About Steven Smethurst
Hi 👋🏼 I'm Steven Smethurst, and I live two lives. By day I'm a CTO at Chipkin Automation Systems, teaching stubborn machines to talk to each other. By night I'm a Artist, Maker, Hacker, and all-around tinkerer who can't leave a good idea alone.
When I'm not beep-booping at the day job, you might find me 🌳 visiting every park in Vancouver, making a deck of cards with birds photos, PCB design, papercraft, Stained Glass, Maps, Board Games, Segment Displays, Lasers and kaleidoscopes, and basically anything that glows. See what I'm currently working on.
I've been keeping a blog since 2001, and I post works-in-progress over on Instagram. Come say hi!
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From the blog
Migrating from Jekyll to Astro
On June 21, 2026 I switched the site from Jekyll to Astro and rebuilt the theme from scratch. Here's why.
Read post2026-March Brain Dump
Bookmarks from March 2026
Read postGlitch in the CounterProductive Button – June 28 to July 4
CounterProductive downtime between June 28-July 4
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