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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 · 01/09/2026

tell us more about these "technical feet"

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Led Zeppelin Bjork Ramones Dead Kennedys Peter Gabriel Beastie Boys Rolling Stones Pearl Jam Red Hot Chili Peppers Bob Dylan

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was hoping they would hint at the camera AirPods: "It's Hear See"

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

knock knock who's there? May May who? Mayyylotaaaaa!

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

I can draw an analogy with SEO. SEO: things optimized to make some machine happy 1st, rather than the human that has to read the page... Watermarking: rather than going for best words, substitutions come into play, in order to make a watermark happy quality/clarity sacrificed in both cases

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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 · 18/07/2026

At halftime, my word was "SlaughterRoo", but now I dont know! #EngvFra

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I just imagine ETs in their little spaceships, checking out Earth: et1: wait, so if they cross that river thing, it is a whole hour different? et2: yep! wild eh? et1: an they change it twice a year? et2: yep! et1: omg no we are not making contact! primitive! both: ha ha ha ha ha! 👽🚀

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I ask friends about that, as a thought experiment: if you had to live one year over and over, which one? For me, 1999. Just enough tech, strangers still talked to each other (video rental stores!), and it just seem like a peak balance.

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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 · 26/06/2026

a big problem with their hikes is that it is going to hurt their services business / recurring revenue. They're losing good will / consumer sentiment with the increases + it will reduce the # of new users flowing into their services. Not a good spiral. Seems shortsighted.

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

just use this npm package in your supply chain, and we'll protect you from those pesky issues - hey, it's safe, trust us.. we got a guy who knows a guy

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

I amend my silly thought from the first half of Game Four. I mean, of course the Knicks were going to come back from a 29 point deficit. Why would I have thought otherwise? :). (history, improbability, perhaps?). 🏀

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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 · 10/06/2026

I like to add an eyeroll to my sighs

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Let's get the person that nearly ruined the MacBook to do a entire car...

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yeah, I like the coding part (some of the time, when I am not gnashing my teeth). Saying it "was never about the code" is like saying "dont get any joy out of playing the guitar, with all its frets, harmonics, strings, strums, and bends, just focus on the recording".

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm 1/2 kidding, but with each new compromise, I'm sure there's some devs out there: "Claude, please replicate the functionality of packages x, y, and z, in order to be less dependent on npm". AI's making it easier for some to throw their hands up in the air, and self-silo.

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Daniel Smith @dansmithcreates.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

changing the letter casing hits me in the same way as when Marissa Mayer spent a weekend with her cohorts, redoing the Yahoo! logo. Remember that? Remember how that changed everything for "Yahoo!"? Yeah, me neither :) It seems like a bizarre thing to change.

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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 · 16/05/2026

commentators have mentioned that the drivers can smell the BBQs as they race by.. pick your braking points by smell 🔥🍔🍖

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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 · 08/05/2026

I tend to believe that Mythos could indeed be very capable. There are some cynics out there who think it's just a marketing stunt. To that, I'd say: is that something you want to be wrong about? It'd be much better to find out "false alarm" than to realize "oh no, they weren't kidding"

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

wait? can we combine data sources? yep! for example: static config, web, and atproto: data-alap-linkitems=".orgs | :web:books:decentralization: | :atproto:feed:eff.org:limit=2:" examples.alap.info/bluesky-atpr...

One Alap expression can pull data from several different sources and merge the results into a single menu. Same grammar, same operators, mixed origins.

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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

I'm 65, Happy Birthday, and nope, you're not old 🎂

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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

.. but, to be honest, I may stop at 3.2.. I've thought on it for ~30 years, and did a first version in 2012. What I have now is pretty much what I always wanted. But zero feedback? I know I should not care, but damn, I've written a whole platform - I suppose it's not explained or presented right.

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

live #atproto example. You can log into bluesky, and do searches, and those can become dynamic menus

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

I should mention that alap.info leads to repo, with docs and examples Yes, I need to make some videos, but the gist is: I devised an expressive little language, to attach menus to plain old anchor tags. And no I dont mean local nav menus...

alap.info

Alap — Dynamic menus for links

Turn any link into a curated menu of destinations. 9 framework adapters, expression language, zero dependencies.

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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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