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My javascript / tech / web development newsletter for 2021-07-10 is out!

In this week’s edition:

Music albums derived from games, software engineering formal methods, the shadow dom, the business of digital transformation

https://markjgsmith.substack.com/p/mark-smiths-newsletter-10-07-2021

Would love to hear any comments and feedback you have.

@markjgsmith

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