Stephen Smith
@smist08.bsky.social
SAR, FPGAs, RISC-V, Assembly Language, writer, mountain biker, runner, amateur radio.
Blogged about my first look at Ubuntu 25.10. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/p...
Playing with Ubuntu 25.10
Introduction Ubuntu released 25.10 back on October 9. Now that I’ve sent my two books off to production, I can have a look at a few non Assembly Language things of interest. I’ve always liked Ubunt…
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November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Blogged about my first look at Ubuntu 25.10. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/p...
The second edition of my RP2040 Assembly Language Programming book is now available for pre-order. www.amazon.ca/RP2040-Assem...
RP2040 Assembly Language Programming: Including the RP2350 and Raspberry Pi Pico 2
RP2040 Assembly Language Programming: Including the RP2350 and Raspberry Pi Pico 2: Smith, Stephen: 9798868822018: Books - Amazon.ca
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October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The second edition of my RP2040 Assembly Language Programming book is now available for pre-order. www.amazon.ca/RP2040-Assem...
Finished the final edits on the second edition of my RP2040 Assembly Language Programming book. So off to production now!
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Finished the final edits on the second edition of my RP2040 Assembly Language Programming book. So off to production now!
Back to blogging on the upcoming 2nd edition of two of my books along with the orange one's latest tantrum. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/b...
Back to Blogging
Introduction I haven’t posted a blog post since April, mainly because I’ve been working on the second editions of both my Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming and RP2040 Assembly Language Pro…
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October 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Back to blogging on the upcoming 2nd edition of two of my books along with the orange one's latest tantrum. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/b...
Looks like the second edition of my Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming book is up for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Raspberry-As...
Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming: ARM Processor Coding
Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming: ARM Processor Coding: Smith, Stephen: 9798868818738: Books - Amazon.ca
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October 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Looks like the second edition of my Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming book is up for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Raspberry-As...
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Sechelt gears up for second annual Car-Free Day on Cowrie Street
Sechelt gears up for second annual Car-Free Day on Cowrie Street
Downtown street closure invites residents to celebrate sustainable transportation with music, food, and family-friendly fun
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September 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sechelt gears up for second annual Car-Free Day on Cowrie Street
I wonder if workout buddy will be the most annoying Apple feature ever?
June 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I wonder if workout buddy will be the most annoying Apple feature ever?
I wonder how many SAR calls will result from the Alltrails - Apple Intelligence integration?
June 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I wonder how many SAR calls will result from the Alltrails - Apple Intelligence integration?
Blogged some ideas on boycotting US companies and services to help fight the trade war. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/b...
Boycotting US Companies
Introduction With the ongoing US tariff battle against Canada and the rest of the world, people are looking to boycott US companies as much as possible. As the US imposes tariffs on other countries…
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April 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Blogged some ideas on boycotting US companies and services to help fight the trade war. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/b...
Blogged on whether Trump is a secret closet environmentalist. (Note: This is satire). smist08.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...
Is Trump Really an Environmentalist?
Introduction Trump has received a lot of negative press for disbanding the US Environmental Protection Agency and removing many environmental protection laws and is generally hated by environmental…
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March 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Blogged on whether Trump is a secret closet environmentalist. (Note: This is satire). smist08.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...
Blogged on boycotting US products and services and how effective that can be:
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Boycotting US Products and Services
Introduction With Donald Trump’s threatened and implemented tariffs against most of the world, a lot of people are up in arms and looking for ways to fight back. Can boycotts of US products and ser…
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March 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Blogged on boycotting US products and services and how effective that can be:
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Blogged some thoughts on whether AI is becoming truly intelligent.
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Has AI Become Sentient?
Introduction There has been a lot of talk lately about whether the current LLM based AIs have reached Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This has led to a lot of discussion of the definition of…
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February 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Blogged some thoughts on whether AI is becoming truly intelligent.
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Blogged on the week in AI with lots more problems. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/m...
More AI Problems
Introduction Last time, I blogged on the recent court case where Meta was caught training their AIs on pirated copyrighted material downloaded from pirate torrent sites. Since then, there was anoth…
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February 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Blogged on the week in AI with lots more problems. smist08.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/m...
Blogged on the rather dubious ways AI companies are acquiring their training data.
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AI’s and Stolen Training Data
Introduction Facebook parent company Meta is in big trouble as a trial is revealing that Meta trained its AI using 81.7 terabytes of data downloaded from torrent sites like PirateBay. Among everyth…
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February 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Blogged on the rather dubious ways AI companies are acquiring their training data.
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Blogged a few thoughts on what looks to be a contradictory 2025.
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Looking Ahead to 2025
Introduction 2025 is shaping up to be a year of contradictions. This article will look at a number of these contradictions and how they affect technology. The most bizarre contradictions of course …
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December 27, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Blogged a few thoughts on what looks to be a contradictory 2025.
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Blogged a review of my new iPhone. smist08.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/i...
iPhone 16 Pro Review
Introduction I received an early XMas present of a new iPhone 16 Pro. This is a review of this new phone. My previous phone was an iPhone 11, so this is a pretty good jump ahead. People often compl…
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November 12, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Blogged a review of my new iPhone. smist08.wordpress.com/2024/11/12/i...
My RISC-V Assembly Language book is out : smist08.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/r...
RISC-V Assembly Language Programming
Introduction “RISC-V Assembly Language Programming: Unlock the Power of the RISC-V Instruction Set” is my fourth Assembly Language programming book published by Apress, a division of Springer Nature. ...
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February 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM
My RISC-V Assembly Language book is out : smist08.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/r...