Does it seem weird that I tag each post with Claude and LLM when I use Claude, an LLM, for most if not all the heavy work? Might be superfluous… Arksanity may be dead and offline, but the content was still going strong, good content comes on slow… rules, config, mods, the domain… ARK is a terrible addiction, not going on a limb here and literally claiming it’s worse than heroin (my Steam review of ARK).
Not being an important project, I told Claude to make the whole design based on screenshots from ARK. Recreate that feeling, reminiscent of the game. What I love about this project, what vibed for me, was Claude fixing Steam API to list the mods and explaining step by step what he needed from me to display news from the Discord server.
Nostalgia or Just Old Habits?
Should this also be tagged nostalgia? Grok, fetch me some WordPress tagging etiquette! I played the game first time in 2015, raking up 900 hours in like 3 months… just stopped at 2997 hours years later… the server was live basically from 2015 through 2019, with a brief stint in 2021 and another in 2023. Is it far enough into the past to be nostalgic? Fuck if I know.
Anywho. Pure Claude Code built with Eleventy, using Tailwind and a bunch of custom CSS that Claude figured out himself. Not sure I could’ve done that myself in a weeks worth of work, let alone in… was it 10 minutes? I gotta start timing the little fucker!
The website states that the tames are gone, but actually, I can see the server physically while writing this post. So you know you never know. The addiction is real, thus the Arksanity.