// 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:

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The longest way to represent a date

The other day, someone on IRC posed this question: “What is the longest way to represent a date using any means possible that isn’t just repeated filler?” Some people jumped for writing the date out in languages that had longer translations. My immediate reaction was instead to suggest an obnoxious string-based representation of a unix timestamp: “one second after one secon...
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Monthly Meanderings: February 2026

It doesn’t feel like a whole month has gone past since I wrote the last instalment of Monthly Meanderings, even allowing for how short a month February is. For more context on this series, you can check out the introduction to the first edition. Website updates I only wrote one new blog post this month: Just a nod, which is about the “nod” button I added to the bottom of most pag...
A chunky blue arcade button with the word 'nod' in the center

Just a nod

Last month I added a new feature to the bottom of almost all pages on this site: a “nod” button. It’s a bit like the upvote buttons you see on bear blog posts, or the ubiquitous like button you get on social media, with one key difference: it doesn’t track or count anything. Before I get into the whys and hows, this is what it currently looks like: So why bother? I like hea...