Desktop apps, reimagined by you. Create any app in minutes by chatting with AI. Beautiful, powerful, and truly personal.
– Glaze’s description on their site
This is a static Hugo site running on GitHub Pages. So my authoring setup was pretty simple. I’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.
But for some reason, what I want is a clean editor where I can do all that at once.
So when Glaze launched, I knew what to test it on.
Here are the prompts I used
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.
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?
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’ll have to ask it to make compression even more aggressive)
Then I noticed the Publish button was committing all files.
Let me choose which files to commit when running Publish.
Then some bug fixes were needed.
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.
Add filters for the project files picker/editor. Uncommitted/committed, folder, type, etc. Also, an order by.
It also generates cute icons.
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?
Most probably. I used to do Full-Stack work but I’m a bit rusty on frontend stuff since I’ve been working exclusively in Data Engineering for quite some time now.
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’m containing myself from implementing my own solver AHHH), I’m at the brink of a productivity catastrophe.
All this to say technically speaking, yes. Practically, probably not.
I think I like Glaze.
Some next steps I might be using Glaze for in the next few days:
- Change the stock native macOS style into a cozy writing vibe.
- Explore the store for cool apps.
- Add media management/editing capabilities for images and videos.
- Add short-code/partials code editors and evaluators.
- Leverage local dictionaries and AI for proofreading.
- Maybe deploy status?