Glaze made me an editor for this site..2026-07-03

Glaze made me an editor for this site<br>Published 2026-07-03T23:09:19Z<br>Daniel<br>Desktop apps,<br>reimagined by you.<br>Create any app in minutes by chatting with AI. Beautiful, powerful, and truly personal.<br>– Glaze&rsquo;s description on their site

This is a static Hugo site running on GitHub Pages. So my authoring setup was pretty simple. I&rsquo;d just author the Markdown in a WYSIWYG Markdown editor, preview the site on my browser with a local Hugo dev server, and git commit + push to publish.<br>But for some reason, what I want is a clean editor where I can do all that at once.<br>So when Glaze launched, I knew what to test it on.<br>Here are the prompts I used<br>Create an editor for my personal blog that uses Hugo and a personal theme. See the config attached

It did pretty well for a first attempt, but I found some issues.<br>Make the front-matter editor more compact. It’s using 1/3 of the screen. The live server is not showing anything.

After that, it was in a pretty usable state, but why stop here?<br>Add a way to insert images by selecting them. It should copy it to the images folder.

While it was implementing that, I remembered a recent blunder

Also compress/shrink images when copying them, so they don’t make the site slow

(This size still heavy, I&rsquo;ll have to ask it to make compression even more aggressive)<br>Then I noticed the Publish button was committing all files.<br>Let me choose which files to commit when running Publish.

Then some bug fixes were needed.<br>Live preview isn’t working now.

The Publish Changes Editor looks wrong. Also, add a file editor so I can clean up the work-tree.

And at last, I asked it to polish the file editor a bit more.<br>Add filters for the project files picker/editor. Uncommitted/committed, folder, type, etc. Also, an order by.

It also generates cute icons.<br>With the editor finished, I asked it to make the icon in cozy anime style, and I consider my new editor finished:

Could I have done this by myself?<br>Most probably. I used to do Full-Stack work but I&rsquo;m a bit rusty on frontend stuff since I&rsquo;ve been working exclusively in Data Engineering for quite some time now.<br>Also I try to restrict the time I spend on this blog to just an hour a day max. Anything more and I might start ignoring everything else. And with this plus my recent Sudoku obsession (I&rsquo;m containing myself from implementing my own solver AHHH), I&rsquo;m at the brink of a productivity catastrophe.<br>All this to say technically speaking, yes. Practically, probably not.<br>I think I like Glaze.<br>Some next steps I might be using Glaze for in the next few days:<br>Change the stock native macOS style into a cozy writing vibe.<br>Explore the store for cool apps.<br>Add media management/editing capabilities for images and videos.<br>Add short-code/partials code editors and evaluators.<br>Leverage local dictionaries and AI for proofreading.<br>Maybe deploy status?

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