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This week we talked to our good friend, John Potess - a talented developer, sound engineer, and entrepreneur. After getting out of school and working for local agencies, John decided that there must be something better than the stress of the 9-to-5, and decided to go contract while taking the opportunity to travel with his wife. With that, John was able to prioritize his time, working on passion projects, and even now moving to the beautiful country of Portugal. John tells us about some of the projects he's working on, and gives tips on how you too can become a digital nomad.


https://thepodcastcreative.com
https://www.facebook.com/thepodcastcreative
https://positivetechjobs.com
https://gitcontacts.com
https://johnpotess.com
Book recommendation: Company of 1
john@thepodcastcreative.com


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Welcome to the first episode of 2019 where we sit down with Nina Chantanapumma, a new board member to TechMill and an all-around Denton community person.

We talk to Nina about her career path from corporate IT into graphic design education for high schoolers, the jobs she held along the way, and how she keeps involved in the local art community through Spiderweb Salon.

Episode links:


Spiderweb Salon
Denton Advanced Technology Complex
Google Web Designer
Adobe Animate
Nina C Dot


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In this episode, Dan and Kyle explore a new podcast platform, Anchor.fm, to record shorter episodes. Then we talk about the acquisition of Magento by Adobe for $1.68 billion, Platform.sh raising money, and Dan rambling about Reactiflux and Discord.

- https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/21/adobe-to-acquire-magento-for-1-6-b
- https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/platform-sh-raises-34-million-to-simplify-cloud-deployment
- https://www.reactiflux.com
- https://discordapp.com

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We sit down to talk with guests, Dr. Jesse Hamner and Abdulrahman Habib, to discuss how Open Denton is helping to address civic problems with technological solutions.


Links!

https://opendataday.org

https://www.opendenton.com

https://whatworkscities.bloomberg.org

http://data.cityofdenton.com

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Kyle gets a new job.
Dan has the same job.
Every bug eventually becomes a feature.
Dan logs into eBay for the first time in a while.
Kyle describes his thought process when buying things online.
An incomplete history of Angular with much hand-waving.
Lots and lots of TechMill news!

TechMill's website - https://techmill.co
Find our meetups - https://www.meetup.com/TechmillDenton
HackDenton.com - https://www.hackdenton.com

Important Dates:
February 24 - Denton Mini Maker Faire
March 3 - Open Data Day
March 8 - Meet & Mix @ Denton County Brewing Co.

Upcoming Meetups:
Machine Learning Coding Club - https://www.meetup.com/TechmillDenton/events/247993915
API's and IPA's
LittleD.rb
LittleDOCC

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This week we talked to two cofounders and board members (Jesse and Amanda Harlin) of Techlahoma, a Oklahoma based 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to advance Oklahoma's grassroots technology community. They organize 33 free monthly user groups and several annual conferences.

Techlahoma - https://www.techlahoma.org
Jesse Harlin - https://twitter.com/5imian
Amanda Harlin - https://twitter.com/amandaharlin
ThunderPlains conference - https://twitter.com/thunderplains
OKC.js - https://twitter.com/okcjs
StarSpace46 - https://www.starspace46.com

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