Hi. I’m Jamie Smith, a web developer and musician frae Edinburgh, Scotland. (Other interests: the Scots language and animal rights.)
Featured blog posts
Hand-written lyrics for lost Freddie Mercury songs up for auction
A whole host of working lyrics and notes from the sessions which produced Freddie’s 1985 solo album Mr Bad Guy are available to bid on.
Fix for missing ‘AScore’ font when editing Logic Pro PDFs
Opening PDFs exported from Logic Pro for editing in applications like Affinity and Adobe Illustrator can result in rendering issues due to the unavailability to third-party apps of Logic’s default score 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.
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.