Paul Smith

@smith.dev

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Program the computers. Gov tech founder, dad, and O’s fan in the US Midwest. I enjoy weightlifting. I collect spores, molds, and fungus. Making my mind a sunless place Co-founder of Ad Hoc

Animation of a recursive square and triangle geometry with the letters R and A appearing over them, below is the text "RECURSIVE ASCENT"
Photo of a music stage bathed in blue stage lighting, a band of musicians performing in front of a silhouette of audience heads.
A TV screen showing an NBA basketball game between OKC (Oklahoma City Thunder) and CLE (Cleveland Cavaliers). The score is OKC 114, CLE 118 with 4:36 left in the 4th quarter. The game is being broadcast on ESPN. The TV appears to be mounted below some bookshelves filled with various books, and there's a partial view of what looks like a couch or furniture piece at the bottom of the image.
A paragraph of text discussing how overlapping windows mirroring stacked documents on a desk is not an ideal metaphor for computer interfaces. The text argues that partially hidden windows typically need to be brought to the top and made fully visible before use, and that the substantial implementation effort required outweighs the insignificant advantages of this design approach. It concludes by stating it's an example where a complication's benefit is incommensurate with its cost.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Close-up of the back cover of a vinyl record featuring a compilation of soul Christmas songs. The tracklist is visible, listing artists like Little Johnny Taylor, Rance Allen Group, Mack Rice, Rufus Thomas, Albert King, Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, The Temprees, and The Emotions.
Photo of cover of textbook “Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler” by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht
A terminal screenshot showing a diff view of changes made to a Nix configuration file 'common/users/shared-user-config.nix'. The diff shows line numbers 43-53, with new lines in green and old lines in red. The change is configuring direnv with bash integration and nix-direnv support
A screenshot of a music streaming service dashboard showing recent listening activity for user "pauladamsmith". The interface displays a list of recently played songs with album art thumbnails, song titles, artists, track lengths, and timestamps. The layout includes a navigation sidebar on the left with options like Feed, Dashboard, and Explore. The main content area shows "New listens since you arrived" and "Recent listens" sections, featuring tracks from artists like Joe McPhee, Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch, and others. Each song entry includes options to like, add to playlist, and play the track.
A black weight plate ornament reading "MERRY LIFTMAS" and "45 LB" hanging on a Christmas tree decorated with colorful lights. The tree lights create a festive backdrop of green, blue, red, and yellow illumination around the ornament.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
An alphabet poster with vibrant illustrations of animals representing each letter. From A to Z, the poster includes an alligator, butterfly, crab, dog, elephant, frog, giraffe, hawk, iguana, jellyfish, koala, lion, monkey, narwhal, octopus, penguin, quahog, rabbit, sheep, turtle, urchin, viper, walrus, X-ray fish, and zebra.
This photo shows the interior of the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, featuring its logo on a white wall above the pool. The logo consists of three blue wavelike shapes and the text “Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center.” Below it is the motto, “The Schroeder Way: Be Great • Act With Integrity • Expect Success • Team First.” In the foreground, there are blue-and-white triangular flags hanging above the pool, with swimmers and spectators sitting on benches along the pool’s edge. A digital clock displaying “28:16” is mounted on the wall to the left. The environment suggests an active swimming practice or event.
Video of your author doing 10 reps of back squat under a barbell in a squat rack
Empty Bottle ad. Calendar of events. One says “12/3 Closed for routine PA loudening”
A knife being held in a Work Sharp knife sharpening holder
Calendar with marks indicating dates in November I worked out. “you worked out 11 times”
Photo of a in-progress light switch replacement with many electrical wires going around and some terminating together into little orange blocks
Photo of gnocchi and sprouts cooked in a skillet
Portion of a PDF describing standards based grading, which lists Meeting, Progressing, Beginning, Extends, and Insufficient Evidence as student measures
photo of Skittles pop’d freeze dried candy product
Photo of two DIY electronics circuits, showing batteries
Photo of a squat rack in a gym
photo of a bagel egg sandwich
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #35,010, Paul Smith ‪@smith.dev‬, joined on Apr 24, 2023"
Photo of the two editions of The Awk Programming Language book side by side
Split screen of a batter and pitcher on the left and a stadium bleachers on the right
Photo of two joystick components in plastic container
Photo of box with picture of two joystick components with text “Hall sensing joystick for Joy-Con”
Screen cap of Jennifer Connelly being harassed by red muppet like creatures
Screen cap of white man captioned “Ridley Scott, Director”
photo of a purple and white iris flower
screencap of a tweet, photo of Stringer Bell from The Wire saying “I want you to put the word out there that we back up.”
Photo of people sitting and speaking on a stage, from left to right: Lou Moore, Mina Hsiang, me, Sha Hwang, Todd Park
Still from “Succession” showing a fictional election results board that’s malfunctioning and shows “NaN%” for one candidate
Steve McQueen in Great Escape stuck in the razor wire after trying to escape on motorbike
Photo of a barbell on the ground with 385 lbs total weight
photo of my lunch (poke) like it’s 2006
photo of desk sign that says Good Vibes Only
Photo of shore of Lake Michigan blue skies above
Photo of a thermometer showing 49°F outdoor temp
Sure let's get you to bed grandma meme but grandma is saying "I used to tell my grandma 'sure let's get you to bed'"
OH, MR. BURNS, WE'LL THAW YOU OUT THE SECOND THEY DISCOVER THE CURE FOR 17 STAB WOUNDS IN THE BACK.
A Garbage Pail Kid trading card, "Adam Bomb"
Screen cap of the Simpsons, Milhouse is saying “remember Alf? He’s back, in Pog form.”