Fun with Telex

Automattic recently released a really cool tool called Telex that is an AI assisted block builder. I’ve been playing around with it, and it’s been really cool!

I decided to use it to build a “TeaHouse Hero” block. What is that you didn’t ask? Well, some of us really old folks might remember a Google product called “iGoogle” (🙄) that was a customized start page for your browser. Yeah, it was a different time, we were young and didn’t really know what we were doing.

One thing you could do is have different themes. Obviously I chose the “Tea House” theme. It looked something like this:

I recently learned that someone has saved all of the images and put them on GitHub 11 years ago.

As an homage to my little fox friend, I wanted to add them to my blog, which gives us the new header for my homepage:

This block will maintain the proper aspect ratio for the images, and it will change, just like the iGoogle page, according to the visitor’s time.

After I built it with Telex, I brought it to Claude to clean up, and convert its build process to the standard wp-scripts block building process.

So here, if you’d like it, take it. IDK what else to do with it.

I don’t own the artwork, and I’m not sure if it’s Meomi or Google that own the rights at this point. So like me, use at your own risk.