Danny Smith

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Some Work on this Site

A tour of the small, fiddly things I've added to this site since moving to Astro — a homemade video player, nicer tables, markdown previews, file trees, a fourth typeface and a CSS rewrite underneath …

DHH’s new way of writing code

Theo: Open source is dead now?

Cobalt Next for Zed

Switching back to VSCode

Quoting: An appreciation for (technical) architecture (Interconnected)

Roberts Radios

Alex Piechowski: How I Audit a Legacy Rails Codebase in the First Week

Minecraft Bluemap Plugins & Managing a Minecraft Server

Tracking Biggles Books

Code has always been the easy part | Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea

Stop Calling LLMs "Junior Developers." They're Monkey Paws. | Pere Villega

Quoting Jasmine Sun on My Claude Code Psychosis

Claude Code hallucinating like it's 2024

A Social Filesystem by Dan Abramov

I made a datepicker

Quoting Jim Nielsen: To Make Software Is To Translate Human Intent Into Computational Precision

Quoting Tomasz Tunguz - The Text Box Isn't Enough

Introducing Astro Editor

The Future of Software Development is Software Developers

Consolidating Claude

My Global Raycast Snippets

Avoid Mini-frameworks - laike9m's blog

Quoting Sean Goedecke on Becoming Unblockable

Major Update to Tauri Template

Using Claude Code to pull old articles into this Astro site

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic \ Anthropic

The only winning move is not to play

Jim Nielsen: Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer

I'm glad people still make things like this

A Good Read: Using LLMs at Oxide

"Helpful rather than hurtful to the interests of mankind" – Richard Rutter

Josh Farrant's Weblog

Build Your Own Database

Quoting Simon quoting Steve Krouse

How Did I Get Here?

Quoting Cubic: The real problem with AI coding

Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons

Moving this site to Astro

Adding share features to this site

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature

The Oatmeal on AI Art

Armin Ronacher on Progress

A Youth Paralysed By Perfectionism - The Akin

15 rules for blogging

On Working with Wizards - by Ethan Mollick

The Rise and Fall of Vibe Coding | Tomasz Tunguz

Mass Intelligence?

Reflections on an old article I wrote

Learning is the product of the activity of learners

That boolean should probably be something else - Nicole

I Am An AI Hater

Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools? - Piccalilli

On Teaching

Building Castles in the Air, but With Surprise Physics

Tauri Template

The GitHub Profile README That Shouldn't Exist

From Loom to Cap

VoiceInk vs Wispr

Switching to Ghostty Terminal (OMG)

It's rude to show AI output to people

Just Banning Minors From Social Media Is Not Protecting Them

Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Building a Daily Brief for AI with GitHub Actions

Building a Daily Briefing markdown document for AI with GitHub Actions

Vibe coding in prod

Codewashing

Posting Notes from My Phone

Trying out posting a note via ChatGPT mobile after reading about vibe scraping and coding a schedule app on a phone.

Johnny.Decimal

AI and ADHD

Thoughts on ADHD and Artificial Intelligence

The Rise of the AI-Native Employee

When Figma Starts Designing Us

Charles Babbage on AI

Why Remote Companies Must Be Calm Companies

Discover why calm companies outperform frenzied ones in remote work. Essential insights on sustainable growth and team well-being from organizational health expert Danny Smith.

Personal CRMs Aren't What I Need

My honest take on why personal CRMs fail for relationship-building. Alternative approaches to managing professional networks by remote work expert Danny Smith.

On Minimalist Packing

Systems thinking applied to travel. A consultant's approach to minimalist packing for remote work and efficient travel.

Apple's Thunderbolt 3 Cables

Technical insights on Apple's Thunderbolt 3 cable design and specifications. Understanding the engineering behind premium computer accessories.

Building Healthy Remote Organizations - The Silent Enabler of Success

How to build resilient, calm organizations that scale successfully. Proven strategies for organizational health and team effectiveness.

Website Redesign Part XVI - A Header and Footer for Articles

Auto Generating Jekyll Posts that Redirect to Medium

Website Redesign Part XV - A typographic system for the rest of this site

Website Redesign Part XIII - Taking Stock of Content

Website Redesign Part XIV - Stepping Into Figma

Website Redesign Part XII - Responsive Images

Website Redesign Part XI - Code Blocks and Section Rules

Website Redesign Part X - Links

Website Redesign Part IX - Lists

Website Redesign Part VII - Responsive Typography

Website Redesign Part VIII - Adding some style

Website Redesign Part VI - Adding a Typeface for Essays

Website Redesign Part V - Choosing a Typeface for Essays

Website Redesign Part III - A Base to Start From

Building a solid foundation for a personal website redesign. Technical setup, tooling choices, and development workflow for modern web projects.

Website Redesign Part IV - Pages and URLs

Website Redesign Part II - Principles, Goals and Stuff to Keep

Design principles and goals for a modern personal website. Balancing simplicity, performance, and content-first architecture in web design.

Website Redesign Part I - The Tech

Technical decisions and architecture choices for rebuilding danny.is. Learn about static site generators, JAMstack, and modern web development approaches.

The Definition of Done: What does "done" actually mean?

Controlling the Rag with Redcarpet

Improving web typography by preventing orphans and controlling line breaks with custom Redcarpet renderer

A Pretty Readability Archive with Ruby and CSS

Building a visual bookmarks display using the Readability API, Ruby, and CSS 3D transforms

From RVM to rbenv

Switching from RVM to rbenv for simpler Ruby version and gem management

New Job, New Website

Transitioning from designer to Ruby developer and building a custom Sinatra-based website

MoD Email Subjects with AppleScript

Automating military email subject line formatting with AppleScript for Mac Mail

What is Good Design?

Exploring good design principles through the lens of the UK Government Digital Service website

A Simpler Responsive Grid

A simple percentage-based CSS grid system that makes responsive design math easy

Twitter Bootstrap-style syntax highlighting in a Tumblr theme

HTTP oddity - This makes no Sense

Divert O2 & iPhone calls or change your voicemail time

Getting Sorted 3: Air Cadets Office

Getting sorted 2: Reference System & Projects

Getting Sorted 1: New stuff with me

From K810i to iPhone

Back from the dead - at least for today

One site to rule them all?

Loose Change: Unstructured Habit Change for Lazy People

The Hipster PDA

Print kGTD to 3x5 Index Cards

Does information overload kill holistic learning?

Zen To Done

Self Help: Addict or Recreational User?

Why Five?

Problems, Solutions & Worrying

New Business Cards

A bit of Self Reflection

How I focus

Self Confidence

And this too Shall Pass

Balance

Smoking Ban

SuprGlue

Konfabulator Widget: YubNub i (1.0)

Brain Upgrade

Backing up your Firefox extensions (on windows)