Welcome to micah-404. Name’s a double: 404 the HTTP code and 404 the Atlanta area code.
More posts and projects to come. Vibe coding in progress.
Today’s build log
- Chose Astro + Vercel for a fast, content‑first personal site.
- Picked the project name micah‑404 (HTTP 404 + local area code).
- Scaffolded a minimal Astro app with pages for Home, Projects, Blog, and About.
- Set up Node, TypeScript, and git, then pushed the code to a new GitHub repo.
- Connected the repo to Vercel so main‑branch pushes auto‑deploy.
- Pointed an existing custom domain at the new Vercel project and waited for DNS + SSL to settle.
- Overall, this took about 1–2 hours of focused time.
- Deployment limitations: The AI can’t push code or change DNS itself; only the local machine can do auth‑required, real‑world actions.
- Only at the end did the AI admit its limitations; while it apologizes, the human meat bag is still on the hook for the annoying drudgery like actual pushes and DNS clicks.
Learnings
- I tried to offload as much as possible to the AI, but for mostly security and access‑control reasons I still had to do a lot of the real‑world work myself (auth, pushes, DNS, browser checks).
- The idea that you can just “vibe code for an hour” and get a 10× multiplier without touching any of that is pretty dumb; it’s still a collaboration, not magic.