Caleb Dudley - Blog

Launching my personal website

Unknown — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I'm staking out my claim on the internet: finally launching a personal website instead of just pointing people at LinkedIn.

I've heard an optimistic vision for the AI future - everybody is able to self-host open source tools and build their own software to get free of big tech control. So I guess this is me doing my part 😉

Built it the same way as the last few side projects: primarily driving Claude Code running on my project VPS from my phone. Bio, work history, a projects page linking out to the other things I've been building.

Here's what's running under the hood:

A contraction timer, and my first PWA

Unknown — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After seeing my friend Michael Dennis's recent presentation on Progressive Web Apps, I've decided to dip my toes in while creating something useful: a pregnancy contraction timer! Super simple, client-side only application that I hammered out with Claude Code.

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It's hosted on Azure as a static web app, complete with a build pipeline and test environment. It's even got dark mode!

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It allows you to edit contractions, which the app I had used previously decided was a paid feature… hence the rebuild.

Down the AI rabbit hole

Unknown — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Decided to jump down the AI rabbit hole! I set up an openclaw instance on my desktop, then got annoyed by it and made it set up a Hermes instance in the cloud which I've had a slightly better experience with so far.

Now I've got it integrated with Claude Code/GitHub and spinning up remote sessions I link into with my phone. It's been pretty cool to drive from my phone on these small side projects I've had in my head for a while!

So far I've got a good start on: