Christopher Smothers

hi 👋 i'm chris and i'm running experiments to illuminate a world that lights us all up to live in

San Francisco, CA

chris @becomingbabyman
how i’m living breath more deeply loosen up quiet the mind open the heart perceive what is love what i can plant trees garden tend fires remove armor share self see others make friends sing and dance naked around the fires in our forest thank mother and father for breathing life
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I made LIBCard so you can have a little home on the internet that's yours. It's free, open source, and you can host it on GitHub Pages. Copy the prompt below into Claude Code, Codex, or your favorite coding agent. It'll ask a few questions, help make the page feel like you, and walk you through getting it online.

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Help me build and publish my own personal website with LibCard: https://github.com/crs48/LIBCard.

First read the setup guide at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crs48/LIBCard/main/docs/AGENT_SETUP.md, then follow it using the tools available in this coding environment. If you cannot fetch it, tell me and ask me to paste it instead of guessing.

Use my connected GitHub repository if it is suitable. Inspect it before changing anything, preserve existing work, and never push to the upstream LibCard repository. If there is already an app or website here, ask where I want LibCard to live before replacing or moving anything.

Guide me conversationally. Start with a few short questions about my name, bio, links, and the look I want. Reuse details I have already provided, suggest sensible defaults, and let me refine the result after seeing a preview. Only include contact details I want made public.

Set up the site, customize libcard.config.yaml, and replace the demo owner's content and services with mine. Use pnpm, configure the correct GitHub Pages URL and base path, and check the build and mobile layout. Show me the result, then help publish it to my repository when I am ready. Use any publishing authorization I have already given; otherwise ask after the preview is ready. If GitHub access or hosting settings need my input, explain the exact next step and keep working on what you can.

Finish with my live URL, what you verified, and how I can update my content later. Please start by inspecting this workspace and asking for the details you still need.

Want to see how it works? Read the setup guide or grab the code.

Is it really free?

Yes — it runs on GitHub Pages with no server and no subscription.

Can I use my own domain?

Yes. Add a CNAME and set site.base to "/".

Can I embed content?

Yup. Video, maps, music, forms, and more.

Like how I operate?

Yay! Support my work, try a project, share feedback, or contribute to whatever energizes you.

Help keep these experiments going at crs.tips, my own instance of Feedme — the open-source tipping tool I'm building. It reads the project list directly from this site's LibCard config, so you can tip me and pick the experiments you'd like to see more of.

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Your pick is a suggestion about where to put my energy. Every tip supports me either way.

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What's your dream internet?

Shall we prototype it together?

xNet is my prototype of the internet tools I wish existed. I'm building a way to make local-first apps that feel like personal software: yours to tinker with, pull apart, and fit together like Lego.

Your data lives on your device. The apps work offline, you choose what to share, and you can change tools without leaving your stuff behind. I want to see what people make when software can grow around their lives and the little communities they care about.

Come explore xNet, read the stories behind it, or tinker with the code.

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