voynich.science

[Dunsel]

 Did you build it in AI Studio? Btw, it does run on mobile in "desktop mode"

Sorry I didn't answer this earlier but this will take a bit.

I tried AI studio but hated it.  To me, Gemini is horrible at writing code.  Claude is probably the best but I'm on a 'retirement' budget and it gobbles tokens like a pig eating slop.

What I settled on was a combination of Visual Studio Code with Codex and GPT 5+.

The entire site actually a giant WordPress plugin.  I've been writing plugins for around 15 years and I have a boilerplate I created.  So, any new plugin I start, all the WP API is already there.  The basic method was first, have GPT create a general template for the page. If you'll notice, most of the pages have 2 'HTML cards' up top where the transcriber, folio, section is selected and another below that to show what was selected.  Below that, cards and charts are created as needed for the specific page.

Once the template was created, I used GPT to create a set of very loose instructions for Codex, which has full access to the entire plugin.  I give Codex the instructions and then wait for it to produce the page and make changes to the other files. I then FTP them up to a test server and check them.  Usually, it gets the basic code right.  Once thing it sucks at is UI/UX creation.  So then, I send the finished code back to GPT and have it do 'surgical' repairs, which it is pretty good at.

I know, it's not the most elegant flow but, I pretty much have it set up and Codex knows what I'm doing now.  I get an idea for a page, I give it the instructions and wait to see how cool the page looks when it's done.


And yea, it will work in desktop mode. That's where all the CSS is focused.  I'll eventually get around to doing the mobile css but I'm still having fun making pages.

Again, thanks.