Rach Smith
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  • February2024

  • 03Month notes & numbers №1
  • January

  • 30I turned off analytics
  • 29Chronicling
  • 28Roland F701
  • 27A not so casual gamer
  • 09Conditionally adding content to my Obsidian daily note with the Templater plugin
  • 02A work from home reset for the new year
  • December2023

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

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

  • 31If I could be anything
  • September

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

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

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

  • 1810 years ago we were at peak parallax
  • May

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

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

  • 29Content Collections are a welcome addition to my Astro setup
  • 27I Will Teach You To Be Rich
  • 21Renew the Let's Encrypt certificate on your Digital Ocean Mastodon Instance
  • 21Using 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
  • 03AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search
  • February

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

  • 31Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • 30Reading code is a different experience to writing code
  • 23Subscribe a lot, consume a little
  • 19Remove Shorts from your YouTube Subscriptions feed with :has()
  • 18Learning in public isn't so easy when you're buried by layers of engineering
  • 16The hardest part of being a Junior Developer
  • 09School shoes
  • 07Don't want to fix that bug? Here are 6 things you can do instead
  • 04Today was an amazing regular day
  • 03The incredible portfolio websites of Lynn Fisher
  • 02Creating a Habits Dashboard with Obsidian and the Dataview JS API
  • December2022

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

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

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

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

  • 31Little tees
  • 28Do this before you use Apollo Client
  • 25Quickly toggle Copilot suggestions on and off with your keyboard
  • 23Use a narrowed focus to complete big projects
  • 18There are two parts to minimalism
  • 16The diminishing returns of self development content
  • 15I love this post about loving
  • 13Remote work
  • 10How to spot a fake guru
  • 0864%
  • 05Cool things: July 2022
  • 02Track your time
  • July

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

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

  • 04Creating vs. Consuming
  • January

  • 052021
  • December2021

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

  • 24How to write a high-engagement tweet
  • 2210,000 gatsby develops later
  • 22My blog is dead. Long live my digital garden
  • October

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 25TIL: Resulting
  • 19Don't ask me, I'm a guesser
  • 145 years at CodePen: a reflection
  • 12Thoughts on Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
  • 021 year ago, I gave up Twitter
  • 012020 - Shadow and Light
  • December2020

  • 30Lessons I learnt with my first baby that I'm bringing to my second
  • October2017

  • 16I 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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