Podcasts about gvl

Michael Van Dorsser joins Nick and Josh to recap the final week of GVL - a.k.a. THE GRAND FINAL, BABBBYYYYY. Marcus Beeck has us looking ahead to the AFL and AFLW draft, Ash has her entertainment guide, and Nick updates us on Dhurringile Prison.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nick and Josh finish their season of local footy chats, speaking to club President of the Longwood Football Netball Club, Rick Shiner. Michael Van Dorsser recaps an exciting weekend of GVL in the football and netball, Shane goes to the soccer, and Ash has her regular entertainment guide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Local footy is heating up, with many leagues heading into finals soon - Michael Van Dorsser recaps round 18 for the GVL, and Shepp News' Marcus Beeck dives into controversy surrounding the Golden Boot award. Shane Sali makes good on his 60 seconds, and Ash brings her entertainment guide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Footy galore on this week's episode, speaking with Violet Town Football Netball Club President, Matt Holmes - and of course as we do each week, Michael Van Dorsser wraps up the GVL. Shane Sali blows WAAAAAAY over 60 seconds, and Ash is back with an entertainment guide to keep you busy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In this fourth conversation of Series Sixteen, we talk with Pip Cleaves. Pip currently works as Associate Principal, at Global Village Learning, a community that empowers young people to build communities that positively impact the world. She is passionate about learners driving their own education, and in order to do that at GVL, is currently unlearning the 'business of schooling'. She hopes to never lose her sense of curiosity. Some may call her creative, but she has yet to define what creativity means to her. The Game Changers podcast is produced by Evan Phillips supported by a School for tomorrow (aschoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE. The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at gamechangers@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Phil and Adriano via LinkedIn and Twitter. Let's go!

This week as part of their local football chats, Nick and Josh are joined by Toby Sissons, Vice President of the Mulwala Football Netball Club, on their promising form, selfless volunteers, and club days that are coming up. We keep footy top of mind as Michael Van Dorsser recaps the GVL and of course, Shane Sali for Mayor in a Minute, and Ash is back with an entertainment guide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Listen Local Fam!We have a very big, highly entertaining show... So lets dive right into it! Grand View Lodge has a NEW General Manager and Executive Chef, and the Listen Local crew had to head out there to the NOW OPEN Tanque Verde Cantina to hear all about it! First... Jacob, Colton and Isaiah catch up with the Dawn Southworth, who took over as General Manager of Grand View. Dawn tells us about everything from where she's from to what it was like being apart of a team that opened up a Ritz Carlton in the Middle East to what the main selling point of GVL was. Plus... of course we had to ask her about her thoughts on Meat Raffles, Pull Tabs, and other great Minnesota traditions. After Dawn heads out, we chat with the new Executive Chef Justin Grecco who won the Listen Local crew over right from the get-go by bringing over new food menu items and tequila shots. Lot's of GVL Restaurant Menu upgrades and Justin tells us about all of those, plus the NEW NEW Preserve Smokehouse. On that note, we do ask him if there is any added pressure in opening this Smokehouse following the departure of celebrity Chef Justin Sutherland's Northern Soul out there at The Preserve. All of that and much more with Chef Justin Grecco! Thanks so much to both Dawn and Justin, and so excited to have you in the BLA! And as always... Thanks to our sponsors Hanneken Insurance, Lakes Area CPAs, Hills Detailing Center, Posture Pro Chiropractic, Craguns Legacy Courses and of course our presenting sponsor Tyler Gardner with Pequot Lakes and Gull Lake Sanitation! Instagram: ListenLocalMNBlazeAirMNWoodsToWaterMNNorthwoodsAgent Facebook:Listen Local MNBlazeAirMNWoodsToWaterMN

This week as part of their local football chats, Nick and Josh are joined by Rick Shiner, President of Longwood Football & Netball Club about their early season rollercoaster, and their optimism for a healthy end to the season. We keep footy top of mind as Michael Van Dorsser recaps the GVL and of course, Shane Sali for Mayor in a Minute, and Ash is back with an entertainment guide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nick is back, and so is My Town! This week as part of their local football chats, Nick and Josh are joined by Simon Robinson, President of Murchison Toolamba FNC about what the town and team have overcome on their journey to become KDFL juggernauts. We keep footy top of mind as Michael Van Dorsser recaps the GVL and of course, Shane Sali for Mayor in a Minute, and Ash is back with an entertainment guide. Not to mention, Shepp is becoming immortalised in boardgame history, receiving its own edition of Monopoly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week as part of their local football chats, Nick and Josh are joined by committee member Raelee Jager from the Euroa Football Netball Club, to speak about their positive club culture and their dynamic coaches on both sides of the ball.. We keep footy top of mind as Michael Van Dorsser recaps the GVL and of course, Shane Sali for Mayor in a Minute, and Ash is back with an entertainment guide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wie sehen die nächsten Schritte nach dem Abschluss aus?   In der heutigen Folge sind Beka Bediana und Heinrich Schafmeister zu Gast. Alexandra Schiller moderiert die Folge. Gemeinsam sprechen sie darüber, welche Einstiegsmöglichkeiten es für Absolvent*innen gibt, wie Schauspieler*innen vermittelt werden. Wie arbeitet die ZAV? Welche Einstiegsgagen gibt es? Wie sieht es mit der KSK und der Pensionskasse Rundfunk aus? Welche Tipps zur Altersabsicherung haben Heinrich und Beka? Darüber hinaus sprechen sie über weitere wichtige Themen wie Arbeitslosengeld, GVL und Machtmissbrauch. Eine spannende Folge, die viele relevante Aspekte für den Berufseinstieg thematisiert.  Wir wünschen Ihnen viel Freude bei der Folge und freuen uns über Feedback und Anregungen an podcast@bffs.de. https://www.bffs.de/service/dokumente-download/

Wie sehen die nächsten Schritte nach dem Abschluss aus?   In der heutigen Folge sind Beka Bediana und Heinrich Schafmeister zu Gast. Alexandra Schiller moderiert die Folge. Gemeinsam sprechen sie darüber, welche Einstiegsmöglichkeiten es für Absolvent*innen gibt, wie Schauspieler*innen vermittelt werden. Wie arbeitet die ZAV? Welche Einstiegsgagen gibt es? Wie sieht es mit der KSK und der Pensionskasse Rundfunk aus? Welche Tipps zur Altersabsicherung haben Heinrich und Beka? Darüber hinaus sprechen sie über weitere wichtige Themen wie Arbeitslosengeld, GVL und Machtmissbrauch. Eine spannende Folge, die viele relevante Aspekte für den Berufseinstieg thematisiert.  Wir wünschen Ihnen viel Freude bei der Folge und freuen uns über Feedback und Anregungen an podcast@bffs.de. https://www.bffs.de/service/dokumente-download/

This week as part of their local football chats, Nick and Josh speak with Matt Holmes, President of the Violet Town Football Netball Club, off the back of their first win of the year. We keep footy top of mind as Michael Van Dorsser recaps the GVL and of course, Shane Sali for Mayor in a Minute, and Ash is back with an entertainment guide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week as part of their local football chats, Nick and Josh speak with Adam Parker, President of the Moama Football Netball Club, about a strong performance and bounceback over the weekend. We keep footy top of mind as Michael Van Dorsser recaps the GVL and of course, Shane Sali for Mayor in a Minute, and Ash is back with an entertainment guide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week as part of their local football chats, Nick and Josh speak with Rick Shiner, club president of the Longwood Football and Netball Club, about their less than ideal Round 1 showing in the KDFL, and how they're going to build from the community base to bounce back heading into the rest of the season. Dr. Ian Goodwin from Tatura's Smart Farm explains what's so special there, plus Michael Van Dorsser recaps the GVL and of course, Shane Sali for Mayor in a Minute.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Triple M rocks footy, even local footy - Nick and Josh are joined by GVL commentator Michael to cover off on their own "Round Oh". Ali White joins the pod to talk about Mega Bats, and Shane Sali is ready for his 60 seconds in Mayor in a Minute.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Linda Stark ist Songwriterin, Gründerin der Verlagsedition Paper Pug und Vorstandsmitglied von Verso, der Vereinigung für Songwriter. Außerdem ist sie Mitglied der GEMA und engagiert sich dort gleichzeitig als Delegierte der Textdichter*innen. In dieser Podcastfolge gibt Linda einen tiefen Einblick in die Welt der GEMA, um die Menschen dazu zu ermutigen, sich aktiv mit der Verwertungsgesellschaft auseinanderzusetzen. Sie erklärt, wann es sich für Künstler*innen lohnt, Mitglied zu werden, wie die Abrechnung von Konzerten, Radio-Airplay und Fernsehauftritten funktioniert, aber auch um das oft negative Image der GEMA. Außerdem geht es um ISRC-Codes, Plattformen und EANs. Wo genau eigentlich der Unterschied zur GVL liegt, welche Rolle Stefan Raabs Couch dabei spielt und was ein gebrochener Fuß damit zu tun hat, erfährst du in diesem Beitrag. In dieser Podcastfolge lernst du:

