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On a trip to Tahoe my friends and I got hooked on Netflix’s Boggle. The best part was the end of each round, when it reveals the words and their points one at a time. The part I’d change was the dictionary: Netflix leaves out slang and rude words. So I had Claude Code build our own. The point was to set our own rules and dictionary, and to grow it into a private league for the five of us instead of making a clone. My friends ogled over that game in Tahoe, so ours is called Ogle. It’s live at play.derek.engineer/ogle, and it went from first commit to live between Sunday night and Wednesday morning. ...

derekwelty.com was a Bootstrap 5 single-page site built on the Start Bootstrap Freelancer template. It worked, but it hadn’t been touched in years and updating it required wading through jQuery, a Gulp pipeline, and a bunch of hand-rolled CSS. Time to replace it. The new stack: Hugo with the Congo theme, deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions. Why Hugo I already run this blog on Hugo + PaperMod via Netlify. The toolchain was familiar, the build times are fast, and Congo gave me a clean profile layout that actually looked like a personal site and not a blog template with the posts removed. ...