@quintinfsmith.bsky.social - Quintin F Smith (No Relation)

26 Sep 2026 22:47 +0000

functional software != apparently functional software != almost functional software

23 Sep 2026 22:47 +0000

The creators of 'Primetime' really missed a trick by not calling it 'To Catch a Chris Hansen'

12 Sep 2026 14:19 +0000

My Idols are alive, but they turned out to be weird little guys. My enemies are in power and are also weird little guys.

12 Sep 2026 00:19 +0000

@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy I'm currently listening to your interview with Valerie Veatch and I will be using "I'm getting a bit old to got out setting fire to things, but I'm supportive of a reasoned, nuanced, centrist, balanced approach to fire" for the rest of my life.

10 Sep 2026 19:40 +0000

Working on section folding:

04 Sep 2026 05:47 +0000

The hardest part about being a single Canadian man is that all of our women are in committed. long-distance relationships with men they met in summer camp.

29 Aug 2026 15:45 +0000

I think it says something about how poisoned our collective brains are that - Re: generative AI - I've still never heard a single programmer express a desire to avoid adding $ to an otherwise free workflow.

26 Aug 2026 20:03 +0000

There's a game of broken telephone that happens at any software company - The programmer will dumb-down something to their higher-ups who then communicate with customers/investors. The taller the hierarchy, the worse it gets. TL;DR LLM agents are not "breaking containment"

26 Aug 2026 04:29 +0000

When I started Pagan, I'd hoped that eventually some people would show interest in contributing to it. In hindsight, that may have been an unreasonable goal considering it's an app tailored to the sensibilities of an autistic hermit.

21 Aug 2026 20:01 +0000

Apologies if you've been experiencing higher-than-normal battery usage from Pagan in the last few versions. I just noticed and the fix will released asap.

09 Aug 2026 03:49 +0000

The SF2 spec states left/right linked samples are supposed to point to eachother but this is redundant so sf2 makers and players ignore that fact. Because I didn't know that, Pagan follows the spec and loads whatever random noise is pointed to. This will be fixed in v1.8.27

04 Aug 2026 04:06 +0000

Kyle Gordon isn't the modern Weird Al. You just think that because Weird Al is inextricably linked to the concept of parody in your head. How do I know? At least half of the songs you think are by Weird Al aren't by Weird Al: https://playingintheworldgame.com/2016/01/18/the-not-weird-al-page/

30 Jul 2026 04:50 +0000

"I've vibecoded this app and am looking for feedback. And just to be quirky put your feedback in the form of a prompt that I won't copy paste into an LLM."

25 Jul 2026 21:26 +0000

When people who are otherwise skeptical of LLMs say they don't mind when they're used to do , what they mean is they don't understand well enough to see that LLMs can't do it.

25 Jul 2026 02:57 +0000

New Public Kanban board for pagan at codeberg: https://codeberg.org/quintinfsmith/pagan/projects/61606

25 Jul 2026 02:02 +0000

Either codeberg.org is getting a ton of migrations or AI chuds are ddos'ing them https://codeberg.org

24 Jul 2026 16:59 +0000

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough! I'm migrating to Codeberg!

18 Jul 2026 00:45 +0000

"Magenta feelings" cannot be the right lyrics.

09 Jul 2026 21:00 +0000

I finally added low (and high) pass filters to Pagan (v1.8.17)

03 Jul 2026 17:43 +0000

The way people have started using the word "compute" to mean processing power makes me think of "I don't have online." from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

30 May 2026 16:58 +0000

AI allows everyone to share their true creativity! Now check out my fitness/wellness/habit/financial tracker app!

04 May 2026 00:43 +0000

I just found out FL Studio Mobile *just* added sf2 support... Here's a very smug screenshot of 2008's Iron Man. burnsomni.net/manual/pagan (And it's free)

04 Mar 2026 03:37 +0000

How much mar would a marmot mot if a marmot could mot mar?

27 Feb 2026 05:10 +0000

Just added Pinch-to-Zoom and Normalized Beat Widths to Pagan.

13 Feb 2026 18:16 +0000

For anyone curious about which features for Pagan that I'm currently working on or have in the hopper, I've set up a publicly visible github project here https://github.com/users/quintinfsmith/projects/8

08 Feb 2026 01:01 +0000

Pagan v1.8.0 Is out now! Get it via Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qfs.pagan Or get the APK directly: https://github.com/quintinfsmith/pagan/releases/tag/v1.8.0 The FDroid version will be available within the week https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.qfs.pagan/

07 Feb 2026 18:11 +0000

Me: 4 months of refactoring & development Github: If it's not on the main branch, it didn't happen.

10 Jan 2026 21:42 +0000

The *real* jazz is the friends we didn't make along the way.

10 Jan 2026 18:33 +0000

Watching the Big Fat Quiz of Telly. They did a bit with AI generated promo posters for shows and it feels exactly like when someone tells you their idea for an app: "I had a vague idea. Aren't I creative?"