Hi. I’m Jamie Smith, a web developer and musician frae Edinburgh, Scotland. (Other interests: the Scots language and animal rights.)
Featured blog posts
A fix for the missing ‘AScore’ font when editing PDF scores exported from Logic Pro
Opening PDFs exported from Logic Pro for editing in applications like Adobe Illustrator and Affinity can result in rendering issues due to certain glyphs relying on the proprietary Logic font ‘AScore’. Here’s a solution to the problem.
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.
Get a local instance of Drupal up and running fast with DDEV
A quickstart guide to getting a brand new instance of Drupal running on your Mac, with minimal fuss and stress.
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.
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.