Mike Perham is the creator of Sidekiq, a background job processor for Ruby. He's also the creator of Faktory a similar product for multiple language environments. We talk about the RubyConf keynote and Ruby's limitations, supporting products as a solo developer, and some ideas for funding open source like a public utility. Recorded at RubyConf 2023 in San Diego. -- A few topics covered: Sidekiq (Ruby) vs Faktory (Polyglot) Why background job solutions are so common in Ruby Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) Ractors (Actor concurrency) Downsides of Multiprocess applications When to use other languages Getting people to pay for Sidekiq Keeping a solo business Being selective about customers Ways to keep support needs low Open source as a public utility Mike Mike's blog mastodon Sidekiq faktory From Employment to Independence Ruby Ractor The Practical Effects of the GVL on Scaling in Ruby Transcript You can help correct transcripts on GitHub. Introduction [00:00:00] Jeremy: I'm here at RubyConf San Diego with Mike Perham. He's the creator of Sidekiq and Faktory. [00:00:07] Mike: Thank you, Jeremy, for having me here. It's a pleasure. Sidekiq [00:00:11] Jeremy: So for people who aren't familiar with, I guess we'll start with Sidekiq because I think that's what you're most known for. If people don't know what it is, maybe you can give like a small little explanation. [00:00:22] Mike: Ruby apps generally have two major pieces of infrastructure powering them. You've got your app server, which serves your webpages and the browser. And then you generally have something off on the side that... It processes, you know, data for a million different reasons, and that's generally called a background job framework, and that's what Sidekiq is. [00:00:41] It, Rails is usually the thing that, that handles your web stuff, and then Sidekiq is the Sidekiq to Rails, so to speak. [00:00:50] Jeremy: And so this would fit the same role as, I think in Python, there's celery. and then in the Ruby world, I guess there is, uh, Resque is another kind of job. [00:01:02] Mike: Yeah, background job frameworks are quite prolific in Ruby. the Ruby community's kind of settled on that as the, the standard pattern for application development. So yeah, we've got, a half a dozen to a dozen different, different examples throughout history, but the major ones today are, Sidekiq, Resque, DelayedJob, GoodJob, and, and, and others down the line, yeah. Why background jobs are so common in Ruby [00:01:25] Jeremy: I think working in other languages, you mentioned how in Ruby, there's this very clear, preference to use these job scheduling systems, these job queuing systems, and I'm not. I'm not sure if that's as true in, say, if somebody's working in Java, or C sharp, or whatnot. And I wonder if there's something specific about Ruby that makes people kind of gravitate towards this as the default thing they would use. [00:01:52] Mike: That's a good question. What makes Ruby... The one that so needs a background job system. I think Ruby, has historically been very single threaded. And so, every Ruby process can only do so much work. And so Ruby oftentimes does, uh, spin up a lot of different processes, and so having processes that are more focused on one thing is, is, is more standard. [00:02:24] So you'll have your application server processes, which focus on just serving HTTP responses. And then you have some other sort of focused process and that just became background job processes. but yeah, I haven't really thought of it all that much. But, uh, you know, something like Java, for instance, heavily multi threaded. [00:02:45] And so, and extremely heavyweight in terms of memory and startup time. So it's much more frequent in Java that you just start up one process and that's it. Right, you just do everything in that one process. And so you may have dozens and dozens of threads, both serving HTTP and doing work on the side too. Um, whereas in Ruby that just kind of naturally, there was a natural split there. Global Interpreter Lock [00:03:10] Jeremy: So that's actually a really good insight, because... in the keynote at RubyConf, Mats, the creator of Ruby, you know, he mentioned the, how the fact that there is this global, interpreter lock, [00:03:23] or, or global VM lock in Ruby, and so you can't, really do multiple things in parallel and make use of all the different cores. And so it makes a lot of sense why you would say like, okay, I need to spin up separate processes so that I can actually take advantage of, of my, system. [00:03:43] Mike: Right. Yeah. And the, um, the GVL. is the acronym we use in the Ruby community, or GIL. Uh, that global lock really kind of is a forcing function for much of the application architecture in Ruby. Ruby, uh, applications because it does limit how much processing a single Ruby process can do. So, uh, even though Sidekiq is heavily multi threaded, you can only have so many threads executing. [00:04:14] Because they all have to share one core because of that global lock. So unfortunately, that's, that's been, um, one of the limiter, limiting factors to Sidekiq scalability is that, that lock and boy, I would pay a lot of money to just have that lock go away, but. You know, Python is going through a very long term experiment about trying to remove that lock and I'm very curious to see how well that goes because I would love to see Ruby do the same and we'll see what happens in the future, but, it's always frustrating when I come to another RubyConf and I hear another Matt's keynote where he's asked about the GIL and he continues to say, well, the GIL is going to be around, as long as I can tell. [00:04:57] so it's a little bit frustrating, but. It's, it's just what you have to deal with. Ractors [00:05:02] Jeremy: I'm not too familiar with them, but they, they did mention during the keynote I think there Ractors or something like that. There, there, there's some way of being able to get around the GIL but there are these constraints on them. And in the context of Sidekiq and, and maybe Ruby in general, how do you feel about those options or those solutions? [00:05:22] Mike: Yeah, so, I think it was Ruby 3. 2 that introduced this concept of what they call a Ractor, which is like a thread, except it does not have the global lock. It can run independent to the global lock. The problem is, is because it doesn't use the global lock, it has pretty severe constraints on what it can do. [00:05:47] And the, and more specifically, the data it can access. So, Ruby apps and Rails apps throughout history have traditionally accessed a lot of global data, a lot of class level data, and accessed all this data in a, in a read only fashion. so there's no race conditions because no one's changing any of it, but it's still, lots of threads all accessing the same variables. [00:06:19] Well, Ractors can't do that at all. The only data Ractors can access is data that they own. And so that is completely foreign to Ruby application, traditional Ruby applications. So essentially, Ractors aren't compatible with the vast majority of existing Ruby code. So I, I, I toyed with the idea of prototyping Sidekiq and Ractors, and within about a minute or two, I just ran into these, these, uh... [00:06:51] These very severe constraints, and so that's why you don't see a lot of people using Ractors, even still, even though they've been out for a year or two now, you just don't see a lot of people using them, because they're, they're really limited, limited in what they can do. But, on the other hand, they're unlimited in how well they can scale. [00:07:12] So, we'll see, we'll see. Hopefully in the future, they'll make a lot of improvements and, uh, maybe they'll become more usable over time. Downsides of multiprocess (Memory usage) [00:07:19] Jeremy: And with the existence of a job queue or job scheduler like Sidekiq, you're able to create additional processes to get around that global lock, I suppose. What are the... downsides of doing so versus another language like we mentioned Java earlier, which is capable of having true parallelism in the same process. [00:07:47] Mike: Yeah, so you can start up multiple Ruby processes to process things truly in parallel. The issue is that you do get some duplication in terms of memory. So your Ruby app maybe take a gigabyte per process. And, you can do copy on write forking. You can fork and get some memory sharing with copy on write semantics on Unix operating systems. [00:08:21] But you may only get, let's say, 30 percent memory savings. So, there's still a significant memory overhead to forking, you know, let's say, eight processes versus having eight threads. You know, you, you, you may have, uh, eight threads can operate in a gigabyte process, but if you want to have eight processes, that may take, let's say, four gigabytes of RAM. [00:08:48] So you, you still, it's not going to cost you eight gigabytes of RAM, you know, it's not like just one times eight, but, there's still a overhead of having those separate processes. [00:08:58] Jeremy: would you say it's more of a cost restriction, like it costs you more to run these applications, or are there actual problems that you can't solve because of this restriction. [00:09:13] Mike: Help me understand, what do you mean by restriction? Do you mean just the GVL in general, or the fact that forking processes still costs memory? [00:09:22] Jeremy: I think, well, it would be both, right? So you're, you have two restrictions right now. You have the, the GVL, which means you can't have parallelism within the same process. And then your other option is to spin up a bunch of processes, which you have said is the downside there is that you're using a lot more RAM. [00:09:43] I suppose my question is that Does that actually stop you from doing anything? Like, if you throw more money at the problem, you go like, we're going to have more instances, I'll pay for the RAM, it's fine, can that basically get you out of these situations or are these limitations actually stopping you from, from doing things you could do in other languages? [00:10:04] Mike: Well, you certainly have to manage the multiple processes, right? So you've gotta, you know, if one child process crashes, you've gotta have a parent or supervisor process watching all that and monitoring and restarting the process. I don't think it restricts you. Necessarily, it just, it adds complexity to your deployment. [00:10:24] and, and it's just a question of efficiency, right? Instead of being able to deploy on a, on a one gigabyte droplet, I've got to deploy to a four gigabyte droplet, right? Because I just, I need the RAM to run the eight processes. So it, it, it's more of just a purely a function of how much money am I going to have to throw at this problem. [00:10:45] And what's it going to cost me in operational costs to operate this application in production? When to use other languages? [00:10:53] Jeremy: So during the. Keynote, uh, Matz had mentioned that Rails, is really suitable as this one person framework, like you can have a very small team or maybe even yourself and, and build this product. And so I guess from... Your perspective, once you cross a certain threshold, is like, what Ruby and what Sidekiq provides not enough, and that's why you need to start looking into other languages? [00:11:24] Or like, where's the, turning point, or the, if you [00:11:29] Mike: Right, right. The, it's all about the problem you're trying to solve, right? At the end of the day, uh, the, the question is just what are we trying to solve and how are we trying to solve it? So at a higher level, you got to think about the architecture. if the problem you're trying to solve, if the service you're trying to build, if the app you're trying to operate. [00:11:51] If that doesn't really fall into the traditional Ruby application architecture, then you, you might look at it in another language or another ecosystem. something like Go, for instance, can compile down to a single binary, which makes deployment really easy. It makes shipping up a product. on to a user's machine, much simpler than deploying a Ruby application onto a user's desktop machine, for instance, right? [00:12:22] Um, Ruby does have this, this problem of how do you package everything together and deploy it somewhere? Whereas Go, when you can just compile to a single binary, now you've just got a single thing. And it's just... Drop it on the file system and execute it. It's easy. So, um, different, different ecosystems have different application architectures, which empower different ways of solving the same problems. [00:12:48] But, you know, Rails as a, as a one man framework, or sorry, one person framework, It, it, I don't, I don't necessarily, that's a, that's sort of a catchy marketing slogan, but I just think of Rails as the most productive framework you can use. So you, as a single person, you can maximize what you ship and the, the, the value that you can create because Rails is so productive. [00:13:13] Jeremy: So it, seems like it's maybe the, the domain or the type of application you're making. Like you mentioned the command line application, because you want to be able to deliver it to your user easily. Just give them a binary, something like Go or perhaps Rust makes a lot more sense. and then I could see people saying that if you're doing something with machine learning, like the community behind Python, it's, they're just, they're all there. [00:13:41] So Room for more domains in Ruby [00:13:41] Mike: That was exactly the example I was going to use also. Yeah, if you're doing something with data or AI, Python is going to be a more, a more traditional, natural choice. that doesn't mean Ruby can't do it. That doesn't mean, you wouldn't be able to solve the problem with Ruby. And, and there's, that just also means that there's more space for someone who wants to come in and make an impact in the Ruby community. [00:14:03] Find a problem that Ruby's not really well suited to solving right now and build the tooling out there to, to try and solve it. You know, I, I saw a talk, from the fellow who makes the Glimmer gem, which is a native UI toolkit. Uh, a gem for building native UIs in Ruby, which Ruby traditionally can't do, but he's, he's done an amazing job at sort of surfacing APIs to build these, um, these native, uh, native applications, which I think is great. [00:14:32] It's awesome. It's, it's so invigorating to see Ruby in a new space like that. Um, I talked to someone else who's doing the Polars gem, which is focused on data processing. So it kind of takes, um, Python and Pandas and brings that to Ruby, which is, is awesome because if you're a Ruby developer, now you've got all these additional tools which can allow you to solve new sets of problems out there. [00:14:57] So that's, that's kind of what's exciting in the Ruby community right now is just bring it into new spaces. Faktory [00:15:03] Jeremy: In addition to Sidekiq, you have, uh, another product called Faktory, I believe. And so does that serve a, a similar purpose? Is that another job scheduling, job queueing system? [00:15:16] Mike: It is, yes. And it's, it's, it's similar in a way to Sidekiq. It looks similar. It's got similar concepts at the core of it. At the end of the day, Sidekiq is limited to Ruby. Because Sidekiq executes in a Ruby VM, it executes the jobs, and the jobs are, have to be written in Ruby because you're running in the Ruby VM. [00:15:38] Faktory was my attempt to bring, Sidekiq functionality to every other language. I wanted, I wanted Sidekiq for JavaScript. I wanted Sidekiq for Go. I wanted Sidekiq for Python because A, a lot of these other languages also could use a system, a background job system. And the problem though is that. [00:16:04] As a single man, I can't port Sidekiq to every other language. I don't know all the languages, right? So, Faktory kind of changes the architecture and, um, allows you to execute jobs in any language. it, it replaces Redis and provides a server where you just fetch jobs, and you can use it from it. [00:16:26] You can use that protocol from any language to, to build your own worker processes that execute jobs in whatever language you want. [00:16:35] Jeremy: When you say it replaces Redis, so it doesn't use Redis, um, internally, it has its own. [00:16:41] Mike: It does use Redis under the covers. Yeah, it starts Redis as a child process and, connects to it over a Unix socket. And so it's really stable. It's really fast. from the outside, the, the worker processes, they just talk to Faktory. They don't know anything about Redis at all. [00:16:59] Jeremy: I see. And for someone who, like we mentioned earlier in the Python community, for example, there is, um, Celery. For someone who is using a task scheduler like that, what's the incentive to switch or use something different? [00:17:17] Mike: Well, I, I always say if you're using something right now, I'm not going to try and convince you to switch necessarily. It's when you have pain that you want to switch and move away. Maybe you have Maybe there's capabilities in the newer system that you really need that the old system doesn't provide, but Celery is such a widely known system that I'm not necessarily going to try and convince people to move away from it, but if people are looking for a new system, one of the things that Celery does that Faktory does not do is Celery provides like data adapters for using store, lots of different storage systems, right? [00:17:55] Faktory doesn't do that. Faktory is more, has more of the Rails mantra of, you know, Omakase where we choose, I choose to use Redis and that's it. You don't, you don't have a choice for what to use because who cares, you know, at the end of the day, let Faktory deal with it. it's, it's not something that, You should even necessarily be concerned about it. [00:18:17] Just, just try Faktory out and see how it works for you. Um, so I, I try to take those operational concerns off the table and just have the user focus on, you know, usability, performance, and that sort of thing. but it is, it's, it's another background job system out there for people to try out and see if they like that. [00:18:36] And, and if they want to, um, if they know Celery and they want to use Celery, more power to Faktory them. Sidekiq (Ruby) or Faktory (Polyglot) [00:18:43] Jeremy: And Sidekiq and Faktory, they serve a very similar purpose. For someone who they have a new project, they haven't chosen a job. scheduling system, if they were using Ruby, would it ever make sense for them to use Faktory versus use Sidekiq? [00:19:05] Mike: Uh Faktory is excellent in a polyglot situation. So if you're using multiple languages, if you're creating jobs in Ruby, but you're executing them in Python, for instance, um, you know, if you've, I have people who are, Creating jobs in PHP and executing them in Python, for instance. That kind of polyglot scenario, Sidekiq can't do that at all. [00:19:31] So, Faktory is useful there. In terms of Ruby, Ruby is just another language to Faktory. So, there is a Ruby API for using Faktory, and you can create and execute Ruby jobs with Faktory. But, you'll find that in the Ruby community, Sidekiq is much widely... much more widely used and understood and known. So if you're just using Ruby, I think, I think Sidekiq is the right choice. [00:19:59] I wouldn't look at Faktory. But if you do need, find yourself needing that polyglot tool, then Faktory is there. Temporal [00:20:07] Jeremy: And this is maybe one, maybe one layer of abstraction higher, but there's a product called Temporal that has some of this job scheduling, but also this workflow component. I wonder if you've tried that out and how you think about that product? [00:20:25] Mike: I've heard of them. I don't know a lot about the product. I do have a workflow API, the Sidekiq batches, which allow you to fan out jobs and then, and then execute callbacks when all the jobs in that, in that batch are done. But I don't, provide sort of a, a high level. Graphical Workflow Editor or anything like that. [00:20:50] Those to me are more marketing tools that you use to sell the tool for six figures. And I don't think they're usable. And I don't think they're actually used day to day. I provide an API for developers to use. And developers don't like moving blocks of code around in a GUI. They want to write code. And, um, so yeah, temporal, I, like I said, I don't know much about them. [00:21:19] I also, are they a venture capital backed startup? [00:21:22] Jeremy: They are, is my understanding, [00:21:24] Mike: Yeah, that, uh, any, any sort of venture capital backed startup, um, who's building technical infrastructure. I, I would look long and hard at, I'm, I think open source is the right core to build on. Of course I sell commercial software, but. I'm bootstrapped. I'm profitable. [00:21:46] I'm going to be around forever. A VC backed startup, they tend to go bankrupt, because they either get big or they go out of business. So that would be my only comment is, is, be a little bit leery about relying on commercial venture capital based infrastructure for, for companies, uh, long term. Getting people to pay for Sidekiq [00:22:05] Jeremy: So I think that's a really interesting part about your business is that I think a lot of open source maintainers have a really big challenge figuring out how to make it as a living. The, there are so many projects that they all have a very permissive license and you can use them freely one example I can think of is, I, I talked with, uh, David Kramer, who's the CTO at Sentry, and he, I don't think they use it anymore, but they, they were using Nginx, right? [00:22:39] And he's like, well, Nginx, they have a paid product, like Nginx. Plus that or something. I don't know what the name is, but he was like, but I'm not going to pay for it. Right. I'm just going to use the free one. Why would I, you know, pay for the, um, the paid thing? So I, I, I'm kind of curious from your perspective when you were coming up with Sidekiq both as an open source product, but also as a commercial one, how did you make that determination of like to make a product where it's going to be useful in its open source form? [00:23:15] I can still convince people to pay money for it. [00:23:19] Mike: Yeah, the, I was terrified, to be blunt, when I first started out. when I started the Sidekiq project, I knew it was going to take a lot of time. I knew if it was successful, I was going to be doing it for the next decade. Right? So I started in 2012, and here I am in 2023, over a decade, and I'm still doing it. [00:23:38] So my expectation was met in that regard. And I knew I was not going to be able to last that long. If I was making zero dollars, right? You just, you burn out. Nobody can last that long. Well, I guess there are a few exceptions to that rule, but yeah, money, I tend to think makes things a little more sustainable for sure. [00:23:58] Especially if you can turn it into a full time job solving and supporting a project that you, you love and, and is, is, you know, your, your, your baby, your child, so to speak, your software, uh, uh, creation that you've given to the world. but I was terrified. but one thing I did was at the time I was blogging a lot. [00:24:22] And so I was telling people about Sidekiq. I was telling people what was to come. I was talking about ideas and. The one thing that I blogged about was financial experiments. I said bluntly to the, to, to the Ruby