Joseph B. Smith

Work

I'm a Staff Practice Accountant at OneOncology, working in practice revenue with previous experience at HCA Healthcare and MPower Physical Therapy. I'm finishing a Master of Accountancy at Belmont University. I am currently testing for the CPA.

On evenings and weekends, I work on Branmoor, converting messy healthcare data into useful intelligence. Currently mapping national hospital price transparency files and studying payor relationships across the industry. This project is currently private.

Check out my coding projects here and read my writing here.

Code

• ClearRate - crawls hospital price-transparency files at scale and turns them into one queryable dataset. Runs under Branmoor; private for now. mrf-reader is a small public tool built from the same work: point it at any hospital's published price file and it reports what is actually in there. A 328 MB CSV, 603 columns wide, read from an 8 MB prefix.
• PlusFive - an offline logbook for the Starting Strength novice progression. A phone-first web app you can install from this site and use at the gym; your data never leaves your device. Source.
• A personal ERP - a Workday-inspired system for one household: strict double-entry core, dimensional reporting, statement ingestion and reconciliation, fixed assets, debt, budgets, forecasts, KPIs. Local-first and private. I use it for my own books; it's free to download and try. Source.
• WorkpaperDiff - diffs two Excel workpapers for accounting logic, not cell noise: formula-to-hardcode, sign flips, stale dates, broken prior-period links. Reads xlsx with the standard library. Source.
• TieOut - runs reproducible reconciliations and rollforwards from executable JSON specs, with decimal arithmetic and a failed exit when a control does not tie. Source.
• ClaimBench - ten synthetic claim-to-cash accounting scenarios with authoritative journal entries and expected subledger states. Source.
• RateTest - executable tests for synthetic payer-contract mathematics, from case rates and per diems through stop-loss. Source.
• HCRIS Kit - loads CMS hospital cost-report extracts into SQLite without losing worksheet, line, column, or source-row provenance. Source.
• MRF Lint - checks hospital price-transparency files for economic coherence after schema validation, with every finding tied to a row and rule. Source.
• Personal Frequency - a local radio tuner: presets on a dial, live streams, podcast feeds, and your own files. A stdlib Python server and one page of vanilla JS, no build step. Source.
• This site - hand-written HTML, one file per page. Receipts in the colophon. Source.
• F1 Pit Wall - a local second screen for a Formula 1 session: gaps, tyre age, pace, stint history, a transparent pit-rejoin estimate. There's a replay of a real race to try. Source.
• Go for a drive

Twenty-two small tools - accounting checks, evidence ledgers, diff engines, simulators - are cataloged at /tools. Everything public is at github.com/josephbsmith.

Writing

I write essays on current events and history from primary sources.

The Economist and the Artist: A 200-Year History

Shorter histories:

• The New York Clearing House, 1853–1913
• The Exchequer of England, 1110–1327
• The Arsenal of Venice, 1300–1600
• The Civil-Service Examinations of Imperial China, 605–1905
• The Janissary Corps, From Its Foundation to 1826
• The Victualling Board and the Provisioning of the Royal Navy, 1793–1815
• The Tower Press-Room, 1695–1727
• The Commissioners of Longitude, 1714–1828
• A History of Lloyd's, From the Coffee House to the Act of 1871
• Counting Machines: The Census, Punched Cards, and IBM, 1880–1945

The Economist and the Artist

A 200-Year History

200 years of monetary history from Napoleon to the first trillionaire.

Read it · PDF, 352 pages

Contact

[email protected]

linkedin.com/in/josephbenjaminsmith

Colophon

Hand-written HTML - no framework, no build step, no analytics, no cookies. View source and you've seen the whole thing. Text is set in Charter with monospace labels; both ship with your operating system, so nothing downloads.

The drive is its own page: a pseudo-3D coastline drawn on a ~320×180 canvas at 60 frames a second, upscaled with hard pixels. The road bends on a random walk, the sun sets in real time, and the dash clock keeps your time. The radio streams two and a quarter hours of K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's in range requests - you download only what you listen to. It respects reduced-motion settings.

Built at a terminal with Claude Code riding shotgun. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages.