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Mark Smith
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Freelance Web Developer, Consultant & Automation Engineer. I build websites, APIs, workflows & automations.

Latest Newsletter: Incredible Devs (Issue #162)

US attacks crypto, government deficits good, buddhism, ugly buildings, visual storytelling, BTC powered elections, WP for lightning, indie podcast development, and SSR web components, communism

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-4th-may-2024-incredible

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Latest Newsletter: Space, Blogging, & Bitcoin (Issue #161)

Linux on the ISS, exploring the dream modern blogging platform, Bitcoin economics & privacy, the Bitcoin halving, investigating the strange world of the moon landings

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-27th-april-2024-space-blogging

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Latest Newsletter: Infinite Peace (Issue #160)

Peak AI, alternative git interfaces, Hendrix, tokenised wine, debt & the boomer industrial complex, arguing about archaeology, future of podcasting, Ai eats european languages

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-20th-april-2024-infinite

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Latest Newsletter: Good Output (Issue #159)

Sun, moon & the solar eclipse, Tom Hanks spaceman, Bitcoin lending, student debt, civil war dystopia, Bitcoin’s design, Tik Tok ban, monopolies, free speech

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-12th-april-2024-good-output

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Latest Newsletter: Pushing To Main (Issue #158)

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.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-6th-april-2024-pushing-to

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Latest Newsletter: Eating Glass (Issue #157)

Bitcoin scaling, social media federation, Bitcoin on feature phones, Microstrategy strategy, the slaughtering of good media outlets, fascinating Bitcoin mining dynamics

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-30th-march-2024-eating-glass

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Latest Newsletter: Backlash (Issue #156)

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

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-23rd-march-2024-backlash

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Latest Newsletter: Compositing the Sistine Chapel (Issue #155)

Apple & DMA & webapps & iOS browser diversity, Gilded age entrepreneurship, Rogan, Tiktok, Filterworld, running restaurants, bitcoin bull run, RFK

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-16th-march-2024-one-liner

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Latest Newsletter: Breathing difficult (Issue #154)

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

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-8th-march-2024-breathing

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Latest Newsletter: Antibiotics & Podcasts (Issue #153)

Quartet of Bitcoin, Right to repair, what the fed owns, developing software for satellites, Bach, accessibility & reality of web components in production

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-2nd-march-2024-antibiotics

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Latest Newsletter: Death’s Door (Issue #151)

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.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-27th-january-2024-deaths

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Latest Newsletter: Quite Quiet (Issue #150)

Sort of a quiet week but still a few interesting and important topics: Bitcoin scaling, HTMX, regulation in the EU and open source AI.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-20th-january-2024-quite-3d6

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Latest Newsletter: Everything Bitcoin (Issue #149)

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.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-13th-january-2024-everything

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Latest Newsletter: Another year! (Issue #148)

Here we go again :)

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/saturday-6th-january-2024-another

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Latest Newsletter: Happy New Year (Issue #147)

New Year Edition - Loads of great techish podcasts for the holiday break. Happy 2024 everybody!

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/copy-saturday-30th-december-2023

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Latest Newsletter: Nutritious Tech (Issue #146)

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.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/copy-saturday-23rd-december-2023

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Latest Newsletter: The Bitcoin Self Custody Lie (Issue #145)

Assembly theory, slightly woo but uplifting spirituality, bitcoin in difficult environments, social media shifting, science & interstellar meteors, space travel and podcasting experimentation.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-16-12-2023

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Latest Newsletter: Swimming in Nested For Loops (Issue #144)

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.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-09-12-2023

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Latest Newsletter: Oddball Week (Issue #143)

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.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-02-12-2023

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Latest Newsletter: Passing the Baton of Chaos (Issue #142)

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.

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-25-11-2023

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