# cnbc (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cnbc. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/16/181919-nature.com/index.html) _2026-08-16 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Material science papers still pulling out the most base abstracts after all these years. nature.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/16/100650-youtube.com/index.html) _2026-08-16 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ I thought this week‘s All-in Podcast was particularly good this week. youtube.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/15/202400-theguardian.com/index.html) _2026-08-15 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Under 15s social media ban blocked by courts in France theguardian.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/15/202245-theverge.com/index.html) _2026-08-15 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Instagram has a new logo theverge.com # ## [LLM-style documentation](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/08/15/llm-style-documentation/index.html) _2026-08-15 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Today I‘ve been writing documentation for my CLI rendering tool. I had a main README already but I needed to write detailed docs for all major entities the software uses. It‘s totally mind boggling how much of an incredible tool LLMs are for documentation writing. I was able to get done in a day what would likely have taken at least a week by hand, and I think the quality is far higher, because it… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/14/175637/index.html) _2026-08-14 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Twitter for me is now about 40% horrific videos proving one political polarization, 40% horrific videos proving the exact opposite extreme polarization. It's the battle of infinities. Non fucking stop. Panopticon dystopia much? # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/14/173938-techcrunch.com/index.html) _2026-08-14 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Scientists are studying agent turf wars. Kind of interesting. If you are into turf wars you will love this, otherwise if you are regular person quite worrying. techcrunch.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/14/171331-theguardian.com/index.html) _2026-08-14 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ As much as I'm not a massive fan of intelligence agencies, I can't help but think Bond was a much better PR act for the UK than Bin Face. theguardian.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/14/163811-atproto.com/index.html) _2026-08-14 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Bluesky release Bluesky Protocol Services. atproto.com # ## [People are useless](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/08/14/people-are-useless/index.html) _2026-08-13 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Today I am just completely overwhelmed by how utterly useless people are, everywhere. I'm normally quite an optimistic person, and I'm very good at coming up with excuses for people, but absolutely everywhere I look, in every direction, it's people being useless, and having these useless petty arguments, spending ungodly amounts of time and energy being useless. Occasionally someone pops up and… ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aPaIAc2OIOWB) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/13/160723-theguardian.com/index.html) _2026-08-13 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Solar eclipse above houses of parliament and Big Ben in London. theguardian.com # ## [The mirror trap](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/08/12/the-mirror-trap/index.html) _2026-08-12 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ There are a lot of people in this world that want to look in the mirror but also at the same time they want to not look in the mirror. And after much wasted time of course it's not possible and they get angry and blame the mirror, often getting angry at the mirror. People often create the problems they complain about, whether on purpose or not its nothing more than a huge waste of time. A race… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/12/122045/index.html) _2026-08-12 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ The world seems to be locked into a pattern to maximumly exhaust me, and shows zero signs of tiring. If you think yesterday's Black Hole Jupiter was scary, you ain't seen nothing yet. But ultimately we all pay the price of a black whole earth. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/11/162046/index.html) _2026-08-11 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ A very short test post! # ## [Black holes make no sense](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/08/11/black-holes-make-no-sense/index.html) _2026-08-11 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ This short showing what I guess is a simulation of a 1 solar mass black hole passing near Jupiter , passed through in my feeds. You have to watch it several times to really grok what's going on. Sure hope it's a simulation. It's terrifying, even if you turn off the overly dramatic music, it just sort keeps playing in your head. But ok so lets say you shrink that black hole down, surely eventually… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/10/215440/index.html) _2026-08-10 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Just an uneventful test post. Nothing to see here. Actually I suppose technically some events were created in the making of this test post. But that's not important. What's important is that this test post gets published, despite an awful lot of headwinds these past few days. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/06/224727/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ After writing the last post, I switched over to listen to a Rest is History Podcast I had started earlier today, totally forgot I had been listening to it, and literally this was the line that played \[17:46\]: There is the sense that within England protestants are surrounded by enemies, and that within Europe, England is surrounded by enemies, and that these enemies are working to destroy England‘s… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/06/223752/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ The world is feeling like it‘s been singularity maxxing again. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/06/223558-randsinrepose.com/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ In a presumably unreleated piece, Michael Lopp writes about how incredible the typography is in Blade Runner. randsinrepose.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/06/222945-runarcn.no/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Runar writes about switching from Android to Linux on mobile runarcn.no # ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tEC2gedXT1fw) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/06/222736-weli.dev/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Another blog with 2 posts with the exact thing I have been researching the last few days, this time about the perils of webhooks weli.dev # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/06/221253-sciencedaily.com/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Just in case you haven‘t had your recommended dose of doom this week, scientists have discovered that black holes are exploding stars across the Milkyway galaxy. sciencedaily.