NaPodPoMo 2026

If you’re writing software or providing a service, you should wrap your organisation in a bubble to ensure that you’re protected from external forces. But what happens when you become dependent on external suppliers? What happens to that bubble?

A few episodes ago, I gave you a potted history of how I started in podcasting. So let me go deeper into the show that started everything.

If one was to jump approximately 3,200mi west-southwest across the big pond from this location, you would set foot on a land of highly-charged, and highly-mixed emotions. Today in US politics has divided the nation, and possibly even the world.

When I was at college in the 90s, there were two camps of fantasy fiction: Eddings or Pratchett. I was solidly in the Eddings camp. There are another two camps of a similar ilk that people tend to be in one or the other, rarely both.

Over 18½ years ago, I sat on the floor in my living room with my laptop and a crappy Trust headset and recorded my first ever podcast episode. The rest, as they say, is history. However, some of you may not know that history, so…

In this, the first episode of my NaPodPoMo series for 2026, I dust off my microphone (not a euphemism), and then introduce you to this year's challenge.