Good Output (Issue #159)
2024-04-13 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-04-13)
In this week’s edition:
Sun, moon & the solar eclipse, Tom Hanks spaceman, Bitcoin lending, student debt, civil war dystopia, Bitcoin’s design, Tik Tok ban, monopolies, free speech
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Pushing To Main (Issue #158)
2024-04-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-04-06)
In this week’s edition:
A fantastic mix of tech related podcasts from state of the tech scene reviews to hobby project development, and some interviews with very interesting people. Your gonna love it.
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Eating Glass (Issue #157)
2024-03-30 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-03-30)
In this week’s edition:
Bitcoin scaling, social media federation, Bitcoin on feature phones, Microstrategy strategy, the slaughtering of good media outlets, fascinating Bitcoin mining dynamics
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Backlash (Issue #156)
2024-03-23 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-03-23)
In this week’s edition:
TikTok ban, volcanos & the Pixies, Bitcoin basics from 2022, podcasters talking to podcasters, crypto narratives for 2024, AI models vs reality, EU regulation, tech innovation droubt, Apple antitrust
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Compositing the Sistine Chapel (Issue #155)
2024-03-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-03-16)
In this week’s edition:
Apple & DMA & webapps & iOS browser diversity, Gilded age entrepreneurship, Rogan, Tiktok, Filterworld, running restaurants, bitcoin bull run, RFK
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Breathing Difficult (Issue #154)
2024-03-09 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-03-09)
In this week’s edition:
Social media vs personal websites, AI and deep fakes, future of money and crypto, history of Ukraine, history of curry, building the next era of the internet, social media traps
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Antibiotics & Podcasts (Issue #153)
2024-03-02 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-03-02)
In this week’s edition:
Quartet of Bitcoin, Right to repair, what the fed owns, developing software for satellites, Bach, accessibility & reality of web components in production
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AI: the Good, the Bad, and the Lawyers (Issue #152)
2024-02-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-02-17)
In this week’s edition:
Lots of interesting AI podcasts, no Vision Pro stuff, aside from a bit of commentary from me. I’m still very ill, so please bear with me.
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Death’s Door (Issue #151)
2024-01-27 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-01-27)
In this week’s edition:
Focus on tech this week, trying to take my mind off of anything related to terminal breaths, which is very much a thing and very scary. The world keeps on turning.
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Quite Quiet (Issue #150)
2024-01-20 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-01-20)
In this week’s edition:
Sort of a quiet week but still a few interesting and important topics: Bitcoin scaling, HTMX, regulation in the EU and open source AI.
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Everything Bitcoin (Issue #149)
2024-01-13 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-01-13)
In this week’s edition:
Bitcoin ETFs, Bitcoin history, generative AI legal discussion, webdev juniors vs AI, and my website’s new incredibly sexy everything RSS feed. Lol worst issue desc ever. Brain full.
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Another year! (Issue #148)
2024-01-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-01-06)
In this week’s edition:
Here we go again :)
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Happy New Year (Issue #147)
2023-12-30 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-12-30)
In this week’s edition:
New Year Edition - Loads of great techish podcasts for the holiday break. Happy 2024 everybody!
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Nutritious Tech (Issue #146)
2023-12-23 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-12-23)
In this week’s edition:
Holiday edition - Elon’s actually quite interesting backstory, the Beatles, the year of AI, Kasparov & freedom, javascript upcoming new features, and some quality bitcoin stuff.
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The Bitcoin Self Custody Lie (Issue #145)
2023-12-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-12-16)
In this week’s edition:
Assembly theory, slightly woo but uplifting spirituality, bitcoin in difficult environments, social media shifting, science & interstellar meteors, space travel and podcasting experimentation.
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Swimming in Nested For Loops (Issue #144)
2023-12-09 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-12-09)
In this week’s edition:
Another slightly quiet news week, but there’s some interesting podcasts about the future of social media, the future of money and the future of societies.
