can you imagine making a feature that's so awful you have the most creative people on national television calling it a piece of shit and telling you to "FUCK OFF." on national tv.

I’ve been rewriting one of my home-cooked SvelteKit apps with Go and @data-star.dev. Had to wrap my head around the paradigm shift (I’ve never tried HTMX) and deepen my understanding of Go templates… but now that’s done, I’m loving the simplicity of this stack!!

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yea so this is no big deal. ive been taking the lead protein powder for about six months and the only noticeable change is that lately I'm really into using LLMs to unlock critical strategic business insights

It's a long story but basically we've been without broadband for an entire week so I've had to survive on my spotty 4G connection. Most of the web doesn't work with a shitty connection but the worst offender for me and my needs has been github.com.

📝 Who needs a flying car when you have display: grid rachsmith.com/who-needs-a-...

📝 A letter to myself: Strategies rachsmith.com/strategies/

Shouts to the @ynabofficial.bsky.social team for making some top quality web software. I've been using the site for 8 years, have not run in to anything buggy or broken even *once*. I can do everything with the keyboard!

i just want software that leaves me the fuck alone you know what i mean?

Anybody else compulsively hit ⌘+S no less than 5 times per save?

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

solved an edge case style override in @astro.build using CSS layers a little while back and got around to writing it up still extremely happy with Astro and its technical choices to lean heavily on web standards. makes stuff like this feel so natural 💜 codetv.dev/blog/astro-c...

As a kid I was resentful about being made to learn classical piano while other kids got to play pop songs. Now I’m like why would I want to play pop when Beethoven is lit.

When I go back to a dynamically typed language (Ruby) after working in a statically typed language (Go) I wonder how I even built *anything* with this thing. Golang has ruined dynamically typed languages for me. (except for JavaScript of course… my ride or die.)

today’s drawing: ghosts - redrawing the little guys my kid drew for his haunted house. Tag yourself, I’m bottom left.

I think this might make me officially old and crotchety but I think iOS/iPadOS 26 looks terrible and I hate it 👵🏻😭

Month notes & numbers No. 15 rachsmith.com/mnnm/15/

today’s drawing: froggy

I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”

people talking up their agents always be sounding like this

I got 26 😭 www.nicchan.me/blog/youre-n...

Friendship ended with Arc. Now Horse is my best friend. 📝 A stack of browsers rachsmith.com/a-stack-of-b...

📝 Pages CMS rachsmith.com/pages-cms/

This movie really had 12-year-old me thinking this is how American High School Proms actually worked. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYD6... 🔗 rachsmith.com/2025-05-22-1...

Spotify streaming quality has completely gone to pot. It does this thing where it skips (kind of like an old CD would) and then tries to make up for it by playing the track super fast? It sounds like dog shit and makes my four year old absolutely furious. I’ve pa... 🔗 rachsmith.com/2025-05-16-0...

📝 Month notes & numbers №14 rachsmith.com/mnnm-14/

me ignoring the growing urge to redesign my personal website

what are your favourite examples of sites that have might have a fairly simplistic design but the type is just really nice….. like the typesetting and font choices just have you going damn, that’s nice.

Chief among the Ring's powers is its ability to deceive.

📝 The difference between programs and products I am still as in love with programming as I was 15 years ago. Product development, on the other hand, brings me to tears on a weekly basis. rachsmith.com/the-differen...

Not me getting the warm and fuzzies from a lovely compliment about my writing, until I realise its just AI-generated bot activity posting for backlinks 😭 rachsmith.com/2025-04-18-5...

📝 A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality rachsmith.com/a-lack-of-fr...

I would be so happy to never have to see an image of Mark Zuckerberg again. rachsmith.com/2025-4-15-17...

the hard part of software engineering was never the code

📝 Month notes & numbers №13 https://rachsmith.com/mnnm-13/

Virginia Woolf in her diary, 1920: "Such a good morning’s writing I’d planned, and wasted the cream of my brain on the telephone." Girl, same. https://rachsmith.com/2025-3-19-5-29/

Every now and then Spotify will throw a song in a generated playlist for a band I’ve never heard of before. Sometimes I’ll look them up and discover that they’re quite new, or they are really really new. Like one song new. No wikipedia entry new. 2000... https://rachsmith.com/2025-13-3-10-03/

📝 In the way I was texting with my best friend. Her mum has cancer, and my friend is going through the brutality of watching it take her piece by piece, just as I did with my own mum 13 years ago. I was thinking about how to respond to the latest message... https://rachsmith.com/in-the-way/

I was listening to a Chillout Classics playlist when I was hit with a sense memory from 2006: just lying in my bed listening to Moby, in the middle of the day. I remembered that I would often do this on days where I was hungover, or just feeling a bit... https://rachsmith.com/2025-11-3-14-52/

📝 Month notes & numbers no. 12 rachsmith.com/mnnm-12/

↖️ Pointer Tracking without Overflow! Prevent a pointer-tracking box from flowing off the page using clever CSS transforms with min()/max(). Bonus: Springy snap back to the middle when the pointer leaves the page. codepen.io/shshaw/pen/w...

Small @codepen.io update! The confusingly named Pins feature has now been renamed ✨🎗️Bookmarks🎗️✨ Before: "Pinning a Pen to your Pinned Items" After: "Bookmark a Pen" blog.codepen.io/documentatio...

good song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tCRxpsTpg

your outtie tells herself “I need to get back into blogging” and then doesn’t post to her blog for 3 months.

why can’t anyone in my town drive a normally sized car 😭

I think I’ve reached the threshold for how many times a person can be made to listen to APT.