🍋 First Attempt - Let's Go!
Issue #1. You have to start somewhere so this seems like a very good place to start.
For the sections of my newsletter, I'm borrowing Tara Manicsic's phrase "Thought Things" from the Netlify podcast, Remotely Interesting.
Here we go!
Link Thought Things
I'm part of Cassidy's Patreon / Discord, and one of the members (Hi Tom!) sent me on a video tour of Budapest, where he lives. Beautiful.
We've been watching For All Mankind. It's a show on AppleTV+ that imagines an alternate timeline where the Russians land on the moon first. It's a great series, but I find myself getting tense worrying that every space scene is going to end in disaster.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch - trailer here - started this week. We're still ~100 episodes back on The Clone Wars so it'll be a little while before I'm able to watch this, but it looks fun!
Would you pay for a higher quality Apple Music plan? It's rumoured to be coming.
If you've never watched Prince's performance from 2004's Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame, watch and dig into this thread from Prince superfan Anil Dash on the re-edit done by the original director.
TikTok led the way in adding captions to videos, and now Instagram will let users auto-caption Stories with a sticker.
Disney has created a more realistic lightsaber that the world has to wait until 2022 to see. This teaser is all we get for now.
Nintendo just announced a new game called Game Builder Garage that will let you build your own games. Looks fun!
Why are the Eagles the most unloved band to ever sell a hundred million records? The Ringer attempts to figure it out.
The Stranger Things season 4 trailer was just released.
Podcasting Thought Things
Apple and Spotify have both announced subscription programs for podcasters. Would you pay actual money to support your favorite podcast?
Nathan Gathright wrote up a simple - with lots of dongles because it's Apple - guide to recording audio in social audio apps, like Twitter Spaces or Clubhouse.
Self promotional note: If you like video games and/or board games, I have a podcast with a friend Nicolas called 25c that I'd love if you checked out.
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Picture of the Week
The weather is warming up here and we've been able to get outside for a few more walks. I love getting out to the edge of our city to breath some fresh air, and hear a little less noise. This was the view from a walk this week.
That's it for this week's issue. If you've read this far, thanks for venturing this far down the page.
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Until next week, thanks for reading!
Chris Enns