Wilson Smith
@willsonsmith.com
Prev. 8 year Shopify developer, now I’m doing other things.
Oops I exceeded my Gemini API quota.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Oops I exceeded my Gemini API quota.
Rewrote my Neovim config and now boot time is ~5.46x faster. Nice 😎
July 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Rewrote my Neovim config and now boot time is ~5.46x faster. Nice 😎
Why do sidebars float in Apple’s Liquid Glass? It suggests they’re at the top of the view hierarchy, but they’re almost always secondary information.
July 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Why do sidebars float in Apple’s Liquid Glass? It suggests they’re at the top of the view hierarchy, but they’re almost always secondary information.
I made it into the iOS/macOS beta release notes 😎
June 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I made it into the iOS/macOS beta release notes 😎
Apple chose a niche for their on-device LLM that I believe will be mega impactful.
June 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Apple chose a niche for their on-device LLM that I believe will be mega impactful.
I prompted Apple’s FoundationModel to say donkey 5 times and it tripped a safety guardrail.
June 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I prompted Apple’s FoundationModel to say donkey 5 times and it tripped a safety guardrail.
My hottest take is that propaganda is good sometimes, actually.
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My hottest take is that propaganda is good sometimes, actually.
The work of Edward Bernays has wreaked incalculable havoc on society.
April 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The work of Edward Bernays has wreaked incalculable havoc on society.
Petition to ban events before the 13th day of any month so that there are no more confusions about date formatting.
January 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Petition to ban events before the 13th day of any month so that there are no more confusions about date formatting.
2.5 years is 1/4 a decade.
January 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
2.5 years is 1/4 a decade.
May 2025 be the year of nuance.
January 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
May 2025 be the year of nuance.
Measure zero times, cut zero times.
December 31, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Measure zero times, cut zero times.
You ever watch >400 movies in a year and want to put together a website to showcase all the data with some observations about it but it’s also a daunting task so you start it several times without really making any specific decisions or is that too niche?
December 27, 2024 at 4:12 AM
You ever watch >400 movies in a year and want to put together a website to showcase all the data with some observations about it but it’s also a daunting task so you start it several times without really making any specific decisions or is that too niche?
Can someone explain to me how @raycast.com will justify whatever their valuation is after $50 million in funding?
December 23, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Can someone explain to me how @raycast.com will justify whatever their valuation is after $50 million in funding?
Ridley Scott loves women.
December 9, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Ridley Scott loves women.
5 years later I still think about and occasionally play Death Stranding. I wish everyone could play it but I cannot recommend it to anyone.
At its core it’s a v human story about connecting people with mechanics that connect you to fellow players—but is diluted by plot and repetitive exposition.
At its core it’s a v human story about connecting people with mechanics that connect you to fellow players—but is diluted by plot and repetitive exposition.
November 28, 2024 at 2:46 PM
5 years later I still think about and occasionally play Death Stranding. I wish everyone could play it but I cannot recommend it to anyone.
At its core it’s a v human story about connecting people with mechanics that connect you to fellow players—but is diluted by plot and repetitive exposition.
At its core it’s a v human story about connecting people with mechanics that connect you to fellow players—but is diluted by plot and repetitive exposition.
I’ve been playing with static site generation with Swift and rebuilt my website as a testbed and gave it a nice fresh coat of paint in the process.
willsonsmith.com
Source:
github.com/WillsonSmith...
You can see the previous version here:
2023.willsonsmith.com
More in the 🧵
willsonsmith.com
Source:
github.com/WillsonSmith...
You can see the previous version here:
2023.willsonsmith.com
More in the 🧵
November 22, 2024 at 4:16 AM
I’ve been playing with static site generation with Swift and rebuilt my website as a testbed and gave it a nice fresh coat of paint in the process.
willsonsmith.com
Source:
github.com/WillsonSmith...
You can see the previous version here:
2023.willsonsmith.com
More in the 🧵
willsonsmith.com
Source:
github.com/WillsonSmith...
You can see the previous version here:
2023.willsonsmith.com
More in the 🧵
Bots have likely outsmarted this by now but it’s still one of my favourite tiny web components.
![A JavaScript “email-link”custom element that transforms an email string that uses “[at]” as a replacement for “@“ into a clickable “mailto:” link.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qfrqh6ftrkimibwk7rq6nvtv/bafkreibfu2n2lwxkzos2kfn5bmnam46roe4wqxhs36nkmfmujetihw37ka@jpeg)
November 21, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Bots have likely outsmarted this by now but it’s still one of my favourite tiny web components.
Watching foreign film reveals how deeply connected we are on a human level—the number of quirks we share warms my heart.
November 13, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Watching foreign film reveals how deeply connected we are on a human level—the number of quirks we share warms my heart.
TIL the dismiss Environment in SwiftUI changes and causes a view change if you use a PhotosPicker from within a sheet—and it only happens on device and not in the simulator.
In hindsight I understand but wow that infinite rerender was a pain to debug.
In hindsight I understand but wow that infinite rerender was a pain to debug.
November 12, 2024 at 7:31 PM
TIL the dismiss Environment in SwiftUI changes and causes a view change if you use a PhotosPicker from within a sheet—and it only happens on device and not in the simulator.
In hindsight I understand but wow that infinite rerender was a pain to debug.
In hindsight I understand but wow that infinite rerender was a pain to debug.
Me after I debug code for half an hour and find a > instead of a <
November 11, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Me after I debug code for half an hour and find a > instead of a <
Using Obsidian’s canvas to build mind maps is my new favourite way to track project tasks and progress. Get me away from checklists of links to issues.
October 27, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Using Obsidian’s canvas to build mind maps is my new favourite way to track project tasks and progress. Get me away from checklists of links to issues.