Around the Bend

June 12, 2022 by Jay Cuthrell

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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around The Bend (2009)

Note: This issue marks a successful migration from Revue (Twitter) to Substack.

Getting Informed

First, you might recall my shot and chaser format from prior issues. Essentially, I call back to a prior reference in an issue with a current link to how the prediction or topic turned out in the market.

Shot: Cheap as Chips (December 2021)

One of my predictions was our pandemic related so-called “chip crisis” would ultimately lead to a future state of increased supply of drastically lower price chips in far more devices and use cases. So, as of last week, the future is already starting to look closer than I imagined.

Source: sunday.fudge.org

Chaser: Chip Crisis Easing (June 2022)

The global semiconductor shortage that’s bogged down the auto industry for almost two years is showing signs of easing, at least for now.

Source: www.bloomberg.com

Shot: @jaycuthrell on web5 (Nov 2021)

There’s always a tweet… (or, an archived one in this case)

Web 0: first-tinker advantage
Web 1: first-commerce advantage
Web 2: first-marketer advantage
Web 3: first-feudal barrons advantage <– we are hereWeb 4: first-geopolitical domination advantage
Web 5: first-idealogical unification advantage

BTW… I linked to this: https://t.co/aVGPXlaazP 🧐

Chaser: @jack on web5 (June 2022)

[ Twitter avatar for @jack jack @jackthis will likely be our most important contribution to the internet. proud of the team. #web5

(RIP web3 VCs 🤫)

developer.tbd.website/projects/web5/ Twitter avatar for @TBD54566975 TBD @TBD54566975Web5: An extra decentralized web platform
https://t.co/LDW3MZ8tON](https://twitter.com/jack/status/1535314738078486533?s=20&t=xbc5QJHGqQb0Q2uFNGNyRA)[5:35 PM ∙ Jun 10, 2022

11,400Likes2,406Retweets](https://twitter.com/jack/status/1535314738078486533?s=20&t=xbc5QJHGqQb0Q2uFNGNyRA)

I’ll stay forever with you 🎶**

While this next shot and chaser is not a part of my newsletter history, I couldn’t help but notice that the future got here faster than I personally thought. Indeed, I remember buying engraved 📱 devices as loving mementos just over a decade ago and in the years since.

Shot: iPod Touch Ad (2009)

The song ‘Around the Bend’ by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour appeared as the backing track for the iPod Touch commercials that became so iconic as Apple began to explore the adjacencies in their growing handheld device market.

Source: www.youtube.com

Chaser: iPod Touch nadir (2022)

Apple discontinues the iPod touch, leaving the device on sale “while supplies last” and ending the product line after debuting the original iPod in October 2001.

Source: www.techmeme.com

Update

And speaking of staying forever… farewell to Revue… and hello (for now) to Substack.

It appears that Substack will happily digest things from Revue via RSS full feed import but… I’m just learning this now and expect there are caveats.

For example… I had multiple “null” import results which required deleting and running import again. The “null” requiring a manual delete step is probably due to a considerate no-clobbering feature for overwriting a successful slug even if it is empty.

I’ll have to dig into the /issues/ vs. /p/ URI difference implications but I like that the slug looks so similar and that Substack appears to be doing the HTTP redirect so that /issues/ and /p/ are resolved automatically.

Also, each of my YouTube links for song inclusions as the inspiration for an issue appear to get malformed in the migration. So, I’ll be doing 40+ manual edits or so but in the meantime, I’ve created a playlist which I’ll update along the way:

Planning ahead, I’m going to go belt (mirroring) and suspenders (substack) for a while and start reading up on self-hosted options (again). I mean, if Substack experiences a change in control too, I’d much prefer to avoid this research topic again.

We shall see… but so far so good if you are reading this issue. 1