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Oddball Week (Issue #143)
2023-12-02 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-12-02)
In this week’s edition:
Change of pace given the thanksgiving holiday last weekend, but actually it’s resulted in quite a varied mix of interesting things. History, AI tech, philosophy, and a touch of politics.
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Passing the Baton of Chaos (Issue #142)
2023-11-25 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-11-25)
In this week’s edition:
A sampling of the cool things happening this week. Obviously some OpenAI stuff but also a bunch of other interesting things that are chugging away even if they aren’t being all crazy about it.
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Surrounded by Bears (Issue #141)
2023-11-18 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-11-18)
In this week’s edition:
Oh gosh it’s another one of those weeks, emergency issue, with 1 podcast, 1 article and 1 thoughtful bit of analysis :)
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Money, Movies, Kindness, Elon and Barack (Issue #140)
2023-11-11 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-11-11)
In this week’s edition:
Great mix this week. It’s the intersection of tech, AI and humanity and all the things good and bad that connect us. There’s a weird zen balance to it all.
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Social Media Renaissance (Issue #139)
2023-11-04 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-11-04)
In this week’s edition:
Twitter is imploding but decentralised social media is entering a very interesting moment. AI futurism you just have to laugh at and let’s abstract everything for infiniti. Business as usual.
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Embarrassed to be Human (Issue #138)
2023-11-28 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-11-28)
In this week’s edition:
Another week of not knowing if I’ll make it to next weekend.
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Wordpress for Crypto? (Issue #137)
2023-10-21 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-10-21)
In this week’s edition:
So you want to integrate crypto functionality into your website. How you gonna do that exactly? It’s not so obvious.
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Exhausted (Issue #136)
2023-10-14 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-10-14)
In this week’s edition:
Another emergency issue to ensure something gets sent out. No more physical media, lots more lies. How’s that total societal processing capacity going for you?
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Walled Gardens and Reality Interfaces (Issue #135)
2023-10-07 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-10-07)
In this week’s edition:
The motorbike gang stalker intimidation continues, that’s my current reality interface headset. I’m just trying to build a static site generator.
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Bitcoin Butterfly (Issue #134)
2023-09-30 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-09-30)
In this week’s edition:
Money, bitcoin, free speech, AI assistants, static site generators, roman history, kiosks are cool, physics is barmy, Cockney rhyming slang and I’m loosing my mind again.
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Beware Of Circularity (Issue #133)
2023-08-23 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-08-23)
In this week’s edition:
Everyone has been going on about circles and circular economies recently. I’m not so convinced. Circles can be vicious, mindblowing is the new super easy peasy. Lots of great podcasts this week.
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Wonderfull and Strange Nerdy Discussions (Issue #132)
2023-09-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-09-16)
In this week’s edition:
Everyone’s having weird conversations and it’s great! AI religions to Harry Potter to prime numbers, through to debasing everything, the internet sucking, philanthropy, and good/bad Typescript.
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Circles or Squiggles? (Issue #131)
2023-09-09 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-09-09)
In this week’s edition:
Exploring both the good and bad sides of tech. How do we progress when there is clearly two sides to the coin? Some incredibly awesome futuristic stuff but also some somewhat darker things too.
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A Bit of a Trip (Issue #130)
2023-09-02 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-09-02)
In this week’s edition:
We are entering into an era of very long timescales. This week we go on a bit of a journey in space and time to try and get handle on what this might mean exactly.
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Bingeing the Past and Building the Future (Issue #129)
2023-08-26 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-08-26)
In this week’s edition:
This week is all about building the future while being informed, but not imprisoned, by the past.
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Make Things, Take Notes, Profit (Issue #128)
2023-08-19 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-08-19)
In this week’s edition:
This week is a celebration of makers, builders, creators of all types and the cultures that surround this amazing activity that keeps the world a fascinating place.
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Browser Runs All the Things (Issue #127)
2023-08-12 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-08-12)
In this week’s edition:
The browser, the final frontier. Seems like the only thing not running in the browser these days is another browser. What’s up with this craziness?