community, I'm going to be experimenting with financial stability and sustainability with this project. [00:24:42] So not only did I create this open source project, but I was also publicly saying I I need to figure out how to make this work for the next decade. And so eventually that led to Sidekiq Pro. And I had to figure out how to build a closed source Ruby gem, which, uh, There's not a lot of, so I was kind of in the wild there. [00:25:11] But, you know, thankfully all the pieces came together and it was actually possible. I couldn't have done it if it wasn't possible. Like, we would not be talking if I couldn't make a private gem. So, um, but it happened to work out. Uh, and it allowed me to, to gate features behind a paywall effectively. And, and yeah, you're right. [00:25:33] It can be tough to make people pay for software. but I'm a developer who's selling to other developers, not, not just developers, open source developers, and they know that they have this financial problem, right? They know that there's this sustainability problem. And I was blunt in saying, this is my solution to my sustainability. [00:25:56] So, I charge what I think is a very fair price. It's only a thousand dollars a year to a hobbyist. That may seem like a lot of money to a business. It's a drop in the bucket. So it was easy for developers to say, Hey, listen, we want to buy this tool for a thousand bucks. It'll ensure our infrastructure is maintained for the next decade. [00:26:18] And it's, and it's. And it's relatively cheap. It's way less than, uh, you know, a salary or even a laptop. So, so that's, that's what I did. And, um, it's, it worked out great. People, people really understood. Even today, I talk to people and they say, we, we signed up for Sidekiq Pro to support you. So it's, it's, it's really, um, invigorating to hear people, uh, thank me and, and they're, they're actively happy that they're paying me and our customers. [00:26:49] Jeremy: it's sort of, uh, maybe a not super common story, right, in terms of what you went through. Because when I think of open core businesses, I think of companies like, uh, GitLab, which are venture funded, uh, very different scenario there. I wonder, like, in your case, so you started in 2012, and there were probably no venture backed competitors, right? [00:27:19] People saying that we're going to make this job scheduling system and some VC is going to give me five million dollars and build a team to work on this. It was probably at the time, maybe it was Rescue, which was... [00:27:35] Mike: There was a venture backed system called IronMQ, [00:27:40] Jeremy: Hmm. [00:27:41] Mike: And I'm not sure if they're still around or not, but they... They took, uh, one or more funding rounds. I'm not sure exactly, but they were VC backed. They were doing, background jobs, scheduled jobs, uh, you know, running container, running container jobs. They, they eventually, I think, wound up sort of settling on Docker containers. [00:28:06] They'll basically spin up a Docker container. And that container can do whatever it wants. It can execute for a second and then shut down, or it can run for, for however long, but they would, um, yeah, I, yeah, I'll, I'll stop there because I don't know the actual details of exactly their system, but I'm not sure if they're still around, but that's the only one that I remember offhand that was around, you know, years ago. [00:28:32] Yeah, it's, it's mostly, you know, low level open source infrastructure. And so, anytime you have funded startups, they're generally using that open source infrastructure to build their own SaaS. And so SaaS's are the vast majority of where you see sort of, uh, commercial software. [00:28:51] Jeremy: so I guess in that way it, it, it gave you this, this window or this area where you could come in and there wasn't, other than that iron, product, there wasn't this big money that you were fighting against. It was sort of, it was you telling people openly, I'm, I'm working on this thing. [00:29:11] I need to make money so that I can sustain it. And, if you, yeah. like the work I do, then, you know, basically support me. Right. And, and so I think that, I'm wondering how we can reproduce that more often because when you see new products, a lot of times it is VC backed, right? [00:29:35] Because people say, I need to work on this. I need to be paid. and I can't ask a team to do this. For nothing, right? So [00:29:44] Mike: Yeah. It's. It's a wicked problem. Uh, it's a really, really hard problem to solve if you take vc you there, that that really kind of means that you need to be making tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. If you are building a small or relatively small. You know, put small in quotes there because I don't really know what that means, but if you have a small open source project, you can't charge huge amounts for it, right? [00:30:18] I mean, Sidekiq is a, I would call a medium sized open source project, and I'm charging a thousand bucks for it. So if you're building, you know, I don't know, I don't even want to necessarily give example, but if you're building some open source project, and It's one of 300 libraries that people's applications will depend on. [00:30:40] You can't necessarily charge a thousand dollars for that library. depending on the size and the capabilities, maybe you can, maybe you can't. But there's going to be a long tail of open source projects that just, they can't, they can't charge much, if anything, for them. So, unfortunately, we have, you know, these You kind of have two pathways. [00:31:07] Venture capital, where you've got to sell a ton, or free. And I've kind of walked that fine line where I'm a small business, I can charge a small amount because I'm bootstrapped. And, and I don't need huge amounts of money, and I, and I have a project that is of the right size to where I can charge a decent amount of money. [00:31:32] That means that I can survive with 500 or a thousand customers. I don't need to have a hundred million dollars worth of customers. Because I, you know, when I started the business, one of the constraints I said is I don't want to hire anybody. I'm just going to be solo. And part of the, part of my ability to keep a low price and, and keep running sustainably, even with just You know, only a few hundred customers is because I'm solo. [00:32:03] I don't have the overhead of investors. I don't have the overhead of other employees. I don't have an office space. You know, my overhead is very small. So that is, um, you know, I just kind of have a unique business in that way, I guess you might say. Keeping the business solo [00:32:21] Jeremy: I think that's that's interesting about your business as well But the fact that you've kept it you've kept it solo which I would imagine in most businesses, they need support people. they need, developers outside of maybe just one. Um, there's all sorts of other, I don't think overhead is the right word, but you just need more people, right? [00:32:45] And, and what do you think it is about Sidekiq that's made it possible for it to just be a one person operation? [00:32:52] Mike: There's so much administrative overhead in a business. I explicitly create business policies so that I can run solo. you know, my support policy is officially you get one email ticket or issue per quarter. And, and anything more than that, I can bounce back and say, well, you're, you're requiring too much support. [00:33:23] In reality, I don't enforce that at all. And people email me all the time, but, but things like. Things like dealing with accounting and bookkeeping and taxes and legal stuff, licensing, all that is, yeah, a little bit of overhead, but I've kept it as minimal as I can. And part of that is I don't want to hire another employee because then that increases the administrative overhead that I have. [00:33:53] And Sidekiq is so tied to me and my knowledge that if I hire somebody, they're probably not going to know Ruby and threading and all the intricate technical detail necessary to build and maintain and support the system. And so really you'll kind of regress a little bit. We won't be able to give as good support because I'm busy helping that other employee. Being selective about customers [00:34:23] Mike: So, yeah, it's, it's a tightrope act where you've got to really figure out how can I scale myself as far as possible without overwhelming myself. The, the overwhelming thing that I have that I've never been able to solve. It's just dealing with billing inquiries, customers, companies, emailing me saying, how do we buy this thing? [00:34:46] Can I get an invoice? Every company out there, it seems wants an invoice. And the problem with invoicing is it takes a lot more. manual labor and administrative overhead to issue that invoice to collect payment on the invoice. So that's one of the reasons why I have a very strict policy about credit card only for, for the vast majority of my customers. [00:35:11] And I demand that companies pay a lot more. You have to have a pretty big enterprise license if you want an invoice. And if the company, if the company comes back and complains and says, well, you know, that's ridiculous. We don't, we don't want to pay that much. We don't need it that much. Uh, you know, I, I say, okay, well then you have two, two things, two, uh, two things. [00:35:36] You can either pay with a credit card or you can not use Sidekiq. Like, that's, that's it. I'm, I don't need your money. I don't want the administrative overhead of dealing with your accounting department. I just want to support my, my customers and build my software. And, and so, yeah, I don't want to turn into a billing clerk. [00:35:55] So sometimes, sometimes the, the, the best thing in business that you can do is just say no. [00:36:01] Jeremy: That's very interesting because I think being a solo... Person is what probably makes that possible, right? Because if you had the additional staff, then you might say like, Well, I need to pay my staff, so we should be getting, you know, as much business as [00:36:19] Mike: Yeah. Chasing every customer you can, right. But yeah. [00:36:22] Every customer is different. I mean, I have some customers that just, they never contact me. They pay their bill really fast or right on time. And they're paying me, you know, five figures, 20, a year. And they just, it's a, God bless them because those are, are the. [00:36:40] Best customers to have and the worst customers are the ones who are paying 99 bucks a month and everything that they don't understand or whatever is a complaint. So sometimes, sometimes you, you want to, vet your customers from that perspective and say, which one of these customers are going to be good? [00:36:58] Which ones are going to be problematic? [00:37:01] Jeremy: And you're only only person... And I'm not sure how many customers you have, but [00:37:08] Mike: I have 2000 [00:37:09] Jeremy: 2000 customers. [00:37:10] Okay. [00:37:11] Mike: Yeah. [00:37:11] Jeremy: And has that been relatively stable or has there been growth [00:37:16] Mike: It's been relatively stable the last couple of years. Ruby has, has sort of plateaued. Um, it's, you don't see a lot of growth. I'm getting probably, um, 15, 20 percent growth maybe. Uh, so I'm not growing like a weed, like, you know, venture capital would want to see, but steady incremental growth is, is, uh, wonderful, especially since I do very little. [00:37:42] Sales and marketing. you know, I come to RubyConf I, I I tweet out, you know, or I, I toot out funny Mastodon Toots occasionally and, and, um, and, and put out new releases of the software. And, and that's, that's essentially my, my marketing. My marketing is just staying in front of developers and, and, and being a presence in the Ruby community. [00:38:06] But yeah, it, it's, uh. I, I, I see not a, not a huge amount of churn, but I see enough sales to, to, to stay up and keep my head above water and to keep growing, um, slowly but surely. Support needs haven't grown [00:38:20] Jeremy: And as you've had that steady growth, has the support burden not grown with it? [00:38:27] Mike: Not as much because once customers are on Sidekiq and they've got it working, then by and large, you don't hear from them all that much. There's always GitHub issues, you know, customers open GitHub issues. I love that. but yeah, by and large, the community finds bugs. and opens up issues. And so things remain relatively stable. [00:38:51] I don't get a lot of the complete newbie who has no idea what they're doing and wants me to, to tell them how to use Sidekiq that I just don't see much of that at all. Um, I have seen it before, but in that case, generally, I, I, I politely tell that person that, listen, I'm not here to educate you on the product. [00:39:14] It's there's documentation in the wiki. Uh, and there's tons of, of more Ruby, generic Ruby, uh, educational material out there. That's just not, not what I do. So, so yeah, by and large, the support burden is, is not too bad because once people are, are up and running, it's stable and, and they don't, they don't need to contact me. [00:39:36] Jeremy: I wonder too, if that's perhaps a function of the price, because if you're a. new developer or someone who's not too familiar with how to do job processing or what they want to do when you, there is the open source product, of course. but then the next step up, I believe is about a hundred dollars a month. [00:39:58] And if you're somebody who is kind of just getting started and learning how things work, you're probably not going to pay that, is my guess. And so you'll never hear from them. [00:40:11] Mike: Right, yeah, that's a good point too, is the open source version, which is what people inevitably are going to use and integrate into their app at first. Because it's open source, you're not going to email me directly, um, and when people do email me directly, Sidekiq support questions, I do, I reply literally, I'm sorry I don't respond to private email, unless you're a customer. [00:40:35] Please open a GitHub issue and, um, that I try to educate both my open source users and my commercial customers to try and stay in GitHub issues because private email is a silo, right? Private email doesn't help anybody else but them. If I can get people to go into GitHub issues, then that's a public record. [00:40:58] that people can search. Because if one person has that problem, there's probably a dozen other people that have that same problem. And then that other, those other 11 people can search and find the solution to their problem at four in the morning when I'm asleep. Right? So that's, that's what I'm trying to do is, is keep, uh, keep everything out in the open so that people can self service as much as possible. Sidekiq open source [00:41:24] Jeremy: And on the open source side, are you still primarily the main contributor? Or do you have other people that are [00:41:35] Mike: I mean, I'd say I do 90 percent of the work, which is why I don't feel guilty about keeping 100 percent of the money. A lot of open source projects, when they look for financial sustainability, they also look for how can we split this money amongst the team. And that's, that's a completely different topic that I've. [00:41:55] is another reason why I've stayed solo is if I hire an employee and I pay them 200, 000 a year as a developer, I'm meanwhile keeping all the rest of the profits of the company. And so that almost seems a little bit unfair. because we're both still working 40 hours a week, right? Why am I the one making the vast majority of the, of the profit and the money? [00:42:19] Um, so, uh, I've always, uh, that's another reason why I've stayed solo, but, but yeah, having a team of people working on something, I do get, regular commits, regular pull requests from people, fixing a bug that they found or just making a tweak that. that they saw, that they thought they could improve. [00:42:42] A little more rarely I get a significant improvement or feature, as a pull request. but Sidekiq is so stable these days that it really doesn't need a team of people maintaining it. The volume of changes necessary, I can easily keep up with that. So, I'm still doing 90 95 percent of the work. Are there other Sidekiq-like opportunities out there? [00:43:07] Jeremy: Yeah, so I think Sidekiq has sort of a unique positioning where it's the code base itself is small enough where you can maintain it yourself and you have some help, but primarily you're the main maintainer. And then you have enough customers who are willing to, to pay for the benefit it gives them on top of what the open source product provides. [00:43:36] cause it's, it's, you were talking about how. Every project people work on, they have, they could have hundreds of dependencies, right? And to ask somebody to, to pay for each of them is, is probably not ever going to happen. And so it's interesting to think about how you have things like, say, you know, OpenSSL, you know, it's a library that a whole bunch of people rely on, but nobody is going to pay a monthly fee to use it. [00:44:06] You have things like, uh, recently there was HashiCorp with Terraform, right? They, they decided to change their license because they, they wanted to get, you know, some of that value back, some of the money back, and the community basically revolted. Right? And did a fork. And so I'm kind of curious, like, yeah, where people can find these sweet spots like, like Sidekiq, where they can find this space where it's just small enough where you can work on it on your own and still get people to pay for it. [00:44:43] It's, I'm trying to picture, like, where are the spaces? Open source as a public utility [00:44:48] Mike: We need to look at other forms of financing beyond pure capitalism. If this is truly public infrastructure that needs to be maintained for the long term, then why are we, why is it that we depend on capitalism to do that? Our roads, our water, our sewer, those are not Capitalist, right? Those are utilities, that's public infrastructure that we maintain, that the government helps us maintain. [00:45:27] And in a sense, tech infrastructure is similar or could be thought of in a similar fashion. So things like Open Collective, things like, uh, there's a, there's a organization in Europe called NLNet, I think, out of the Netherlands. And they do a lot of grants to various open source projects to help them improve the state of digital infrastructure. [00:45:57] They support, for instance, Mastodon as a open source project that doesn't have any sort of corporate backing. They see that as necessary social media infrastructure, uh, for the long term. And, and I, and I think that's wonderful. I like to see those new directions being explored where you don't have to turn everything into a product, right? [00:46:27] And, and try and market and sale, um, and, and run ads and, and do all this stuff. If you can just make the case that, hey, this is, this is useful public infrastructure that so many different, um, Technical, uh, you know, applications and businesses could rely on, much like FedEx and DHL use our roads to the benefit of their own, their own corporate profits. [00:46:53] Um, why, why, why shouldn't we think of tech infrastructure sort of in a similar way? So, yeah, I would like to see us explore more. in that direction. I understand that in America that may not happen for quite a while because we are very, capitalist focused, but it's encouraging to see, um, places like Europe, uh, a little more open to, to trialing things like, cooperatives and, and grants and large long term grants to, to projects to see if they can, uh, provide sustainability in, in, you know, in a new way. [00:47:29] Jeremy: Yeah, that's a good point because I think right now, a lot of the open source infrastructure that we all rely on, either it's being paid for by large companies and at the whim of those large companies, if Google decides we don't want to pay for you to work on this project anymore, where does the money come from? [00:47:53] Right? And on the other hand, there's the thousands, tens of thousands of people who are doing it. just for free out of the, you know, the goodness of their, their heart. And that's where a lot of the burnout comes from. Right. So I think what you're saying is that perhaps a lot of these pieces that we all rely on, that our, our governments, you know, here in the United States, but also around the world should perhaps recognize as this is, like you said, this is infrastructure, and we should be. [00:48:29] Paying these people to keep the equivalent of the roads and, and, uh, all that working. [00:48:37] Mike: Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm not claiming that it's a perfect analogy. There's, there's, there's lots of questions that are unanswered in that, right? How do you, how do you ensure that a project is well maintained? What does that even look like? What does that mean? you know, you can look at a road and say, is it full of potholes or is it smooth as glass, right? [00:48:59] It's just perfectly obvious, but to a, to a digital project, it's, it's not as clear. So, yeah, but, but, but exploring those new ways because turning everybody into a businessman so that they can, they can keep their project going, it, it, it itself is not sustainable, right? so yeah, and that's why everything turns into a SaaS because a SaaS is easy to control. [00:49:24] It's easy to gatekeep behind a paywall and it's easy to charge for, whereas a library on GitHub. Yeah. You know, what do you do there? You know, obviously GitHub has sponsors, the sponsors feature. You've got Patreon, you've got Open Collective, you've got Tidelift. There's, there's other, you know, experiments that have been run, but nothing has risen to the top yet. [00:49:47] and it's still, it's still a bit of a grind. but yeah, we'll see, we'll see what happens, but hopefully people will keep experimenting and, and maybe, maybe governments will start. Thinking in the direction of, you know, what does it mean to have a budget for digital infrastructure maintenance? [00:50:04] Jeremy: Yeah, it's interesting because we, we started thinking about like, okay, where can we find spaces for other Sidekiqs? But it sounds like maybe, maybe that's just not realistic, right? Like maybe we need more of a... Yeah, a rethinking of, I guess the, the structure of how people get funded. Yeah. [00:50:23] Mike: Yeah, sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to think at a higher level. You know, we, the, the sustainability problem in American Silicon Valley based open source developers is naturally going to tend toward venture capital and, and capitalism. And I, you know, I think, I think that's, uh, extremely problematic on a, on a lot of different, in a lot of different ways. [00:50:47] And, and so sometimes you need to step back and say, well, maybe we're, maybe we just don't have the right tool set to solve this problem. But, you know, I, I. More than that, I'm not going to speculate on because it is a wicked problem to solve. [00:51:04] Jeremy: Is there anything else you wanted to, to mention or thought we should have talked about? [00:51:08] Mike: No, I, I, I loved the talk, of sustainability and, and open source. And I, it's, it's a, it's a topic really dear to my heart, obviously. So I, I am happy to talk about it at length with anybody, anytime. So thank you for having me. [00:51:25] Jeremy: All right. Thank you very much, Mike.

