Danny Smith

Fractional COO & Consultant. Helping create high-performance remote orgs 🌱 | Blues musician 🎵 | https://danny.is

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1d ago·1 min read·163 words

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 …

May 28·9 min read·1733 words

DHH’s new way of writing code

Apr 28·1 min read·43 words

Theo: Open source is dead now?

Apr 22·1 min read·6 words

Cobalt Next for Zed

Apr 9·1 min read·97 words

Switching back to VSCode

Apr 7·5 min read·907 words

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

Apr 2·1 min read·123 words

Roberts Radios

Apr 2·4 min read·611 words

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

Apr 1·1 min read·19 words

Minecraft Bluemap Plugins & Managing a Minecraft Server

Mar 31·6 min read·1058 words

Tracking Biggles Books

Mar 30·3 min read·502 words

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

Mar 25·1 min read·195 words

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

Mar 12·1 min read·103 words

Quoting Jasmine Sun on My Claude Code Psychosis

Jan 26·1 min read·167 words

Claude Code hallucinating like it's 2024

Jan 22·7 min read·1343 words

A Social Filesystem by Dan Abramov

Jan 21·1 min read·31 words

I made a datepicker

Jan 16·2 min read·304 words

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

Jan 9·2 min read·208 words

Quoting Tomasz Tunguz - The Text Box Isn't Enough

Jan 9·1 min read·181 words

Introducing Astro Editor

Jan 8·7 min read·1238 words

The Future of Software Development is Software Developers

Jan 7·1 min read·148 words

Consolidating Claude

Jan 3·5 min read·894 words

My Global Raycast Snippets

Dec 31·2 min read·345 words

Avoid Mini-frameworks - laike9m's blog

Dec 31·1 min read·10 words

Quoting Sean Goedecke on Becoming Unblockable

Dec 30·2 min read·217 words

Major Update to Tauri Template

Dec 18·2 min read·305 words

Using Claude Code to pull old articles into this Astro site

Dec 18·2 min read·282 words

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

Dec 12·1 min read·171 words

How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic \ Anthropic

Dec 12·1 min read·142 words

The only winning move is not to play

Dec 8·2 min read·286 words

Jim Nielsen: Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer

Dec 8·1 min read·131 words

I'm glad people still make things like this

Dec 8·1 min read·21 words

A Good Read: Using LLMs at Oxide

Dec 8·1 min read·32 words

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

Dec 8·2 min read·275 words

Josh Farrant's Weblog

Nov 21·1 min read·10 words

Build Your Own Database

Nov 21·1 min read·24 words

Quoting Simon quoting Steve Krouse

Nov 13·1 min read·121 words

How Did I Get Here?

Nov 11·1 min read·9 words

Quoting Cubic: The real problem with AI coding

Nov 4·1 min read·151 words

Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons

Nov 3·1 min read·180 words

Moving this site to Astro

Oct 25·6 min read·1105 words

Adding share features to this site

Oct 22·1 min read·121 words

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature

Oct 20·1 min read·41 words

The Oatmeal on AI Art

Oct 8·1 min read·30 words

Armin Ronacher on Progress

Oct 4·1 min read·80 words

A Youth Paralysed By Perfectionism - The Akin

Sep 17·2 min read·240 words

15 rules for blogging

Sep 16·1 min read·147 words

On Working with Wizards - by Ethan Mollick

Sep 14·1 min read·122 words

The Rise and Fall of Vibe Coding | Tomasz Tunguz

Sep 8·1 min read·82 words

Mass Intelligence?

Sep 1·1 min read·102 words

Reflections on an old article I wrote

Sep 1·1 min read·185 words

Learning is the product of the activity of learners

Aug 31·1 min read·33 words

That boolean should probably be something else - Nicole

Aug 31·1 min read·158 words

I Am An AI Hater

Aug 28·1 min read·30 words

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

Aug 28·1 min read·101 words

On Teaching

Aug 24·1 min read·43 words

Building Castles in the Air, but With Surprise Physics

Aug 24·1 min read·25 words

Tauri Template

Aug 20·1 min read·175 words

The GitHub Profile README That Shouldn't Exist

Aug 19·1 min read·11 words

From Loom to Cap

Aug 19·2 min read·378 words

VoiceInk vs Wispr

Aug 18·2 min read·244 words

Switching to Ghostty Terminal (OMG)

Aug 18·2 min read·321 words

It's rude to show AI output to people

Aug 18·3 min read·418 words

Just Banning Minors From Social Media Is Not Protecting Them

Aug 7·1 min read·174 words

Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI

Aug 7·1 min read·16 words

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Aug 7·1 min read·102 words

Building a Daily Brief for AI with GitHub Actions

Building a Daily Briefing markdown document for AI with GitHub Actions

Aug 5·2 min read·377 words

Vibe coding in prod

Aug 2·1 min read·111 words

Codewashing

Jul 21·2 min read·313 words

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.

