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Two podcast audio tracks were recorded this morning. Both the week 137 and 138 content received some revision and were recorded. That was a productive start to the day. Right now the backlog of recorded and ready to release blocks of content for The Lindahl Letter is sitting at 5 weeks. My alternate building project is progressing as well on a daily basis. When you are the only one coding and developing something you have to be really careful about hitting roadblocks and other blockers. That they can just bring everything to a crashing halt on a side project. No opportunity for recovery exists as you have to either solve it, figure out a work around, or elect to move on to something else. No one element of the backlog can be allowed to take up every bit of possible time.
I was reading this article from Vox writer Peter Kafka about how the newsletter boom is over [1]. During the course of writing 138 blocks of content to share on Substack I have wondered about how that company is doing and what exactly is going on in the world of newsletter publishing. It’s interesting to think of publishing a newsletter as an MVP to ship each week. Kafka shared a few links about what has been happening with Substack as well which was helpful. Those articles did not paint the best forward looking picture. A few weeks ago now I started to both post my podcast audio and Substack post content on this blog each week as well. That is more or less just an archival play at the moment. I’d have to figure out how to fold subscribers from one platform to the other which I guess would be possible by email. I’d have to consider the right opt-in process for that to make the switch, but it’s probably a problem for future Nels.
Footnotes:
[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/23289433/newsletters-substack-subscriptions-bari-weiss-semafor-peter-kafka-column
I’m just going to write throughout the week and record the links and other things that happen to publish them somewhere. Maybe even every Monday on Revue newsletters. It had occurred to me to just dump this content into the regular Friday weekly Substack newsletter, but at the moment that seems a little bit extreme. They are generally two different buckets of things. One is technology related in general and the other is rather targeted into machine learning and artificial intelligence. During the course of running some previews the Revue formatting is really a lot worse than what Substack has to offer. The links do not appear to auto embed as well in Revue and I generally don’t like the asthteics of the newsletter. I may have to change things up and move over to including this new content stream into either the weblog or Substack. A single weekly weblog post might be the way to go about it or maybe some type of other newsletter platform.
This weekend (Saturday morning YouTube surfing) started off with a bit of the WAN show from Linus Tech Tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6fSbJP9RQ
This week I almost went out to Newegg and bought a ton of Noctua fans to replace the stock Corsair fans in my Corsair Carbide Series Air 740 High Airflow ATX Cube Case.[1]
I watched the first 5 episodes of the show Dark Matter on Netflix.[2] This time around I was surprisingingly invested in the show.
This week for some reason I signed into Facebook for the first time in years. All of my content was just sitting and waiting apparently for a fresh login.
Footnotes:
[1] https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Cases/Carbide-Series%E2%84%A2-Air-740-High-Airflow-ATX-Cube-Case/p/CC-9011096-WW
[2] https://www.netflix.com/title/80023289 or https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4159076/