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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 21/09/2026

Had a dream last night where I burned through my entire AI budget because I had an every 15 minute task to refactor the entire code base using Astra, running the entire weekend Terrifying I know the math is wrong, but who does math in their sleep

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 18/09/2026

What an incredible week in New York. 2 days at the @leaddev.com LDX3 conference. Still processing all the leadership and AI conversations. 2 days in our NY office spending time with the trading team to see how they use our software in the wild.

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 15/09/2026

Who is at LeadDev in New York?

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 12/09/2026

Happy Mogollon Monster day to those who celebrate. Been a year since I finished the 100 mile run there. Good luck to all the runners today … and tomorrow

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 13/05/2026

This past weekend I ran the Ice Age 50 mile run. This one was pretty special, it was my 10th time finishing 50 miles at that race. I have literally been working on this for over a decade. It was also good to spend time with friends who show up every year

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 27/01/2026

New AI experience today Copilot took about 30 minutes in what would normally take a day or more to code Found out 15 minutes into testing that I missed a subtle but major blindspot in the data. Backing out the code was trivial I didn’t lose a day of writing code ps. there are other lessons too

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 01/01/2026

Lovely New Year’s Day at the beach in Milwaukee. Climbed over the ice shelf for my first polar plunge in Lake Michigan

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 19/12/2025

Used git cherry-pick for the first time. Saved my bacon after I reused a branch that had been merged already

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 02/12/2025

Day 1 Four Roses Single Barrel OBSK Not my favorite four roses. Feels like it is missing some flavor. Probably wouldn’t buy a full bottle #bourbonadvent 🥃

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 02/12/2025

December 1st marks the beginning of Bourbon Advent that I am doing with a few coworkers. I’ve never had most of these before and some I’ve never heard of. Great way to sample a variety! #bourbonadvent 🥃

Fill night. Poured 2oz into 9600 small bottles

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 17/11/2025

git reset-base git reset —soft $(git merge-base origin/main HEAD) Soft reset the branch to where it was created. Using it to review PRs with many commits. Also easier to review changes in the IDE Anyone have a better name for this alias?

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 10/11/2025

Helped out a friend this weekend who was running a 200 mile(!) trail race. Ran 18 miles with her overnight and into the morning after a snowstorm came through. What an amazing event to be a small part of. The grit and determination of all the runners was so inspiring

Trails were pretty after an overnight snowstorm

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 05/11/2025

4 days into @gleam.run and it’s starting to grow on me. Tried Elixir a couple of times but didn’t stick. I think the types plus some Go/Rust vibes in the syntax is helping

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 29/10/2025

3 hours later and none of the models I tried could generate json decoding that would compile. This has to be isolated to generating Gleam code. Never seen this with Go or c# I told the robot it was fired

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 29/10/2025

Vibe coding twice today. In Go, collecting all child requests from a web url and grouping by IP. One shotted it with Claude In Gleam, building an API. Neither GPT 4.1 or Gemini couldn’t do json encoding/decoding. Haven’t even done the hard stuff yet Is it Gleam and less data to learn from?

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 17/10/2025

What a great close to @leaddev.com. Met up with a few new friends at a happy hour. I learned so much and can’t wait to come back again

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 16/10/2025

Had a wonderful time at @leaddev.com conference in New York today. Talked with so many good people about the intersection of tech and leadership. Looking forward to more of it tomorrow

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 15/10/2025

I hear every language walking the streets in Manhattan, but the universal language is a horn. On cars and on bikes

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 13/10/2025

Hey all, I’m going to New York City for work this week. Never been there before. Looking for recommendations on what to do while I’m there

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 10/10/2025

Halfway through the first book. Yeah, it’s good. Really like the author’s style

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 07/10/2025

Late night playoff baseball == insomnia

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 30/09/2025

Was in a meeting with tech leaders discussing AI. Many had concerns about AI causing critical thinking skills to decline To get results from an LLM I have to deeply think about the problem and write about it in detail. Feels like critical thinking, right? What do you think?

