My mate Clint has to be really careful with the kerning when he’s asked to print his name in all caps.

#dadjokes

"The hardest career move is leaving a good one that's slowly making you invisible to yourself."

I can completely relate to this situation at times, feeling guilty for lacking motivation in a privileged role.

Does anyone else get this feeling?

https://dev.to/jonoherrington/golden-handcuffs-dont-feel-like-handcuffs-2cdi?

This is cool…

Descript - my AV editor of choice - now has an API and MCP in beta mode to play around with.

I love the idea of using simple prompts to get the basics together in a project with a first pass of the edit using their existing Underlord features.

https://help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/43370311322509-Descript-API-beta#mcp

#Descript #podcasting #MCP

Did you know if you long press the brightness bar on the iOS control centre, you can quickly toggle Dark Mode for those moments emails or webpages that aren’t supported?

I recently found this out so shared with the Mac Geek Gab podcast and it was featured in this week’s intro 

https://www.macgeekgab.com/episode/1133/

#iOS #quicktips #podcast

What happens when the regulars of your favourite podcast move on?

The show keeps going but people leave or change direction, something I’ve noticed on DTNS, one of my constant sources. 

What connects me to the feed is not just the content but the personalities that deliver it. Now some of those folks have moved on and I’m missing their voices and opinions. 

It’s not podfading but I do wonder if this can impact listener engagement. 

#podcasting

Took our daughter to the pool this afternoon but had to resist the temptation to force my pomodoro fitness technique on her (4m push, 1m rest, repeat x5). 

Meanwhile, dedicated lane for “proper swimming” proved tricky between older chap having a gentle plod & super fit woman blasting lengths out. 

Today’s random topics during our weekly #OnTheSide Office Hours:

WordPress is a loop of custom fields. 🖱️

Basic AirPods are banned for podcasting. Tin can audio is a crime. 🎙️

Multi-bay storage boxes beat an expensive NAS. 💾

Daylight savings remains a confusing mess for everyone. 😴

Ever measured productivity using the highly scientific method of “how stressed everyone looks”?

Yeah… we talk about that.

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dXTlzhvjN0BOGBTHkSmz3?si=ca0a38d8a4d149ed

#ManagingEngineers #metrics

Don’t become an Engineering Manager.

Its quite a sensational headline with interesting observations but personally, I think it’s a tricky route to weigh up at the moment and always comes back with the classic engineering answer of “it depends”.

https://open.substack.com/pub/zaidesanton/p/dont-become-an-engineering-manager?r=yzwr&utm_medium=ios

I love how Traxsource have published their stance on AI in music

https://www.traxsource.com/our-position-on-ai-music

For me, it's a great toy to play with that can be enjoyed. I do feel a bit uncomfortable people making a living / income out of it when there's very little human involvement though, but tech has always been an enabler for electronic music ever since we could mess with transistors, so we should definitely explore creative ways to use it.