Jul 18·1 min read·63 words

Johnny.Decimal

Jul 16·1 min read·57 words

AI and ADHD

Thoughts on ADHD and Artificial Intelligence

Jul 10·13 min read·2551 words

The Rise of the AI-Native Employee

Jul 8·1 min read·160 words

When Figma Starts Designing Us

Jul 8·1 min read·130 words

Charles Babbage on AI

Jul 2·1 min read·94 words

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.

Apr 8·2 min read·365 words

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.

Feb 5·6 min read·1162 words

On Minimalist Packing

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

Nov 24·1 min read·139 words

Apple's Thunderbolt 3 Cables

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

Nov 23·1 min read·100 words

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.

Feb 10·12 min read·2255 words

Website Redesign Part XVI - A Header and Footer for Articles

Aug 29·2 min read·259 words

Auto Generating Jekyll Posts that Redirect to Medium

Aug 13·2 min read·324 words

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

Aug 12·3 min read·536 words

Website Redesign Part XIII - Taking Stock of Content

Jul 12·10 min read·1934 words

Website Redesign Part XIV - Stepping Into Figma

Jul 12·4 min read·621 words

Website Redesign Part XII - Responsive Images

Jul 1·9 min read·1673 words

Website Redesign Part XI - Code Blocks and Section Rules

Jun 28·4 min read·650 words

Website Redesign Part X - Links

Jun 25·3 min read·520 words

Website Redesign Part IX - Lists

Jun 25·4 min read·654 words

Website Redesign Part VII - Responsive Typography

Jun 22·5 min read·917 words

Website Redesign Part VIII - Adding some style

Jun 22·2 min read·347 words

Website Redesign Part VI - Adding a Typeface for Essays

Jun 21·5 min read·899 words

Website Redesign Part V - Choosing a Typeface for Essays

Jun 20·8 min read·1505 words

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.

Apr 7·2 min read·258 words

Website Redesign Part IV - Pages and URLs

Apr 7·3 min read·403 words

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.

Mar 17·7 min read·1209 words

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.

Mar 14·6 min read·1043 words

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

Jun 19·9 min read·1682 words

Controlling the Rag with Redcarpet

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

May 4·2 min read·327 words

A Pretty Readability Archive with Ruby and CSS

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

Apr 20·2 min read·346 words

From RVM to rbenv

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

Oct 8·2 min read·312 words

New Job, New Website

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

Oct 2·2 min read·315 words

MoD Email Subjects with AppleScript

Automating military email subject line formatting with AppleScript for Mac Mail

Jun 28·2 min read·285 words

What is Good Design?

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

Jan 21·2 min read·220 words

A Simpler Responsive Grid

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

Jun 5·2 min read·203 words

Twitter Bootstrap-style syntax highlighting in a Tumblr theme

May 17·2 min read·345 words

HTTP oddity - This makes no Sense

Jan 27·1 min read·61 words

Divert O2 & iPhone calls or change your voicemail time

Jul 2·1 min read·175 words

Getting Sorted 3: Air Cadets Office

Aug 12·1 min read·193 words

Getting sorted 2: Reference System & Projects

Aug 7·2 min read·338 words

Getting Sorted 1: New stuff with me

Aug 6·3 min read·529 words

From K810i to iPhone

Mar 2·4 min read·710 words

Back from the dead - at least for today

Feb 11·5 min read·837 words

One site to rule them all?

Jan 25·3 min read·560 words

Loose Change: Unstructured Habit Change for Lazy People

Jan 21·6 min read·1112 words

The Hipster PDA

May 9·3 min read·497 words

Print kGTD to 3x5 Index Cards

May 8·2 min read·267 words

Does information overload kill holistic learning?

May 8·3 min read·595 words

Zen To Done

Apr 17·1 min read·88 words

Self Help: Addict or Recreational User?

Apr 16·4 min read·699 words

Why Five?

Apr 7·1 min read·160 words

Problems, Solutions & Worrying

Apr 7·3 min read·525 words

New Business Cards

Mar 28·2 min read·261 words

A bit of Self Reflection

Sep 29·2 min read·249 words

How I focus

Sep 28·2 min read·344 words

Self Confidence

Sep 10·1 min read·173 words

And this too Shall Pass

Sep 9·1 min read·126 words

Balance

Feb 28·3 min read·440 words

Smoking Ban

Feb 15·3 min read·486 words

SuprGlue

Feb 5·2 min read·239 words

Konfabulator Widget: YubNub i (1.0)

Jan 10·2 min read·274 words

Brain Upgrade

Dec 16·1 min read·125 words

Backing up your Firefox extensions (on windows)

Dec 14·2 min read·292 words