diff --git a/hugo-content/content/posts/shiftandsharpen.md b/hugo-content/content/posts/shiftandsharpen.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..847f6a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/hugo-content/content/posts/shiftandsharpen.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: "Shiftandsharpen" +date: 2026-02-13T13:21:39-08:00 +draft: false +--- + +I heard another friend was starting a business, so of course I volunteered to make a website for her. It was pretty easy and fun with claude! She gave me two sites and some copy so I had claude draft up three demo sites. She made me an admin on her cloudflare, so I just set up DNS and TLS and pointed it at my lil server. Since it's just a static site, I let claude decide what webserver and framework to use- it went with Vite. + +After she chose one and sent over some edits, the page came to life! All it needs are some photos. + +I've been going back and forth on the email form- it's just a simple mailto link for now that prepopulates some fields. Unfortunately, not many people have their devices set up for email- they just use the gmail app or whatever. I investigated a few different ways to have the form send mail- from cloudflare workers to setting up an express server to just adding a go microservice to the pod with SMTP. I founf that even if you're just going to send to one email address, it gets complicated quick and you almost always need a third party tie-in which I'd like to avoid at this point. + +If you know a nice way to do an email form, let me know! + +In the meantime, check out the website and consider signing up for someone I think will make a very excellent Life Coach at [https://shiftandsharpen.com](https://shiftandsharpen.com)