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Our Fake Everything Future: Economies, Internets and Families (Issue #126)
2023-08-05 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-08-05)
In this week’s edition:
Everything is fake these days. How bad could it get? In the future even cake will be fake. How will you prepare for our fake cake future?
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Alternative Dev Culture (Issue #125)
2023-07-29 12:45:00 +0700 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-07-29)
In this week’s edition:
Loads of stuff: DevTools, Aliens, On prem infra, history of student protests in France, layer2 infinite scalability, and travel podcasting
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The Crypto, AI & Synthetic Biology Trinity (Issue #124)
2023-07-22 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-07-22)
In this week’s edition:
A look at the major tech trends of the current moment, crypto, AI and synthetic biology, how they are intersecting, and an exploration of the weird and wonderful world that could be ahead of us.
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Synthetic Biology Inside (Issue #123)
2023-07-15 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-07-15)
In this week’s edition:
The whirlwind passing through the world of social media continues, while a new very far out and quite strange paradigm of computation starts to gain some traction.
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Pandemonium in cyberspace (Issue #122)
2023-07-08 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-07-08)
In this week’s edition:
A lot of bigger picture stuff swirling around this week, the group vs the individual, access and permission, new tech launches and old tech revivals.
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Offline in a Digital Asset Economy (Issue #121)
2023-07-01 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-07-01)
In this week’s edition:
It’s full steam ahead with digital asset economies, crypto communities, the future of re-staking and society. It’s wonderful. But also if you are a web developer, good luck when you are offline dude.
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The Economics of Catching the AI Wave (Issue #120)
2020-06-24 12:45:00 +0700 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-06-24)
In this week’s edition:
We are heading into a future where AI is in every technology we use. You need to understand the fundamental cost curves, and maybe dangers, that are in play in solving the training conundrum.
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Don‘t Missout on Magic (Issue #119)
2020-06-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-06-17)
In this week’s edition:
The sometimes haphazard nature shipping, the subtleties and nuance of expressive changes and the changing landscape of digital tools for creators.
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Apple’s Vision Pro, Crypto vs SEC (Issue #118)
2023-06-10 12:45:00 +0700 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-06-10)
In this week’s edition:
Apple announces the most complicated and futuristic device ever made, the SEC tries to blowup the entire crypto industry, and I figured out and fixed the newsletter issue numbering thing
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Quite A Lot Of History (Issue #117)
2023-06-03 12:45:00 +0700 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-06-03)
In this week’s edition:
This week there’s quite a lot of history and culture in the podcasts, all very interesting, and often relevant to the tech conversations du jour. The links have some good tech and javascript items.
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Gifs, Culture, Media, AI & Vegetables (Issue #116)
2023-05-27 12:45:00 +0700 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2023-05-27)
In this week’s edition:
Last week’s media narrative continues, the notion of how tech affects the greater culture has been popping up quite a bit this week, which I love, an assortment of AI related discussions, javascript dev natterings, and the return of the daily linkblog.
