“As Lt. Gov. Jon Husted puts it, the @intel project is so big and lucrative it will create opportunities for people who didn’t see construction jobs in their future: ‘When you’re willing to pay people more to do something, you will find the talent’”Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants | AP Newsapnews.com
“The most visited content sites in the world are bulletin boards (Reddit, Hacker News) and personalized feeds (FB, Twitter, Linkedin). They are habit forming destination sites because they have constant novelty.” – @swyxWhat if your Index Page was Smart?swyx.io
Interesting approach by @judell - the pull request here is the final product
GH UI as a narrated diff progression seems like it would be useful in a variety of public contexts
You even get keyboard shortcuts for free, nexting through the progressionGitHub for English teachers – Jon Udellblog.jonudell.net
“If a podcast has only about 4,000 listeners, but they always listen and every episode consistently has about 4,000–5,000 listeners, sponsorship partners tend to be very interested. They consider this podcast as a nano influencer in that particular space.”Podcasting in Africa is on the rise. Why is it not profitable yet? | TechCabaltechcabal.com
“Podcasting is a distraction; my current role in the industry is a distraction. This isn’t, hasn’t ever been, the best use of my time, it’s been a way for me to feel useful without taking the risks necessary to be truly useful.”twitter.com
“I don't like the fact that you have listeners moving off of YouTube to audio (podcasting), maybe we'll have to do something about that...” – Kai Chuk, Podcast Lead at @YouTube
overheard at #podcastmovement
👋 @PodOpsMedia, congrats on launching the new hosting platform
A few rss feed notes:
- the podcast:guid value should be a globally unique value (like a UUID), not a negative integer
- the enclosure type attribute should be the concrete value like "audio/mpeg", not "audio/*"
Every developer writing for the web will learn something from this - good details on cascade layers etc
Loving the new Safari cadencetwitter.com
“Courtesy Email”
“I do think most people, even developers, should not handroll their own blogs & should try to use Devto/Hashnode/Substack/Wordpress - most people get so caught up in being PM + Dev for their handrolled blogging software that they never get to the writing.”The Surprisingly High Table Stakes of Modern Blogsswyx.io
Ah, my old friend: adb shell am broadcast -a com.android.systemui.demotwitter.com
Wherein I heard the name “Health Alteration Bureau” for the first time
Couldn't find another reference to it though - closest was “Health Alteration Committee” on WikipediaThe Book Clubpod.link
👋 @ListenNotes, do you have an example rss feed that uses your upcoming podcast hosting feature?
The only episodes I see with a listennotes domain use your 302 redirect prefix to other hosts - I think they are all examples of your playlist feature.
Hehe, Apple needed no emergency security patch for stable tvOS
I guess disallowing WebKit on the entire platform was a great idea after all
Younger me would be all over thistwitter.com
nothing more absorbing and immersive than “a couple of extra ads per show” thrown into my hashtag podcaststwitter.com
“I have a podcast that gets 10K downloads a day, has a highly engaged fan base, & I get paid nothing for doing it. And even when I try to derive some income from it, it still, in the grand scheme of things, makes nothing.”
A must-read by @tannerhelps 👇Has Audience-Derived Monetization Become a Myth?tannerhelps.substack.com
Oh cool, looks like @youtubemusic migrated old gmusic playlists, so my WOXY Modern Rock 500 playlists are now available for non-Spotify people.
First, the combined playlist with every song from the 1989-2009 Modern Rock 500 lists (excellent shuffle):Your browser is deprecated. Please upgrade.music.youtube.com
I wish they were making stats public - point me to the data api!
Sounds like @ART19co is just prepending the regular @podtrac prefix to their customers that do not opt out
I'll expect Podtrac's tracker share to spike in September's numbers:Podcast Tracker Rankings by Episode Share (Sept 2021)livewire.iotwitter.com
