Hi. I’m Jamie Smith, a web developer and musician frae Edinburgh, Scotland. (Other interests: the Scots language and animal rights.)
Featured blog posts
Water consumption: AI vs animal agriculture
AI uses plenty of water, but animal farming vastly more.
Building an RSS news aggregator with Drupal
An overview of how I created AnimalRights.fyi, a news aggregator.
TIL: ‘Hello, world’ in Z80 assembly language on the ZX Spectrum
I finally had a go at creating a machine code program and running it on a Speccy.
Writing some JavaScript to download files from the web, with help from an AI chatbot
A real-life example of boosting your productivity as a web developer with ChatGPT.
Finding the perfect domain name
Forget
.com. The new frontier of TLDs is where it’s at.Using the GitHub REST API to fetch and display gists
Authenticating with the GitHub API, enabling cross-domain Ajax fetching with CORS, implementing a basic caching system, installing a custom npm dependency, and more.
Projects
JazzKeys.fyi
Tutorials for jazz and funk piano players.
Tripods
A puzzle game.
AnimalRights.fyi
A news aggregator covering animal rights and veganism.
Mak Forrit
Blog on culture, history, language, politics, the arts and more, written in Scots.