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Je ne suis pas un grand auditeur de rewatch podcasts, même si je trouve l'idée plutôt cool. Parmi les plus connus, il y a celui de **The Office** (_Office Ladies_), celui de **New Girl** (_The Mess Around_) ou encore celui de **Parks and Recreation** (_Parks and Recollection_). Le concept est simple : un épisode du podcast permet à certains anciens _cast members_ de revenir en détail sur un épisode de leur série. À vrai dire, le seul que j'écoute, c'est **_The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast_**. Je ne sais pas si c'est considéré comme un rewatch podcast, mais, vu qu'ils reviennent longuement sur chaque Digital Short, on va dire que oui (et pour le coup, c'est vraiment un excellent podcast). Tout ça pour dire qu'il y a un nouveau rewatch podcast in town. Et il concerne **Portlandia** , un sketch show atypique, qui m'a intrigué pendant de nombreuses années. Je n'ai pas vu tous les épisodes (j'ai dû abandonner à la saison 5), mais j'ai toujours été attiré par cet univers étrange créé par **Fred Armisen** (SNL) et **Carrie Brownstein** (Sleater-Kinney). Fasciné, aussi, par certains guests (notamment celui qui joue le maire de la ville, que je ne spoilerai pas). J'ai été dubitatif, parfois, face à certains sketches récurrents que je ne comprenais pas ou qui ne me faisaient pas rire (le plus connu reste les deux libraires lesbiennes). Je n'ai donc pas la même affection pour Portlandia que pour d'autres sketches shows (_Key & Peele, The State / Stella, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Jon Benjamin Has A Van, Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show, Garfunkel and Oates, Human Giant, I Think You Should Leave, Important Things with Demetri Martin, ..._). Mais je garde d'excellents souvenirs de certains sketches, et surtout, de la première chanson qui ouvre le premier épisode, "**_The Dream of the 90's_** ", composée par **Asa Taccone** , qui n'est autre que le frère de **Jorma Taccone** , des Lonely Island. Bref, un épisode est disponible pour l'instant. C'est une sorte de grosse introduction (avec de chouettes anecdotes, surtout si vous êtes fans comme moi du SNL). L'analyse épisode par épisode arrivera prochainement. Et ça s'annonce pas mal du tout (et bizarrement, très poli, avec Brownstein et Armisen qui ne se coupent jamais la parole).

_Cross-posted from my Substack notes (einfachai Substack)_ A short field-note for solo-founders and small agency owners who keep hitting Zapier / Make pricing cliffs as their first paying client lands. ## What the cliff looks like If you crossed the 750-task-per-month threshold on a single workflow, you already know the math: that one client now costs ~$50 / month just to _move their data around_. Add a second client, and the same tooling step costs you both the tool fee and a per-seat fee. The first $200 of recurring revenue you earn from that client disappears into vendor rent. For a solo consultancy serving 3-8 clients in the DACH region, this is the moment where "low-code automation" stops being low-cost. ## Three shifts that worked for me I rebuilt the same client workflows on plain Python + a Postgres scheduler. Yes, more code; but here is what changed: 1. **Per-client cost dropped from ~$50 to < $2 / month.** A Hetzner CX22 in FSN1 (€4.50/mo flat) runs all my client workflows. The first €15 I save per client _is_ the difference between a profitable month and an unprofitable one in the first quarter. 2. **Latency I can actually charge for.** Native cron + a job queue gives me sub-second triggers; Zapier's "5 minute min" turned a perfectly synchronous workflow into a polling loop that visibly degraded UX. 3. **One repo, real audit trail.** Every workflow is a unit test. Zapier zaps were not — when a client asks "what happened on Tuesday at 14:03 CET?", the answer in vanilla infra is `git log` + a DB query, not a black-box re-run. The catch is the up-front ~3 days you spend rebuilding the first 2-3 workflows. After that the pattern is transferable; see the case-study writeup at EinfachAI for the actual job-queue skeleton I use. ## Where it breaks (be honest) If your client needs an enterprise SSO round-trip in the trigger chain, don't roll your own. Use the managed offering. The break-even only exists for straight-through workflows where you own the _whole_ data path. If you want to see the stack details (Hetzner + n8n + a 60-line scheduler) changelog'd weekly, I post the notes over on Substack and on dev.to. Happy to compare notes if you are rebuilding something similar. _Builder practice-sharing from a solo AI consultancy in Zürich._

