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Danny Smith

@danny.is

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

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 30/09/2026

Playing with Jev to clean up my email newsletters and stuff

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 26/09/2026

WTF. I just one-shotted this with Opus 5.5 in the astroeditor.danny.is repo.

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 24/09/2026

Err. I guess I need to fix my OG image generation 😂

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 24/09/2026

This also means my #astrojs website's now page includes the books I'm currently reading, pulled straight from my PDS at build-time. danny.is/now

Screenshot of the book section of my now page showing "Currently reading" And six book covers

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 09/09/2026

This bit cracked me up

chamber, "six inches [15 cm] higher [than] the reach of any individual. A stepladder will be needed to remove it in the future."
University of Massachusetts
Using a stepladder, on November 14, 1968, students at the new Boston campus of the

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 04/09/2026

I've shown this slide in all sorts of contexts for decades now because it's only useful as a principle when it's hard to do, at which point we all too easily assume bad intent and point at everything *we* think justifies it. Which does not help with actually *understanding* anything.

Poster with the words "Assume Good Intent" and an orange heart emoji

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 04/09/2026

Or maybe the marketing guy is just

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 01/07/2026

Just looking at UK-based PDSs and I rather like that the first one is made by a chap called Danny. Looks bad tho.

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 19/06/2026

I just wrote this sentence. There is nothing wrong with this sentence. I would have written this sentence twenty years ago. When I publish this people will 💯 say AI wrote this sentence. FML

Screenshot of editor with text "The goal here isn't improving scores, it's"

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 05/06/2026

Mine got a top hat and belly cannon.

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 11/04/2026

In unexpected sentences from Claude Code...

Screenshot saying "Let me check the daemons feeding us"

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 22/01/2026

The new "Bugger GitHub is Down"

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 19/01/2026

So this turned into tdn.danny.is

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 19/01/2026

I spent the last month building the todo app I've always wanted. Tasks, projects and areas are all just local markdown files, but I have fit-for-context interfaces for working with them: Desktop app, CLI, Claude Plugin, Obsidian Plugin etc. tdn.danny.is

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 23/12/2025

@hmans.dev PLEASE write up a simple spec for the YAML/filenames used by Beans sometime... I spent way too long hunting about for some common-ish sensible format before eventually writing my own 😂

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 05/12/2025

So I released Astro Editor 1.0.0 last week. Just catching up on my RSS feeds and noticed this in Astro's monthly newsletter 🥳 astro.build/blog/whats-n...

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 20/10/2025

@github.com I have a phantom unread notification which I can't get rid of because the repo and user doesn't exist anymore. It's for plasmanotification/plasma.to and it's *extremely* annoying.

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 29/07/2025

I always enjoy @simonwillison.net‘s pelican “benchmarks”, but these two by GLM 4.5 are particularly cute. simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/...

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