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
• [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

This week we talked to freelance designer & Startup Weekend facilitator, Trey Steinhoff, who visited us in Denton all the way from his hometown of Tampa, Florida. As he was here to help run a product development workshop, we talked with Trey about the startup community in Tampa and their approach to supporting entrepreneurs and building community. Tampa Bay Wave - http://www.tampabaywave.org Tampa Bay Hackathon - https://tampabayhackathon.com Tampa Smart City - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tampa-bay-on-the-path-to-becoming-a-smarter-city_us_59761930e4b0f1feb89b4555 Contact Info: Social media: treycarl3 Behance: https://www.behance.net/treycarl3 Website: http://treycarl.com Email: [email protected]

On this episode we invited Josh Berthume back to conduct another interview with one of our hosts – this time Kyle Taylor. We learn all about Kyle including his creation story which took him from small Texas town to the go-to person for Denton tech. Show Notes: Gatsplat: http://m.gatsplat.com Condiment King: http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Condiment_King Calendar Man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_Man Totally Awesome Hulk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_Cho How to reach Kyle: Google "Kyle Taylor" Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/kyletaylored Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kyletaylored

Abdulrahman Habib, or known around TechMill as just Habib, is a Ph.D. student and graduate teacher at the University of North Texas College of Information. We first met Habib during our Open Coffee Club meetups, and he started becoming a regular at all our TechMill events. Habib has been working with the City of Denton as a consultant for a few months now, researching processes and mechanisms of how to help transform our city into a smart city (and what it means for citizens). http://wedentondoit.com/blog/2017/3/22/denton-open-data-day-2017

Daniel Abasolo, a founding TechMill board member, is more than just a lawyer - he's a space lawyer. And no, he doesn't represent who owns the moon, but he can tell you what you need to do to get a chunk of metal into space. Daniel is no stranger to community involvement, an experienced lawyer in family and business law, and has been helping startups get off the ground in Denton for the past few years. Show Notes Miles City, Montana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_City,_Montana Changelog Podcast Episode about SQLite: https://changelog.com/podcast/201 SAFE Financing Documents: http://www.ycombinator.com/documents/ Texas Intrastate Crowdfunding: https://www.ssb.texas.gov/texas-securities-act-board-rules/texas-intrastate-crowdfunding How to reach Daniel: At SpringerLyle: https://springer-lyle.com/contact-us/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8354677 Twitter: https://twitter.com/DF_Abasolo

Marshall Culpepper, CEO of KubOS, has been involved in open source since before most of us we're in, uh... college, probably. Learning to program at a young age, we didn't have that much time on the podcast so go find another show he was on and listen to it there. This week we talk about the final frontier, how Marshall plans to conquer it through metal cubes, making money on free software, and how you can turn a toaster into a sky laser. Show Notes Kubos: http://www.kubos.com KubOS RT: https://github.com/kubostech/kubos/tree/master/kubos-rt KubOS Linux Build: https://github.com/kubostech/kubos-linux-build Buy parts for your own cubesat: https://www.cubesatshop.com How to reach Marshall Twitter: https://twitter.com/marshall_law Email: [email protected]