Happy Veterans Day! On this episode the Listen Local guys catch up Emma Nelson, Assistant Director of Food and Beverage at Grand View Lodge. Emma comes on the show to talk about the recent and upcoming events at GVL, including the Grand Brewfest who they are actually partnering with Lakes Area Heroes on. Find out all about that, and so much more happening at Grand View. Next, Pequot Lakes Chief of Police Mike Davis comes on to talk Veterans Day. Chief Davis, who was a Paratrooper in the Army, tells us about some of his most memorable stories while in the Military and also what Veterans Day means to him. He also discusses how recruitment has changed over the years. Thanks again to Mike for hopping on this Veteran's Day show and more importantly, thanks for his service! Also discussed on this episode, local sports STATE updates, hunting, the Vikings and much, much more! Thanks to all of you, our amazing listeners, and of course thank you so much to our sponsors Hanneken Insurance, Lakes Area CPAs, Outlet Recreation Crosslake, Posture Pro Chiropractic and our presenting sponsor Tyler Gardner with Pequot Lakes and Gull Lake Sanitation! Instagram: ListenLocalMNBlazeAirMNWoodsToWaterMNNorthwoodsAgent Facebook:Listen Local MNBlazeAirMNWoodsToWaterMN

About The Guest(s): Dr. Kirk Gair and Dr. Rob Silverman are special guests and recent published research authors for a brand new study on the GVL laser. Dr. Kirk Gair has been using Erchonia lasers since 2004 and has seen mind-blowing results with the GVL laser. Dr. Rob Silverman is a chiropractor and author of the book "Immune Reboot." He has extensive knowledge and experience in laser therapy. Summary: Dr. Kirk Gair and Dr. Rob Silverman discuss their recently published study on the GVL laser. The study showed remarkable results in improving range of motion and reducing pain in patients. The GVL laser utilizes green and violet wavelengths, which have unique reactions in the body. The green wavelength has shown superiority in nerve repair, bone repair, and stem cell production. The violet wavelength has antimicrobial effects and supports the immune system. The combination of these wavelengths in the GVL laser provides a comprehensive tool for addressing a wide range of health issues, including autoimmune conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, and mitochondrial dysfunction. Key Takeaways: The GVL laser utilizes green and violet wavelengths, which have specific energies that trigger different reactions in the body. The green wavelength is effective in nerve repair, bone repair, and stem cell production. The violet wavelength has antimicrobial effects and supports the immune system. The GVL laser provides a comprehensive tool for addressing a wide range of health issues, including autoimmune conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, and mitochondrial dysfunction. Quotes: "The GVL for Kirk and I is without question the standard bearer." - Dr. Rob Silverman "The GVL is the true dynamic duo." - Dr. Rob Silverman "The GVL is the prom queen versus the witch." - Dr. Rob Silverman To learn more or read the study you can check it out here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37829623/

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Der Posaunist Conny Bauer wird mit dem Albert-Mangelsdorff-Preis für sein Lebenswerk ausgezeichnet. Der von der Deutschen Jazzunion im zweijahres-Rhythmus vergebene, von der Gema-Stiftung, der GVL und dem Deutschen Komponistenverband bereitgestellte Preis wird im Rahmen des Jazzfest Berlin am 5. November verliehen.

