Ernie Smith
Freelance Journalist at Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
United States
Summary
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SeniorErnie Smith is a versatile freelance journalist and newsletter editor with 11+ years crafting long-form features, editorial strategy, and email-driven audience growth across outlets like Vice’s Motherboard, Atlas Obscura, Fast Company, and ASAE’s Associations Now. He built and sustains Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter with a 12,000-strong audience and a custom Craft CMS backend, and runs a smaller creative newsletter plus a 2,000-member community for email professionals. With roots in newspaper design and a decade at Manifest shaping B2B content and site launches, he blends visual design instincts with sharp storytelling and content strategy. Comfortable breaking tech and culture stories, he also codes lightweight publishing systems and experiments with emerging social platforms, making him as much a product-minded editor as a writer.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (159)
watermark10
control-panel10
twig10
craftcms10
summernote10
mysqli10
resize-images9
prestashop-module9
plausible-analytics9
experiences9
cms9
silverstripe9
cocoa9
backend9
extensible9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
readtedium/craft3-amplify
Dec 2018 - May 2022
Twig filter for the Craft CMS to optimize rich text content for Google AMP
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
cmstwig-filtertwigrich-textcontao
readtedium/udm14
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 107 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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