People create podcasts for lots of reasons, such as to discuss their favorite whiskeys with their friends, or review the latest Cavs game. Others, are a bit more serious and every once in a while it’s important to evaluate the purpose of your podcast. Kendall Ann Byrd started her show, High Heels and Heartache, to help women recovering from all kinds of unhealthy, toxic or abusive relationships. Almost a year later she is sharing episodes about once a month on topics that range from therapy to the science of accepting trauma.

Before and after the discussion of why a podcast should have a purpose that you’re passionate about, they chat about an initiative from APM and social media trends. While they highly encourage people to check out the podcast pitch exercise, they’re not convinced all the social media trends will be for the greater good of the internet.

Again, apologies for the less than stellar recording quality this time around, but the new studio will be worth it for this episode. More pictures to come.

Thanks for listening and please subscribe via your favorite podcast app. If you’d like to be a guest on the show reach out to MacKenzie. She’s always looking for fun, new podcasters that use Blubrry services, specifically PowerPress.

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Show notes:

Are you an ideas person: Pitch your show to APM now! (https://podcastbusinessjournal.com/are-you-an-idea-person/)

High Heels and Heartache (https://highheelsandheartache.blubrry.net/): Hosted by Kendall Ann Byrd, helping people understand the truth about relationships.

Social Media Trends in 2019 (https://www.techlofy.com/social-media-marketing-trends/?utm_campaign=Open%20The%20Mic%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter): Top 5 that will take over the social media world.

It is the 10 year anniversary of Frank's SQLite-net library and he has some huge improvements and feature in store. We discuss the past, present, and future of SQLite across all of the different .NET platforms and how you can drop SQLite-net onto your server to simplify web apps!

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* Frank: Twitter (http://twitter.com/praeclarum), Blog (http://praeclarum.org), GitHub (http://github.com/praeclarum)

* James: Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (https://montemagno.com), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno)

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While the cat is away, the mice will play. MacKenzie is at PodCon (https://www.podcon.com/) and Todd is out at an undisclosed location so Mike and (guest host) John Hankins, from the the Blubrry support team, do a combined episode of Your Podcast and PowerPress Podcast.

Welcome to Your Podcast, THE official Blubrry podcast!  

AND PowerPress Podcast!

Thanks for listening to the show and please subscribe at PowerPressPodcast.com (https://powerpresspodcast.com/).

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Frank has some totally rad news! Apple is maybe, perhaps, almost, promoting his app. This has us thinking of app marketing and promotion for not only launching an app, but also when launching new features.

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* Merge Conflict: Twitter (http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm), Website (http://mergeconflict.fm)

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This year at CES, there were a number of themes amid all the tech that was on display. This is the third year in a row I’ve covered CES from afar and each year things get more and more interesting.

Last year, I had reports from people at CES but I was unable to coordinate any interviews or recordings from participants. Instead, I will take a look at three trends I noticed at this year’s event.

Voice Assistants Everywhere

Voice assistants are showing up everywhere: cars, bathrooms, kitchens. How do we train our kids to responsibly access information when it’s always a voice command away?

Parent-Focused Tech

With so many well-connected parents these days, tech companies are focusing on parents that have always had devices in their hands. How is this information used? Should we be concerned about our kids being under constant surveillance?

Robots and Automation

Robotic pets, autonomous vehicles, and closets that fold your laundry were on display at CES. Automation is great but can we become too dependent on it?

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It is a very special week on Merge Conflict as James Montemagno gets to sit down and interview Frank Krueger about his childhood, life, career, move to independent developer, and future plans.

From humble beginnings in New York, to electrical engineer, internship at Microsoft on the WPF team, business owner, world traveler, and now independent developer.

You do not want to miss this episode.

