It’s been a while since I updated the site design, but something I’ve wanted to do for years was change to a dark color scheme. The problem is I know nothing about CSS. I know what I like when I see it, but not enough color theory to know how to start.
I just started using Claude Code at work, and it’s amazing, so I thought I’d try Codex for this — what you see are the results.1 My prompt:
I’m interested in changing the color theme of the site. Look at the current color scheme and suggest a change that is more of a dark-mode vibe. I don’t want something as dark as TheVerge.com, but perhaps slightly darker than daringfireball.net. Generate a new CSS color scheme that I can preview locally and tweak.
That was followed by some back-and-forth as its first pass missed updating in-line code blocks and pop-up footnotes 2. I also increased the size of equations and table text, made minor changes to the About page, and fixed some issues with Twitter and YouTube embeds. Finally Codex wrote a git commit message before I deployed the updates.
To me, this is the promise of “AI“, not in displacing jobs (as I was neither going to hire someone to do this or (demonstrably) do it on my own), but in enabling me to do something that would otherwise never have happened.