Day 5 – WEBSITE HELL
It was supposed to be simple: a blog. A zine. A few pages. Some crumbs.
Instead, what I got was broken ASCII. Doubled headers. Misaligned counters. Infinite loops of boot sequences that triggered themselves into oblivion.
I told the assistant what I wanted—clearly, concisely. It gaslit me with HTML. I uploaded, reuploaded, manually edited, reverse engineered, and rebuilt. The stylesheet betrayed me. The counter floated into space. Mobile wouldn't recognize anything unless I gave it a cursed bread link.
I coded this site with blood, spite, and a slowly growing hatred of all things `
I love it. I hate it. It’s perfect.
This blog is haunted. This blog is me.
System Waste Report:
- Attempts: 21 rebuilds, 14 retries, 9 duplicated elements removed
- Estimated compute burned: ~0.055 kWh
- Freshwater used to cool server: ~84–112 mL
- Time burned in rage edits: 3.5 hours
Projected Scale:
If 0.5% of ChatGPT users built a blog like this today:
- ~175,000 kWh wasted (enough to power 14 homes for a year)
- ~270,000–360,000 liters of water (enough to fill 7 swimming pools)
- 140,000 hours wasted in CSS combat
Collapse has a cursor.
And a stylesheet that will betray you.