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‹ Photo Notes · 20 října, 2026
In 2012 I built what was then the new version of my website. Back then web work still paid my bills, and photography was still just a paid hobby on the side.
After 14 years the site had become technologically outdated, patched together and falling apart in places. It was so riddled with my own special cases, for which there was no room in any templates, that adding or changing anything had turned into pure manual work, and the more of it there was, the less I enjoyed it.
Fortunately the times have moved on, and thanks to substantial help from AI I can welcome you today to the new version of the site. The AI (Claude, to be specific) did not invent or design the site. It took care of the coding, and I, in the end, did not write the pages but dictated them. By the way, it came up with the idea of translating the whole of Fotoglosy (over 150 articles) into English. I admit I have neither the energy nor the wish to check those translations, which is why they carry a note admitting that it is an automatic translation.
The goal was to keep up with current technological standards, to make the site clearer and more comfortable for you, my visitors, and to give me various conveniences in managing the content, some automation, and so on.
I admit that more than once, when the AI suggested something, I tried to explain to it that we are a quarter of the way into the 21st century and that some things are done differently now than when I was making my first web pages in 1996.
I think it turned out well. There is still a lot of work left, but the site is now in a state where I don’t have to be ashamed to publish it. I’m glad, and I hope you will enjoy it too.