Welcome to al9000

This is my new home on the web. I've still got my old place at alanwsmith.com. There's a few thousand posts there. I'll get them over here as time allows. In the mean time, here's what's new or has already been moved.

-a

Some Content

• AI/LLM Observations [Aug. 2026]
• Compare HTML Fragments in Rust to See if They Match
• How Creatives and Devs Can All Finally Escape the Control of the Silicon Valley of Evil and Make a Trillion Dollars, Audio Style
• Week Notes [2026 #32]
• AT Proto Lexicon Playground
• Week Notes #31 - 2026
• Better nom Error Messages with nom_locate
• Week Notes #30 - 2026
• CSS Sticky Sidebar
• A CSS Only Tabs Prototype (No JavaScript Required)
• Adding Copy Buttons with Bitty
• Week Notes #29 - 2026
• Background Texture Maker
• Blog Post base32 ID Cleanup
• Three Dates in a Trench Coat
• Full Site Links
• Week Notes #28 - 2026
• NeoDoc
• Stream Tools
• Pondering Standard.site and the Social Web
• Konami
• Type Different: Changing the Keys on Your Keyboard
• RSS Powers: Activated
• Unoffice Hours
• Project Ideas
• The Name(s) of My New Band
• DAE - Digital to Analog Enlarger
• Manic Scroll
• QR Alice
• QR Clock
• Tabletop Simulator Art
• Fingers to Keys
• The Good Place
• Get the Stem of a File Name in bash
• Get the Name of the Current Directory in bash
• Doors
• I'm Not Ready to Start This Blog
• Use Keyword Args in a Function
• Capture Errors from Command Line Tools
• Access Mac Keychain Access Passwords from a Rust App
• Create an HLS Encrypted Video with ffmpeg
• A Media Source Extensions (MSE) Video Player
• Split a File into Multiple Collections of Bytes
• Hello, World in Rust WASM
• Scratchpad
• The Clicky Sound

bitty

The main project I've been working on is bitty. It's a front-end framework designed to make it easier to make things for the web. You can check it out at bittyjs.com.