The last few weeks I have been working on a fun little side project to redo my book logging website. I have cataloged every book I’ve read since 2007, and the previous incarnation of the book logging site was static web pages (good) but completely generated via custom python (oof) that was fragile (double oof).

I started over on it using Astro as the website generator with a little help from Github Copilot. I’m very happy with the result! The Booklog is at books.chrishubbs.com. It’s being hosted on Github Pages, which makes site updates very easy. Now when I read a new book: run a quick script that looks up the book metadata online, creates the review file, and searches for cover art; manually write the review in that file; grab better cover art if the script struck out; commit the whole thing back to the Github repo. The site then auto-regenerates and voila! It’s not rocket science, but it makes me happy to have something that looks a little fresher and crisper.