Building renkara.com: A Corporate Site in the Age of AI
On March 28, 2026, I committed the first file for renkara.com. Twelve days later, the site had 54 pages, a WebGL particle animation system, a complete 18-year company timeline with 60+ milestones, 14 tool showcase pages with lightbox screenshot galleries, legacy product pages with original artwork from 2008, a blog, dark mode, and a build pipeline that minifies everything to a deployable dist/ directory. No framework. No SSR. No CMS. Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Rebuilding My Site with Narrative CMS
Twenty years ago, I built a blogging platform called Narrative. It was an ASP.NET-based CMS with advanced features like automatic page rebuilding, a sophisticated tagging system, and comment spam prevention. I used it to power this site from 2003 until 2008, when I abandoned it in favor of WordPress, saying "I am much more interested in blogging than the building of blogging software." That code sat shelved for nearly two decades. Then, in 2024, I discovered Claude Code and realized that with AI assistance, I could finally bring Narrative back to life as exactly the system I'd always envisioned. This post tells that story.