Rach Smith
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  • April 2025

  • 18 18 April 2025, 5:58am
  • 18 The difference between programs and products
  • 15 15 April 2025, 5:36pm
  • 15 A lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality
  • March

  • 30 Month notes & numbers β„–13
  • 19 19 March 2025, 5:29pm
  • 13 13 March 2025, 10:03am
  • 12 In the way
  • 11 11 March 2025, 2:52pm
  • 09 Month notes & numbers β„–12
  • February

  • 01 Month notes & numbers β„–11
  • January

  • 01 2024
  • 01 Month notes & numbers β„–10
  • 01 Planner plans for 2025
  • November 2024

  • 04 Social skills
  • 03 Month notes & numbers β„–9: bankruptcy
  • 03 Big black trash bag energy
  • October

  • 13 Home-cooked web apps
  • September

  • 06 Month notes & numbers β„–8
  • August

  • 13 It's okay to lower the bar
  • 06 Month notes & numbers β„–7
  • July

  • 08 Comfortable with the struggle
  • 01 Daily lettering week 4
  • 01 Month notes & numbers β„–6
  • June

  • 24 Daily lettering week 3
  • 18 Field notes
  • 16 Daily lettering week 2
  • 07 Daily lettering week 1
  • 04 Comedy series I've watched over and over (and over)
  • May

  • 31 Month notes & numbers β„–5
  • 30 A #WeblogPoMo2024 retrospective
  • 29 An easing rule of thumb
  • 28 Why being on my phone too much makes me feel bad
  • 27 Jumpsport 220 fitness trampoline
  • 26 Code sketch #7
  • 25 Code sketch #6
  • 24 I need your quotes
  • 23 Generative AI is for the idea guys
  • 22 My own little patch
  • 21 Start from a corner of the room
  • 20 Some observations after journaling every day this year
  • 19 Code sketch #5
  • 18 Styling the external links on this site
  • 17 I've never done a real interview
  • 16 Mum jeans
  • 15 How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 2)
  • 14 How quickly can I make an Astro DB project? (part 1)
  • 13 Post Brain
  • 12 On being a mother
  • 11 Code sketch #4
  • 10 The worse you feel, the more committed you are to your protocol
  • 09 My favourite afternoon snack
  • 08 How does Anh Do write so many books?
  • 07 Creativity sprints
  • 06 I added a now page to the site
  • 05 Spotify DJ is like a music pokie
  • 04 I'm in a paperless trap of my own making
  • 03 Using lighter YouTube embeds on the site
  • 02 DJs that wear things over their head
  • 01 Month notes & numbers β„–4
  • 01 Is it cheating if your first post for Weblog Posting Month is about how you're partaking in Weblog Posting Month?
  • April

  • 30 Month notes & numbers β„–3
  • March

  • 12 The Organised Mum Method by Gemma Bray
  • 11 Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
  • 10 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  • 04 Month notes & numbers β„–2
  • February

  • 03 Month notes & numbers β„–1
  • January

  • 30 I turned off analytics
  • 29 Chronicling
  • 28 Roland F701
  • 27 A not so casual gamer
  • 09 Conditionally adding content to my Obsidian daily note with the Templater plugin
  • 02 A work from home reset for the new year
  • December 2023

  • 31 App Defaults 2023
  • 27 Hobonichi Techo Cousin
  • 22 A big ass wall calendar
  • 16 My goal for 2024: to remember it
  • November

  • 23 A weekly task list with the Alastair Method
  • 20 My simple 16 step system for adding comments to my static site built with Astro
  • 15 Disco dishes
  • 12 A redesign
  • October

  • 31 If I could be anything
  • September

  • 26 Less typical
  • 23 I moved from my self hosted Mastodon instance to a micro.blog account
  • 11 No Inputs Day
  • 04 The middle point of softness, kindness, calmness
  • August