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 30/09/2025

Finished up Wheel of Time season 3. wtf. How do they cancel it after that? I have questions that need answers. Moiraine, Rand, Nynaeve, Egwene, Lanfear? What happens? Welp, here we go

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 22/09/2025

Farewell astronomical summer. Tell your friend meteorological summer they are welcome to stay around

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 19/09/2025

Been using the same starter word for about 3 years. Time for another Wordle 1,553 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 16/09/2025

Fun LLM use case. Describing hallucinations seen after staying up all night during my 100 mile run ChatGPT made this image which is darn close to what my brain was telling me In reality, sunlight was hitting the char on a burned tree and reflecting iridescent light

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 15/09/2025

It’s been a week since I finished this. My body finally feels recovered. I still get goosebumps thinking about the moments before the finish line. Looking forward to the next adventure

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 11/09/2025

If you haven’t run 100 miles without training for it, have you even lived? jk Spent the weekend running the Mogollon Monster 100 in Arizona. It was beautiful and challenging. I was way undertrained and suffered. I also finished it. Go out and do hard things strava.app.link/kgCB9LkEzWb

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 03/09/2025

A coworker brought a case of Dragons Milk Origin back from Michigan. Wasn’t going to buy one, but an after-work tasting changed that

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 02/09/2025

It’s the end of summer intern season. We treated him as a full team member. No intern project. Contribute to the work, ask questions, and question things Knocked it out of the park. He was teaching us by the end of the summer Amazing what smart, driven people can do even with no experience

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 29/08/2025

Love it or hate it, Python is one of the most popular languages. I started using it in 2005 when my boss told me about it. Hard to believe how far it has come Check out the Python documentary youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...

youtu.be

Python: The Documentary | An origin story

YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 22/08/2025

I’m 7 months into a project using @htmx.org. What I didn’t expect was the team discussions to sound like we are creating an API, but the content type is html

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 12/08/2025

Back home after an unforgettable week at the final TransRockies Run

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 31/07/2025

Been working on a new app at work for our bond traders. Had to rely on AI to learn the bond trading business cuz the experts in the subject are busy, ya know, trading The bond market is incredibly complex and nuanced. I don’t think we deliver something useful to them without a learning tool like AI

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 13/07/2025

Haven’t run in two weeks because of an injury. Is this what it feels like to be full? Appetite is way down with less activity. Not sure I like this

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 04/07/2025

Is the corn knee high? 🌽🇺🇸

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 21/06/2025

Somebody forgot to finish Wordle yesterday and now the 189 day streak is back to 1 in a row 🤦‍♂️

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 21/06/2025

Watched Mallrats for the first time in probably 20 years. I forgot how good Jason Lee was in that

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 20/06/2025

10 years ago I was all-in for js apps. It is no longer my default. With modern CSS, SSR html + libraries to dynamically swap content I can make web sites that rival a SPA with minimal js.

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 16/06/2025

Spent the weekend at the Kettle 100. Paced a friend from 63 to 71, unsuccessfully tried to convince him to not quit. Saw the 16 year course record fall. Watched a few other friends finish. What a time. 12 weeks until my own 100 mile run ⏰

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 11/06/2025

Getting good at screen scraping is never a skill I wanted. Related, I now have a good understanding of how web browsers work. Also, I can’t believe web browsers actually work.

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 09/06/2025

Started using Whisper Flow and the mic in Claude to capture rough ideas and notes for my writing. I can edit and refine without issues, but my brain 🧠 cannot put ideas on to paper. What does everyone else do?

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 04/06/2025

Finally had the book club meeting for chapters 3&4. Safe to I geeked out more on indexing data and encoding data than the group as a whole. Cool to see how data access works at the lowest level. Tempted to write my own database after reading this 🤔

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 15/05/2025

Doing a book club at work. Barely scratched the surface and feeling I should have read this years ago

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 12/05/2025

You know those code changes that are so simple, you don’t even need to run the tests, much less the compiler. You think to yourself “I got this 🏅”. Commit, push, PR. In fact, I did not have it

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 09/05/2025

10 years ago today I ran my first ultramarathon, Ice Age 50 mile in Wisconsin. Tomorrow I will be going for my 9th finish there. In the picture I’m saying I would never do that again. I have to learn to make better life choices

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 27/04/2025

Oh. They've encased him in Carbonite. He should be quite well protected

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Dave Smith @davesmith.dev · 25/04/2025

Wilderness Trail cask strength wheated. I’m really starting to enjoy cask strength bourbon. The flavor can’t be beat and perfect for sipping. Someone at my company secured a couple of barrels and I got in on it. Cheers 🥃

Wilderness Trail cask strength barrel pick

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