Before social media became what it is today I used to blog a lot. And I wasn't the only one, many people did. There was this idea of a decentralized and open web: everyone had their own little space on the web (with a selfhosted blog, or a platform like wordpress or blogger).
在社交媒体成为今天的样子之前，我经常写博客。而且我并不是唯一一个这样的人，很多人都是如此。那时有一种理念，即去中心化和开放的网络：每个人都在网络上拥有自己的小空间（无论是自托管博客，还是使用 wordpress 或 blogger 这样的平台）。

The internet looks very different now. People consume (and produce) more on the internet than ever before, but almost all content lives on these big social media platforms designed to keep everything and everyone inside. It feels like the web is shrinking.
现在的互联网看起来大不相同。人们在互联网上消费（并生产）的内容比以往任何时候都多，但几乎所有内容都存在于这些大型社交媒体平台上，它们被设计成将一切和所有人留在其中。感觉就像是网络正在缩小。

There seems to be some resurgence into the old web now, time will tell if it gains any real ground. It's an uphill battle: Besides most online eyeballs now being glued to social media apps, we're seeing AI take over the way people interact with the internet altogether. Back in the old days if you wanted to know more about something you'd google the term and start going through the websites Google said are most relevant. Now AI is a lot more efficient in getting you the answer to whatever you want to know in front of you in real time. If the answer was on a forum, blog or any other website the AI will fetch it behind the scenes and summarize it for you. From a UX perspective this is the obvious direction things will continue to go.
现在似乎有一些回归旧网络的趋势，时间会证明它是否能真正取得进展。这是一场 uphill battle（ uphill battle 指艰难的斗争）：除了大多数在线用户现在都沉迷于社交媒体应用，我们还看到人工智能正在彻底改变人们与互联网互动的方式。以前，如果你想了解某件事，你会搜索相关关键词，然后浏览谷歌推荐的相关网站。现在，人工智能在获取你想要的答案方面更加高效，它能在实时中直接为你提供答案。如果答案存在于论坛、博客或其他网站上，人工智能会在后台获取并为你总结。从用户体验的角度来看，这显然是未来发展的方向。

A second problem is that of quality: people who put a lot of time in their content (and are very good writers) can now more easily get paid for their work, through paid email newsletters and paywalled websites. All of their content doesn't live on the open web anymore (but at least there are no ads here). This is probably a win for writers, as well as the quality of the overall content being produced (and read) globally, but it's a loss for the open web.
第二个问题是内容质量：那些花了很多时间在内容创作上（并且写作水平很高）的人现在可以通过付费电子邮件通讯和付费网站更容易地获得报酬。他们所有的内容都不再存在于开放的网络上（但至少这里没有广告）。这可能对作者来说是个好消息，也对全球内容的总体质量和阅读体验有好处，但对开放网络来说却是个损失。

So if you have a blog nowadays with all kinds of useful information (ignoring the discoverability as well as whether other people actually find it useful), how many people are really going to read it directly? Should you still put time into designing your blog and writing good articles?
如今如果你有一个博客，里面包含各种有用的信息（忽略其可发现性以及是否真的对他人有用），到底有多少人会直接去阅读它呢？你是否还应该花时间设计你的博客并撰写优质文章？

Fighting fire (AI) with fire (AI)
以火（AI）攻火（AI）

Regardless of all of this, I feel a (nostalgic) desire to blog again. I used to keep two blogs: this techblog you are reading now and a travel/picture blog called mijnrealiteit. Whenever I get this feeling, I start with updating the blog software: Throughout the years both blogs have gone through different iterations: from custom CMS systems, to WordPress instances with custom themes, to ending up with simple statically generated websites. You can find some historical posts here.
不管怎样，我感觉自己有一种（怀旧的）再次开始写博客的冲动。我以前维护过两个博客：你现在正在阅读的这个技术博客，以及一个名为 mijnrealiteit 的旅行/图片博客。每当我有这种感觉时，我就会先更新博客软件：多年来，这两个博客经历了不同的版本迭代：从定制的 CMS 系统，到带有自定义主题的 WordPress 实例，最终变成了简单的静态生成网站。你可以在下面找到一些历史文章。

So towards an AI coding tool I turn, which have the power to write/change hundreds of lines of code in seconds with a simple one sentence instruction. AI coding tools are a widely debated topic in programming circles. They can clearly write a lot of code very quickly, and in my experience there are definitely cases where the speed/quality outpaces what a human developer can do. But there are also many cases where it writes junk (called slop) and does things that make no sense.
所以我转向了一个 AI 编码工具，它能在几秒钟内根据一句简单的指令写出或修改数百行代码。AI 编码工具在编程圈内是一个广泛讨论的话题。它们显然能够非常快速地写出大量代码，在我的经验中，确实有一些情况下的速度和质量超过了人类开发者的水平。但同样也有许多情况，它会写出垃圾代码（称为 slop），并做出一些毫无意义的事情。

I actually wanted to do the very opposite of what "vibe coders" typically use AI tools for: instead of providing a simple (and vague) instruction to let the AI go crazy and build a new blog from scratch, I used it to strip/simplify my existing blog software towards the open web hygiene I value:
实际上，我想要做的与“vibe coders”通常使用 AI 工具的方式相反：他们通常给 AI 一个简单（且模糊）的指令，让 AI 疯狂地从头开始构建一个新博客，而我则是利用它来简化/精简我现有的博客软件，使其更符合我所重视的开放网络卫生标准：

• Remove all external javascript (visitor trackers, etc)
  移除所有外部 JavaScript（访客追踪器等）

• Remove other third party dependencies as well, like fonts loaded from Google
  同样移除其他第三方依赖，比如从 Google 加载的字体

• Make the HTML/CSS structure "minimal" and dead simple, with a design that works well on mobile and desktop
  让 HTML/CSS 结构“极简”且非常简单，采用在移动设备和桌面端都能良好运行的设计

• Migrate away from the unfortunately unmaintained static site generation framework WinterSmith, instead use a super simple script that just generates all pages inline.
  迁移到不幸地未得到维护的静态网站生成框架 WinterSmith 之外，改用一个超级简单的脚本，仅生成所有页面的内联内容。

You can find the code for mijnrealiteit on github, I'll publish the code for this blog soon as well.
你可以在 github 上找到 mijnrealiteit 的代码，我也会很快发布这个博客的代码。

It's all live now, as well as super minimal "about me" site on mvr.com. So I can get back to blogging! Will anyone actually read anything I post? I won't know since I removed all trackers. So for now I am screaming into the void.
现在所有内容都已上线，包括 mvr.com 上的极简“关于我”页面。所以，我又能重新开始写博客了！到底会有人读我发布的内容吗？我不会知道，因为我移除了所有追踪器。所以，现在我只能对着虚空呐喊。