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• Domain name purchasing as a roadblock for projects |
• Personal background of Nick Janetakis (Greek-American from Long Island) |
• Criticism of digital nomad lifestyle blogs |
• Discussion of Backstage podcast and connection between Jerod Santo and Nick Janetakis |
• Overview of Nick Janetakis' professional experience and online content creation |
• Description of Nick's application-building project using Phoenix with Elixir |
• Comparison of building own course platform vs. using existing platforms like Thinkific or Teachable |
• The hosts discuss their past use of WordPress as a CMS and the headaches it caused |
• They built a custom CMS using Elixir and Phoenix, which was initially not open-sourced due to concerns about competitors copying the platform |
• The hosts decided to open-source the CMS to provide value to others, particularly in the form of a real-world example for content management systems with specific features |
• Nick Janetakis used the CMS as a reference point for building his own application, pulling out components that he liked and adapting them to his needs |
• Jerod Santo reflects on his approach to coding, which tends to result in non-reusable libraries and code, rather than general-purpose packages or modules. |
• Premature abstraction vs. wet code |
• The rule of three for code reuse |
• Overburdened schedule as a limiting factor for progress |
• Custom CMS development vs. using existing platforms |
• Balancing multiple projects and responsibilities |
• Freelance work and consulting services |
• Personal experience with course creation and development |
• Phasing out client work and its impact on staying sharp |
• Real-world experience and maintaining technical edge through software development |
• The Changelog as a platform for experimentation and deep dives into other people's software |
• Time commitment to Changelog codebase (5-10 hours/week) |
• Metacasts: a new feature to improve podcast search and visibility in indexes like Apple Podcasts and Spotify |
• Search engine optimization and content management strategy |
• Content hosting: discussing pros and cons of hosting content on course-specific domains vs. main domain |
• Marketing to developers: challenges of marketing to developers and finding effective ways to promote courses and content |
• Balance between sales and content: striking a balance between promoting courses and providing valuable, relevant content |
• Newsletter and email marketing: effectiveness of newsletters and email courses as a way to engage with audience |
• Patronage and community building: exploring the concept of patronage and its relation to community building and personality-based content |
• The value of personal newsletters as a new social network |
• Nick Janetakis' experience with and value on newsletters |
• How to consume news effectively, including using RSS and specific blogs |
• The benefits of having a curated, personalized newsletter in your inbox |
• Personal relationships with content creators and consuming their past work |
• Nick Janetakis shares his experience with audio recording equipment for creating online courses |
• He started with a non-RadioShack microphone and later upgraded to ASIO Link Pro on Windows |
• The developer of ASIO Link Pro passed away, causing issues with the software's registration server key |
• Nick now uses a $60 dynamic mic, an audio interface (Scarlett 2i2), and the DBX286S for noise cancellation and compression |
• He also discusses his editing process using Camtasia and OBS |
• Nick expresses interest in switching to native Linux but is currently experiencing issues with the Scarlett audio interface on Linux |
• Jerod Santo shares his own experiences with Linux and hardware compatibility issues |
• Discussion about the capabilities of Synergy software for merging multiple computers into one cohesive experience |
• Jerod Santo and Nick Janetakis reminisce about using Synergy in the past |
• Nick Janetakis mentions a similar setup he's working on now using native Linux hardware |
• Discussion of the future development of Changelog.com, including the addition of commentary features and plans to improve image uploading capabilities |
**Nick Janetakis:** That is interesting how that works, too. I tend to buy domain names first as well, and then they just sit there and nothing happens. |
**Jerod Santo:** Yeah. Just last Friday Adam and I were talking, and we have this idea, and we're talking about the idea, and we're both independently doing domain name searches while we talk about an idea... You know, because you almost have to have -- for some reason, there's like a road bump and you can't continue f... |
**Nick Janetakis:** I feel the exact same way. |
**Jerod Santo:** So Janetakis... |
**Nick Janetakis:** It's Greek. |
**Jerod Santo:** And you're from Greece? |
**Nick Janetakis:** No, I was born in the U.S. Just my dad's side is Greek. |
**Jerod Santo:** Okay. Where do you live? |
**Nick Janetakis:** New York. |
**Jerod Santo:** Okay. Manhattan, or...? |
**Nick Janetakis:** No, Long Island. It's a little bit East of Manhattan. |
**Jerod Santo:** Born and raised? |
**Nick Janetakis:** Yup. |
**Jerod Santo:** Cool. |
**Nick Janetakis:** I would like to move eventually, but I wanna become one of those digital nomads, where you just travel the world for a couple months in different countries. |
**Jerod Santo:** Isn't that what everybody -- that's the dream right there, all the digital nomads... And they write blogs about they're nomadic, and we're all just reading the blogs and envy them. |
**Nick Janetakis:** Yup. \[laughter\] |
**Jerod Santo:** That's kind of how it goes. That's Instagram for nerds - blogs of digital nomads, where we can see lives that they've prepared, handwritten what their life is like, and we can just envy them. Very much Instagram-style, at least, where you see the curated version of people's lives, and then you look at ... |
**Nick Janetakis:** Right. You see the five seconds of 24 hours. |
**Jerod Santo:** Right. By the way, Backstage \[unintelligible 00:02:23.21\] In fact, this could be a show right here... Why not, in fact...? So listeners out there, if you have listened to the most recent episode of the Changelog, which would mean you're a hardcore listener, because this is the Monday following -- I t... |
We've known each other just casually in our Slack chat, but we tend to talk shop, and I thought "Hey, let's hop on Backstage and talk shop, because it's fun", and others can benefit perhaps as well. Tell everybody what you're up to with your videos. |
**Nick Janetakis:** Right. I guess the TL;DR - my name is Nick Janetakis, I've been a freelance web developer for about 20 years, and as of about four years ago I started doing video courses, mainly around Docker, Flask, and other programming topics. Since then, I started a blog, and I pretty much write about everythin... |
**Jerod Santo:** \[04:14\] That's definitely where your and my paths cross - both the technical details and on the dev business. I know you're selling subscriptions or videos directly to developers, we are providing content for developers, so we have a lot of similar thoughts, similar tasks, the exact same audience... ... |
**Nick Janetakis:** When it comes to hosting videos, you don't necessarily need to develop your own course hosting platform... There are these other platforms out there, like Thinkific and Teachable; I'm not sure if you've heard of them before... But they're basically like a course-hosting platform as a service; they'r... |
But you know, when you're a developer, you just think in your head that you wanna develop things, and I feel like... \[laughter\] I think developing my own course platform has been something I've wanted to do for a long time, but I still do freelance work now, so it's very hard to balance the time of creating the actua... |
So I actually did start building my own course-hosting platform about nine months ago, and this is kind of how I got introduced to your codebase... So I determined I wanted to use Phoenix with Elixir. Right now it's quite popular as a technology, but it's not on the same level as Rails when it comes to tutorials, and t... |
I basically used your platform as almost my sole learning experience for getting used to Phoenix and Elixir. Sure, I read the documentation, but it was more like I read the docs to get the super-duper basics, and then it was like I'm just looking at your code, and then occasionally harassing you on Slack if I get reall... |
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2019 Backstage Transcripts
Complete transcripts from the 2019 episodes of the Backstage podcast.
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