is lost to the void.
