https://aaronelliott.me Aaron Elliott is a Dayton, Ohio software developer writing about web development, 3D art, music production and drift cars. https://aaronelliott.me/posts/paddockcms-two-weeks-later https://aaronelliott.me/posts/paddockcms-two-weeks-later Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Since rebuilding this site, the CMS picked up a second site, albums, one-click deploys and a new name, PaddockCMS. Here's what changed, what it costs, and the bug that made a live site unclickable. https://aaronelliott.me/posts/e36-drift-car-from-year-zero-until-now https://aaronelliott.me/posts/e36-drift-car-from-year-zero-until-now Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT In the summer of 2016 my friend Kyle called with a question that changed everything. "Would you like to go watch drifting this weekend?" https://aaronelliott.me/posts/rebuilding-my-site-and-paddockcms https://aaronelliott.me/posts/rebuilding-my-site-and-paddockcms Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT My portfolio was a page that search engines couldn't read, and my CMS was a pile of Firebase reads waiting to become a bill. Here's how I rebuilt both into a fast static blog and a local-first CMS, and what it was like doing it with Claude. https://aaronelliott.me/posts/jk-automotive-rebuild https://aaronelliott.me/posts/jk-automotive-rebuild Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT The shop outgrew its website — new dyno, new focus on performance builds and tuning. Here's how we rebuilt it as a fast, prerendered site that's easy to keep updated.