I remember porting or making plugin that allowed scripting in c# for OLW. (Dynamic Live Writer).

Good times.

Contrary to the author, I was able to export my blog from livehournal to cms blogengine.net and then migrate to WyAm static website generator and host on netlify.

Then, for many years, I was procrastinating and not using my blog properly. When i wanted to blog, I used substack instead :(

But finally, last week, I used Claude code and Gemini to migrate from WyAm to its successor Statiq, then fix formatting and other issues in blog.

Then I even managed to use Google takeout to download original photos, match them with images used in the blog using conceptual hashing, and replacing blog images with originals where it makes sense. (Replaced IMG SRC with IMG SRC set for diff resolutions).

Migrated blog from netlify to local selfhosting (old laptop with proxmox) behind cloudflare.

All this herculean effort was so fun, easy and enjoyable because of LLMs!

I am totally sold on LLMs now.

By the way, blog is in Russian, mostly about travels: https:/izvne.com.

Next step for using LLMs: port local pool-like Latvian game Novuss to open silverlight, improve it and publish.