Chris Smith

@chameth.com

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Software dev, board gamer, collector of many other hobbies. Web: https://chameth.com

Screenshot of a "Tops & Shirts" size chart. On the left is a size column, with entries: M, L, XL, 1XL (?!), 2XL, 3XL, 4XL. The rest of the table has measurements in centimetres and inches.
Picture of a road sign. It says "Welcome to GREAT HOCKHAM, A Wayland Village, Please drive carefully". There's a planter of pretty flowers in front of it.
Screenshot of a stale bot on GitHub. A comment posted by `github-actions` (bot): > This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.
Screenshot from a music app playing The Emptiness Machine, from From Zero by Linkin Park. The From Zero album art is shown inside a transparent jewel case, with some small colour tweaks and other effects to make it look like it's actually inside.
BG Stats Aug 2025 Plays: 175 H-index: 7 Games: 35 New: 11 Players: 151 Locations: 4 Hours: 84 Days: 30 Can't Stop: 29 Cartographers: 21 Martian Dice: 14 7 Wonders: Architects: 10 Coffee Rush: 9 King of Tokyo: 9 Flip 7: 9 Obsession: 6 Arkham Horror: Lovecraft Letter: 6 40 designers: Andrew Looney: 5% Jacob Fryxelius: 5% Matt Leacock: 5% Richard Garfield: 5% Adam Hill: 2%.
Cosmoctopus board game setup on a green play mat showing various components including purple octopus miniatures, coloured tokens, different coloured cards and a grid of summoning locations in the middle.
A photo of a hammer, set inside a grey square that's titled slightly. At the bottom of the square is a caption: "THIS, DEAR READER, IS A HAMMER. IT IS ALMOST ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT TO THE ARTICLE. ENJOY.". At the top and bottom of the grey square are two tilted rectangles, that are a translucent blue. They overlap the square and the background, appearing like sticky tape holding the square in place.
A link to a post on a website. It has a picture of a computer with the caption "Building a new computer", then a text snippet beneath reading "I recently built a new computer, after exclusively using a laptop for three years. It's also the first time I've departed from the usual combo of an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU." The text fades out slightly at the bottom. The whole link is in a dark blue box, the top and bottom of which has a wave-like pattern. As a mouse cursor moves into the box, it rapidly fills with a lighter blue colour, and the waves start smoothly moving sideways. When the mouse cursor leaves the waves stop moving and the lighter blue colour slowly drains.
An edited XKCD comic strip. Panel 1: [Megan and White Hat stand next to a nuclear bomb. The bomb has a hatch open on top, and a small blinking screen. The two people are shouting off-screen.] Megan: Rob! Megan: You use GitHub! White Hat: Come quick! Panel 2: [Megan, White Hat, and Rob look at the screen on the bomb. Rob peers closely. The screen is on the bomb, but is shown at the top of the panel in black with white letters, except "ten" which is black but written in a white box. The text reads:] To disarm the bomb, simply commit an action workflow that works first time. You have ten minutes. ~# _ Panel 3: [They all stand in the same position, but without the text displayed. Beat panel.] Panel 4: [Still in the same position but White Hat becomes impatient.] White Hat: ...Rob? Rob: I'm so sorry. Based on XKCD 1168 by Randall Monroe, released under CC BY-NC 2.5: https://xkcd.com/1168/ Transcript based on Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1168:_tar
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A cake tin lined with baking parchment, containing a cheesecake. Only the top layer is visible, and it's a whitey-yellow colour. There's a very generous amount of Maltesers on top.
A dashboard in Grafana showing the state of a 3D printer. It shows the following: - Current printer state ("Printing" in large letters) - Current print progress (93%, in a gauge) - Current time remaining (4 minutes, in a gauge) - Current nozzle temperature (220 degrees c, with a line graph behind it) - Current Bed temperature (55 degrees c, with a line graph behind it) - A live picture from the printer - A timeseries graph of temperatures, showing the actual and target temps for the bed and nozzle. - A timeseries graph of fan speeds
A blue bowl half full of grated parsnip. It looks a lot like grated white cheese. It does not taste like that, though.
Two 3/8-inch spanners. One is completely flat, about 3cm long, and looks like it would bend in a strong breeze. The other is a Wera Joker, which is about three times longer, much thicker, and looks the part.
A pie tin on a stove top, with crumbled ginger biscuit pressed into the bottom and sides.
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 173: Cartographers; 60: Star Fluxx; 57: 7 Wonders: Architects; 51: Terraforming Mars; 50: King of Tokyo; 48: Can't Stop; 42: Codenames: Duet; 34: Martian Fluxx; 29: Spots; 27: Exploding Kittens; 27: Star Trek Fluxx; 27: Splendor; 25: Space Base; 25: Obsession; 22: Fluxx; 20: CuBirds; 19: Android: Netrunner; 19: Mountain Goats; 16: Codenames; 12: Daybreak; 11: Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition; 11: Lost Cities; 10: Pandemic; 10: Anger Smash; 9: Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game.
A netrunner game in progress. A green play mat with cards arranged on it; on the closer side are the runner’s cards, with a nearly empty draw pile, a very large discard pile, and 8 cards of various types “installed”. In the right in the runner’s score area there are agendas worth 6 points (you need 7 to win!) On the opposite side of the mat are the Corp’s cards. They have 6 ICE cards, one of which is face down (unrezzed). Some of the ICE cards have advancement tokens on, and two have virus cards belonging to the runner attached. The Corp’s score section has a single agenda point in it.