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/06/220734-theguardian.com/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Trump‘s board of peace issues first building contract. More US - EU passive aggressive geopolitics than you can shake a stick at. theguardian.com # ## [Programming podcasts](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/08/06/programming-podcasts/index.html) _2026-08-06 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Two really great programming podcasts I listened to this week. The first is from the Corecursive Podcast, in which host Adam Gordon Bell has on friend and fellow programmer Don Mckay, and they discuss their plan to win the Hutter prize, a programming contest all about, of all things, file compression. As is often the case with the Corecursive podcasts, sounds a bit dry and dare I say it dull on… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/05/103231-blog.cloudflare.com/index.html) _2026-08-05 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Cloudflare release a stablecoin wallet for agents. blog.cloudflare.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/05/101640-blog.hartwork.org/index.html) _2026-08-05 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Sebastian Pipping reports the City of Munich has contracted with him to work full time on XML parser library libexpat for up to 6 months. blog.hartwork.org # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/05/100621-techcrunch.com/index.html) _2026-08-05 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Bending Spoons well known for buy-to-renovate deals acquires Airtable. techcrunch.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/05/100022-theguardian.com/index.html) _2026-08-05 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ There is an immortal jellyfish that can turn back into a baby and grow all over again. theguardian.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/04/234923/index.html) _2026-08-04 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ As great as LLMs are for coding, there are times, especially when writing specifications, when their capacity for creating software bloat is unmatched in the known universe. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/04/132837-axios.com/index.html) _2026-08-04 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Whitehouse establishes voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. Is very economic with the details. axios.com # ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZheZAnz1xzcl) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/04/131958-texastribune.org/index.html) _2026-08-04 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Texas implements moratorium on approvals for the 1,800 data centre projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts. texastribune.org # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/04/131548-cnbc.com/index.html) _2026-08-04 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Amazon joins Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple in the $3 trillion dollar company club. cnbc.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/04/085147-raymii.org/index.html) _2026-08-04 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Raymii got Linux and Windows running on his programmable calculator. raymii.org # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/08/02/165729-en.andros.dev/index.html) _2026-08-02 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Andros Fenollosa makes the case that modern CSS is better than Tailwinds CSS. en.andros.dev # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/02/145706/index.html) _2026-08-02 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Today and last night I have been working on the init sub-command of my rendering tool. I've managed to drastically simplify it, so it's similar to running git init . It's instantaneous, no silly questions, instant super basic project that just works. And you can also provide init with a git url to a starter project for more complex things. Seems to work quite well especially when using themes. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/02/145106/index.html) _2026-08-02 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ I'm really liking the new header image. # ## [Open AI vs Closed AI](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/08/01/open-ai-vs-closed-ai/index.html) _2026-08-01 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ A new header image for the blog. This one is all about the conversation in tech at the minute around open source and closed source AI. I wanted to get away from the cartoonish images that AI always seems to produce, which wasn't easy. Gemini has real issues disentangling symetries in imags. It sort of gets stuck with things in a particular orientation then just cannot change things independently.… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/220922-theguardian.com/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon on wednesday. theguardian.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/195239-chriscoyier.net/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Chris Coyier from the Shop Talk Show just released CodePen 2.0. chriscoyier.net # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/162200-blog.jim-nielsen.com/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Jim Nielsen lists some AI Aesthetics he‘s noticed. blog.jim-nielsen.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/161723-blog.google/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Google fixes more bugs in June than previous 2 years thanks to AI blog.google # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/161458-cnbc.com/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Reddit Q2 revenue up 60%. cnbc.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/161337-cnbc.com/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ SK Hynics and Samsung shares skyrocket after a dip. cnbc.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/161227-businesswire.com/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Amazon Q2 revenue up 20%. businesswire.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/31/161123-businesswire.com/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Apple Q3 revenue up 16%. businesswire.com # ## [New portfolio items](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/07/31/new-portfolio-items/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Just got the portfolio page up to date with recent projects by adding: OAuth 2.0 REST API & React Web Client Local GPU-Accelerated LLM Workflows Automated RSS Content Syndication Engine Template-First Publishing CLI Open-Core, Provider-Agnostic Publishing Engine I used Gemini to write them, which is why they all look exactly the same length. Gemini is so much better than me at summarizing READMEs… ## [Rethinking content pipelines](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/07/31/rethinking-content-pipelines/index.html) _2026-07-31 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ I‘ve written a lot about content creation workflows over the years. I‘ve been busy building some I think interesting things in that space the past few months. This post is my first attempt to describe the server component of my new publishing software. If you have ever built a content-heavy site, whether it is a tech blog, documentation hub, or a machine learning dataset repository, you have… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/30/185515-wsj.com/index.html) _2026-07-30 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Mark Zuckerberg: The AI Future Is for Everyone. wsj.com # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/links/2026/07/30/160352-jola.dev/index.html) _2026-07-30 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Johanna Larsson makes some interesting personal reflections vis-a-vis accountability and programming with LLMs. jola.dev # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/07/30/120741/index.html) _2026-07-30 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ I just moved over the socials auto poster from the old blog repo to the new blog repo. I carefully moved over all credential secrets etc., but just a heads up in case something weird happens when it runs tomorrow. #