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Every entry below is a real idea I had while building this site, the gist of the prompt I gave Muse, and where it landed. Steal the pattern: describe what you want, give an example or two, and let the AI do the typing.
- Idea
- A single source of truth for all my projects, with filtering and sorting.
- Prompt
- “Consolidate my projects into one projects.json data file, newest first. Home shows the 6 newest cards with a ‘View all’ link, and build a /projects/ page with tag filter chips and Newest/Oldest/A–Z sorting that works without JS.”
- Result
- Projects
- Idea
- A proper mobile nav that degrades gracefully.
- Prompt
- “Collapse the header nav into a hamburger menu under 640px that closes on link tap, Escape, or outside tap. With JS disabled the links should just render as a stacked list — desktop untouched.”
- Result
- Home (shrink your browser window to see the mobile menu)
- Idea
- Hero copy that captures my personality in wordplay.
- Prompt
- “Replace my homepage hero copy with my taglines — the B-line all b-words, the F-line all f-words — and tighten the spacing underneath.”
- Result
- Home
- Idea
- Never ship a stale CSS/JS file after a push again.
- Prompt
- “Add cache-busting to my build: append a content-hash ?v= query string to every local CSS and JS URL so browsers always fetch the fresh copy.”
- Result
- Home (view source and look for the ?v= hashes)
- Idea
- SEO and accessibility baseline across the whole site.
- Prompt
- “Do the SEO and accessibility quick wins: favicon, OG and Twitter cards, canonical URLs, JSON-LD Person markup, a sitemap.xml, a custom 404 page, a skip-to-content link, and no mixed-content social links.”
- Result
- Home
- Idea
- A minimalist redesign variant — a single 660px near-monochrome column.
- Prompt
- “One of the redesign variants should be ultra-minimal: a narrow centered column, near-monochrome palette, system fonts, nothing flashy — let the content do the work.”
- Result
- Minimalist variant
- Idea
- A neo-brutalist redesign variant with hard shadows and candy colors.
- Prompt
- “Make one variant full neo-brutalist: thick black borders, hard offset shadows, candy-bright blocks of color — loud on purpose.”
- Result
- Neo-brutalist variant