A chopping board with a pile of thinly sliced apples
Pixel art window frame with a blue roller blind slowly descending over it. The chain of the blind moves as the blind descends
An omnifixo in use. The omnifixo is a black metal box around 160mm wide, 70mm across and 20mm tall. Along the close edge it has a millimeter scale etched in white, and an "omnifixo" logo. Magnetically attached to the case are three clamps, with a bright orange base and then spring-loaded parallel jaws above them. The clamps are positioned around a blue PCB, holding it firmly from three different sides.
An LED matrix showing a pixellated scene from the Bad Apple video, with a ribbon cable emerging from the right and going into a blue PCB. On the PCB is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2W, and some silk screened text that reads "chameth.com // HUB75 v1". In front of the LED matrix are four more identical blue PCBs without any components attached.
BG Stats 3 x 3. Play count: 7: Spots; 7: Martian Fluxx; 7: King of Tokyo; 6: Obsession; 4: Cartographers; 2: Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition; 2: Poetry for Neanderthals.
Screenshot from Steam showing the game page for New World: Aeternum. The cover art has a large face in profile with glowing red eyes, giving it evil vibes. Beneath the cover is a bar with a play button, and some stats: Last played: today Play time: 6.2 hours Achievements: 3/133
Two board games: Obsession, a large box featuring a picture of an English country estate, and Spots, a small box with cartoon dogs on with dice on some of their spots. Next to them is a black t-shirt with the text “This shirt is worth 2 victory points”
Grid of six book covers: Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. The cover is an ID card that looks like it's been dropped on the floor of a jungle, with a blood stain in the corner. Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage. The cover is a picture of Adam with his arms crossed. Subtitle: "Life is what you make it" Starship For Sale by M.R Forbes. The cover is two figures silhouetted in front of an egg-shaped spaceship. Heretical Fishing by Haylock Jobson. The cover is a fish jumping out of the sea and passing in front of the moon, all in a cartoon-y style with neon colours. All The Skills by Honour Rae, subtitle "A deck building LitRPG". The cover is an assortment of icons that give an arcane vibe, with a stylised dragon in the center. Azarinth Healer by Rhaegar. The cover is a person with long flowing hair facing away from the viewer. Behind them is some kind of giant monster/dragon with large horns.
A graph titled "All time stats", covering the years 2020 to 2024. It shows three series of data: two bar charts, one labelled "finished" and one labelled" dropped", and a line graph labelled "pages read". The data is: Finished: 77, 134, 125, 104, 124 Dropped: 14, 11, 21, 8, 13 Pages: 31k, 52k, 53k, 39k, 43k [One value per year, starting at 2020 and finishing at 2024]
Screenshot of https://vale.rocks/posts/media-review-reasoning showing sidenote text being rendered directly on top of the main content, making it very hard to read
Screenshot of the side menu in the Firebase console. At the top is the firebase logo, and a home button labelled "Project overview". Beneath that is a "Generative AI" section with links to "Build with Gemini" and "Genkit (new)". Beneath *that* is a "Project shortcuts" section, with "App distribution" visible and highlighted.
A screen stood on a messy desk. It has big blocky pixels. On the screen one of the opening scenes from Bad Apple plays, with a silhouette tossing an apple into the sky and it being caught by a witch.
The board game "Wilmot's Warehouse". In the centre is an emoticon with a distinctive nose that resembles a '<'.
A green perf board, with contacts arranged in a grid. At the centre of the board there are blobs of solder that each span vertically over three contacts, connecting them together.
A Rasberry Pi Pico 2 W: a long and thin green circuit board with gold contacts along the long edges, a USB connector on the side, and various ICs and components in the board
Screenshot of code: main :: IO () main = do input <- parseInput . lines <$> readFile "inputs/01.txt"
BG Stats 4 x 4. Play count: 6: Just One; 4: The Blob that Ate the City; 4: Martian Fluxx; 3: Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition; 3: Obsession; 3: Cartographers; 3: Lovecraft Letter; 3: Unlock!: Escape Adventures; 2: King of Tokyo; 1: Can't Stop.
A roll of 3D printer filament that’s barely w depleted, showing bits of the cardboard inner tube and a small glimpse of black tape
BG Stats 5 x 5. Play count: 163: Cartographers; 60: Star Fluxx; 57: 7 Wonders: Architects; 51: Terraforming Mars; 48: Can't Stop; 43: King of Tokyo; 42: Codenames: Duet; 27: Exploding Kittens; 27: Star Trek Fluxx; 27: Splendor; 25: Space Base; 22: Fluxx; 20: CuBirds; 19: Spots; 19: Mountain Goats; 19: Martian Fluxx; 18: Obsession; 16: Codenames; 14: Android: Netrunner; 12: Daybreak; 11: Lost Cities; 10: Pandemic; 10: Anger Smash; 9: Terraforming Mars: The Dice Game; 8: Firefly Fluxx.
A 3D printer on a desk with an automatic conveyor belt next to it, slowly moving bits of plastic waste off the desk into a bin.
The rest of a 3D printer with a black rectangular box containing printer poop
The outside of a plastic box with a recessed screw with a triangular slot
Two shelves of board games, including: Quacks, Ticket to Ride Europe, Hero Quest, Iberia, several Fluxxes, Terraforming Mars + Ares Edition + the dice game...