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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Jevtember folks, we're talking about Jev! -- Scott Tolinski :)

Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Perhaps we will have a gentle sort of AI takeover... apps like "Washer", will be "Uber, in reverse".. where sentient cars summon humans to come wash them. "Frankie arrives in 6 minutes, with the premium loofah sponges and turtle wax"

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jev will be great as an AI that can classify things... I know I'll have fun But be wary: there'll be many overnight "Jev experts" that'll promise the world. Poorly written queries might drop email / customer results on the floor. Test your assumptions well! "measure twice, cut once"

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My bet on what Apple will call their September Event (based on the Airpod w/Camera video): "it's Hear See"

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wish we could just play the Bronze game again #WorldCup

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There is gonna be such a huge Tariff on Brussels Sprouts 💰 #WorldCup

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ah, #Instagram down, and I can hear the birdies chirping outside.. nature is healing 🦋🤖🌴

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

so, are the Brooklyn Nets available to suit up for the 2nd half? #knicks

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

remind the #knicks that the basket is right there with them in MSG, and not way off in Brooklyn

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Updated my resume, and open to a variety of web dev / ai / creative + tech projects. If someone asked me what my ideal would be: developing the ideas on alap dot info (the resume uses alap in a couple of spots) It also points to the pdf, word, and ats/text versions resume.dansmithcreates.org

resume.dansmithcreates.org

Daniel Smith

Senior Web Technologist resume for Daniel Smith

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

MIssing #nurburgring - got to see it in 1999. Track map on my old ///M3 :)

Nurburgring track map decal on the back of a BMW E36 M3

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I gotta say, if you are racing fan, check out the #nurburgring #n24 - I love F1, but this scene is such a breath of fresh air. So many different car classes! Being streamed on YT

in car view, looking up a hill at the Nurburgring, Nordschleife, the green hell monster of a race track (~170 turns, 25km)

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Silly prediction, #npm ecosystem and supply chain attacks: some developers will throw their hands up, and say "Claude, dupe the functionality of these packages, so we no longer depend on them" basically a self-silo, self-defensive move. (not what I would do today, but I can see how some would)

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Heya! I updated alap to 3.2 (create dynamic menus for ordinary links), and it supports :atproto: examples.alap.info/bluesky-atpr...

From the dynamic menu example: AT Protocol URIs (at://) have no default browser handler — they're a natural fit for Alap's Option of Choice pattern. This example shows two data modes: static entries in allLinks and dynamic results from the :atproto: protocol handler.

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Soon.. Alap 3.2, Gather, and Pal 🐕

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

and a peek at :json: protocol, where we might get multiple fields, for use in making a lightbox or a lens (or just thumbnails alongside a menu....) that's all for now, except to say "look, a link does not have to be this fixed thing that just goes to one place.. we've been doing that 35 years!"

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

coming in alap 3.2, I wrote a tutorial that walks through how to write a protocol (reaching out to a data source that can at least give an array of labels and links). This one is :hn: (Hackernews)

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

alap doing async dynamic menu loading this is some :atproto:

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Looking for additional web dev work I would like to get 10 or more hours a week of a gig where I can: * leverage my decades of web experience + AI, to bring ideas to life * help refactor old projects, etc See github.com/DanielSmith and alap.info (and yes, I rewrote grabchars recently, as well)

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I am working away at alap 3.2, which will support local obsidian vaults... but also, one needs to get data into a vault in the first place :) so, alap 3.1 handles some #atproto and can call into json apis (and can use this to make a menu, a lightbox, or a lens) and obsidian is next

snapshot of conversions that I am writing to get data into an obsidian vault, so that alap can query obsidian, as part of a dynamic menu

supported types are: plain markdown files, and:
Known plugins: `hugo`, `jekyll`, `mkdocs`, `docusaurus`. Unknown names warn and are dropped.
also, rss feeds

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My new name for LinkedIn is "Bad Takes as a Disservice". Am looking for recs on SF Bay / West Coast Slacks / Discords for creative / techy folks. also posting: SHA256 of private authorship proof file e1a8ae594ab7b0a042d1623f641134f922ddfc7345e522ccf65e67f5b8dab065

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We just flew 1/4 million miles, can we get out now please? 🚀🧑‍🚀 #artemis

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

is funny how they did the improv "t shirt shroud" for #artemis for the next mission they will give it some official name... "artemis, adjust the FLD at window 2 orientation" "understood, Houston, tweaking Fabric Light Diffuser"

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

wondering about #artemis videography.. didnt they take a lunar telescope to continuously video record? Seems a long way to go, just to rely on a few Nikons (w/400mm lens) and a few SD cards... I mean, we'll get great images, but I would think they would be recording terabytes of telescope (?)

