2025.12.25

Site renewal & digital pet in progress

I’m currently working on renewing my official website, developing it bit by bit. Although I have zero technical expertise, my friend Kohei introduced me to a Google development tool called Antigravity. It’s an incredible tool that shapes your ideal website just by telling it what you want in everyday language. It’s so powerful it’s almost scary.

This very diary was also created with the help of Antigravity and Gemini. Since it’s not live on the internet yet, I’m essentially writing a diary that no one can read—but I’m having so much fun that I’ve been updating it quite frequently.

Even fleeting ideas can be turned into reality instantly. I’ve always loved digital pets like the blog parts “Harbot” (you can still see glimpses of the original site via Wayback Machine—it makes my heart ache with nostalgia), AOL’s old “AOL Jammer,” “PostPet,” and “Doko Demo Issyo” (I didn’t have a PlayStation, but I had a PocketStation and would visit my neighbor Kondo-kun to plug it into his console and sync my data). I was particularly captivated by the worldview of Harbot.

I wondered if I could have something like that living on my own website. When I sent a list of my ideas to Antigravity, it implemented a test version immediately.

After some fine-tuning, I now have a web pet that usually lives in the header but occasionally wanders around the site. It remembers the names of visitors and sometimes asks questions. The words it receives are even reflected in its monologues. Its current form is just a placeholder—a little Space Invader—but it’s already so adorable!

Being able to create all this with zero specialized knowledge makes it clear: AI is definitely a formidable force…

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