ASD is Alan S. Dalinka. This website started way way back in the early days of the World Wide Web. Much of its early history is document over on the inter-related ASDHollywood.com site’s About page. The front page of Dalinka.com has uses “Page Created: December 30, 1995” because that’s when ASD first had HTML on what was then a free hosting site that eventually traced its way around the web to Dalinka.com. In those early days, the free site was something like 411.com or lookup.com. The site eventually moved to Tripod.com and Yahoo.com before landing on 1and1.com which is now IONOS. The site started with hand-coded HTML and hand-coded JavaScript. It migrated over to Apple’s iWeb platform and when that went away in the late 2000s, it moved over to WordPress. That migration from hand-code to iWeb to WordPress was bumpy, to say the least. By the mid 2010’s, modern code standards wiped out the functionality of years-upon-years of cobbled together hand-code and patches. By 2020, the pages of the site were barely functional — often, just the front page of Dalinka.com worked, and as subsequent WordPress updates, Theme Updates, Plug-in Updates or failures occurred, a few patches got made here and there.
A few years into the 2020s, ASD would dabble in asking ChatGPT to look at code that was not working and provide fixes. Sometimes those worked, sometimes they did not. By 2025, Claude.ai also became a useful tool for patches; indeed, sometimes Google AI too. But, across the various AI’s interfaces, free use limits got hit more and more often.
As the summer of 2026 rolled around, Claude.ai was providing better and better solutions for fixing the old pages, so in July, 2026, ASD subscribed! First, the scripts that used to run slideshows across the site were entirely rewritten, and the global style elements cleaned up and defined properly to make everything work again. Then, post-by-post, ASD and Claude worked through the slideshows developed for Dalinka.com through about 2014 (while the old code was still working, albeit barely, even with patches) — and got everyone of those working again! Then, along came some enhancements to the slideshow engine — and more are on the way.
Claude also made it possible to quickly generate new slideshows taken from ASD’s images previously posted only to limited-audience social media accounts, so a bunch of new posts filled with photos are now present throughout the site, including some with short video clips too. More enhancements are being built, like a refresh to this page with this little history, and even the Privacy Policy that WordPress recommends — though, as of this revision, ASD is collecting no information and is not directly benefiting from any information collection, but third parties may be.
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Last Updated on July 26, 2026