Eine neue Podcastfolge ist online und mein Gast ist Alexander Kreuzer, der uns mit auf seinen Weg als Schauspieler und Coach nimmt. Er teilt mit uns seine Castingtipps und beantwortet die Frage, warum Schauspiel auch eine Frage der Haltung ist. Du erfährst in dieser Folge:

In Welten parallel versammelt die Theater-Edition Schultz & Schirm sieben aktuelle Stücke von Katja Ladynskaya, unter anderem eine Neufassung der Antigone, die im September 2022 uraufgeführt wird. Die Autorin beschäftigt sich in ihren Stücken mit der Sinnsuche der Menschen, dem Selbst- und Fremdbild in Coronazeiten und den Folgen von Rollenzuschreibungen für junge Menschen. Mit viel schwarzem Humor beschreibt sie Ängste und Träume einer sich schnell entwickelnden Gesellschaft in der realen sowie virtuellen Welt. Die russische Autorin, die seit 2011 im deutschsprachigen Europa lebt und arbeitet, schreibt seit 2013 auf Deutsch. Ladynskaya ist Teil der russischen Antikriegsbewegung und gründete im März 2022 eine Russisch-Ukrainische Friedensbewegung. Im Band enthaltene Stücke: Projections of Lulu, Heaven GmbH, @tod.official, //, Blut und Spirit, Momentum Ich, Antigone. Katja Ladysnskaya, geb. 1994 in St. Petersburg, Regisseurin, Autorin, Performerin und bildende Künstlerin, Inszenierungen in Coburg, München, Regensburg, Nürnberg, Fürth, Linz, Stuttgart, Hanover, Maßbach, Schweinfurt, Baden-Baden und Bremerhaven, Friedensaktivistin; Begründerin einer Russisch-Ukrainischen Friedensbewegung, Vorträge in München und Regensburg, kam 2011 nach Deutschland, Abschluss BWL in München an der LMU, Schauspielausbildung in München, Improvisationskurse für Kinder, freie Regieassistenz in München, 2017 Teilnahme am Projekt Gratwanderung mit Gemälde und Gedicht. Katja wurde in den letzten Jahren mehrmals für ihr Schaffen ausgezeichnet: mit einem Förderpreis der Freunde der ADK für außergewöhnliche künstlerische Leistungen, mit Prof. Dr. Neumüller-Stipendium, mit den Stipendien von bayern innovativ und GVL, und mit dem Stipendium für junge Dramatiker:innen der Deutschen Literaturfonds. In der Spielzeit 2020/2021 brachte sie ihre Abschlussinszenierung Harper Regan nach Simon Stephens, die zuvor bereits als einstündiger Film in Regensburg Premiere feierte, in der Kunsthalle Baden-Baden im Rahmen des Festivals Conditions Of A Necessity auf die Bühne. Es folgte eine performative Lesung ihres selbstgeschrieben Stückes Heaven GmbH am Gostner Hoftheater in Nürnberg, eine Inszenierung des Klassenzimmerstücks Momentum Ich frei nach Goethes Faust und Schnitzlers Leutnant Gustl am Stadttheater Fürth und eine performative Lesung Ich lege mich hin und sterbe!  in der Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadt Regensburg, EBW Regensburg, der Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes und Bund der Antifaschist*innen.In der Spielzeit 2021/2022 konzipierte Katja Die Eumeniden am Stadttheater Bremerhaven. Es fand zudem die Wiederaufnahme von Ich lege mich hin und sterbe!  in Regensburg statt, gefolgt von der szenischen Lesung Weder Herbst, noch Besuche.In der Spielzeit 2022/2023 inszenierte Katja Antigone am Theater Phönix Linz, Die weiße Rose am Stadttheater Fürth, Meine Sprachwelten in Hannover, Bromance am Theater Schloss Maßbach und Theater der Stadt Schweinfurt und der thermale widerstand am Landestheater Coburg. Die Performance Krieg und Frieden in Regensburger Neupfarrkirche steht noch an. Zudem brachte Katja 2022 ihr Buch Welten Parallel  beim Theaterverlag Schultz & Schirm raus, wo sieben ihrer Theaterstücke abgedruckt sind, und veröffentlichte 2023 ihr achtes Theaterstück Die weiße Rose. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hoerbahn/message

This week is a Columbia GVL crossover… 2 of the funniest dudes from the midlands came up to GVL to record an episode:  Timmy Klaseus and Pate Gardner.  I met them at the Art Bar downtown Columbia which is one of the best mics around (every Tuesday @ 8:30).  Together they run the “Uncommon Gents” podcast where they talk about their uncommon body shapes, among other things.  By day Timmy is a courier for a law firm, like a butler, and Pate is in logistics for a food products manufacturer.  Timmy has been doing standup for 8 years Pate 6.  Both hilarious dudes you need to check out.  Today we review vape brands, hear the genesis of Pate's Grimace bit (the McDonald's guy), talk about movies from the late 90's/early 2000's including gems like the Rugratz Wild Thornberries crossover, Heavyweights, and the Nicholas Cage Left Behind movie.  We also learn how Timmy scams the scammers for ridiculous like and follow counts on Instagram.  Enjoy the interview, and I hope you have a great week. #standup #podcast Follow Our Guests: https://www.instagram.com/timmyklaseus/ https://www.instagram.com/pate_gardner/ https://www.youtube.com/@timmyklaseus https://www.youtube.com/@uncommongents https://twitter.com/TimmyKlaseus https://twitter.com/pate_gardner https://www.facebook.com/timmy.klaseus https://www.facebook.com/pate.gardner Follow My Other Stuff: David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbakker7/?hl=en The Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ididthisinsteadofkillingmyself/?hl=en The Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GGXI851tdRDK1XmiSgcMk David's Twitter… https://twitter.com/davidbakker7 And TikTok… https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbakker7   Don't Click This… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgX

Happy Northern Soul Grand Opening Day everyone! Today is the day the Grand View Lodge officially opens up the Brainerd Lakes Area's newest restaurant, Justin Sutherland's Northern Soul Smokehouse at The Preserve. The Iron Chef America winner, and Top Chef contestant tells us all about how he got into that industry, what some of his top TV moments have been, the decision to partner with Grand View Lodge to open this restaurant with them and what's it's like being a "celebrity chef." Along with Justin, the Listen Local guys catch up with Grand View Lodge General Manager Dennis Wilson, Director of Marketing for Cote Family Destinations Frank Soukup, and GVL Executive Chef Bill Coyle. Thanks to Justin and all of the GVL crew for stopping by the show, and letting us get a sample of the food as well. It very well could be the best BBQ our LL team has had! Last but certainly not least, thank you to all of our amazing listeners for making us the "Most Entertaining Podcast in the BLA!"And of course thank you so much to our sponsors Hanneken Insurance, Lakes Area CPAs, Outlet Recreation Crosslake, Posture Pro Chiropractic and our presenting sponsor Tyler Gardner with Pequot Lakes and Gull Lake Sanitation! Instagram: ListenLocalMNBlazeAirMNWoodsToWaterMNNorthwoodsAgent Facebook:Listen Local MNBlazeAirMNWoodsToWaterMN

Kyle and Luke discuss the GVL draw, and the upcoming games against Knox, Tormenta, and Unified Madison.

On today's episode of the Laser Light Show Dr. Ryan Manning and one of his patients share an incredible story of healing and recovery after using the Zerona Z6 and GVL lasers.  This was POWERFUL to hear!  His patient had been an avid runner and after suffering a devastating diagnosis, went to Dr. Manning and experience something pretty remarkable.  Check out the story on this week's Miracle Monday segment.

