Patrick George Wyndham Smith
Blog
- Levers of Light
- Imperative Core, Sandboxed Shell
- Apple’s App Commodification and the End of Delicious Differentiation
- Test Driven Vibes
- Electric Bicycle for the Mind
- Automated Tests or Documentation? Why Not Both
- Demos are Forcing Functions
- How Components and Behavior-Driven Tests Overlap
- Think of your visual UI as progressive enhancement on an accessible core
- An Optimist uses a Pessimist’s Wi-Fi
- Introducing Orb, a WebAssembly DSL for Elixir
- Introducing Collected Press
- Write Once, Integrate Everywhere
- WebAssembly allows script tags everywhere
About Me
- 🪢 I work as product-led developer & design engineer
- 🕸️ I’m working on Orb, a language for writing WebAssembly with Elixir, and other platform-agnostic WebAssembly demos at Calculated.World
- 💬 I’m fascinated by the intersection between user experience design, software engineering, and product strategy, all of which I talk about on my podcast Runtime Reverie.
- 🪺 I’ve written up my approach to building UIs at components.guide.
- 🌱 I’m enjoy creating with Elixir, WebAssembly, Rust, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, Golang, sharing thoughts with writing, and making video.
- 💡 I'm working on collected.press to create buildless sites and blogs. It’s what this site you are currently reading is built with. The content is fetched directly from a GitHub repo and then rendered on-the-fly on a CloudFlare edge server.
Contact
- I’m @royalicing on Bluesky / X / Mastodon. You can refer to me by he/him/Patrick.
- My resume as a PDF.