Sam Smith

I store all of my important (and many not so important) documents in my Paperless-ngx instance running on my homelab.

Victoria Harbour Central Queen’s Road Central Tamar Street Admiralty Arsenal Street Escalators II Queen’s Road East Underpass Pei Ho Street Market I Pei Ho Street Market II Old Bailey Street Central Plaza I took these photos in June and August of 2018.

I use my keyboards a lot, my job as a software engineer involves quite a lot of typing, I also spend quite a lot of my spare time in front of a computer.

In September 2025 my wife and I spent just over 3 week in China, her first time back to her home country in 2 years and my third trip there, having been in 2017 and 2018.

I have finally bought a domain for this website and it is moving to samsm.ch.

Standout is a short series of shots taken in Switzerland between March 2021 and May 2024.

If you’re writing a database query for your web service and there’s pagination, you should always sort by a unique field like ID.

5 years ago I wrote Rgeo, a small Go package for reverse geocoding (you input some coordinates, it gives you information about the location).

I’ve been working on web backends in Go for the past 5 years, and on various projects of covering a range of ages from brand new greenfield projects to one built on top of a core that predates the Go language.

This year was, unlike the previous few, without any major travel.

August 01 is Swiss national day, and one of the few days of the year that it’s legal to set off fireworks here in Zurich.

2019 was another active year for me, with a trip to Venice in July and then a long trip to Barcelona, the U.S, Vietnam, Thailand but mostly Taiwan.

I was recently looking through all the photos I took during my 4 years living in Nottingham to see if I could come up with some kind of series out of them.

Just 15 months after I posted my Singapore Architecture photo series, I have decided to revisit this theme with some photos I took in New York last September.

Rgeo is a fast, simple solution for local reverse geocoding, Rather than relying on external software or online APIs, rgeo packages all of the data it needs in your binary.

It’s 5 months since I posted my project Campus Lights.

Having finished my last portfolio at the end of 2017 I can now start doing them yearly, so this one covers 2018.

As an astronomy student and hobbyist, light pollution has sort of become my environmental issue of choice.

"The pariah curs were baying the moon - it was only a quarter full and nearly down by midnight, but the dogs slept all day in the heat, and they had begun their moon-choruses already" - George Orwell It was on the first night of the 3 day trek from Kalaw…

In another attempt at post-shooting photo series creation, I have put together a collection of architecture shots I took during my brief stay in Singapore in June of 2018.

This set of images begins where the last portfolio leaves off and primarily shows my travels during the summer of 2017, with the last image being the only one outside of that.

This is a pair of photos that I took from the top floor of a pagoda in 小鱼山公园 (Xiaoyushan park, or Little Fish Hill Park) in Qingdao, China.

This series of photographs represents approximately a years worth of work, starting in April 2016 when I got my Hasselblad.

This is the remnants of a failed attempt at a photo project looking at Birmingham’s pedestrian subways.