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AI Wonderland To Deprecate World Wide Web (Issue #115)
2020-05-20 12:45:00 +0700 by Mark Smith
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Optimism in a Constantly Deflationary World (Issue #114)
2020-05-13 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Mindblown Everything (Issue #113)
2023-05-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Cauldron of Synchronicities (Issue #112)
2023-04-29 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Foie Gras For Everyone (Issue #111)
2023-04-22 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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And Then They Cut Off The Podcasts (Issue #110)
2023-04-15 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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World Continues To Say No (Issue #109)
2023-04-08 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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World Says No (Issue #108)
2023-04-01 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Aftermath (Issue #107)
2023-03-25 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Midweek special - Catching up (Issue #106)
2023-03-21 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Probably Dead (Issue #105)
2023-03-18 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Bleak Beyond Belief (Issue #104)
2023-03-11 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Murderers (Issue #103)
2023-03-04 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Beep Beep (Issue #102)
2023-02-25 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Emotionally Damaged Humans Club (Issue #101)
2023-02-18 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Just Another TBD (Issue #100)
2023-02-11 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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An accelerator for the accelerator & a leash for the leash (Issue #99)
2023-02-04 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Extreme Plumbing (Issue #98)
2023-01-28 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Browsers and Music and Vikings & War (Issue #97)
2023-01-21 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Communism vs the Infiniti Simulacrum (Issue #96)
2023-01-14 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Locked Out Again (Issue #95)
2023-01-07 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Happy New Year Edition (Issue #94)
2022-12-31 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Happy Christmas Edition (Issue #93)
2022-12-24 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Ensuring the Enable Maximiser Doesn’t Destroy the Multiverse (Issue #92.2)
2022-12-17 13:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Today’s newsletter (Issue #92.1)
2022-12-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Fear and Loathing in the Multiverse (Issue #91)
2022-12-10 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Digital Fashion, Odious Debt, and Flaming Bonfires (Issue #90)
2022-12-03 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Geopolitics, Money and Football (Issue #89)
2022-11-26 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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World is Gonna World (Issue #88)
2022-11-19 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Magic Money All The Way Down (Issue #87)
2022-11-12 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Everything is Totally Fine (Issue #86)
2022-11-05 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Captain Elon (Issue #85)
2022-10-29 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Beautiful Robots (Issue #84)
2022-10-22 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Turning the World Inside Out (Issue #83)
2022-10-15 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Maximly Maximiser (Issue #82)
2022-10-08 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Hopeless in HCMC (Issue #81)
2022-10-01 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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The Infiniti Book Club (Issue #80)
2022-09-24 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Doppelgängers (Issue #79)
2022-09-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Death of the Queen (Issue #78)
2022-09-10 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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The Gorbachev Short (Issue #77)
2022-09-03 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Actual red come cruelty (Issue #76)
2022-08-27 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Actual empty list (Issue #75)
2022-08-18 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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De-escalating Infiniti (Issue #74)
2022-08-13 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Free Speech in Crypto (Issue #74)
2022-08-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Midweek special - Fat ankle (Issue #73)
2022-08-05 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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World says no, but free mutilations (Issue #72)
2022-07-30 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Stop bullying me peoples of Vietnam and the Network States (Issue #71)
2022-07-23 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Saving deprecated (Issue #70)
2022-07-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Mindblowing Crypto (Issue #69)
2022-07-09 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Bad help (Issue #68)
2022-07-02 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Sentient AI (Issue #67)
2022-06-25 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Swimming against the current (Issue #66)
2022-06-18 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Due diligence (Issue #65)
2022-06-11 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Pain in the eyes (Issue #64)
2022-06-04 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Transitioning empires (Issue #63)
2022-05-28 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Midweek Special - Dilemma Addendum (Issue #62)
2022-05-24 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Demons be gone (Issue #61)
2022-05-21 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Culture Smash (Issue #60)
2022-05-14 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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The Big Sandwich (Issue #59)
2022-05-07 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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The full full stack, and the weight of history (Issue #58)
2022-04-30 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Midweek special - Navigating the big tech mess (Issue #56)
2022-04-27 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Sleep depravation and evil pharmacists (Issue #55)
2022-04-23 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Git push brain (Issue #54)
2022-04-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Midweek Special - Parental Advisory, Mind Buffet (Issue #53)
2022-04-15 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Sceptic wounds and crisp sandwiches starvation & thirst (literally) (Issue #52)
2022-04-09 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Hypothermia then sunshine, and then starvation & thirst (Issue #51)
2022-04-02 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Punk Rock Internet (Issue #48)
