Rotch Library - NA1502.E46 2019

Episode #016 sees us discussing the recent Generate Conference in London, Shopify’s amazing Build a Business annual contest, faces for apps, Happy Cog giving us insights into their workflow and a couple of revisits including Editorially and Draft.

• Generate Conf
• Distrify
• Shopify: Build A Business
• The Dribbblisation of Design
• Facebox.io
• UI Faces
• Pimping mail.app
• The Happy Cog Way
• Box Notes
• Editorially out of Beta
• Draft’s Hemingway mode

As we reach the ripe old age of 30 we sit back and chat about a topic we often come back to over an artisinal flat white – why do people think everything on the web “should” be free? We discuss some possible causes, the backlash against app developers charging for previously free tools and ponder if the rise of big VC has played it’s part too.

Oh and yes there’s yet more microphone drama. All will be explained next week. As always we do apologise for the disruption to the service.

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I’ll say this — time off between episodes certainly gives us plenty to talk about. In our 45th, almost hour–long, outing behind the mics we welcome new members to “the club“, discuss Kieran’s move into the world of coffee capsule commerce, ponder on new forms of web education, and learn more what Kieran receives in the post!

• David McCann
• Matt Wilmott
• Colonna Coffee
• Oliver Lindberg
• The New Digital School
• Lecture In Progress
• Lecture In Progress Kickstarter
• Web Teaching Day
• How to Survive as a Web Designer Beyond 2020

Happy New Year to you all! Rather unsurprisingly we missed our end of year review but the outline was probably one of our best. Maybe we’ll do it next year!

This episode we catch up on Kieran’s move behind the camera, argue over what exactly constitutes a pair of Daps and delve into the future of Medium in light of Ev Williams recent announcement.

• Colonna Brewing Guide Video
• What are Daps?
• Renewing Medium’s Focus
• Joe Polastre at Canvas Conference 2015
• Venture Capital is going to Murder Medium
• Dear Medium … Why Didn’t You Ask Us?
• Long Medium
• Drew Wilson’s Cave Week

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It’s hard to believe it’s only been one week, no really, since our last confession. Where does the time go?

In this episode we catch up on what’s happened in our lives in the last seven days, discuss the latest goings on at Medium, ponder why the Guardian doesn’t write listicles and end on probably the best API in the world!

• Shopify Plus
• Canada 150
• Medium Membership
• Biz is Back at Twitter
• BreweryDB

The Gujarat high court has granted temporary bail to a murder accused to observe fasts during the holy month of Ramzan. He will have to surrender to jail on May 25, after Eid-ul-Fitr.​

The district administration in Saurashtra is jittery fearing import of coronavirus cases into the district with the permission for intrastate travel granted by the state government. Jamnagar, which had only one Covid case till now reported five new cases in the past one week.

The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has decided to give additional financial compensation to health and paramedical staff of AMC and private designated Covid-19 hospitals who contact coronavirus infection on duty.

On March 24, when the lockdown was imposed, the total biomedical Covid waste incinerated in Ahmedabad that day was 82kg. The waste was mainly from the initial admissions at SVP Hospital,

In an incident that raises serious questions about Covid-19 care centres run by the city civic body, a 27-year-old coronavirus positive man died in his bed after suffering seizure at room 808-Block G3, at Samras Covid-19 care centre in Navrangpura. Only asymptomatic patients are isolated here so that they can be monitored and sent to hospital if they develop symptoms, or discharged when they turn negative.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had marked four hotels as Covid care centres till now, will now have 100 more hotels with a bed capacity of 3,175 for the purpose. In another important development, the civic body has planned a massive sanitization campaign in AMC areas from Saturday.