Mux is an API-first platform that makes it easy for any developer to build beautiful video. Powered by data and designed by video experts, your video will work perfectly on every device, every time.
Mux Video handles storage, encoding, and delivery so you can focus on building your product. Live streaming is just as easy and Mux will scale with you as you grow, whether you're serving a few dozen streams or a few million.
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TheDevTeam Project is a library of stories from successful engineering managers around the world about growing, managing, and motivating excellent dev teams. Our mission is to help dev teams learn from great engineering leaders about trends today and what’s shaping their industry. To achieve this we’re going to release a podcast episode and a blog post with highlights from the conversation every other week. In each episode we’re travelling to meet a prominent engineering leader and talk about their unique perspective and insights.
...that would make sense. It's a web URL anyway, so it will work for anyone and has information about the podcast, as well as a list of recent shows you can even listen to right there. For Apple folks, you might be redirected in-app (mobile) or it becomes one click away (desktop). But for folks on Android or Linux or Windows or something, that's not particularly useful.
What are the other possibilities?
Podcasts are essentially dressed up RSS, so giving people a link to the feed isn't out of the question. We do that on both ShopTalk and CodePen Radio:
I like PocketCasts for my podcasts. I feel like this used to be more obvious, but pasting in an RSS link to search does seem to find the feeds.
I would think (and hope!) that most podcast apps have some way to subscribe manually via feed. But... pretty nerdy and probably a little too dangerous for just a "Subscribe to Podcast" link.
For Android specifically, there is a site where you can put your feed URL after "subscribeonandroid.com" and get a special page just for that:
If the listener has a one click supported app on their android device, the App will load automatically.
And clearly there are some options:
I find the most common option on podcasts is to link to a soup of popular options:
I think that's probably a safe thing to do. For one, it signals that you're on top of your game a bit and that your show is working on major platforms. But more importantly, podcast listeners probably know what platform they mainly use and clicking on a link specifically for that platform is probably quite natural.
Speaking of major platforms, Spotify is going big on podcasts, so linking directly to Spotify probably isn't the worst choice you could make.
But there are situations where you only get one link. Instagram is notable for this. No links on posts — only the one link on your profile. You could send them to your website, but of course, with podcasts, the name of the game is making it easy to subscribe. That means getting people right there is best. But also with stuff like tweets, you can't always deliver a smorgasbord of links. Hence the title of this blog post. If you gotta link to just one place to subscribe, where should it be?
Visiting on desktop gets you the smorgasbord of links. Visiting on my iPhone, I get a direct link to Apple Podcasts.
That's what they do:
Auto-open installed Podcast Apps native to listener's iOS, Android, and other mobile and smart watch devices. Each smart link also has a Show Page that desktop users will see with links to that show in Apps like Apple & Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, and other podcatchers.
They apparently use all kinds of data to figure it out.
... will detect the listener's device, geo, and other factors and send them to your show in pre-installed podcast apps.
Anybody can make a redirect link to particular platforms. Like, we could have built shoptalkshow.com/spotify and shoptalkshow.com/itunes and redirected to those places, but what you get here is fancy auto-detection in a single link.
I signed up for it for ShopTalk, so we'll see if we end up using it much or not.
We've got a small feature update to talk about that's a big deal to some folks: private by default. For some people & teams, having everything private by default on CodePen is critical to their work. Chris & Marie talk about how we added this option and the steps we took to validate and notify users about the feature.
Mux Video is an API-first platform that makes it easy for any developer to build beautiful video. Powered by data and designed by video experts, your video will work perfectly on every device, every time.
Mux Video handles storage, encoding, and delivery so you can focus on building your product. Live streaming is just as easy and Mux will scale with you as you grow, whether you're serving a few dozen streams or a few million.
Flywheel is the best WordPress hosting out there. Of course they have local WordPress development down with Local by Flywheel, which you can use no matter what, the hosting itself is equally good. Everything is just easier on Flywheel, and the support you get from the early days of helping get your site moved to the fiddly little stuff you'll run into down the road, they got your back.
WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that brings eCommerce to your WordPress sites. It's unique in its customizability and flexibility. You can use it to sell physical products, digital downloads, memberships, services, and tickets, plus offer customers lots of different ways to pay, including things like Apple Pay and Bitcoin powered by Stripe.
Welcome to another episode of Tom's Tech Notes! As per usual, DZone's research analyst Tom Smith has interviewed a host of industry experts to see how you can help your team and your organization scale DevOps.
This podcast is in preparation for our upcoming Scaling DevOps Trend Report, which launches on DZone.com on August 26.
Welcome to another episode of Tom's Tech Notes! As per usual, DZone's research analyst Tom Smith has interviewed a host of industry experts to see what you need to know about proper DevOps adoption and implementation.
This podcast is in preparation for our upcoming Scaling DevOps Trend Report, which launches on DZone.com on August 26.
Stephen, Chris, and Marie are here to talk about the new export with build process! We get into how it was built, its limitations, and some improvements we made to our admin systems along the way.
WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that brings eCommerce to your WordPress sites. It's unique in its customizability and flexibility. You can use it to sell physical products, digital downloads, memberships, services, and tickets, plus offer customers lots of different ways to pay, including things like Apple Pay and Bitcoin powered by Stripe.
Welcome to another episode of Tom's Tech Notes! As per usual, DZone's research analyst Tom Smith has interviewed a host of industry experts to see what they have to say about APIs and API management.
This podcast is in preparation for our upcoming API Management Trend Report, which launches on DZone.com on August 5. Our Trend Reports have replaced DZone's traditional research guides. The main changes? Trend Reports are released more frequently and are more focused on narrower topics. You'll still get the same high-quality expert articles and cutting edge research and analysis.
Cassidy and Marie are on this week to talk about side projects and how they can help you personally as well as professionally. Let us know what kind of side projects you're working on!
Jetpack brings a wealth of features to your self-hosted WordPress site as one of the best no-brainer plugins for WordPress there is. One feature I just recently used for the first time was the video hosting and video player. I had a video clip that I just wanted to drag and drop into a blog post like I would an image, but it was a little too big. Fortunately I just uploaded it through WordPress.com, it was magically available in the Media dialog on my self-hosted site, and it worked perfectly.
Welcome to another episode of Tom's Tech Notes! As per usual, DZone's research analyst Tom Smith has interviewed a host of industry experts to see what they have to say about APIs and API management.
This podcast is in preparation for our upcoming API Management Trend Report, which launches on DZone.com on August 5. Our Trend Reports have replaced DZone's traditional research guides. The main changes? Trend Reports are released more frequently and are more focused on narrower topics. You'll still get the same high-quality expert articles and cutting edge research and analysis.
Netlify, the powerful and awesome web host we all know and love, now is offering AWS Lambda functions built right in. You make a folder for all your functions, and they become relative paths you can hit to execute those functions. One reason you might wanna do that? Keeping your third-party API keys safe! Just another ingredient that make your fast static sites... not so static.
What is Apollo and how does CodePen use it? Cassidy just returned from Apollo Day and is here to help educate us all about Apollo and how/why CodePen chose to use it.
WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that brings eCommerce to your WordPress sites. It's unique in its customizability and flexibility. You can use it to sell physical products, digital downloads, memberships, services, and tickets, plus offer customers lots of different ways to pay, including things like Apple Pay and Bitcoin powered by Stripe.
Cassidy and Marie are talking vulnerability: at work, in software, and IN work ON software. What does vulnerability in work look like? And how putting yourself out there can be a great way to help you grow.
Hi Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to @Datadog's Jason Yee (@gitbisect) about obersvability, operations, metrics, Kuberenets, language, and more.