// Personal website of Chris Smith

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Name:
Chris Smith
Class:
Programmer
Type:
Human
HP:
929
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Chameth.com

Hello :)

Hello! I'm Chris, a software developer from the UK. Welcome to my personal website.

The site is mostly organised around a bunch of slash pages:

  • /posts is where all my blog posts live
  • /projects lists my various side projects
  • /interests is a big ol' list of things I'm into
  • /films logs films I've seen and my reviews of them
  • /uses has an overview of the software, hardware, services, and so on, that I use
  • /contact provides a way to drop me an e-mail
  • /colophon details a bit about how the site is made
  • /snippets has little bits of code or other info I find useful
  • /sitemap is a more exhaustive list of contents

If you're just here for the blog posts, the latest ones are:

Word cloud featuring: warcraft, post, really, play, finished, melee, world, llama, class, artemis, scattered, nice, still, pain-free, always, programmes, jubilee, another, interesting, self-contained

Monthly Meanderings: May 2026

Another month, another wrap-up post. This is the first one I’ve felt reluctant to write, and I think it’s because I feel like I didn’t really do anything last month. Other than play a lot of World of Warcraft. Website updates No new posts this month, but I finished off the refactoring I mentioned in the last update. It’s been a very satisfying process, and working on the si...
Word cloud featuring: month, package, warcraft, been, world, enjoying, koans, visible, since, wow-spec-switch, archaeological, forgejo, migrating, irc-adze, projects, anecdote, stylesheet, quirks, healing, ulauncher

Monthly Meanderings: April 2026

It’s apparently been a whole month since the last edition of Monthly Meanderings. Not sure when that happened. This month I’ve been to a LAN party, had an MRI, and have been trying unsuccessfully to get my doctor to change a prescription. The latter two are not doing much to help shake that middle-aged feeling I mentioned last month… Website updates Another pair of blog posts for thi...
A screenshot of the GitHub error page, featuring an angry-looking Unicorn.

Migrating from GitHub to Forgejo

When Microsoft bought GitHub in 2018 my kneejerk reaction — like so many others — was to start looking for alternatives. For a while I self hosted a Gitea instance but I never totally bought into it: some repositories I still pushed to GitHub, some I pushed to Gitea and they got mirrored, and I ended up causing myself problems when I got the two confused. Part of the problem was that the GitHu...