I'm moving to New York City, and this is my last week in Greenville.  Will miss everyone a lot, but looking forward to continuing standup in NY.  This is a special episode with two of my comedy role models, Travis Thuband and Jess Cooley.  They've both been on before…you know Travis as the friendly-but-sometimes-hostile host of Coffee Underground and ½ of the Nasty Hooks (featured in our intro music).  Jess is from Asheville and regularly headlines throughout the area.  This interview was kind of insane.  Jess smokes cigarettes in my apartment, Travis forces Jess to read quotes by Winston Churchill (& we find out how problematic WC actually was), Jess throws my hat out the window, the guys tell me why I should be afraid of New York, and Travis impersonates Joe Biden.  Love these guys and everyone I've met living here in GVL.  Will continue the podcast from NY.  Thanks and have a great week! #standup #podcast Follow Our Guests: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjfJcS3wb_BNVQANo5VVAog https://www.instagram.com/jessmesssupply/ https://www.facebook.com/jesse.cooley.77 https://www.instagram.com/thubandband/ https://www.facebook.com/thebandtravis https://thenastyhooks.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR3RIcjZAczAVpjsVPYG5Wih_BjZjO0RKzR5QZi-sFB1nvrl_bigDFYiuXI Follow My Other Stuff: David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbakker7/?hl=en The Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ididthisinsteadofkillingmyself/?hl=en The Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GGXI851tdRDK1XmiSgcMk David's Twitter… https://twitter.com/davidbakker7 And TikTok… https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbakker7   Don't Click This… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Stephanie is joined by very special guest, fellow thoughtboter, Senior Developer, and marathon trainer Mina Slater. Mina and Stephanie had just been traveling together for two weeks, sponsored by WNB.rb for RubyKaigi in Matsumoto, Japan, and together, they recount their international adventure! RubyKaigi (https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) WNB.rb (https://www.wnb-rb.dev/) Understanding the Ruby Global VM Lock by observing it by Ivo Anjo (https://rubykaigi.org/2023/presentations/KnuX.html#day1) gvl-tracing (https://github.com/ivoanjo/gvl-tracing) Justin Searls' RubyKaigi 2023 live coverage (https://blog.testdouble.com/field-reports/ruby-kaigi/) Prioritizing Learning episode (https://www.bikeshed.fm/362) Transcript: STEPHANIE: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Stephanie Minn and today. I'm joined by a very special guest, fellow thoughtboter Mina Slater. Mina, would you like to introduce yourself to our audience? MINA: Yeah. Hi, everyone. I am Mina. I am a Senior Developer on Mission Control, which is thoughtbot's DevOps and SRE team. STEPHANIE: So, Mina, what's new in your world? MINA: Well, I start marathon training this week. So I hope that this conversation goes well and lasts you for three months because you're probably not going to see or hear from me all summer. STEPHANIE: Yes. That sounds...it sounds hard, to be honest, marathon training in the summer. When I was doing a bit more running, I always thought I would wake up earlier than I did and, you know, beat the heat, and then I never would, and that really, like, was kind of rough. MINA: Yeah, actually, I was thinking about my plans for today. I didn't wake up early enough to run in the morning. And so I was calculating, like, okay, by midday, it's going to be too hot. So I'm going to have to wait until, like, 6:00 p.m. [laughs] STEPHANIE: Yeah, yeah. Or, if you're like me, there's a very real chance that you just skip it altogether. [laughter] MINA: Well, I have a deadline, so... [laughs] STEPHANIE: That's true. When is your marathon race? MINA: This is actually the first year I'm doing two in a calendar year. So I'm doing Berlin in September. And then, three weeks after that, I'm going to run one in Detroit. STEPHANIE: Nice. At least you'll be ready. You'll, like, have done it. I don't know; it kind of sounds maybe a bit more efficient that way. [laughs] MINA: Theoretically. But, you know, ask me in October. I'll let you know how it goes. STEPHANIE: That's true. You might have to come back on as a guest. [laughs] MINA: Just to talk about how it went. [laughs] STEPHANIE: Yeah, exactly. MINA: So that's what's new with me. What's new in your world, Steph? STEPHANIE: So, a while back on a previous Bike Shed episode, I talked about joining this client team and, in their daily team syncs, in addition to just sharing what we were up to and what we were working on, we would also answer the question what's something new to us. And that was a space for people to share things that they learned or even just, like, new things that they tried, like food, or activities, or whatnot. And I really enjoyed it as a way to get to know the team, especially when I was new to that client project. And recently, someone on the team ended up creating a random question generator. So now the question for the daily sync rotates. And I've been having a lot of fun with that. Some of the ones that I like are, what made you laugh recently? What's currently playing on your Spotify or YouTube? No cheating. MINA: [laughs] STEPHANIE: And then, yesterday, we had what's for dinner? As the question. And I really liked that one because it actually prompted me to [chuckles] think about what I was going to do for dinner as opposed to waiting till 5:00 p.m. and then stressing because I'm already hungry but don't have a plan [chuckles] for how I'm going to feed myself yet. So it ended up being nice because I, you know, kind of was inspired by what other people mentioned about their dinner plans and got my stuff together. MINA: That's shocking to me because we had just come off of two weeks of traveling together. And the one thing I learned about you is that you plan two meals ahead, but maybe that is travel stuff. STEPHANIE: I think that is extremely correct. Because when you're traveling, you're really excited about all the different things that you want to eat wherever you are. And so, yeah, we were definitely...at least I was planning for us, like, two or three meals [laughs] in advance. MINA: [laughs] STEPHANIE: But, when I'm at home, it is much harder to, I don't know, like, be motivated. And it just becomes, like, a daily chore. [laughs] So it's not as exciting. MINA: I think I'm the same way. I just had a whole bunch of family in town. And I was definitely planning dinner before we had breakfast because I'm like, oh, now I have to be responsible for all of these people. STEPHANIE: Yeah. I just mentioned the questions because I've been really having fun with them, and I feel a lot more connected to the team. Like, I just get to know them more as people and the things they're interested in, and what they do in their free time. So, yeah, highly recommend adding a fun question to your daily syncs. MINA: Yeah, we started doing that on Mission Control at our team sync meetings recently, too, where the first person...we actually have an order generator that somebody on the team wrote where it takes everyone's first and last name and scramble them and then randomizes the order. So you kind of have to figure out where in the queue you are and who's coming up next after you. But the first person that goes in the queue every day has to think of an icebreaker question. STEPHANIE: That's kind of a lot of pressure [laughs] for a daily meeting, especially if you're having to unscramble names and then also come up with the icebreaker question. I personally would be very stressed [laughs] by that. But I also can see that it's...I also think it's very fun, especially for a small team like yours. MINA: Yeah, yeah, just seven of us; we get to know really well what letters are in everyone's names. But I was first today, and I didn't have an icebreaker question ready. So I ended up just passing. So that's also an option. STEPHANIE: That's fair. Maybe I'll link you to our random question generator, so you can find some inspiration. [laughs] MINA: Yeah, it's a ChatGPT situation. STEPHANIE: So you mentioned that you and I had just been traveling together for two weeks. And that's because Mina and I were at RubyKaigi in Matsumoto, Japan, earlier this May. And that's the topic of today's episode: Our Experience at RubyKaigi. And the really cool thing that I wanted to mention was that this was all possible because Mina and I were sponsored by WNB.rb, which is a global community of women and non-binary people working in Ruby. And I've mentioned this group on the show before, but I wanted to plug it again because I think that this was something really special that we got to do. WNB runs a lot of initiatives, like, meetups and panels supporting people to speak at conferences and book clubs. And, you know, just many different programming events for supporting women and non-binary Rubyists in their career growth. And they are recently beginning a new initiative to sponsor folks to attend conferences. And Mina, you and I were the first people to get to try this out and go to an international conference. So that was really awesome. It was something that I don't think I would have done without the support from WNB. MINA: And you almost didn't do. I think there was a lot of convincing [chuckles] that went on at the beginning to kind of get you to, like, actually consider coming with me. STEPHANIE: It's true. It's true. I think you had DMed me, and you were, like, so, like, RubyKaigi, like, eyeball emoji. [laughs] I was, I think, hesitant because this was my first international conference. And so there was just a lot of, like, unknowns and uncertainty for me. And I think that's going to be part of what we talk about today. But is there anything that you want to say about WNB and how you felt about being offered this opportunity? MINA: Yeah. When Emily and Jemma, the founders of WNB, approached us with this opportunity and this offer, I think I was...taken aback is not really quite the right words but, like, surprised and honored, really, I think it's a better word. Like, I was very honored that they thought of us and kind of took the initiative to come to us with this offer. So I'm really grateful for this opportunity because going to RubyKaigi, I think it's always something that was on my radar. But I never thought that...well, not never. I thought that I had to go as a speaker, which would have been, like, a three to five-year goal. [laughs] But to be able to go as an attendee with the support of the group and also of thoughtbot was really nice. STEPHANIE: Yeah, absolutely. That investment in our professional development was really meaningful to me. So, like you, I'm very grateful. And if any of our listeners are interested in donating to WNB.rb and contributing to the community's ability to send folks to conferences, you can do so at wnb-rb.dev/donate. Or, if you work for a company that might be interested in sponsoring, you can reach out to them at organizers@wnb-rb.dev. MINA: I highly recommend doing that. STEPHANIE: So, one of the questions I wanted to ask you about in terms of your RubyKaigi experience was, like, how it lined up with your expectations and if it was different or similar to what you were expecting. MINA: Yeah, I have always heard that when people talk about RubyKaigi as a conference and about its contents, the word that everyone uses to describe it is technical. I have already had sort of a little bit of that expectation going in. But I think my interpretation of the word technical didn't really line up with how actually technical it was. And so that was one thing that was different than what I had expected. STEPHANIE: Could you elaborate on what was surprising about the way that it was technical? MINA: Yeah. I think that when I hear technical talks and having been to some Ruby and Rails confs here in the States, when I hear about technical talks, it's a lot more content about people using the technology, how they use Ruby to do certain things, or how they use Rails to achieve certain goals in their day-to-day work or side projects. But it seems at RubyKaigi; it is a lot more about the language itself, how Ruby does certain things, or how interpreters implement Ruby, the language itself. So I think it's much more lower-level than what I was expecting. STEPHANIE: Yeah, I agree. I think you and I have gone to many of Ruby Central conferences in the U.S., like RubyConf and RailsConf. So that was kind of my comparison as well is that was, you know, the experience that I was more familiar with. And then, going into this conference, I was very surprised that the themes of the talks were, like you said, very focused on the language itself, especially performance, tooling, the history and future of Ruby, which I thought was pretty neat. Ruby turns 30, I think, this year. And one thing that I noticed a lot was folks talking about using Ruby to reflect on itself and the possibilities of utilizing those capabilities to improve our experience as developers using the language. MINA: Yeah. I think one of the things I was really fascinated by is...you had mentioned the performance. There were several talks about collecting how Ruby performs at certain levels. And I thought that that was quite interesting and things I had never thought about before, and I'm hoping to think about in the future. [laughs] STEPHANIE: Yeah. One talk that I went to was Understanding the Ruby Global VM Lock by Ivo Anjo. And that was something that, you know, I had an awareness of that Ruby has this GVL and certain...I had, like, a very hand-wavy understanding about how, like, concurrency worked with Ruby because it hasn't been something that I've really needed to know too deeply in my day-to-day work. Like, I feel a little bit grateful not to have run into an issue where I had to, you know, dive deep into it because it was causing problems. [laughs] But attending that talk was really cool because I liked that the speaker did give, like, an overview for folks who might be less familiar but then was able to get really deep in terms of, like, what he was doing workwise with improving his performance by being able to observe how the lock was being used in different threads and, like, where it might be able to be improved. And he shared some of his open-source projects that I'll link in the show notes. But, yeah, that was just something that I was vaguely aware of and haven't yet, like, needed to know a lot about, but, you know, got to understand more by going to this conference. And I don't think I would have gotten that content otherwise. MINA: Yeah, I agree. The talk that you are referencing is one of my favorite as well. I think, like you, kind of this vague idea of there's things going on under the hood in Ruby is always there, but to get a peek behind the curtain a little bit was very enlightening. I wrote down one of the things that he said about how highly optimized Ruby code can still be impacted and be slow if you don't optimize GVL. And he also shared, I think, some strategies for profiling that layer in your product, if that is something you need, which I thought was really cool. STEPHANIE: Yeah. I think I had mentioned performance was a really big theme. But I didn't realize how many levers there were to pull in terms of the way Ruby is implemented or the way that we are able to use Ruby that can improve performance. And it's really cool to see so many people being experts at all of those different components or aspects of making Ruby fast. [laughs] MINA: Yeah. I think that part of the work that we do on Mission Control is monitoring performance and latency for our clients. And while I don't expect having to utilize some of the tools that I learned at RubyKaigi, I expect being aware of these things helping, I think, in the long run. STEPHANIE: Yeah, absolutely. Joël and I have talked on the show about this idea of, like, push versus pull learning. So push, being you consume content that may not be relevant to you right now but maybe will be in the future. And you can remember, like, oh, I watched a talk on this, or I read something about this, and then you can go refer back to it. As opposed to pull being, like, I have this thing that I don't understand, but I need to know right now, so I'm going to seek out resources about it. And I think we kind of landed on that both are important. But at Kaigi, especially, this was very much more push for me where there's a lot of things that I now have an awareness of. But it's a little different, I think, from my experience at Ruby Central conferences where I will look at the schedule, and I will see talks that I'm like, oh, like, that sounds like it will be really relevant to something I'm working through on my client project or, like, some kind of challenging consulting situation. And so the other thing that I noticed that was different was that a lot of the U.S. conferences are more, I think like business and team challenges-focused. So the talks kind of incorporate both a technical and socio-cultural aspect of the problems that they were solving. And I usually really like that because I find them very relatable to my day-to-day work. And that was something that was less common at Kaigi. MINA: Also, that I've never been to a conference that is more on the academic side of things. So I don't know if maybe that is more aligned with what Kaigi feels like. STEPHANIE: Yeah, that's true. I think there were a lot of talks from Ruby Committers who were just sharing, like, what they've been working on, like, what they've been thinking about in terms of future features for Ruby. And it was very much at the end of those talks, like, I'm open to feedback. Like, look out for this coming soon, or, like, help contribute to this effort. And so it was interesting because it was less, like, here are some lessons learned or, like, here are some takeaways, or, like, here's how we did this. And more like, hey, I'm, you know, in the middle of figuring this out, and I'm sharing with you where I'm at right now. But I guess that's kind of the beauty of the open-source community is that you can put out a call for help and contributions. MINA: Yeah, I think they call that peer review in the academic circles. STEPHANIE: [laughs] That's fair. MINA: [laughs] STEPHANIE: Was there anything else that you really enjoyed about the conference? MINA: I think that one of my favorite parts, and we've talked about this a little bit before, is after hours on the second day, we were able to connect with Emori House and have dinner with their members. Emori House is a group that supports female Kaigi attendees specifically. I think it's that they, as a group, rent out an establishment or a house or something, and they all stay together kind of to look out for each other as they attend this very, I think, male-dominated conference. STEPHANIE: Yeah. I loved that dinner with folks from Emori House too. I think the really cool thing to me is that it's just community and action, you know, like, someone wanted to go to this conference and make it easier for other women to go to this conference and decided to get lodging together and do that work of community building. And that social aspect of conferences we hadn't really talked about yet, but it's something that I really enjoy. And it's, like, one of the main reasons that I go to conferences besides learning. MINA: Yeah, I agree. At the Ruby Central conferences, one of my favorite parts is always the hallway track, where you randomly meet other attendees or connect with attendees that you already knew. And like I mentioned, this dinner with Emori House happened on the second night. And I think by midday second day; I was missing that a little bit. The setup for RubyKaigi, I noticed, does not make meeting people and organizing social events as easy as I had been used to, and part of that, I'm sure, is the language barrier. But some places where I had met a lot of the people that I call conference friends for Ruby Central conferences had been at the lunch table. And Kaigi sets up in a way where they send you out with food vouchers for local restaurants, which I thought was really cool. But it doesn't make meeting people and organizing groups to go out together with people you don't already know a little more difficult. So meeting Emori House on the second night was kind of exactly what I had been missing at the moment. STEPHANIE: Yeah, agreed. I also really thrive off of more smaller group interactions like organically, you know, bumping into people on the hallway track, ideally. I also noticed that, at Kaigi, a lot of the sponsors end up hosting parties and meetups after the conference in the evenings. And so that was a very interesting social difference, I think, where the sponsors had a lot more engagement in that sense. You and I didn't end up going to any of those drink-ups, are what they're called. But I think, similarly, if I were alone, I would be a little intimidated to go by myself. And it's kind of one of those things where it's like, oh, if I know someone, then we can go together. But, yeah, I certainly was also missing a bit of a more organic interaction with others. Though, I did meet a few Rubyists from just other places in East Asia, like Taiwan and China. And it was really cool to be in a place where people are thinking about Ruby differently than in the U.S. I noticed in Japan; there's a lot more energy and enthusiasm about it. And, yeah, just folks who are really passionate about making Ruby a long-lasting language, something that, you know, people will continue to want to work with. And I thought that was very uplifting because it's kind of different from what the current industry in the U.S. is looking like in terms of programming languages for the jobs available. MINA: It's really energizing, I think, to hear people be so enthusiastic about Ruby, especially, like you said, when people ask me what I do here, I say, "Developer," and they say, "Oh, what language do you work in?" I always have to be kind of like, "Have you heard of Ruby?" [laughs] And I think it helps that Ruby originated in Japan. They probably feel a little bit, like, not necessarily protective of it, but, like, this is our own, and we have to embrace it and make sure that it is future-facing, and going places, and it doesn't get stale. STEPHANIE: Right. And I think that's really cool, especially to, you know, be around and, like, have conversations about, like you said, it's very energizing. MINA: Yeah, like you mentioned, we did meet several other Rubyists from, like, East Asian countries, which doesn't necessarily always happen when you attend U.S.-based or even European-based conferences. I think that it is just not as...they have to travel from way farther away. So I think it's really cool to hear about RubyConf Taiwan coming up from one of the Rubyists from Taiwan, which is awesome. And it makes me kind of want to go. [laughs] STEPHANIE: Yeah, I didn't know that that existed either. And just realizing that there are Rubyists all over the world who want to share the love of the language is really cool. And I am definitely going to keep a lookout for other opportunities. Now that I've checked off my first international conference, you know, I have a lot more confidence about [laughs] doing it again in the future, which actually kind of leads me to my next question is, do you have any advice for someone who wants to go to Kaigi or wants to go to an international conference? MINA: Yeah, I think I have both. For international conferences in general, I thought that getting a buddy to go with you is really nice. Steph and I were able to...like, you and I were able to kind of support each other in different ways because I think we're both stressed [laughs] about international travel in different ways. So where you are stressed, I'm able to support, and where I'm stressed, you're able to support. So it was really nice and well-rounded experience because of that. And for RubyKaigi specifically, I would recommend checking out some of the previous year's talks before you actually get there and take a look at the schedule when it comes out. Because, like we said, the idea of, I think, technical when people use that word to describe the content at RubyKaigi is different than what most people would expect. And kind of having an idea of what you're getting into by looking at previous videos, I think, will be really helpful and get you in the right mindset to absorb some of the information and knowledge. STEPHANIE: Yeah, absolutely. I was just thinking about...I saw in Ruby Weekly this week Justin Searls had posted a very thorough live blogging of his experience at Kaigi that was much more in the weeds of, like, all of the content of the talks. And also had tips for how to brew coffee at a convenience store in Japan too. So I recommend checking that out if folks are curious about...especially this year before the videos of the talks are out. I think one thing that I would do differently next time if I were to attend Kaigi or attend a conference that supports multiple languages...so there were talks in Japanese and English, and the ones in Japanese were live interpreted. And you and I had attended, like, one or two, but it ended up being a little tough to follow because the slides were a little bit out of sync with the interpretation. I definitely would want to try again and invest a little more into attending talks in Japanese because I do think the content is still even different from what we might be seeing in English. And now that I know that it takes a lot of mental energy, just kind of perhaps loading up on those talks in the morning while I'm still, you know -- MINA: [laughs] STEPHANIE: Fresh-faced and coffee-driven. [laughs] Rather than saving it for the afternoon when it might be a little harder to really focus. MINA: I think my mental energy has a very specific sweet spot because definitely, like, late in the afternoon would not be good for that. But also, like, very early in the morning would also not be very good for that because my coffee hasn't kicked in yet. STEPHANIE: That's very real as well. MINA: Do you think that there is anything that the conference could have done to have made your experience a little tiny bit better? Is there any support that you could have gotten from someone else, be it the conference, or WNB, or thoughtbot, or other people that you had gone with that could have enhanced this experience? STEPHANIE: Hmm, that's an interesting question. I'm not really sure because I was experiencing so many new things -- MINA: [laughs] STEPHANIE: That that was kind of, like, what was top of mind for me was just getting around even just, like, looking at all the little sponsor booths because that was, like, novel for me to see, like, different companies that I've never heard of before that I think when I asked you about expectations earlier, like, I actually came in with not a lot of expectations because I really was just open to whatever it was going to be. And now that I've experienced it once, I think that I have a little more of an idea of what works for me, what I like, what I don't like. And so I think it really comes down to it being quite a personal experience and how you like to attend conferences and so -- MINA: For sure. STEPHANIE: At the end of the day, yeah, like, definitely recommend just going if that opportunity is available to you and determining for yourself how you want that experience to be. MINA: Certainly. I think just by being there you learn a lot about what you like in conferences and how we like to attend conferences. On a personal level, I'm also an organizer with Ruby Central with their scholarship committee. And that's somewhere where we take new Rubyists or first-time conference attendees and kind of lower the barrier for them to attend these conferences. And the important part I wanted to get to is setting them up with a mentor, somebody who has attended one of these conferences before that can kind of help them set goals and navigate. And I thought that someone like that would...at RubyKaigi, being both our first times, might be useful. STEPHANIE: Yeah, absolutely. I think that's totally fair. One thing I do really like about the Ruby Central conferences is the social support. And I think you had mentioned that maybe that was the piece that was a little bit missing for you at this conference. MINA: Yeah. I know that someone had asked early on, I think, like, the night before the conference officially kicked off, whether there is a Slack or Discord space for all conference attendees so that people can organize outings or meals. And that is definitely something that at least the Ruby Central conferences have, and I imagine other conferences do too, that was missing at Kaigi as well. STEPHANIE: I'm wondering if you would go to Kaigi again and maybe be that mentor for someone else. MINA: I think so. I think I had different feelings about it when we were just leaving the conference, kind of feeling like some of these things that I'm learning here or that I'm being made aware of rather at RubyKaigi will come up important in the future, but maybe not right away. So then I was kind of walking away with a sense of, like, oh, maybe this is a conference that is important, but I might deprioritize if other opportunities come up. But then I started to kind of, like, jot down some reflections and retroing with myself on this experience. And I thought what you mentioned about this being the sort of, like, the push learning opportunity is really nice because I went in there not knowing what I don't know. And I think I came out of it at least being a little bit aware of lots of things that I don't know. STEPHANIE: Yeah, yeah. Maybe, like, what I've come away with this conversation is that there is value in conferences being different from each other, like having more options. And, you know, one conference can't really be everything for everyone. And so, for you and I to have had such a very different experience at this particular conference than we normally do, that has value. It also can be something that you end up deciding, like, you're not into, and then you know. So, yeah, I guess that is kind of what I wanted to say about this very new experience. MINA: Yeah, having new experiences, I think, is the important part. It's the same idea as you want to get a diverse group of people in the room together, and you come out with better ideas or better products or whatever because you have other points of view. And I think that attending conferences, even if not around the world, that are different from each other either in academia or just kind of, like, branching out of Ruby Central conferences, too, is a really valuable experience. Maybe conferences in other languages or language-agnostic conferences. STEPHANIE: Yeah, well said. On that note, shall we wrap up? MINA: Let's do it. STEPHANIE: Show notes for this episode can be found at bikeshed.fm. JOËL: This show has been produced and edited by Mandy Moore. STEPHANIE: If you enjoyed listening, one really easy way to support the show is to leave us a quick rating or even a review in iTunes. It really helps other folks find the show. JOËL: If you have any feedback for this or any of our other episodes, you can reach us @_bikeshed, or you can reach me @joelquen on Twitter. STEPHANIE: Or reach both of us at hosts@bikeshed.fm via email. JOËL: Thanks so much for listening to The Bike Shed, and we'll see you next week. ALL: Byeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! ANNOUNCER: This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, development, and product management partner. We bring digital products from idea to success and teach you how because we care. Learn more at thoughtbot.com.

