Today Github, recently acquired by the new Microsoft, announced unlimited free repos for all. This is an interesting turn, after wide spread outcry and running to places like Gitlab after the MS finalized the purchase last year. I am more and more skeptical of free services, as we all should be I'm looking at you Facebook, I'm looking right at you, and am happy to pay for the services I do use and value. So I'm a little torn over this one. On the one hand I'm happy that MS on all accounts is showing to be a 'good steward' of this corner stone of open source development. On the other hand, I wonder, why? MS is still a business. Maybe it's a bit pessimistic, but I can't help be a little weary of the good news. Like in a month the other shoe will drop. Over the past several years I have become, more and more, and new Microsoft fan. Most know to the point, I happily use a Surface Book for my day to day work, and I freakin' love it. Still, this move seems unnecessary? At least for me, private repos wasn't a problem I needed solved.

I came across this article How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation today, and while I have never considered myself a “millennial”, I am on the oldest end of that time line. Based on this feelings and perspective of Anne, and others she interviewed, I would say I’m closer to ever than being a millennial.

What has been dubbed adulting, or what Anne has nicknamed “errand paralysis”, the mundane day to day tasks of dry cleaning, post office, or other repetitive analog tasks.

But the more I tried to figure out my errand paralysis, the more the actual parameters of burnout began to reveal themselves. Burnout and the behaviors and weight that accompany it

It you are a millennial, or a millennial in denial, or you know one. You need to take 10 minutes to sit down and read through Anne’s article at least once or twice.

Jesse (Millennial in denial)

I talked about themes the other day. One I didn’t mention, but wanted to outline was, read more. I love to read, but I don’t ever make it a priority in my daily life. When I was younger traveling the world, before iPhone and Kindle’s, I would always have a couple paperback books with me. What I remember and still feel, is reading is a different kind of relaxing. It feels less vegging out, when watching a movie. Not better, just satisfying a different type of down time. Make no mistake, I won’t be missing G.O.T. Or West World, but more reading is in my future for sure, maybe I’ll start with some Recommendations

While Greater China and other emerging markets accounted for the vast majority of the year-over-year iPhone revenue decline, in some developed markets, iPhone upgrades also were not as strong as we thought they would be. While macroeconomic challenges in some markets were a key contributor to this trend, we believe there are other factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance, including consumers adapting to a world with fewer carrier subsidies, US dollar strength-related price increases, and some customers taking advantage of significantly reduced pricing for iPhone battery replacements. 

Apple Website

Like many I can't say the last line that iPhone battery replacements made a significant impact to lower sales than previous projected, it's a bad look Tim. The smartphone market is mature and for the most part fully saturated. Someone like myself, who has pre-ordered most iPhones, getting the newest biggest best, have held off in recent cycles. Why? The combination of phones breaking $1,000, with the leveling off of hardware speed from year to year. Even with that, I've been Apple Leasing iPhones since they offered it. Pretty much iPhone as a service. At this point every 2 years seems more than adequate.

It’s got it’s own domain, and rough outline of a theme. HTTPS of course. Ability to post from any device and kick off a build on new content from here, or site changes from there.

Now for the hard part. More content. But the idea was to make it silly easy to push out content. Right?

Still need to set up these:

• Projects page
• Products page
• About
• Footer
• Social accounts

Netlify deploy might auto publish?

A yearly theme is a great way to keep a general focus for the long run. This is different then goals or actions. This is more like a guiding North Star. I picked up the idea from Rely FM’s Cortex which just had their yearly theme episode.

My theme this year is gonna be Creating Content. I’ll go into more detail as we progress, but really less consuming content and more creating, whatever form that happens to take.

The idea is to be in control of the content and customize it to be more reflective of my own thoughts and ideas. It was a faint pain to set up, but I thing in the end it will be well worth it.

So I was thinking a goal for 2019 would be 20 rejections for call for proposals for programming conferences. This means I need to put together maybe 5 or 6 quality cfp’s and then find as many interesting conferences to apply to. I thought it would be more positive to set the goal at 20 rejects, as a poses to getting accepted at 1 or 2 conferences. Knowing that it’s a matter of having a good solid proposal, and a numbers game. Maybe it does fit with the overall theme of the conference, maybe it just missed the cut? There are lots of reason to get rejected, being a terrible idea I don’t think is even on that long list. Maybe I didn’t articulate my goals well? Those are all things I can improve on. With that in mind, step one creat a repo. Step two, find and compile a laundry loo isn’t of conferneces. Starting with everything is inbounds, other than ones that fall on the kid’s birthdays and things like that. So we’ll start with the list, and go from there.

Setup

To get started let’s rundown the things you’ll need

1. An audio file that you recorded
2. Somewhere to host that file, plenty of services to do this for you
   1. They will create you a ‘feed’
3. Register that “feed” with Apple to have your show available on iTunes (currently the largest catalog), also register with Google play, that covers 95%
4. Your host will have a place to add show notes and details, like episode number, guests, and links.

Equipment

I started with a Blue Yeti and recorded on my Mac using the free go software Audacity. It’s a nice plug and play over USB with any computer. Talk, record, edit, export. Easy peasy. After a while I upgraded to XLR mic, that’s the fat pronged audio cable you see from standard audio equipment. Then you need a box to convert that to digital and send it into the computer over USB. This is a good breakdown of the two options xlr or usb?. The nice thing about XLR is it makes it much easier to edit later because it gives me cleaner audio.

Services

• Zencastr good for remote interviews
• libsyn I use this service. solid reliable. Nothing super fancy.
• microcasting I also do a bit of this. If you’ve got an iPhone, you can record, edit, and post right from your phone, it’s a great service. Microcasts are meant to be as short or long as you’d like. I do a couple 5 minute episodes a week.

Resources

• Marco Mics
• Marco Podcast
• JSnell Podcast
• Good Rundown