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

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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.

I don’t doubt that TMobile did everything they could to “massage” there numbers on 4G. But these days I have very little faith in the FCC is impartial these days. And that I think, is not a great place to be. arstechnica.com

T-Mobile denies lying to FCC about size of its 4G network

I mean, some accountability is better than none.

arstechnica.com

Charter users who didn’t get promised speeds will get $75 or $150 refunds

Opps. Wrong end. Not crafting a call for proposals, but answer ing that call. Lol link.medium.com

A good start Crafting The Perfect Call For Papers (with Template) | Ex Ordo

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.

I love all these ideas. Label them whatever you want. I support them all. twitter.com

The mini [ipad] is still a product in our lineup.

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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