The ShopTalk Show Discord gave me an idea for a new podcast based on the premise that people—developers in this case—need to meet more actual mediocre white guys in order to boost their own confidence, and realize how little some people know who keep getting promoted. 😆

artwork for a fictional podcast called "Meeting a Mediocre White Guy" featuring an overconfident looking white male with lots of crypto logos and graphics, a poster of Joe Rogan in the background, and at least 10 microphones

I’m sure it’s a coincidence that Riverside tries to tack on podcast hosting to their services the same week that a client has a recording be the most out of sync (video to audio) that I’ve seen in years… but it’s sure not building a lot of confidence for me with their app.

I’ve posted about this before, but I did a quick video version of how easy it is to enable Bluesky comment replies on your podcast episode pages with Transistor podcast hosting.

New blog post: Adding Video Streaming to Your Podcast with HLS

A client recently revived a show that’s been on hiatus for 2.5 years and it’s nice how comforting it is to hear their familiar voices in my ear again. It will be interesting to see how many folks maintained their podcast subscription over that time period when the new episode goes out.

Podcast / Notion idea for someone to build: Monitor the podcast’s RSS feed and when the episode comes out matching the title in Notion, adjust the status to “published”.

I’m not sure what I was going to put here, but I kind of wish I would’ve finished this disgusting ring tone product on my Gumroad account way back when. 😆

If you’re seeing this, I’m live now on Twitch demoing recording and editing a podcast using Riverside with tim.

If you’re curious how it works to record and edit a podcast using a tool like Riverside, today I’m going to demo it… live on stream? Seems like a bad idea.

Join Tim and I in just under an hour on Twitch or YouTube to see how it goes.

Every time I think I should start a new #podcast, I just watch this video.

I’ve never listened to a full episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast. But he somehow got 3 hours of Bono’s time so now I might have to?. 😂

I agree with Justin’s post about YouTube’s eventual need to degrade the podcasting experience to extract value from it. Silos and walled gardens are not in podcasting’s best interest. And IMHO this includes podcast apps trying to be all things to the podcaster.

New blog post: The Necessary Conversation Podcast

I dig how simply and clearly Ray Ortega demonstrates the benefits of Elgato’s new Voice Focus feature works. I’m definitely tempted to upgrade my old Scarlett 18i8 with a simple Wave XLR. #podcasting

🔔 Tim and I are going to be chatting about something… podcast editing, websites, taxes, something? - Join us in an hour 1:45pm / 3:45pm EST on Twitch.

Here’s the YouTube edit of my conversation with Tim yesterday about pricing services like podcast edits or web projects. It’s been fun to talk and recognize the 15+ (?!) years of experience I’ve had working with clients, always learning new things with each one.

🔔 How do you price out work for clients? Tim and I are going to be talking about pricing in creative work like podcast editing or websites - 1:45pm / 3:45pm EST on Twitch.

I’m driving 867km today, which should take around 8hrs give or take.

What’s the best podcast episode you’ve listened to recently that I should check out?

It’s been a while since I’ve thought about what and why I’m posting where and when online. I just opened up Descript and recorded some thoughts off the top of my brain, which is super helpful to get a rough draft rather than starting with a page listing everything I could do online.

Screenshot of Descript recording transcription reading:  Ok Dokey Donkey. What? What am I doing?&10;&10;What is my home? On the internet is the blog post title maybe.&10;&10;So in order of things that I have on the internet, obviously I have my blog, chrisenns.com. I post micro blog, which then cross post blue sky mast on and threads ish. I have an email newsletter host on button down that I used to be good at posting once a month, once a week, maybe even now. I haven't posted in over a year.&10;&10;Uh, I have a Discord, various Discord communities I'm a part of that I post into and I'm, but also building, uh, one. Just for myself, maybe community kind of thing. I have various podcasts and ideas. I have various podcast ideas, littered across transistor fm. Thanks Justin. And I have an Instagram that I post to once a year if I'm lucky, and occasionally on stories when I'm bored.&10;&10;I've got my Twitch channel, lemon casting that I'm posting. On weekly ish and having fun with that. And then YouTube is sort of like a secondary home for whatever gets posted on Twitch. And then also other random tutorial videos that I make. So obviously my blog and vanity domain name chans.com should be my home base, but I don't love the way it ghost the CMS.&10;&10;I'm using handles emails and blog posts as sort of one thing, more or less if I wanna send an email to everyone who's subscribed to me. And says they wanna find out about me. I don't wanna have to think about how I'd write that as a blog post, which lives on the internet, even though at the end of the day, those are essentially the same things, just like a page on the internet link somewhere and packaged up into an email and sent to people, which is why I like sort of the separation of concerns of button down being the email newsletter thing.

Your regular reminder that whether you have one podcast or 20, Transistor is the best podcast host to use. Design + ease of use + support = happy podcaster.