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Cleland Smith

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Hi, my name is Cleland Smith.* I am a science fiction writer and poet.

I was born in Inverness in 1977 and grew up in Dingwall by the Cromarty Firth. I started writing stories and poems before I could spell properly and was soon amassing jotters full of them. Following secondary school, I moved to Glasgow where I studied at the University of Glasgow for my MA in English Language and Literature, then spent the next couple of years working and saving to study for an MA in writing. In 2003 I moved to London to study at Goldsmiths College London for my Masters in Creative and Life Writing, where I was lucky enough to be tutored by Lavinia Greenlaw, Maurice Riordan and Stephen Knight.

I have published three volumes of poetry: Waiting to Burn (2007

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Shared Primitives, Different Affordances

Shared Primitives, Different Affordances

As developer and data platforms mature, they tend to sprawl across surfaces: command-line tools, IDE integrations, APIs, and increasingly rich web UIs. Each surface serves a different mode of work, a different cognitive posture, and often a different class of user. The challenge isn’t simply supporting all of them—it’s creating continuity across them without collapsing everything into a lowest-com

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