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Kindness on the rocks (Issue #48)
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The WebKit browser engine lineage (Issue #47)
2022-03-05 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Branding, marketing, the future of tech and cyberwar (Issue #46)
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Learning from dead end adventures (Issue #45)
2022-02-18 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Alternative simulation theory (Issue #44)
2022-02-12 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Saturday 1st January, 2022 (Issue #43)
2022-01-01 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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Saturday 4th September, 2021 (Issue #42)
2021-09-04 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-09-04)
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Template Trilogy 4/4
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Saturday 28th August, 2021 (Issue #41)
2021-08-28 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-08-28)
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Template Trilogy 3/4
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Saturday 21st August, 2021 (Issue #40)
2021-08-21 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-08-21)
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Template Trilogy 2/4
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Saturday 14th August, 2021 (Issue #39.2)
2021-08-14 13:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-08-14)
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Apple to save the children, SpaceX buys Swarm, DeFi, Jamstack and Crypto/Web3.0, Vue, Designing for safety
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Saturday 14th August, 2021 (Issue #39.1)
2021-08-14 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-08-14)
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Template Trilogy 1/4
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Saturday 7th August, 2021 (Issue #38)
2021-08-07 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-08-07)
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Worker Threads, XML, Google Drive CMS, Version Bumper, GIT, Recycling Electronics, Life Before Smartphones, Olympics, Mental Health, Multiple Worlds, Eth2.0, AI Dev Tools
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Saturday 31st July, 2021 [10 year anniversary special] (Issue #37)
2021-07-31 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-07-31)
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10 year anniversary special - Short wave radio, Vim, 808, EDM, RVing, Digital Nomadism, Pilgrimages in Japan, Individualism in the USA, Web Components, Free Speech, Cloud Native Deployments, History
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Saturday 24th July, 2021 (Issue #36)
2021-07-24 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-07-24)
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Wordpress buys Pocket Casts, Clubhouse, Google Maps, Node-Red Dev Tools, Compiled Nodejs Apps, Virgin Galactic, Netflix, Privacy, Tiger Global, Outer Space, Tech in the EU
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Saturday 17th July, 2021 (Issue #35)
2021-07-10 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-07-10)
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Creativity and optimism in tech, general webdev chat, javascript engine implementors
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Saturday 10th July, 2021 (Issue #34)
2021-07-10 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-07-10)
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Music albums derived from games, software engineering formal methods, the shadow dom, the business of digital transformation
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Saturday 3rd July, 2021 (Issue #33)
2021-07-03 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-07-03)
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Instagram more than just photos, AI tools for developers
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Saturday 26th June, 2021 (Issue #32)
2021-06-26 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-06-26)
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Unicorns in the UK, Crypto all the entertainments, Windows 11, Cookie blocking delayed, Amazon gets into podcast hosting, Funding open source projects in the modern world
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Saturday 19th June, 2021 (Issue #31)
2021-06-19 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-06-19)
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TBL www NFT, Facebook VR, NodeJS next gen http, NodeJS streams, AdTech in VR, Rust in Linux Kernel, trippy high dimensional maths, WWDC, and javascript working group nerdiness
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Saturday 12th June, 2021 (Issue #30)
2021-06-12 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-06-12)
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Another week of great javascript, tech and web development links
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Saturday 5th June, 2021 (Issue #29)
2021-06-05 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-06-05)
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Apple vs Adtech, Esports, Apple podcast subscriptions, Twitter Blue, Trump quits blogging, Stack Overflow acquired
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Saturday 29th May, 2021 (Issue #28)
2021-05-29 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-05-29)
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Node in the browser, AI experts, Linux Apps on Windows, Apple vs Epic, Amazon buys MGM, Bitcoin in PayPal, NodeJS and e-commerce, Eleventy Serverless, planning Road-trips and Central Banking Systems
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Saturday 22nd May, 2021 (Issue #27)
2021-05-22 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-05-22)
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EdgeWorkers, experience creation, deno, React vs Vue, Jamstack, Eleventy, DPR, serverless, TSMC, Twitter verifications, Amazon & MGM, iMacs, telecoms, Future of Tipping, cool bots, spoken languages
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Saturday 15th May, 2021 (Issue #26)
2021-05-15 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-05-15)
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Serverless, v8, resources for CTOs, Internet Archive infra, cool javascript tutorials & libs, design vs dev, Apple privacy vs Ad Tech , NFTs & crypto, LinuxOnM1, space travel, dev tips
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Saturday 8th May, 2021 (Issue #25)
2021-05-08 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-05-08)
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Audacity, Intel & TSMC, RSS, Apple anti-trust, Linux bad patches, Privacy & AdTech, Neuralink, Apple podcasts, Twitter Spaces & TipJar, Deno, celebrities, ESM, crypto all the things & a cool tutorial
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Saturday 1st May, 2021 (Issue #24)
2021-05-01 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-05-01)
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Spotify, Puppeteer, M1, k8s, inline modules, Linux, PRs are bad, ffmpeg, container queries, ad tracking, video encoding workflows, marscopter, HTML, Facebook, NFTs for devs, stocks, FSF, Epic, SSGs...
