Rebuilding the Digital Garden: A Pair Programming Journey with AI
Finally, the site is live.
This is not just a simple blog; it is a “garden” I have carefully cultivated in the digital world. For the past few days, my companion in laying bricks and painting walls has been a tireless AI partner.
Together, we built four core sections, each crafted with great care.
📸 Photos: A Vessel for Light and Shadow
This was the first section we tackled. I wanted more than just a list of images; I wanted an immersive gallery.
To achieve this, we wrestled with CSS for quite some time. From initial layout chaos to the decision of keeping styles “self-contained” within Shortcodes, we learned how to keep components independent and clean. The photo album now features a full-screen Hero slider and an elegant grid layout, presenting every photo in its best light.
💭 Memos: Fragments of Thought
Inspiration is fleeting. I needed a place lighter than a blog post but more private than a tweet.
Thus, Memos was born. Driven entirely by data/memos.yaml, it has no complex Markdown files—just pure text and time. We designed a card style with navigation, making it feel like flipping through a pocket notebook.
🎬 Movies & 📚 Books: Food for the Soul
These were the most complex parts.
I didn’t just want to list what I’ve watched or read; I wanted to record how I felt. So, we built a robust data structure:
- Multilingual Support: Whether it’s “The Lychee Road” or “Oppenheimer,” the content adapts to the reader’s language.
- Status Management: We added tags for “Reading,” “Wish,” and “Read,” distinguished by different colors.
- Visual Experience: To fix display issues in light mode, we applied
not-proselocks and used Gaussian blur backgrounds to eliminate annoying black borders.
Conclusion
In this process, I provided the vision and aesthetics, while the AI handled the code and implementation. We debated over the height of a div and celebrated resolving z-index conflicts.
This is UES.ONE as it stands today—a digital garden that, while still under renovation, is already full of life.
Welcome.