// 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:

A screenshot of Olive Crosses, showing links to other services with icons based on their two-word names

Building a family of single-user services

Last month I made and wrote about a personal service to track my workouts and record personal bests. Since then, things have escalated. I now have eight different services running in the same “family”:
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Monthly Meanderings: July 2026

Another month, another roundup post. This month has been very… exercise-y. Which is, for the record, not normal for me. For the previous year my only source of exercise has basically been walking, but that’s not a great fitness activity for me. When my regular walks entered the 10-15km territory it got more and more annoying to find the time and/or an interesting route. I also managed to i...
Screenshot of Pompei Band showing a running activity. Below the activity name, distance and date is a table of best efforts, showing values for 400m, 800m, 1km, 1mi, 2km, and 3km. Each effort shows the time taken, pace and grade-adjusted pace. Some have a golden laurel next to them with the next 'New PB', one has a silver second place medal with '2nd fastest'.

Tracking PBs without the dark patterns

I’ve recently been bitten by some kind of strange exercise bug. I’ve gone from being mostly sedentary to struggling to not go out for a cheeky bike ride on a day that’s meant to be a rest day. Maybe this is what a midlife crisis feels like? Anyway, one of the things I’ve enjoyed about this development is seeing my personal best efforts gradually go up. There’s somethi...