The Landing of Parked Domains

Tackling a sudden comeback to web development hasn’t been easy on my mind. Figuring out where to begin, what to start with, how to approach a long forgotten and perhaps even dead hobby within me… did take a couple rounds. Staring down the barrel of a forced retirement from being a layger gnome, I had to consider the future. My the future.

While I still constantly discuss with the endless voices of myself, the year of the future offered something I didn’t have last time I was active with webdev…

We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.

— Morpheus, The Matrix (1999)

Perhaps not quite the Skynet we were promised, so I will refrain from misusing the term. Glorified Google. Spell Checker on Steroids. Large Language Models… Chad? Grok? Claude? Any of the stupid terms we give each night? Anywho, this technology made it easier for me to discuss with a different entity other than myselves, one that could do the Google for me, collect information at light speed, and help me reach a starting point.

So we landed on making a template for my parked domains. Me, Myself and Grok. We have spun the tiny totem that will eventually weave itself into existence, as my brain reconnects to the web of dev. Or so to speak.

So here we are… screenshots of the parked-domain landings I’ve built so far, plus the code to view them. In time, each parking spot will become a real site, and this post will be the archive of those forgotten placeholders. Also I needed to kickstart writing about whatever the fuck it is that I’m doing…

I won’t go too much into details, I wanted a simple parked setup that would display something slightly different for each domain, with a countdown that is random (giving myself endless time to actually make a real website).

Built with the help of Grok, based on Bootstrap, using Grok Imagine to generate background images. Also I might’ve written a line or two…


Update 17-03-26:
Added refactored code into post, rather than fetching from file. Remember to add “learning GitHub” to ToDo-list.