Since my final project is a website, my Hello World is a simple website being hosted on GitHub Pages. I felt this was fair criteria for a few reasons:

  1. I've never published a website like this, so this activity will really help me feel more confident in approaching the rest of my project.
  2. This will be a foundation for everything else to come.
  3. I get to brainstorm more with a very simple goal.

Here is my site! It's super simple, and I added my screensaver sketch to jazz it up a bit. There were literally zero bumps in the road. ChatGPT held my hand for this, I will admit, but I learned a lot and didn't let it blatantly do everything for me. Additionally, I have this all backed up on GitHub and automatically committing updates with Git to the GitHub repository.

Going forward, I really like the idea of this website looking archaic but having a bunch of nice little modern touches under the hood. While this was not at all scoped in my proposal, I have been working on a Node.js script that uses the API from my music server at home to update a banner at the bottom of the home screen of my website, so anyone can see if I am listening to music in real time. Almost all of this is AI-generated to an extreme degree, and I've never really coded this heavily with it, but I am having a lot of fun and it is allowing me to do something I wouldn't have had time to fully learn in a three-hour span on a Sunday afternoon. This is not added to the site yet for two reasons:

  1. I want to add a GitHub repository but I also am not sure what to do with specific keys and links that should remain private. Maybe just placeholder text?
  2. I am still working on getting the script to reliably push the music info.