Introducing Eddie OS
14 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
i’ve been meaning to rebuild my personal website for a while. last year’s attempt was a bit crappy (also built with ai), but this new one? it took just a few short prompts and boom, it was done (thanks Opus 4.8).
if i had hand-coded this back in 2022, i’d be shouting it from the rooftops. i’d be genuinely proud of it. but with this one, i’m stuck in a weird existential loop because i’m not sure if i’m even allowed to feel proud of something i didn't actually build.
the sense of accomplishment isn't there. but at the same time, why would anyone bother hand-coding a standard site from scratch these days anyway?
anyways. Have a click around - you'll have a wonderful 30 seconds of fun before you get bored and move on to the next thing.
the death of dev reverence
we’ve reached a point where if you launch a new tool, everyone just assumes ai wrote the code.
the traditional sense of developer pride, and the reverence we used to hold for engineers who are absolute wizards on the tools, is dying.
what is actually impressive anymore?
some argue that ai simply removes friction, and that the real value has shifted entirely to the idea itself.
i want to agree with that, especially from a broader, non-technical perspective. but in software engineering, where we've spent decades drilling in engineering discipline and the right way to do things, vibe coding still feels like a dirty word.
It's too late, anyway - the slop cannon has been fired
i had the idea, i typed some prompts, and voila. i've done something. or have i?
end of the day: it's not that deep, just have fun with it. and that's what i did.
the actual features (the cool part)
existential crisis aside, the layout is actually pretty fun:
- the os ui: i love that the main interface looks and feels like a desktop operating system.
- the escape hatch: if you hate the os gimmick and just want a clean, traditional static site feel, you can hit the fullscreen button.
- mdx-powered: all the blog posts are written in mdx, which means i can embed live components and do some actually cool stuff inside the code blocks.
And yes, it's a clone of PostHog's website. But everything is derivative, after all.
Bye!
