128: The Artist Formerly Known as Follow Up

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• Episode: 128: The Artist Formerly Known as Follow Up
• Website: Layout
• Feed URL: http://layout.fm/rss
• Duration: 01:07:10
• Published: 2019-01-11 01:00

This week we eat breakfast. Lots of it. We discuss Rafa’s already obsolete TV, pos-purchase monetization and the impact on consumers, the death of privacy and Kevin finally gives an update on his new portfolio that was supposed to ship months ago.

Breakfast

• ​​Letterboxd’s 2018 Year in Review
• ​​LG’s 2018 TVs won’t get AirPlay 2 support
• ​​Post-purchase monetization of TVs and the impact of business models on TV support
• ​​Environmentally-lit UI: Watch face, browser, etc.

​​Side Dishes

• ​​Update on Kevin’s portfolio redesign: Homepages are hard to design

  • Homepage A
  • Homepage B
  • Homepage C
• ​​Free private repos on Github (thank you Microsoft!)

​​Recommendations

• ​​Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse
• ​Todd Vaziri’s tweet
• ​​Homecoming
• ​​The Watch podcast with Sam Esmail

Hosts

• Kevin Clark (@vernalkick)
• Rafael Conde (@rafahari)