# Danny Smith (@danny.is)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/danny.is

## Publications

- Better Mobile Navigation on this site — danny.is (Oct 2026) https://danny.is/notes/better-mobile-navigation/
- How Voicepad Works — danny.is (Oct 2026) https://danny.is/writing/how-voicepad-works/
- How I use Claude skills and projects in the desktop app — danny.is (Oct 2026) https://danny.is/notes/claude-skills-projects-desktop-app/
- Letting Claude write to my daily note — danny.is (Oct 2026) https://danny.is/notes/claude-daily-log/
- Sail o' the Line — danny.is (Oct 2026) https://danny.is/notes/sail-o-line-minisite/
- A place to keep single-page tools — danny.is (Oct 2026) https://danny.is/notes/place-keep-single-page-tools/
- A screenshot command for my agents — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-30-a-screenshot-command-for-agents/
- Generating a video for Astro Editor with Opus 5.5 — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/generating-video-astro-editor-opus-55/
- The Curiosity That Is Minecraft: Pi Edition — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-24-curiosity-minecraft-pi-edition/
- The AT Protocol Harkens An Old Web Ethos — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-24-protocol-harkens-old-web-ethos/
- A calendar view for my writing — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/calendar-view-for-my-writing/
- Recipe For Software Quality — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-23-recipe-software-quality-jim-nielsen-s-notes/
- Getting my books onto BookHive — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/writing/books-on-bookhive/
- Adding annotations to articles on this site — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/writing/margin-annotations/
- Agent memory as a file format — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-18-agent-memory-as-a-file/
- When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control? by Aurélie Radom — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-17-when-the-canvas-starts-acting/
- What's your minimal viable model? - Waldek Mastykarz — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-12-whats-your-minimal-viable-model/
- The Contribution Theatre Trap | Narayan — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-10-the-contribution-theatre-trap-narayan/
- Your product didn't get worse by Waldek Mastykarz — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-10-your-product-didnt-get-worse/
- Write the skill yourself - by Josh - Vision and Values — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-05-write-the-skill-yourself/
- Artists and programmers see AI completely differently — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-04-artists-and-programmers-see-ai-differently/
- There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text by Sophie Alpert — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-03-there-are-no-lossless-transformations/
- AI is removing the middle class of software engineering — danny.is (Sep 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-09-03-ai-is-removing-the-middle/
- Better Bookmark Cards — danny.is (Aug 2026) https://danny.is/notes/better-bookmark-cards/
- Harnesses are Situated Agents — danny.is (Aug 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-08-26-harnesses-are-situated-agents/
- Claude Code's Bash Sandbox — danny.is (Aug 2026) https://danny.is/notes/claude-codes-bash-sandbox/
- Better Tweets on this site — danny.is (Aug 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-08-14-better-tweets-on-this-site/
- Theo Browne on his Claude Code setup and Skills — danny.is (Aug 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-08-14-theo-browne-on-his-claude/
- How my personal video platform works — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/writing/loomclone-part-2/
- An actual homepage for this site (finally) — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/writing/an-actual-homepage/
- The new tesco QR codes are cool — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-07-19-new-tesco-qr-codes-cool/
- Showing my Toolbox on this site — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/notes/showing-my-toolbox-on-this-site/
- Theme-aware Mermaid Diagrams at build-time — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/notes/theme-aware-mermaid-diagrams-build-time/
- Upgrading to Astro 7 and switching to Sätteri — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/notes/upgrading-astro-7-switching-satteri/
- Moving my "Uses" pages to this site — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/notes/moving-uses-pages-site/
- A standalone implementation timeout for macOS — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-07-08-a-standalone-implementation-timeout-for/
- Introducing my very own Loom — danny.is (Jul 2026) https://danny.is/writing/loomclone-part-1/
- Vibe coding an iOS app to publish notes here — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/writing/vibe-coding-ios-app-chrome-extension-publish-notes/
- Test note - Vibe Coding an iOS app and Chrome extension to publish notes on this site! — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/test-note-vibe-coding-ios-app-chrome-extension/
- A New Website for Astro Editor — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/new-website-astro-editor/
- On standardising bookmarks in the Atmosphere — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/standardising-bookmarks-atmosphere/
- Test Piece (Jun 2026)
- This site has a styleguide now — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/site-styleguide-now/
- Making this Astro site more Agent-Friendly — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/writing/making-this-astro-site-agent-friendly/
- Nicer Cover Images — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/nicer-cover-images/
- Speeding up Astro builds and improving deployment — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/writing/speeding-up-astro-builds/
- A less painful editing experience in Astro — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/less-painful-editing-in-astro/
- New AI Statement, Privacy Policy and Colophon Pages — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/new-meta-pages/
- The end of responsive images - Piccalilli — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-06-06-the-end-of-responsive-images/
- Just Testing — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-06-05-just-testing/