Zu Gast: Music-Producer-Legende Shuko. Vor kurzem kam seine neueste Platte „Tracklib“ raus - natürlich nur auf Vinyl. Shuko produziert schon seit über 20 Jahren Musik, hat mit Cro, Casper, Rin und ganz vielen anderen Künstler:innen in Deutschland gearbeitet, hat aber auch Connections nach Amerika, Beats für Jedi Mind Tricks oder Anderson .Paak produziert - und nach Frankreich. Auf die internationalen Beziehungen gehen wir in den nächsten Folgen ein. Also folgt ThemaTakt überall wo's Podcasts gibt, damit ihr die kommenden Folgen auch hört. In dieser Folge sprechen wir über Shukos Start in die Musikwelt, den Einfluss seines Vaters. Ihr lernt, warum Producer-Credits so wichtig sind und welche Rolle Verlag, GEMA und GVL spielen. Bewertet den Podcast bei Apple Podcasts und Spotify. ThemaTakt via PayPal unterstützen: https://www.paypal.me/thematakt ThemaTakt bei Steady unterstützen: https://steadyhq.com/de/thematakt ThemaTakt bei Patreon unterstützen: https://www.patreon.com/join/thematakt ThemaTakt-NEWSLETTER: https://www.thematakt.de/newsletter/ Podcast-Tipp: Mehr übers HipHop-Business, produzieren und mixen lernt ihr im Podcast „Beats & Treats“. Bei den ersten Folgen ist Shuko als Moderator dabei. Mittlerweile moderiert Producer The Breed den Podcast alleine, lädt sich aber spannende Gäste ein z. B. Audio 88, DJ Ron, Torky Tork oder Figub Brazlevic. Beats & Treats findet ihr überall wo's Podcasts gibt: https://open.spotify.com/show/6NRM3JFlMjGXD7ba0NAB95?si=e0364add768d4694 Kapitel: 00:00 Start 02:52 Welche Producer-Poster hingen an Shukos Wand? 03:41 Erste musikalische Einflüsse 04:59 Grundlage - Musiktheorie 05:59 Warum Shuko Kontrabass gelernt hat 06:54 Musikalischer Einfluss von Shukos Vater und suche nach Respekt 08:59 Respekt für Producer:innen 10:16 Credits - Vergütung für Producer:innen 14:02 Verlagsarbeit - GEMA - GVL 16:43 Ablauf Songwriting-Camps 18:11 Arbeit im Studio 19:59 Shukos Einstellung zum Musikbusiness 21:21 Vorteile Musikvertrieb Interview & Produktion: Tobias Wilinski Musik: Benethy Intro-Voice: Henrike Möller Genannte Namen: Alchemist Just Blaze Kanye West Charles Aznavour Scratch Mag Distrokid Groove Attack DSP (Digital Service Provider bspw. Spotify & Deezer) Phrequincy Booba Saigon Hot 97 (Radiosender)

Join in this episode and we talk about research and what led up to the creation of the new GVL laser with Travis Sammons and David Tucek. We recorded this episode live at the Parker Seminar as doctors got to experience this amazing new laser for the first time!   https://www.erchonia.com/products/gvl/

The People's Tap- Years in the making (Part 1)   Dave sits down with Jen and Julia, Co-Owners of The People's Tap in beautiful Downtown Greenville   On tap at The People's Tap Golden Monkey Drunky Monkey Beer Mosa! Miller Lite 50% Local/Regional Beer 1 Pangea Brewing 2 The Southern Growl 3 Edmund's Oast   A surprise appearance of Data Analytics! 1 Can my Dad use this?   Are you Dog Friendly? 1 Possible Outdoor seating and potential dogs! 2 The People's Tap Running group 3 Bike Rack 4 The People's Tap takes suggestions   Why aren't you a brewery 1 So expensive! 2 Following directions is hard 3 Space? 4 Brewing isn't a passion… 5 Other People make good beer 6 We *really* like beer   Idea Book - Potential things coming up! 1 Memberships and Customer engagement    a Monthly subscription with beers    b online forum    c Brewer interviews and discussions   Tangent 1 -You can't run without beer 1 Cotton Mouth Beer Relay 2 VA marathon and shots of Beer 3 Swamp Rabbit Half Marathon 4 50k Ultra and emergency Golden Monkey 5 15 miles on a whim 6 Sign ups as motivation to run 7 Recovery is important kids! 8 Ville to Ville - ASH to GVL 9 EXTREME Ville to Ville -GVL to ASH (All up hill)   Plugs 1 Susquehanna - like you do 2 Papi's Taco's delivery 3 Lazy Goat Delivery 4 Full Tilt (RIP - Closing mid March)   Beers discussed Raspberry Chocolate tunnel of Love Susquehanna's imperial Shandy Euro Heineken Guinness Foreign export     "Free" Collage Beer - Influencing the People's Tap 1 Bud Lite 2 Blue Moon 3 Shock Top 4 Coors Lite 5 Goose Island 6 Michelob Ultra 7 Coors Banquet

In this episode, we discuss Erchonia's new GVL handheld, the first FDA-cleared green and violet laser of its kind. By leading with research, Mr. Shanks continues to dispel the myths surrounding the “power and depth of penetration” argument. Discover how the new GVL laser delivers a unique photo-chemical response to help healthcare providers and their patients achieve remarkable clinical outcomes.  https://www.erchonia.com

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Kirk Gair about his experience using Erchonia's new GVL laser in a clinical trial. We also talk about Dr. Gair's and Dr. Trayford's expertise in using Erchonia lasers to manage some of the most difficult neurology-based problems they see in practice.  https://www.erchonia.com/seminars/ https://apexbraincenters.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/drgairlasertherapy