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Saturday 24th April, 2021 (Issue #23)
2021-04-24 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-04-24)
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Apple, audio hotness, FLoC, regulations, NodeJS16, Linux controversy, future of AR/VR & AI, Next.js, Netbooks, weird podcasts, and so much more
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Saturday 17th April, 2021 (Issue #22)
2021-04-17 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-04-17)
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Coinbase goes public, Bitclout, FSF & RMS, LinuxOnM1, tech & society, AI regulations in EU, speech recognition, NodeJS radio server, laptops, PeerTube, digital transformation, missed calls in India...
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Saturday 10th April, 2021 (Issue #21)
2021-04-10 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-04-10)
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Google vs Oracle, Mullenweg vs Wix, CoinbaseIPO, Microsoft AR/VR, english in the EU, TikTok Captions, LG, Yahoo Answers, hacking/cracking, JS classes, MediaQueries, blogrolls, Clubhouse, self-hosting
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Saturday 3rd April, 2021 (Issue #20)
2021-04-03 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-04-03)
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Congress, YouTube protection, Facebook feeds, Substack funding, Intel vs TSMC, NFT&Crypto surge, Deno, Apple privacy blocks, Google Maps, Cryptojacking, AirBnB training, NodeJS certification, Fastify
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Saturday 27th March, 2021 (Issue #19)
2021-03-27 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-03-27)
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Intel Foundry Services, Creator Economy, Medium, Substack, Influencers, No-code, Platforms, Crypto & NFTs, RMS, ESM, new codebase tips, YouTube tech, foldables, Tailwinds, LXD, pipes, privacy, Zuck...
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Saturday 20th March, 2021 (Issue #18)
2021-03-20 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-03-20)
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NFTs, Substack, Eth51%Attack, NetlifyDevEnvs, Prediction Markets, EDMGirls, NBAMoney, PortableOffice, IoT, TikTok, Wikipedia, IntelChips, DApps, Slack Websockets, Ghost, pods, artists & musicians
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Saturday 13th March, 2021 (Issue #17)
2021-03-13 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-03-13)
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OrbitDB, NFTs, curation, Coinbase, Torvalds, EdgeOnXbox, Google FLoC, Perl debugger, Github, K8s, BYO infra, SSGs, OVH fire, TC39, Twitter Spaces, NetApps, stackless sites, NodeJS scripting, Etherium
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Saturday 6th March, 2021 (Issue #16)
2021-03-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-03-06)
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NFTs, NFTs, NFTs, SuperTwitter, Rapers, VIM, Jobs Clubhouse, MarsCopter, Curators, Tracking Pixels, GDPR Cookies, VR, Spotify, AB Testing, Figma, Soundcloud, TimeCrystals, MoonTrip, Brave, AWS, GCP
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Saturday 27th February, 2021 [Javascript Core Special Edition!💯] (Issue #15)
2021-02-27 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-02-27)
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Javascript Core Special, Aussie News, Peter Jackson’s LOTR, nerdy essays, NFTs, cool history, Spotify, EtheriumFunOver, Android, Firefox, companiesBuyBitcoin, great docs, Indie Web, Twitter features...
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Saturday 20th February, 2021 (Issue #14)
2021-02-20 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-02-20)
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AWS, Dorsey&JayZ, Arm, Kafka, podcast moderation, WebRTC, Facebook, regulations, Trello, Clubhouse Musk&Putin, Paul Graham, Ryan Dahl, OSS licenses...