  • 30 How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?
  • July

  • 17 Flexibility
  • 16 Is TypeScript good?
  • 10 Reassessing the morning routine in 2023
  • 09 I made some rainbow fireworks with PixiJS
  • June

  • 18 10 years ago we were at peak parallax
  • May

  • 22 Surrender
  • 07 My first try at using p5.js
  • 05 The inevitable menty-b of early motherhood
  • 01 Recent ChatGPT prompts
  • April

  • 24 Opal
  • 17 Find your feedback loop
  • 09 Recreating the title effect from creativesouth.com
  • 06 Lerp
  • 02 I could spend the rest of my life clearing the decks, if I'm not careful
  • March

  • 29 Content Collections are a welcome addition to my Astro setup
  • 27 I Will Teach You To Be Rich
  • 21 Renew the Let's Encrypt certificate on your Digital Ocean Mastodon Instance
  • 21 Using regex with find-and-replace in VS Code
  • 05 "The longer you leave it, the better it has to be" and other weird, wrong ideas from my perfectionist brain
  • 03 AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search
  • February

  • 20 Create a rainbow-coloured list with :nth-of-type()
  • 15 Back on my bullet journaling
  • 12 I probably understand around 4% of the information I consume
  • 10 The Perfect Mother Myth and Mothering within the context of Motherhood
  • 02 And this is what a shit version of that would look like...
  • January

  • 31 Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • 30 Reading code is a different experience to writing code
  • 23 Subscribe a lot, consume a little
  • 19 Remove Shorts from your YouTube Subscriptions feed with :has()
  • 18 Learning in public isn't so easy when you're buried by layers of engineering
  • 16 The hardest part of being a Junior Developer
  • 09 School shoes
  • 07 Don't want to fix that bug? Here are 6 things you can do instead
  • 04 Today was an amazing regular day
  • 03 The incredible portfolio websites of Lynn Fisher
  • 02 Creating a Habits Dashboard with Obsidian and the Dataview JS API
  • December 2022

  • 31 How I achieved my goal of "writing more"
  • 29 (Almost) no one cares
  • 19 Oh, the things I would do with the time I do not have!
  • 15 Where has Brett Terpstra's SearchLink been all my life?
  • 15 HyperKey
  • 09 How Supabase fits into your stack
  • 06 I paid for some of those Lensa AI profile images
  • 03 You've heard of Elf on the Shelf...
  • 01 The Minimal theme for Obsidian has checkbox icons
  • November

  • 29 Deciding once about skincare and cosmetics
  • 24 Natural Language inputs for all the things
  • 23 Do what you say you're going to do
  • 21 Hanson's Christmas albums
  • 19 Moving from problem adder to problem solver
  • 15 Tired of timelines
  • 09 A non-exhaustive list of the completely messed up content I consumed in the 2000s
  • 08 My lifestyle-centric career
  • 05 I'm in need of a phase
  • 02 Oops! There's an oops in our error messages
  • 02 Use command+o to make new notes in Obsidian
  • 01 Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place
  • October

  • 31 Keyboard shortcuts for navigating a large file in VSCode
  • 27 The shorter the feedback loop, the better
  • 26 Automating the process for moving notes from my Obsidian vault to my Astro site
  • 23 Atomic, linked notes
  • 10 Look it up
  • 07 Time management advice for mums
  • 06 Good things September 2022
  • September

  • 29 AR glasses are here?
  • 27 Functional perfectionism
  • 23 A developer has a baby
  • 19 Replace the curtains
  • 17 There is nothing better
  • 16 It doesn't seem that passive to me
  • 13 Wtf is an island and why is it in my website?
  • 09 Australian slang that I have used with my long-suffering American colleagues
  • 04 Good things: August 2022
  • 01 Putting the graph in GraphQL
  • August

  • 31 Little tees
  • 28 Do this before you use Apollo Client
  • 25 Quickly toggle Copilot suggestions on and off with your keyboard
  • 23 Use a narrowed focus to complete big projects
  • 18 There are two parts to minimalism
  • 16 The diminishing returns of self development content
  • 15 I love this post about loving
  • 13 Remote work
  • 10 How to spot a fake guru
  • 08 64%
  • 05 Cool things: July 2022
  • 02 Track your time
  • July

