Using Charm's new AI coding agent to build an open graph image generator for this site.
Charm released an AI coding agent that works in your terminal called Crush. I was eager to give it a try as I dread using the experience of using Cursor’s vscode-centric UI.
I quite literally do not understand charm’s business model.
One of the items on my todo.txt for this site implementing opengraph images metadata. This metadata is relatively straightforward to add by adding HTML properties such as: meta property="og:title" content ="title_here"/> .
Unchanging static images are also a simple tag: . The less straightforward part is dynamically generating an image per page.
This is a relatively good candidate for experimenting with an AI tool such as Crush as:
I’ve done this before using tools like Hugo so I know some of the pitfalls Its low risk. If it breaks it’s not a huge deal. I already have all the metadata needed stored in the yaml frontmatter of each post. For example, each markdown file I write starts with something like:
--- title : "a working KVM solution" date : 2025-08-01 tags : [ "office" , "productivity" ] description : "The KVM solution I landed on that (for once) isn't terrible" type : note
A few months ago, inspired by this wonderful site, I made a mock up of an announcement document in the style of a old school press release for Low Orbit Security. I used that as a base for what the og-image should look like.
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