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Saturday 13th February, 2021 (Issue #13)
2021-02-13 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-02-13)
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Governments, DevOps CI/CD, GameStop, SSH Tunnels, Jobs’ keynotes, OSS, audioOnUnix, Jack Dorsey, blogging, NFTs, CAPEX, Apple, Disney, Jamstack, websockets, k8s, Kafka, Lambda, Tesla, cool podcasts...
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Saturday 6th February, 2021 (Issue #12)
2021-02-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-02-06)
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AWS SSG, Netlify edge handlers, 11ty, FB newsletters, DoctorowOnIP, system design, GCP, Bash, app architecture, estimating projects, Bezos transition, Apple Car/VR/AR, RSS, WebRTC, OSS, cool podcasts...
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Saturday 30th January, 2021 (Issue #11)
2021-01-30 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-01-30)
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Saturday 23rd January, 2021 (Issue #10)
2021-01-23 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-01-23)
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Saturday 16th January, 2021 (Issue #9)
2021-01-16 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-01-16)
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VanillaJS, JS for visual arts, cool internet history, IoT, IoM, AV1 codec, APIs, cool CES gadgets, smartglasses, Lucasfilm, Trumpban, Web design trends, ESM, web components, Docker, OSS, M1 Linux...
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Saturday 9th January, 2021 (Issue #8)
2021-01-09 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-01-09)
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Github darkmode, BBC cloud, linux5.11, crypto, APIs, Twttr&pods, free AWS training, Asahi Linux M1, new GPT3 AIs, IoT, tag clouds, OSSinWH, freelancing, NodeJS strategy, Notion, multicloud, pods&vids
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Saturday 1st January, 2021 (Issue #7)
2021-01-01 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2021-01-01)
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SEO engineers, UIs in films, msg brokers, web components, perf, systems design, bash monitoring, futureOfTech, Apple keyboard, maps, cool repos & projects, etherium, code art, Github, with videos&pods
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Saturday 26th December, 2020 (Issue #6)
2020-12-26 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-12-26)
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Microsoft ARM chips, SapiensAsBlog, Proxima Centauri, FBvsApple, SPACs, Raspberry Pi Server, modern chips, Apple Car, IoT+NodeJS, Jamstack workflows, NYSE, Zoomail, Elon Alphabet, SSGs, podcasts...
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Saturday 19th December, 2020 (Issue #5)
2020-12-19 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-12-19)
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Valley exodus, Slack, cool repos, personal websites, knowing shell, Tesla huge, Torvalds-style, Amazon Robotaxi, Privacy, MDN Jamstack, MS on M1, EU rules, Facebook Super, FB vs Apple, videos+podcasts
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Saturday 12th December, 2020 (Issue #4)
2020-12-12 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-12-12)
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Cool tools, buglogs, Cloudflare Jamstack, Discogs, p2p Github, dataops, M1 in datacenters, Next.js on Netlify, CentOS killed, browser Xbox, privacy labels, event loop, solo-devs, Brave, podcasts...
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Saturday 5th December, 2020 (Issue #3)
2020-12-05 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-12-05)
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UK legal, Electron, Back/forward cache, Next SSG, serverless ML, M1 for devs, devs in India, Substack, odd redesign, protein folding, M1 for Linux, Docker deprecated, cool GitHub Actions, podcasts...
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Saturday 28th November, 2020 (Issue #2)
2020-11-28 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-11-28)
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Web design in Japan, PWAs in gaming, urban planning, workflow builders, history of version control, cool APIs and tools, curl infra, edge handlers, shell history, Python community, cool podcasts
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Saturday 21st November, 2020 (Issue #1)
2020-11-21 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
This week’s newsletter is out! (2020-11-21)
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Jamstack, Serverless Wordpress, End of Year IPOs, NodeJS Architectures, Apple M1 chip, Message Queues, Writing tech books, Podcasts and more...
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Wednesday 18th November, 2020 (Issue #0)
2020-11-18 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
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