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Rach Smith

@rachsmith.com

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Writing the React, fighting with the application state, designing the GraphQL APIs, cursing the TypeScript errors, learning Golang, migrating the databases, and admiring the amazing content at codepen.io. rachsmith.com

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 27/05/2026

hello, I’ve been largely offline lately… just too busy with IRL stuff. Anyway, this is the newest member of our family, Teddy Bear.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 17/09/2025

A still from Phil Collins' performance of In The Air Tonight in 1990, dressed like he came straight from IT support.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 10/08/2025

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

A digital drawing of 5 ghost characters with various expressions.

The same small ghost characters: drawn on paper, cut out and sticky-taped on to a coffee table with toys and books on it.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 09/08/2025

today’s drawing: froggy

a drawing of a green tree frog sitting on a branch

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 22/05/2025

the infographic in my brain most of the time

A line chart: Self worth is on the y-axis. Productive output is on the x-axis. There is a diagonal line indicating a direct correlation between the two.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 09/01/2025

typical January shenanigans

A screenshot from the Gentler Streak app. There’s an illustration of a character doing a chin-up and the text reads: “Hi Rach, You’re Pushing Hard.”

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 08/01/2025

Brought my book to the kids play centre 🥰 absolutely loving it so far @shiffman.net

A book with a pink cover - “The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with JavaScript” by Daniel Shiffman - rests on a table in front of a ninja play area.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 14/12/2024

Because I need to take my own damn advice, we did some watercolour together this morning 😊

A watercolour painting of a wombat, using a rainbow of colours.

A watercolour painting of a blue parrot on a tree branch.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 07/12/2024

me: minding my business Facebook: you need to gua sha your butt now

An add for a gua sha product. There is an image of a woman dragging a giant gua sha over her butt cheek with the caption “Your daily reminder to Scrape your butt 🍑”. The title is the ad reads “Think Gua Sha is only for the Face? Think Again!”

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 06/12/2024

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 10/11/2024

Scratch is probably the obvious answer but my 6 year old loves this book specifically. It’s great

The cover of “Coding for Beginners using Scratch”

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 10/11/2024

ChatGPT thinks I’m a beige mom 😭

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 01/11/2024

every time I fork out for one of these Grimms wooden toys it is an expensive gamble, but once again it is paying off. With one of my children that is. The other has no interest. YMMV. They certainly do look pretty on the shelf 🌈

some wooden toys are on the floor. A small child is building a tower out of some curved pieces of painted wood

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 30/10/2024

current favourite food thing: tofu in the air fryer 😋

pieces of fried tofu sitting in an air fryer basket

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 09/03/2024

code sketch #2 codepen.io/rachsmith/pe...

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 04/02/2024

Done! (And the before, for those joining now). I’m gonna do the toy shelf next

some organised pantry shelves. Everything is in its place!

The shelves before I tidied them. Food and containers and other items are randomly placed.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 03/02/2024

I’ve got the whole morning to myself, so I’m going to sort out these shelves that have been bothering me on a daily basis, for months. Sharing the before for some accountability, so I actually do it and post an after shot, instead of TikToking all morning.

Some pantry shelves with assorted food items and containers

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 25/11/2023

found some friends in the front garden ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 20/11/2023

testing…

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 06/07/2023

I’ve been in a loud shirt phase lately. Here’s the latest loud shirt

A selfie featuring my shirt with bright purples, blues and oranges

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 30/04/2023

despite admiring what other people have done with p5.js for years... I hadn't tried using it myself before today. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun making sketches. No video on bluesky so you'll have to see the Pen to experience the pretty codepen.io/rachsmith/pen/vYVJaeJ

a screenshot of a p5.js sketch with lots of colourful triangles

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 27/04/2023

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