John Spurlock

‘Next up is my absolute favorite feature, which is the ability to bring your YouTube style chapters and turn them into real chapters in an instant’

Birchtree

Introducing ChapterPod, now in beta

Well, it didn't take too long into the new year for me to announce a new app, huh? This is a pretty niche tool, so I don't expect most people to ge...

‘For the first time, TypeScript overtook both Python and JavaScript in August 2025 to become the most used language on GitHub. This marks the most significant language shift in more than a decade’

The GitHub Blog

Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1

In this year’s Octoverse, we uncover how AI, agents, and typed languages are driving the biggest shifts in software development in more than a de...

Just updated my graphs of @Transistor.fm's monthly reported stats to include the newly-finished month of December 2025.

Transistor Statistics, visualized

Visualizing the podcast data provided monthly by Transistor, the podcast hosting company

well I'll be - it seems to work in Brave too and ⌘-w closes the right-view, if focused

Using "Open Link in Right View" In Chrome

Ward Cunningham, right once again...

‘When I hear people say the future of audio is essentially television, it makes me feel they never knew what was exciting about sound in the first place’

the Guardian

‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens

From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio ...

‘“One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference,” Sherman added. As a result, the U.S. official time slowed by around 4.8 microseconds’

Gizmodo

Colorado Windstorm Causes 4.8 Microsecond Glitch in Official US Time

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States.

still using my hls.livewire.io indexing site to keep an eye on podcast feeds using HLS in their alternateEnclosure tag just ran across the first one I've seen using AV1 for video (and Opus for audio) - it's hosted on peertube

HLS Podcast Radar

A searchable listing of recent podcast episodes that publish HLS as an alternate video option in their open RSS feed.

AI-generated podcasts have entered the open system in a big way, it will be an interesting story to follow in 2026. RSS tags will not help here. Podcast hosting companies may not always cook up the slop, but they are paid by the bowl to distribute it. Best thing that ever happened to them. Podcast apps are where the slop is actually on the menu, and where they have a compelling interest in seeing the customer return to the restaurant.