<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://agentictaskx.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="https://agentictaskx.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en"/><updated>2026-04-07T00:45:13+00:00</updated><id>https://agentictaskx.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">blank</title><subtitle>Product Manager turned agentic developer. Like Guy from Free Guy, I woke up inside the system and decided to start building my own. </subtitle><entry><title type="html">Building This Website</title><link href="https://agentictaskx.github.io/blog/2026/building-this-website/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Building This Website"/><published>2026-04-05T05:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-05T05:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://agentictaskx.github.io/blog/2026/building-this-website</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://agentictaskx.github.io/blog/2026/building-this-website/"><![CDATA[<h2 id="why-build-a-personal-website">Why Build a Personal Website?</h2> <p>I’ve been meaning to set up a personal site for a while. Somewhere to put projects, share thoughts, and eventually pin travel photos on a world map. GitHub Pages felt like the obvious choice — free, version-controlled, and I already live on GitHub.</p> <p>As a Product Manager who’s spent years shipping products at Microsoft, Meta, and gaming companies, I know the value of just launching something. Perfect is the enemy of shipped.</p> <h2 id="the-stack">The Stack</h2> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio">al-folio</a></strong> — A Jekyll theme with 15k+ stars. It comes with dark mode, blog, projects, CV, and more out of the box.</li> <li><strong>Jekyll</strong> — Static site generator. No servers, no databases, just markdown to HTML.</li> <li><strong>GitHub Pages</strong> — Free hosting. Push to main, GitHub Actions builds and deploys.</li> <li><strong>GitHub Actions</strong> — al-folio needs custom plugins that GitHub’s default Jekyll builder doesn’t support. The included deploy.yml workflow handles the full build pipeline.</li> </ul> <h2 id="whats-here-so-far">What’s Here So Far</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Home</strong> — Quick intro and links</li> <li><strong>Projects</strong> — What I’m building (more coming)</li> <li><strong>Blog</strong> — You’re reading it</li> <li><strong>CV</strong> — The real deal — Microsoft AI, Meta, Age of Learning, Zynga, MobilityWare</li> <li><strong>Personal</strong> — Gallery, world map, GitHub repos</li> </ul> <h2 id="whats-next">What’s Next</h2> <p>A few things on the roadmap:</p> <ul> <li>More blog posts — agentic dev notes, memory research, product takes</li> <li>Travel photo world map with Leaflet.js</li> <li>Photo gallery</li> <li>Contact form via FormSubmit</li> </ul> <h2 id="the-meta-part">The Meta Part</h2> <p>This entire site was set up in a single session with an AI coding assistant. Every config edit, every page, every commit — pair-programmed with Claude. Like Guy from <em>Free Guy</em> putting on the sunglasses for the first time — once you see what agentic AI can do, you can’t unsee it.</p> <p>If you’re thinking about building your own site, just start. Fork a theme, personalize it, ship it. You can always iterate.</p> <hr/> <p><em>First post. More to come.</em></p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="projects"/><category term="projects"/><category term="dev-tools"/><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How I built this personal website with al-folio, Jekyll, and GitHub Pages — with an AI copilot doing most of the work.]]></summary></entry></feed>