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I just love all the planning that goes into #artemis and yet, "T-shirt shroud" 📷 🚀 go artemis go!

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My new post on Medium about alap gist is: we have had 35 years of static links, one target. I think we can improve on that, and do so in an open format. ...and we can dynamically call @atproto.com endpoints, while we're at it. alap.info javajoint.medium.com/alap-v3-reth...

javajoint.medium.com

Alap v3 — Rethinking the Humble Link

For 35 years, the anchor tag has worked the same way: one link, one destination, chosen by the author. It’s so fundamental we stopped…

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Ladies And Gents: alap.info I've been hinting about a project for a while... Web Links should offer choice, when it makes sense. beta + web site to check out simple expression lang, tons of examples yes, we can make dynamic menus that include #Atproto data apache license, see repo

a sample alap menu, launched from an ordinary HTML link, and it is ARIA compliant

sample of alap expressions
we have plain ids, .tags, @macros, :protocols: such as web and atproto, and *refiners* - all with parentheses grouping

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Provenance hash (SHA256): b774f2172a37d5f860c5af98f42773b4bd77dc2a67ea1b06e1d2d6e3f54d008b Technical record for an upcoming project. Details to follow.

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

something I have been thinking about for 30 years

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Scene: Open with 1992. The terminal is black, the text is green (or amber), and you are navigating the web using the Lynx browser....

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

this article is where I was, 5 years ago... a proof of concept, and a couple of editors. I recently took the idea off the shelf, and dusted it off. I cant wait to show you what I just did this month.. complete rewrite... javajoint.medium.com/alap-menus-f...

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

am releasing a beta soon.... this idea about the web that a link only goes to one place, well.. it's always bugged me, for ~30 years ⏳ so I did something about it, and could use a few eyes to take an early look, ping me 👀 (yep I did a complete rewrite of one my old ideas) 🕸️

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

grabchars 2.1 — my CLI keystroke utility, rewritten in Rust. One tool for y/n prompts, filtered input, masked fields, selection menus, timeouts with defaults. New in 2.1: JSON output, fuzzy filtering, ESC handling. cargo, Homebrew, AUR, GitHub. github.com/DanielSmith/grabchars

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GitHub - DanielSmith/grabchars: grabchars gets one or more keystrokes directly from the user

grabchars gets one or more keystrokes directly from the user - DanielSmith/grabchars

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

36 years later, grabchars 2.0! I wrote it in 1988 to fill the gap between "read a whole line" and "press any key." Single keystrokes, filtered input, masked fields, selection menus, timeouts. Building blocks for making highly interactive shell scripts. github.com/DanielSmith/grabchars

github.com

GitHub - DanielSmith/grabchars: grabchars gets one or more keystrokes directly from the user

grabchars gets one or more keystrokes directly from the user - DanielSmith/grabchars

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hey #f1 fans! limit on compression ratio seems silly to me: * F1 is supposed to be about innovation * b/c of budget caps, teams do not have unlimited $ to throw at engine dev * Reliability: want higher ratio? fine, risk engine go boom www.planetf1.com/news/fia-com...

planetf1.com

FIA introduces compression ratio rule change ahead of F1 2026 season

A new hot and cold measurement process ends the winter debate — for now.

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

a little teaser... will soon release a 2.0 version of something that I last updated in... 1990!

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

If they were playing by the river in DC, it would be the Punt-omac 🏈

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

most defensive game I've ever seen.. perhaps? 🏈

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

seen in a local slack today (someone being a wannabe AI Coolkid) "why do we even use IDEs?" ... and (big eye roll here.. ) .. sheesh, stop it, just stop. Some are so overhyped that they're getting ridiculous. AI is a tool. IDEs are a tool. Lots of things are tools. Chill, man. Use what works.

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I wrote Digress! It is like "git for conversations with Claude" When you dont want to lose your train of thought, digress spawns a new claude terminal, which has all of the context of the parent. Mac only, iTerm2, uses AppleScript. It's a toy project, have fun! github.com/DanielSmith/...

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GitHub - DanielSmith/digress: Digress - Fork Claude Code sessions like git branches

Digress - Fork Claude Code sessions like git branches - DanielSmith/digress

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

most confusing thing I have seen today (from some YT vid): "Claude is sponsoring this video. Here is my special link to Claude"... and... no discount? Hello? Like, why? I mean, if you're going to have a special link, do what Diggnation did .... 50% off for 1st 3 months, etc.

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Will Anthropic do a niche fitness AI, called... Claude Bod? 💪

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

best Pinnochio-inspired line I have heard about OpenAI offering: "Gepetto 5!"

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