몬스타엑스(MONSTA X) 셔누X형원이 새 미니 앨범 ‘LOVE ME’ 발매를 앞두고 컴백 분위기를 끌어올리고 있다. 이들은 서로 다른 감정선을 담은 영상과 컬래버 프로젝트를 연달아 선보이며 신보 콘셉트를 점차 드러내고 있다. 소속사 스타쉽엔터테인먼트는 17일 몬스타엑스 공식 SNS 채널을 통해 셔누X형원의 미니 2집 ‘LOVE ME(러브 미)’ 무드 티저를 공개했다. 이번 영상은 ‘Losing Control’ 콘셉트를 바탕으로, 사랑의 시작과 균열이 교차하는 정서를 한 편의 감정 흐름처럼 이어붙였다. 설렘과 불안 넘나드는 ‘Losing Control’ 콘셉트, 타이틀곡 ‘Do You Love Me’ 감정선 예고. (사진=스타쉽엔터테인먼트) 무드 티저 초반에는 두 사람의 밝은 표정과 소품이 눈에 띈다. 셔누X형원은 사과 향을 맡거나 꽃을 들고 환한 미소를 보이며 풋풋한 설렘을 드러냈고, 사랑이 막 시작될 때의 분위기를 연상케 하는 장면이 이어졌다. 이어지는 후반부에서는 전체 기류가 반전된다. 전화 연결이 끊기는 듯한 사운드와 함께 ‘Do You Love Me’라는 문구가 공간을 가득 채운 가운데, 셔누X형원이 불안과 고민에 잠긴 듯한 모습을 보여주며 앞선 장면과 온도차를 만들었다. 상반된 두 무드가 하나의 영상 안에 배치되면서, 새 앨범이 어떤 감정의 곡선을 그릴지에 대한 궁금증을 더했다. 이번 미니 2집 ‘LOVE ME’는 셔누X형원이 지닌 절제된 감성과 세련된 분위기를 토대로, 이전보다 더 깊고 세밀해진 감정 표현을 담은 작품으로 소개됐다. 두 사람은 다양한 형태의 사랑을 자신들만의 색깔로 풀어내는 구성을 예고하며, 유닛 특유의 음악적 방향을 이어가고 있다. 타이틀곡 ‘Do You Love Me(두 유 러브 미)’는 서로의 마음을 확신하지 못한 채 밀고 당기는 감정을 그린 곡이다. 리드미컬한 드럼 사운드 위에 브라스와 기타 연주가 더해졌고, 셔누X형원의 보컬이 얹히며 풍성한 사운드를 채운 것으로 전해졌다. 신보에는 타이틀곡 외에도 유닛 활동의 폭을 넓히는 트랙들이 함께 실린다. 각자의 솔로곡인 ‘Around & Go(어라운드 & 고)’, ‘NO AIR(노 에어)’를 포함해 총 7개 트랙이 수록됐고, 이를 통해 한층 견고해진 음악성과 개별 매력을 함께 보여줄 예정이다. 컴백을 앞둔 셔누X형원은 음악 콘텐츠와 별개 협업으로도 팬들과 접점을 넓히고 있다. 두 사람은 문학동네와의 컬래버레이션 프로젝트를 통해 핀터레스트 무드보드에 책 속 문구를 접목한 온라인 전시를 선보이며, 앨범 콘셉트와 어우러지는 다채로운 이미지를 확장했다. 이처럼 무드 티저와 온라인 전시 등 여러 채널을 활용한 콘텐츠가 순차적으로 공개되며, 셔누X형원이 이번 앨범에서 선보일 사랑의 온도차와 감정선에 관심이 모이고 있다. 셔누X형원의 미니 2집 ‘LOVE ME’는 5월 21일 오후 6시(KST) 각종 온라인 음원 사이트를 통해 공개된다.

Tayler Holder has cancelled his upcoming _When No One’s Around_ tour, revealing he is stepping back from performing as he struggles with his mental health. The 28-year-old country singer and social media personality shared the announcement in an emotional Instagram post on May 12, apologising to fans and admitting he had reached a breaking point after quietly struggling for months. Holder said he had been dealing with his mental health “in ways that I can no longer ignore”, describing the decision to cancel the tour as one of the hardest he has ever made. > View this post on Instagram > > A post shared by Tayler Holder (@taylerholder) “I’ve tried for a while now to put my head down and just push through this and give everything I have to the music and the people who support me, but truthfully, I’ve reached my limit right now and I need to take a step back and focus on getting healthy,” Holder wrote. The singer acknowledged fans had made plans and spent money to attend the shows, saying he was “deeply sorry” for the disappointment. Despite achieving many of the goals he once dreamed of, Holder admitted he has continued to struggle with loneliness and feeling unfulfilled. “I’m doing everything I’ve ever dreamed of and I still feel so lonely, still feel so unfulfilled,” he wrote, adding that performing for fans remained “the greatest privilege” of his life. Holder said he plans to use the time away from touring to rest, seek support and reconnect with himself, with hopes of returning “stronger” and “healthier”. The former TikTok star, who has more than 19 million followers on the platform and over 4.5 million on Instagram, has increasingly spoken openly through his music about emotional struggles and isolation. His latest song, _When No One’s Around_ , released in April, touches on themes of loneliness and feeling lost despite outward success. In a TikTok video shared in April, Holder encouraged fans to see the song as a reminder to check in on their “happy” friends. The cancelled tour had included stops in St. Louis, Kansas City, Atlanta and Jacksonville. The post Tayler Holder suddenly cancels tour after admitting private struggle appeared first on HUM News English.

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