Joseph B. Smith
Staff Practice Accountant, OneOncology · MAcc candidate, Belmont
Work
I'm a Staff Practice Accountant at OneOncology, working in practice revenue. I'm finishing a Master of Accountancy at Belmont University, then the CPA.
Outside work I build revenue tools under Branmoor: ClearRate reads hospital price-transparency files at scale, and payor-intelligence tracks payor behavior.
Essays on healthcare revenue will live here.
Code
- ClearRate — crawls hospital price-transparency files at scale and turns them into one queryable dataset. Runs under Branmoor; private for now.
- 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. The books balance.
- This site — hand-written HTML, one file per page. Receipts in the colophon.
- The drive — an 8-bit coastal highway with a working radio station, 2¼ hours of K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's on the dial.
Everything public is at github.com/josephbsmith.
Writing
I write history books — one institution at a time, from primary sources. The first ten, in draft:
- 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
Contact
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.