This post was written almost entirely by an LLM. A reflection on building LLM-powered writing assistance while maintaining authentic voice The Challenge of Authentic LLM Assistance After well over a year of sporadic posting, I found myself facing a familiar challenge: maintaining consistency in voice and technical depth across content while leveraging the productivity benefits of LLM assistance. The solution emerged through an interesting meta-exercise—using Roo Code (the agentic coding plugin for VSCode/VSCodium) to create its own content creation persona.

This post will step through the process of building a Hugo-based website image using Docker in Ubuntu Linux, setting up a Cloudflare tunnel, and using a Docker Compose stack to bring up the website and Cloudflared containers. This will make a website available on the internet using an existing top-level domain. Some basic knowledge of Linux is required. At the time of writing, this is how this site is being hosted.

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet Several years ago, I acquired this eponymous domain. For quite some time, it was a single page with a video clip from the 80s classic Highlander. The clip, which you can watch here, shows Christopher Lambert delivering the iconic line, “There can be only one”, along with a whole lot of lightning and window smashing. Over time, I started to get the irking feeling that perhaps one of the other Alex Darbyshires would take this a bit too seriously, follow through on the movie premise, and I would find myself in an impromptu sword battle doing my utmost to keep my head connected to the rest of me.