Patrick Smith — Product 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 Mastodon / X / Bluesky. You can refer to me by he/him, Patrick.
• My resume as a PDF.

Recent Blog Posts

• 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
• Web App vs Site vs Hybrid
• Introducing Orb, a WebAssembly DSL for Elixir
• Introducing Collected Press
• Write Once, Integrate Everywhere
• WebAssembly allows script tags everywhere