Shaun Pryszlak https://shaunp.xyz/ Notes, updates, and things Shaun Pryszlak has been thinking about. en-gb Building a Website with Agentic AI https://shaunp.xyz/posts/building-a-website-with-agentic-ai/ https://shaunp.xyz/posts/building-a-website-with-agentic-ai/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT <p>I have a webcomic that I have always kept online, even though nobody ever reads it. I thought with this new website I would bite the bullet, turn it into a static website, and host it with my other new sites. Starting with ChatGPT and a blank folder I desribed roughly how I wanted the website structured. I would use Eleventy again as it means I can still add new episodes, much as I add new blog posts.</p> <p>It thought about it for a minute and created a website that was structured how I want it. There was a home page, About page and a page for each episode. And an archive. Pointing it at the live website I told it to copy the first episode over. It did it, images, comments and titles. Clever, I thought. I got it to do a few more. This is easy. It was having to go off, scrape the page, download the image and make sense of it all. Now I have a dump of the database and a folder with all the comics in. It turns out it could in fact open an SQL Server database export, load it into a localdb database, read one of the tables and dump its contents to a spreadsheet. All in a fration of the time it would have taken me.</p> <p>By this point I was gobsmacked. It could take a brief instruction, a website and a database and work out what needed doing in the context of those three things. Within a morning I had a working webcomic with 150+ episodes. The interesting thig was, it didn't really make any mistakes or bad assumptions.</p> I have a webcomic that I have always kept online, even though nobody ever reads it. I thought with this new website I would bite the bullet, turn it into a static website, and host it with my other new sites. Starting with ChatGPT and a blank folder I desribed roughly how I wanted the website structured. I would use Eleventy again as it means I can still add new episodes, much as I add new blog posts.

It thought about it for a minute and created a website that was structured how I want it. There was a home page, About page and a page for each episode. And an archive. Pointing it at the live website I told it to copy the first episode over. It did it, images, comments and titles. Clever, I thought. I got it to do a few more. This is easy. It was having to go off, scrape the page, download the image and make sense of it all. Now I have a dump of the database and a folder with all the comics in. It turns out it could in fact open an SQL Server database export, load it into a localdb database, read one of the tables and dump its contents to a spreadsheet. All in a fration of the time it would have taken me.

By this point I was gobsmacked. It could take a brief instruction, a website and a database and work out what needed doing in the context of those three things. Within a morning I had a working webcomic with 150+ episodes. The interesting thig was, it didn't really make any mistakes or bad assumptions.

]]> Using Eleventy to Create a Static Website https://shaunp.xyz/posts/post2/ https://shaunp.xyz/posts/post2/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <p> I just couldn't bring myself to install Wordpress on a Linux box and I wanted to try something new. My last site got hacked and moving to a static website should alleviate this issue. I had a google and came accross <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/" target="_blank">Eleventy</a>. I had never heard of it before but it seemed quite simple from the home page. It took about five minutes to set up within ten I had a working website. </p> <p> The idea is that you write your website in HTML and markup and it gets processed into an expanded fulle site, whch you then publish. I know nothing about markup. I didn't find the documentation that useful and relied on good old ChatGPT for most of the instructions and workflow. Still, it worked. With <a href="https://getbootstrap.com/" target="_blank" >Bootstrap</a> as the frontend toolkit I got something quite nice to look at with minimal work. </p> I just couldn't bring myself to install Wordpress on a Linux box and I wanted to try something new. My last site got hacked and moving to a static website should alleviate this issue. I had a google and came accross Eleventy. I had never heard of it before but it seemed quite simple from the home page. It took about five minutes to set up within ten I had a working website.

The idea is that you write your website in HTML and markup and it gets processed into an expanded fulle site, whch you then publish. I know nothing about markup. I didn't find the documentation that useful and relied on good old ChatGPT for most of the instructions and workflow. Still, it worked. With Bootstrap as the frontend toolkit I got something quite nice to look at with minimal work.

]]> New Website is Live! https://shaunp.xyz/posts/post1/ https://shaunp.xyz/posts/post1/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <p>This is the first blog post on my new website! As I have moved everything onto a a Linux VPS, I have had to rebuild the website from scratch. I have also moved the website to a new domain name, so please update your bookmarks if you have any.</p> <br /> It is a static website built using Eleventy. It was fairly simple and I got something running, DNS stuff as well, in an afternoon. My old setup was Wordpress hosting on Windows but that comes with a lot of baggage. It is generally more expensive than a Linux box and Wordpress is a target for hackers. The old site got hacked and was taken off line. For that reason I thought the new one should just be a static site. I don't update it that often and it seems Eleventy can do blogs as well. <br /> At the moment the website will just be text and links, but I like Bootstrap and will probably use that to make it look nicer. This is the first blog post on my new website! As I have moved everything onto a a Linux VPS, I have had to rebuild the website from scratch. I have also moved the website to a new domain name, so please update your bookmarks if you have any.


It is a static website built using Eleventy. It was fairly simple and I got something running, DNS stuff as well, in an afternoon. My old setup was Wordpress hosting on Windows but that comes with a lot of baggage. It is generally more expensive than a Linux box and Wordpress is a target for hackers. The old site got hacked and was taken off line. For that reason I thought the new one should just be a static site. I don't update it that often and it seems Eleventy can do blogs as well.
At the moment the website will just be text and links, but I like Bootstrap and will probably use that to make it look nicer. ]]>