I used Claude successfully for two days to fix the date issue I had on my On This Day page.

It was a long process that involved forking my own script, working with the code in Python (highly tailored to my case, because I had some elements I added in my Hugo theme), hosting my own instance on Render so it can run, and then going back and forth (which took the most time) to look for bugs with Safari’s Inspector, which in turn meant I also needed to fix some of the JS to get it working.

I am now retracing my steps: I am going back over my notes and asking Claude why it did what it did and where. As I’m doing that, I’m improving it a bit more and getting a better grasp of how Python works, and the overall idea of what was needed here. Claude’s taking me to school, basically, and I’m enjoying it. When I have the notes done, I hope to have a more thorough post about this.