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Trying to find an acceptable solution is no longer a battle of available products. This weekend I was struggling to find an application that made weather easy to view. Easy, like, not so great vision... want to read it at a glance, no struggle, no glasses, high contrast. Every app failed. Spend some money, then they have options. Back in the day (2025), we'd suffer and adapt, that was not the outcome.
By the time dinner was done, so was the draft. This is a web site, but it could have been an app. It took a few more rounds to catch the smaller bugs. We don't need to settle nor live with what is available. AI takes our ideas and builds solutions at breakneck speed. We need the knowledge and patience to clean up after it. A small cost to incredible capabilities.
AI recalled and summarized the recent changes:
- Mobile menus on phones at the bottom for easy reach
- Gallery re-organized, with loading and file optimizations
- Weather radar loading optimized
- News feeds have color indicators
- Change font sizes with optimized layouts - use the icon next to the calendar
One of the longest held items on my wish list was to replace the Forum. It was a blog, a calendar, and the site's user identity. It was never used for what it was designed for. Why did this take so long? Availability of a light-weight, integrated solution that does everything I want it to, without significant overhead. It did not exist…
A modern replacement to the gallery, Piwigo, is live. AI assisted in fully integrating the look and authentication from day one. This had been on my "to do" list for years, but I did not have the time to implement. Go live took less than a day. Within a week, the minor bugs were killed…