  • 28 Is Ryan Kaji going to be okay
  • 25 How to get started with animating on the web
  • 22 Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep
  • 21 Grifter math
  • 20 Synthwave
  • 19 Maybe I'm in the sweet spot for GitHub Copilot
  • 17 How I added tags to my Astro site
  • 16 No one warns you not to pull your toddler's shirt off while they are standing next to the bath
  • 15 Beyond random
  • 11 Initial thoughts on Astro
  • 08 Spotify Podcasts should be a separate App
  • 07 Just a big brain developer trying to be a grug brain
  • 03 Does your face light up?
  • 01 Paying for software subscriptions is my passion
  • June

  • 28 It's okay for me to be wrong
  • 27 Fuck it
  • February

  • 04 Creating vs. Consuming
  • January

  • 05 2021
  • December 2021

  • 13 GitHub Copilot, hedonic adaptation and developer tools
  • 09 Weaning, mental health and productivity
  • November

  • 24 How to write a high-engagement tweet
  • 22 10,000 gatsby develops later
  • 22 My blog is dead. Long live my digital garden
  • October

  • 21 Making my daily notes in the public workspace
  • 13 Loving right now: Optimize.me
  • 05 Code-first to product-first
  • September

  • 28 My parenting/mothering podcast recommendations
  • 21 What happens when you listen to yourself?
  • 13 Touch the keys
  • 10 Loving right now: the Tutorials and CodePens of George Francis
  • 07 Full-stack? T-Shaped? Comb-Shaped? Developer or Engineer?
  • 01 How I keep up with the latest Front-End Development news, without scrolling my life away
  • August

  • 28 Screen time
  • 25 Loving right now: This Figma template for creating Database ERDs
  • 12 We confuse visibility with competency
  • 09 I'm 35 - reflections, plans and wishes
  • 02 Learning how you best learn: some questions to ask yourself
  • July

  • 26 I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine
  • 10 How I'm going to try and stop my "revenge bedtime procrastination"
  • 05 Ugg Boots
  • 01 I listened to: Parenting Mojo - Most of what you know about attachment is probably wrong
  • June

  • 21 Avoiding "when, then" thinking versus respecting your season
  • 13 Why write?
  • May

  • 29 The must-have utility apps I use every day on my Macbook Pro
  • 10 Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Define your priorities
  • April

  • 26 Another lesson
  • 12 Loving right now: Obsidian.md
  • 04 Matching pantry containers
  • March

  • 26 Thoughts on the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
  • 24 How to open a specific Notion page on your iPhone
  • 16 The 5-minute timer hack I use to get almost anything done
  • 10 Baby products that actually helped me
  • 06 Loving right now: this VSCode font + theme combo
  • 02 The reason caring for babies and toddlers can be so maddening
  • February

  • 27 That family holiday is worth the work
  • 21 The Tech setup for this blog - Ghost + Gatsby
  • 17 Simple is hard
  • 11 To be whole is the goal
  • 08 Mantras for when the baby won’t nap alone
  • 08 Strategies for dealing with a catnapping baby (that don’t involve sleep training): Mindset and resetting expectations
  • 03 How I implement Atomic Habits
  • January

  • 25 TIL: Resulting
  • 19 Don't ask me, I'm a guesser
  • 14 5 years at CodePen: a reflection
  • 12 Thoughts on Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
  • 02 1 year ago, I gave up Twitter
  • 01 2020 - Shadow and Light
  • December 2020

  • 30 Lessons I learnt with my first baby that I'm bringing to my second
  • October 2017

  • 16 I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either

Acknowledgement of Country

I acknowledge the Gubbi Gubbi people, the Traditional Owners of the land and waterways where I live. I would like to pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

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