In dieser Episode ist Produzent Kalli Reinhardt zu Gast, der unter anderem bereits mit Künstlern wir Nico Santos, Lena oder Wincent Weiss zusammenarbeitete. Kalli steht bei Universal Music Publishing unter Vertrag, und im Gespräch erklärt er uns, was das für seine Arbeit bedeutet und welche Rolle GEMA und GVL spielen. Er nimmt uns außerdem mit in eine Songwriting-Session und dokumentiert, wie dort Songs entstehen. Viel Spaß beim Hören! ➡️ (00:00:00) - Kalli Reinhardt ➡️ (00:17:04) - Wie kam es zur Zusammenarbeit mit UMP ➡️ (00:28:21) - Zusammenarbeit mit Verlag ➡️ (00:33:09) - Wie kommen Aufträge rein? ➡️ (00:36:38) - Wichtige Vertragspunkte ➡️ (00:44:22) - Verdienst an den Songs ➡️ (00:55:13) - Vorteile ➡️ (00:56:05) - Nachteile ➡️ (01:15:28) - Typfragen ➡️ (01:16:24) - Das Geständnis ➡️ (01:19:25) - Referenztrack-Empfehlungen

Wie kann ich Schauspieler*in werden? Diesmal ist Dominik Klingberg zu Gast. Er lehrt als Dozent an einer Schauspielschule seit knapp 20 Jahren, betreut die Leitung seit 10 Jahren mit und arbeitet im Casting- und Coachingbereich. Moderiert wird die heutige Folge von Alexandra Schiller und Johannes Franke. Gemeinsam sprechen sie darüber, was man tun kann, um Schauspieler*in zu werden. Welche Ratschläge hat Dominik, um Schauspieler*in zu werden? Gehe ich nach der Schauspielschule ans Theater oder zum Film? Ist es tatsächlich eine entweder oder Entscheidung oder lässt sich beides vereinen? Was ist das Wichtigste, um als Schauspieler*in auf sich aufmerksam zu machen? Ist es sinnvoll, sich in den Castingdatenbanken ein Profil anzulegen? Wie sieht es mit Gagen aus? Was hat es mit der GVL, Pensionskasse Rundfunk und der KSK auf sich?  Eine sehr informative Folge, die allen, die Schauspieler*innen werden wollen oder die bereits als Schauspieler*innen aktiv sind und sich selbst nach vorne bringen wollen, viele wichtige Tipps auf ihrem Weg gibt. Wir wünschen Ihnen viel Freude beim Hören und freuen uns über Feedback und Anregungen an podcast@bffs.de.

Wie kann ich Schauspieler*in werden? Diesmal ist Dominik Klingberg zu Gast. Er lehrt als Dozent an einer Schauspielschule seit knapp 20 Jahren, betreut die Leitung seit 10 Jahren mit und arbeitet im Casting- und Coachingbereich. Moderiert wird die heutige Folge von Alexandra Schiller und Johannes Franke. Gemeinsam sprechen sie darüber, was man tun kann, um Schauspieler*in zu werden. Welche Ratschläge hat Dominik, um Schauspieler*in zu werden? Gehe ich nach der Schauspielschule ans Theater oder zum Film? Ist es tatsächlich eine entweder oder Entscheidung oder lässt sich beides vereinen? Was ist das Wichtigste, um als Schauspieler*in auf sich aufmerksam zu machen? Ist es sinnvoll, sich in den Castingdatenbanken ein Profil anzulegen? Wie sieht es mit Gagen aus? Was hat es mit der GVL, Pensionskasse Rundfunk und der KSK auf sich?  Eine sehr informative Folge, die allen, die Schauspieler*innen werden wollen oder die bereits als Schauspieler*innen aktiv sind und sich selbst nach vorne bringen wollen, viele wichtige Tipps auf ihrem Weg gibt. Wir wünschen Ihnen viel Freude beim Hören und freuen uns über Feedback und Anregungen an podcast@bffs.de.

Shepparton is under siege from flood waters with GVL club, the Swans, inundated. Their oval a lake. The club's president is on the line as the waters peak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The girls took over the podcast this week. Liz Parke and Whitney Rayner are two local Greenville comedy favorites who have both been on the show before. Whitney stopped by on her recent visit to GVL from LA, and Liz, the “it” girl of Greenville, came over just to hassle me. Love both of these girls…very funny, and you should check them out on stage here in the upstate, or out in California for Whitney if you can. On this episode we talk about accents, marriage, dating, and more. Follow them at the links below, and I hope you enjoy the interview! #standup #podcast Follow Our Guest(s): https://www.instagram.com/thirdparkefromthesun/ https://www.facebook.com/elisabeth.parke https://www.instagram.com/whitney_rayner/?hl=en https://www.twitter.com/whitney_rayner https://www.facebook.com/whitney.rayner.7 Follow My Other Stuff: David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbakker7/?hl=en The Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ididthisinsteadofkillingmyself/?hl=en The Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GGXI851tdRDK1XmiSgcMk David's Twitter… https://twitter.com/davidbakker7 And TikTok…I guess (you don't have to…really. We should all delete this app). https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbakker7 And your mom… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Tucker Lawson is back on the show. Tucker is currently in Law School at the University Mississippi, but he took time away from his summer break to do the podcast. I always enjoy talking with Tucker because he's smart, hilarious, and likable. In this episode we talk about dip, law school, Pete Holmes's spirituality, and standup. Check Tucker out on stage in GVL and Asheville this summer, and follow him at the links below. Hope you enjoy the interview. #standup #podcast Follow Our Guest: https://www.instagram.com/tuckeverlaughin/?hl=en https://twitter.com/TuckerLawsonSC https://www.facebook.com/tucker.lawson.92 Follow My Other Stuff: David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbakker7/?hl=en The Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ididthisinsteadofkillingmyself/?hl=en The Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GGXI851tdRDK1XmiSgcMk David's Twitter… https://twitter.com/davidbakker7 And TikTok…I guess (you don't have to…really. We should all delete this app). https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbakker7 And your mom… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Ladies and gentlemen…Liz Parke is on the show. Born in the mean streets of upper middle class suburbia Connecticut, Liz moved to Greenville in 2020 after spending 9+ years in New York City. By day, Liz works as an executive assistant to a GVL CEO. She entered the comedy scene in February of 2021. On stage she vents about culture shock in the south, dating, and horrors of driving her own car. Liz has a sarcastic, snarky, and confident delivery that makes her a natural at standup, even from her first open mic. Follow Liz at the links below, and check her out on stage weekly in GVL. Hope you enjoy! #standup #podcast Follow Our Guest: https://www.instagram.com/thirdparkefromthesun/ https://www.facebook.com/elisabeth.parke Follow My Other Stuff: David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbakker7/?hl=en The Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ididthisinsteadofkillingmyself/?hl=en The Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GGXI851tdRDK1XmiSgcMk David's Twitter… https://twitter.com/davidbakker7 And TikTok…I guess (you don't have to…really. We should all delete this app). https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbakker7 And your mom… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

We finally got Ben Jennings on the podcast. Ben is a local Greenville comic, and good friend of mine. By day, Ben's an automotive engineer. When he's on stage, he's polished, dark, and also weird as hell (he was homeschooled, and loves Caillou for some reason). He started standup a few years ago, and now hits mics every week in GVL. I don't know what else to put because it's 1AM as I'm writing this. Sorry this isn't a better summary Ben. I think it's good enough though; we had a great interview. Be sure to follow Ben at the links below, and give this one a listen. Hope you have a great week whoever's still reading this. #standup #podcast Follow Our Guest: https://www.instagram.com/benjenningscomedy/ https://www.facebook.com/ben.jennings.121 https://www.tiktok.com/@benjenningscomedy Follow My Other Stuff: David on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidbakker7/?hl=en The Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ididthisinsteadofkillingmyself/?hl=en The Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2GGXI851tdRDK1XmiSgcMk David's Twitter… https://twitter.com/davidbakker7 And TikTok…I guess (you don't have to…really. We should all delete this app). https://www.tiktok.com/@davidbakker7 And your mom… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

In this conversation with Dionne Sandiford, a member of the first class of the GVL Starts program shares her story of creating Cozy Covers. In this conversation, we discuss how GVL starts helped propel her to the next level as well as some serendipitous events that took place that enabled her to launch her company in April. Guest: Dionne Sandiford Website: https://mycozycovers.com/ Host: Mary Sturgill Producers: Emma Kerr '22 and Eliza Polich '23

Wir haben Peter Schneider zu Gast und es geht zur Sache, denn Peter ist ein Mann mit Haltung und Rückgrat. Neben seinem Weg zum Schauspiel und sein Schaffen als Musiker geht es unter anderen um die Frage der ostdeutschen Identität - im Film und Fernsehbereich, aber auch im Theater. Ausserdem geht es um das Schubladendenken der deutschen Schauspielbranche und es hagelt auch einiges an Kritik in Richtung der Kulturpolitik. Ausserdem beschreibt Peter, wie sich die Branche in den letzten Jahren gewandelt hat und was in Zukunft noch passieren muss. Ein spannendes Gespräch mit viel Liebe zum Beruf. Viel Spaß und bis zum nächsten Mal! Moderation: Johann Christof Laubisch & Cedric Sprick Diese Folge wird präsentiert von der GVL. Alle Infos: https://gvl.de/ Alle Infos zur GDBA: https://www.buehnengenossenschaft.de/ Alle Infos zu Peter Schneider: https://www.peter-schneider.tv/ Im März 2021 startete zusammen mit casting-network.de die Sonderreihe "SPIELPLATZ (V)ERMITTELT". Immer am 15. jeden Monats treffen wir uns mit Menschen aus der Branche, mit denen wir über tagesaktuelle und brisante Themen sprechen. Im April treffen sich Johann Christof und Cedric mit Irena Gruca-Rozbicka und Oliver Zenglein von Crew-United, die das Projekt "Filmmakers for Ukraine" ins Leben gerufen haben. Gemeinsam besprechen wir, für was die Plattform steht, wie es zu der Idee kam und wie jeder Mensch konkret den Opfers des Krieges in der Ukraine helfen kann. Ausserdem sprechen wir über den schmalen Grad zwischen politischen Engagement und Eigenwerbung - Das und vieles mehr besprechen wir in der April-Folge von "Spielplatz (v)ermittelt". ACHTUNG: Diese Folge ist auf Grund der derzeitigen Situation in der Ukraine seit dem 28.3 schon online! Ihr habt Lust uns zu unterstützen? Dann sendet uns gerne eine kleine Spende an unsere Podcast Kaffeekasse. Da wir quasi ein non-profit Unternehmen sind, nutzen wir jeden Euro um ihn für den Spielplatz zu reinvestieren. PAYPAL: spielplatz.podcast@gmail.com oder https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SpielplatzPodcast Wenn ihr Fragen, Kritik Anmerkungen habt, schreibt uns einfach eine Mail an spielplatz.podcast@gmail.com oder bei Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spielplatz_derpodcast/ Wer uns abonniert, verpasst keine Folge und über Weiterempfehlungen würden wir uns freuen. Vielen Dank und bis nächste Woche auf dem Spielplatz!

In dieser Folge unterhalte ich mich mit Steffen Harning über das Thema GVL. Von der GVL bekommt man als Sänger, Musiker, Produzent und Plattenlabel Geld, wenn eine Produktion an der man mitgewirkt hat Im Radio, TV oder sonst wo aufgeführt wird. Wie das genau funktioniert erzählt uns Steffen Harning. Er hat mit dem Thema GVL viel Erfahrung, da er als Produzent und DJ mit seinem Act Milk & Sugar mehrere Welthits hatte. Seine neue Firma MCP Music Consulting & Production konzentriert sich darauf Artists und Labels zu beraten. Hier bekommt ihr alle Infos zum Mugent Player: https://youtu.be/naY-wxyjKbw EDM komponieren: Basics der elektronischen Musik: https://amzn.to/39q8RDS Ein podlabel Partner: www.podlabel.de

Spark your passion! Steven, Chase, and Wayne grab a quick pint with JerBear from Clock Tower Taproom before heading to downtown Greenville to find out the fiery story behind owner Brian and brewmaster Ken at Fireforge. Beer, food, and an outside biergarten environment in the heart of the thriving mini metropolis of GVL.

GVL hustle will happen Sept. 9th, not September 2nd.

What if Kanye West started a new gym? Meet Core 24 GVL. A unique and refreshing culture, blending hip-hop, fashion and fitness...coming to a city near you.

What if Kanye West started a new gym? I sit down with Kory Keefer inside his new gym, called Core 24 GVL. He's created an unique and refreshing culture, blending hip-hop, fashion and fitness. This podcast is like Marketing & Branding 101... if Kanye was your professor.