Eric D. Wertz

Lately I've been running into a problem with web crawlers going through every page of my git repos hosted at /git. I've mentioned before that this site is hosted on a little thin client machine... all these gitweb requests are driving up the CPU usage and causing the fans to run at full speed constantly. 

Annoyed with this noise, I considered implementing some sort of caching mechanism through Apache, but then I thought what if I just render all the pages myself and serve out the static files? All the current gitweb script does is call some git commands and turn the results into HTML pages, so how hard could it be to implement a script that does this?

Turns out, with the assistance of the Cursor agent, this is not hard to implement at all. In one prompt I had a workable static site generated to hack on. The AI used the jinja2 library for templating... which is pretty much the template system I was always looking for but too lazy to find or create myself. I was able to take the template files and get the styling lined up with something that matches the main website design. 

I mentioned in my last post that I was looking to go out on my own and start developing apps and solutions for local businesses.... This week I launched https://www.wertzai.com as a landing page for my new venture!

The site is pretty much 100% AI generated, I did the all the development in Cursor. I even made a custom bundler script so all the HTML/CSS/JavaScript is contained in one minified file. Not that it really matters but I appreciate the efficiency of it. It only took me about 2 days to get it to the point where I was ready to deploy. Previously I probably would have messed around for a week writing all the code by hand in vim.

I'm hosting the page on the same thin client machine that hosts this blog. Getting this all configured made me realize how easy it would be to host similar sites for people using cloud servers. Home hosting is nice but if the power goes out at my house then all my sites go down. I might end up moving the hosting eventually. 

Ive been getting deep into using language models/AI for various tasks... It's pretty wild what you can do now with AI agents. I started using Cursor and it's amazing how fast you can develop things with it. Coding tasks that would have taken days beforehand now just take a few minutes. 

Something I've started working on is a new to-do list app for myself and possibly others.  It uses a C++ backend along with a Preact based frontend. Most of the code is AI generated based on my general architecture. I've been committing code at my public git repo here. 

With AI being the force multiplier that it is, I am looking to start developing AI and robotic process automation solutions for those who are looking to save time with whatever tedious computer tasks they may have. More on that soon...