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* Frank: Twitter (http://twitter.com/praeclarum), Blog (http://praeclarum.org), GitHub (http://github.com/praeclarum)

* James: Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (https://montemagno.com), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno)

* Merge Conflict: Twitter (http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm), Website (http://mergeconflict.fm)

* Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface (https://soundcloud.com/adventureface)

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SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfm (https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm)Support Merge Conflict (https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm)Links:* Interlocutor | Definition of Interlocutor by Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interlocutor)* Eiffel (programming language) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language))* Bertrand Meyer - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Meyer)* Rochester Institute of Technology (http://www.rit.edu/)* The complete history of Star Wars on PC | PC Gamer (https://www.pcgamer.com/the-complete-history-of-star-wars-on-pc/)* University internship | Microsoft Careers (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/usuniversityinternship)* Trinspo: Travel Inspiration Episode 19: Deserted in Sinai (https://www.trinspo.com/19)* About - iCircuit - The Realtime Circuit Simulator and Editor (http://icircuitapp.com/)

* Greg Burrell at QCon SF 2018: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-devops)

* Baron’s talk (https://qconsf.com/sf2018/presentation/devops-database) from QCon SF isn’t public yet, sorry. It will be. Meanwhile, here are the slides (https://www.xaprb.com/slides/qconsf-2018-devops-for-the-database/)

* Bonus: Baron tweeted to ask ppl about their favorite on-call resources, and Mike Julian compiled all the answers into https://monitoring.love/articles/how-to-improve-on-call/ (https://monitoring.love/articles/how-to-improve-on-call/)

What is DevOps?

According to…

* Microsoft (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-devops/)

* Amazon (https://aws.amazon.com/devops/what-is-devops/)

* New Relic (https://newrelic.com/devops/what-is-devops#Chapter1WhatIsDevOps)

* Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/devops) “DevOps is the next most famous portmanteau next to Brangelina”

Check these out

* Jess: Quantum Mechanics Without the Observer (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.473.23&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

* Baron: Podcast rec: http://www.sceneonradio.org/ (http://www.sceneonradio.org/)

* Matty: John Allspaw on Incidents as We Imagine Them Versus How They Actually Are (https://community.pagerduty.com/t/incidents-as-we-imagine-them-versus-how-they-actually-are-with-john-allspaw/2708)

It's a slow start to the new year, which means it is time to talk about what we splurged on this holiday! Frank got himself a new Oculus Go, so why not talk about the state of VR, AR, and MR!

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Throughout 2018, there were a number of blog posts and podcasts that readers and listeners found helpful.

Some of them were published this year, and some are more popular now than they have been in the past.

Here are the top five blog posts and podcasts for 2018.

Top 5 Blog Posts of 2018

* 7 Online Writing Classes for Homeschoolers (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/online-writing-classes-homeschoolers/)

* 10 Educational Shows for Homeschooling Tweens and Teens on Netflix (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/10-educational-shows-for-tweens-and-teens-on-netflix/)

* 5 Online Science Classes for Homeschoolers (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/5-online-science-classes-for-homeschoolers/)

* A Lesson for Homeschooling Parents: These are the 10 Apps to Use! (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/lesson-homeschooling-parents-10-apps-use/)

* Body Image and Instagram – Infographic (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/body-image-instagram/)

Top 5 Podcasts of 2018

* How to Become Fluent in a Foreign Language with Duolingo (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/227)

* Experience Astronomy with Luke Gilkerson (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/233)

* Connect Movie Review and Discussion with Michael Prince of Family Tech Blog (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/224)

* 7 YouTube Channels for Homeschoolers to Learn How to Fix Cars (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/229)

* 10 Ways to Use an Amazon Echo Dot for Homeschooling (https://thewiredhomeschool.com/230)

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Music for the podcast by Kevin Macleod (http://inompetech.com/).

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It is that wonderful time of the year where we get to reflect back on all of the amazing stuff from 2018 and also give our 2019 (and beyond) predictions in the world of development. We also take your questions for our end of the year lightning topics including: C# features we want, .NET Standard vs Shared Project, Xamarin.Forms 5.0, Microprocessors, and learning languages.

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