"Did you know you can resolve most things on our website" is the last thing I want to hear. Yes, I did. That's what summoned me to call.

Really mad that O'Reilly media is going strictly Safari-only for their ebooks. Guess it's Manning, Pearson, and No Starch from here on out.

#oreilly

From a conversation on IRC:

https://octodon.social/media/HIHAcPv3p9WcOP3h200

Business idea:

Get a roll of those Anti-theft RF tags that Barnes and Noble puts in their books.

Put some mystic designs on them.

Sell them for $$ with the claim that they balance your energy.

The proof: whenever you walk through the entryway of a store you'll know your energy is in balance because you'll be giving off an energy signature that those detectors are attuned to.

"It's the same problem that zen monks have at airports with metal detectors."

Feel free to run with this idea.

The final Neurotech Album is released:

https://neurotech.bandcamp.com/album/the-catalyst

#ccmusic #industrial #metal

Ad on birdsite: Do you use Gantt charts to plan your vacations?

God no. Why the fuck would anyone do that? That's like making a mission statement to buy toilet paper.

Celebrating identi.ca, where most of this federated craziness started:

http://decafbad.net/2017/06/15/celebrating-identica/

Pretty sure most of the interstitial music for NPR programs comes from "This is Acid Jazz Volume 5".

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@willhopkins tips (cont)

10) Archive.org is great for hosting Creative Commons licensed content. Posting your shows up there means you don't have to pay for hosting.

@willhopkins tips (cont)

7) Set a regular release schedule. Even if it's monthly at least someone who listens to your show will know when it arrives. Mine is every-other-Tuesday.

8) KISS (Keep it Short, Simple) There's a temptation to jam everything into a podcast episode. Keep everything under 45 minutes if you can. More than that and you might want to split the episode into two parts. Nothing worse than 2h:35min rambling sessions.

9) Post show notes both for you and listeners

@willhopkins tips (cont)

4) If you're recording via Skype then make sure both parties are recording the audio (as best you can). There's nothing like losing audio because someone thought they'd pressed "Record".

5) Do not use gaming headsets for recording. They are optimized for a narrow band of frequencies. Get proper vocal microphones (I recommend Blue USB microphones).

6) If you have more than two microphones in a room get a mixing board.

@willhopkins I have a few tips both as a music and discussion podcaster:

1) Get a quiet space and mic everyone in the conversation. You can sort of get by with a room-based microphone but if everyone is mic'ed then it works so much better.

2) Keep your intro music short. No more than 20 seconds tops.

3) Release in mono. Some folks don't hear in stereo so splitting to make a "Table" effect doesn't work for them.

@mattl Thank you for your hard work in this space. I hope that whatever you pursue in the future benefits from your tenacity and grit. Our community is that much poorer with your absence.

6/ #fact (cont) Eventually my parents relented and purchased an Atari 400 computer. I used Atari 8-bit computers all through college and even had a Hard Disk Drive hanging off an Atari 800XL.

6/ #fact When I discovered that microcomputers were something that people could own in their homes I became obsessed with having a computer. My parents got me a subscription to Popular Computing and I read that cover to cover. I begged them to go to Radio Shack / Computerland so I could play with the computers. I thought that I could convince my parents to buy a Sinclair ZX80 kit and solder it together. I cut, glued, and drew boxes into monitors / disk drives / keyboards.

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@lohang There's also http://getrssfeed.com/ which will find the feed.

(And this is why I don't care for Soundcloud as a podcasting platform. :) )

tl;dr: you can write Java in Python and make people sad.

http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com/2017/05/needless-complexity-creating-havoc.html