KI und so

Ten years after I swapped skeleton for skull I tried to run this site locally. The corpse wouldn’t boot.

The Gemfile.lock was frozen at Jekyll 2.5.3 from 2015, and its native gems refuse to compile on a 2026 Mac. So: Ruby 3.4, Jekyll 4.4, pygments → rouge. Builds in 0.2s again. I also deleted a Twitter widget that had been calling a dead API for years.

Then I looked at how a few sites I like are built now. The 2016 answer was a grid framework plus utility classes. The 2026 answer is: don’t. No skeleton, no basscss — just CSS custom properties for the tokens, native grid for layout, prefers-color-scheme for dark mode. My old stylesheet was 10 KB doing the job of forty lines.

So that’s what this is now. skull is gone, the CSS is a handful of tokens and one orange accent, and there’s no build step to rot.

The KI part: a language model did the boring bits — figuring out why the build was dead, reading three codebases, drafting the options. Wrote most of this too. KI und so.