{"id":5805,"date":"2025-11-02T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:56:55","slug":"mobileviews-585-17-years-of-this-podcast-free-affinity-creative-suite-azure-dns-outage-jons-discord-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/mobileviews-585-17-years-of-this-podcast-free-affinity-creative-suite-azure-dns-outage-jons-discord-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileViews 585: 17 years of this podcast! Free Affinity creative suite. Azure DNS outage. Jon&#8217;s Discord bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"MobileViews 585: 17 years of this podcast! Free Affinity creative suite. Azure DNS outage. Jon's Discord bot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=tamnu-19afbe4-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=7\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MViews-585-aiframe-1024x448.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MViews-585-aiframe-1024x448.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MViews-585-aiframe-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MViews-585-aiframe-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MViews-585-aiframe.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this week&#8217;s episode, Jon Westfall and I kicked things off by discussing &#8220;falling back&#8221; for Daylight Saving Time and reminiscing about dealing with dark mornings. We then moved on to some podcast milestones. I realized that MobileViews is about to turn 18, with the first episode dating back to November 26, 2008 . We also noted that Jon&#8217;s 12th anniversary on the show is coming up in December. This got us talking about the early days of podcasting. I recalled listening to pioneers like Adam Curry (the &#8220;Podfather&#8221;) and Adam Christiansen (&#8220;The Mac Cast&#8221;) , and how I was amazed they could produce so much content solo . We contrasted that with today&#8217;s landscape, which seems dominated by celebrity-hosted shows, and I made sure to thank Jon, as I&#8217;m certain the podcast would have ended years ago without him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We discussed the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/25\/10\/30\/affinitys-entire-suite-goes-completely-free-on-mac-with-new-all-in-one-app\">free Affinity all-in-one creative suite for MacOS<\/a>, which both Jon and I had previously purchased, becoming a free all-in-one app on the Mac following its acquisition by Canva. We also chatted about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/microsoft-azure-down-thousands-users-downdetector-shows-2025-10-29\/\">recent Microsoft Azure outage<\/a> , which briefly gave me trouble accessing a file on OneDrive , and shared a laugh about how &#8220;it&#8217;s always DNS&#8221;. On the AI front, I shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\/song\/668400d9-5c23-43db-9a61-2f4f36187dca?sh=X6wvOlqTWpFmbmfJ&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawNzWlRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt_CYYm5PQJia0o57DxEzjGHY5g1D3KgR9Kfg0NrRUR7jvlcqwxXdTP8Izdk_aem_xWTviLbBas9EnXt0_TKTHg\">song I generated with Suno AI called &#8220;DNS Blues&#8221;<\/a> and we discussed the news of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/11\/02\/nx-s1-5594790\/ai-artist-makes-debut-on-billboard-radio-chat\">AI artist, Xania Monet, debuting on the Billboard charts<\/a>. Jon shared his own impressive AI project: in about 30 minutes, he used ChatGPT to build a Python-based <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/tq8kGQgY\">Discord bot that can serve up Disney trivia, psychology questions, or bad jokes pulled from his 12-year spreadsheet archive<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Available via <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mobileviews.com-podcast\/id301171904?mt=2\">Apple iTunes<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ToddOgasawara\/podcasts\u201d\">MobileViews YouTube Podcasts channel <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/MobileViewscom-Podcast-Podcast\/B08K565TQS?qid=1640555789&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&amp;pf_rd_r=TXEJVWB2VW471GJ9XQQ0\u201d&lt;\/a\">MobileViews Podcast on Audible.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s episode, Jon Westfall and I kicked things off by discussing &#8220;falling back&#8221; for Daylight Saving Time and reminiscing about dealing with dark mornings. 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