- This site now has Atproto Records — danny.is (Jun 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-06-04-this-site-on-atproto/
- Some Work on this Site — danny.is (May 2026) https://danny.is/writing/2026-05-28-work-on-this-site/
- DHH’s new way of writing code — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-04-28-dhhs-new-way-of-writing/
- Theo: Open source is dead now? — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-04-22-theo-open-source-is-dead/
- Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-04-09-gas-towns-agent-patterns-design/
- Cobalt Next for Zed — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/cobalt-next-for-zed/
- Switching back to VSCode — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/switching-back-to-vscode/
- Roberts Radios — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/roberts-radios/
- Quoting: An appreciation for (technical) architecture (Interconnected) — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-04-02-an-appreciation-for-technical-architecture/
- Slop Is Not Necessarily The Future — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-04-02-slop-is-not-necessarily-the/
- Alex Piechowski: How I Audit a Legacy Rails Codebase in the First Week — danny.is (Apr 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-04-01-alex-piechowski-how-i-audit/
- Minecraft Bluemap Plugins & Managing a Minecraft Server — danny.is (Mar 2026) https://danny.is/notes/minecraft-bluemap-plugins/
- Tracking Biggles Books — danny.is (Mar 2026) https://danny.is/notes/tracking-biggles-books/
- Code has always been the easy part | Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea — danny.is (Mar 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-03-25-code-has-always-been-the/
- Stop Calling LLMs "Junior Developers." They're Monkey Paws. | Pere Villega — danny.is (Mar 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-03-12-stop-calling-llms-junior-developers/
- Quoting Jasmine Sun on My Claude Code Psychosis — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-01-26-my-claude-code-psychosis/
- Claude Code hallucinating like it's 2024 — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-01-22-claude-code-hallucinating-like-2024/
- A Social Filesystem by Dan Abramov — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-01-21-a-social-filesystem-by-dan/
- I made a datepicker — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/dannysmith-datepicker/
- Quoting Tomasz Tunguz - The Text Box Isn't Enough — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-01-09-the-text-box-isnt-enough/
- Quoting Jim Nielsen: To Make Software Is To Translate Human Intent Into Computational Precision — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-01-09-quoting-jim-nielsen-to-make/
- Introducing Astro Editor — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/writing/introducing-astro-editor/
- The Future of Software Development is Software Developers — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/2026-01-07-the-future-of-software-development/
- Consolidating Claude — danny.is (Jan 2026) https://danny.is/notes/consolidating-claude/
- Avoid Mini-frameworks - laike9m's blog — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/avoid-mini-frameworks-laike9m/
- My Global Raycast Snippets — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/my-global-snippets-dec-25/
- Quoting Sean Goedecke on Becoming Unblockable — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/sean-on-becoming-unblockable/
- Major Update to Tauri Template — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/tauri-template-update-dec-25/
- Using Claude Code to pull old articles into this Astro site — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/claude-code-to-pull-old-articles-into-astro/
- The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-12-12-the-great-software-quality-collapse/
- How AI Is Transforming Work at Anthropic \ Anthropic — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-12-12-how-ai-is-transforming-work/
- Jim Nielsen: Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-12-08-jim-nielsen-grow/
- I'm glad people still make things like this — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-12-08-funny-sites-dec-25/
- A Good Read: Using LLMs at Oxide — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/using-llms-at-oxide/
- The only winning move is not to play — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-12-08-the-only-winning-move/
- "Helpful rather than hurtful to the interests of mankind" – Richard Rutter — danny.is (Dec 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-12-08-helpful-rather-than-hurtful/
- Build Your Own Database — danny.is (Nov 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-11-21-build-your-own-database/
- Josh Farrant's Weblog — danny.is (Nov 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-11-21-josh-farrants-weblog/
- Quoting Simon quoting Steve Krouse — danny.is (Nov 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-11-13-quoting-simon-quoting-steve-krouse/
- How Did I Get Here? — danny.is (Nov 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-11-11-how-did-i-get-here/
- Quoting Cubic: The real problem with AI coding — danny.is (Nov 2025) https://danny.is/notes/cubic-the-real-problem-with-ai-coding/
- Frank Chimero · Selling Lemons — danny.is (Nov 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-11-03-frank-chimero-selling-lemons/
- Moving this site to Astro — danny.is (Oct 2025) https://danny.is/writing/moving-to-astro/
- Adding share features to this site — danny.is (Oct 2025) https://danny.is/notes/adding-share-features/
- Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature — danny.is (Oct 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-10-20-vibing-a-non-trivial-ghostty-feature/
- The Oatmeal on AI Art — danny.is (Oct 2025) https://danny.is/notes/oatmeal-on-ai-art/
- Armin Ronacher on Progress — danny.is (Oct 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-10-04-armin-ronacher-on-progress/
- A Youth Paralysed By Perfectionism - The Akin — danny.is (Sep 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-09-17-today-me/
- 15 rules for blogging — danny.is (Sep 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-09-16-15-rules-for-blogging/
- On Working with Wizards - by Ethan Mollick — danny.is (Sep 2025) https://danny.is/notes/2025-09-14-on-working-with-wizards-by-ethan-mollick/

## Links

- GitHub: http://github.com/dannysmith
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannyasmith/
- Website: https://danny.is