I kinda spoiled this on Mastodon, but I decided that the blogroll wasn’t super useful, and I was probably the only person clicking through the newsfeed to read other people’s blogs, so also not useful. I more often use Feedly to keep up to date on the blogosphere.
Combine that with: I was looking at Google Analytics to see what pages most resonated with people (so I could write more like those), and it suggested adding ads to my page. If this blog had a few thousand daily readers, sure, maybe, but I miss that by a couple order of magnitude. But… what if…
What if I combined my love of those deceptive Raid: Shadow Legends ads with my favorite blogs? And made clickbaity little pictures for those?
I used ChatGPT4 to look through those blogs (because it can do this now, with Bing), decide what image would be appropriate, and then generate that image. I had to do some tuning and hinting – it wasn’t as easy as I implied – but it was fun.
As an epilogue, I asked it to generate the HTML to put the thing into the sidebar.
The only problem is that I have more bloggers to add, so I guess I should get to that before they wonder why they were missing…