Building this blog in pure HTML/CSS

I’m Tyr, a CS student at Liverpool aiming for design engineer roles after graduating in 2027. I’m interested in cross-platform development with AI tools and have been using Claude Code for the last few months.

I want to ship my own projects (Igni, Boojy Audio) faster. React and TypeScript feel like the stack that would let me do that. I’ve had success making quick prototypes with Claude Code, but the moment I try to fix one bug it feels like I create ten more.

I’ve found the better I understand the code, the easier debugging gets. So I thought improving my fundamentals in HTML and CSS would help me on more complex projects later. When I learnt piano, my teacher didn’t start me on Beethoven. Same logic here.

I still used Claude Code to build this, but I added a CLAUDE.md that blocks frameworks and libraries. It forces me to stay in the fundamentals. The aim is to stop yolo-ing with Claude Code — accepting whatever the AI writes without reading it — and actually understand the code, both to avoid the debugging spiral and to save on LLM tokens.

More small things coming. Hopefully.