Dr Brian of London (Dev)🖥

Podping Wrangler and Hive Lightning Bridge Executioner. Substrate Person ⭐ Brian has move to the Hive blockchain. ⚡️[email protected]

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2026-08-08 12:25:10 UTC

End of an era.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/117/059/872/097/847/643/original/f63d616fa6f53c7d.png

2026-07-10 13:31:25 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex there's an issue right now if isn't affecting pinging but it's being worked on by witnesses

2026-05-17 08:52:17 UTC

I guess the party's over.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/589/063/584/117/131/original/916a8899c08feecf.png

2026-05-12 14:55:09 UTC

I vibe coded a list of UK Labour MPs stabbing Starmer....
https://starmer.brianoflondon.me/

2026-05-02 13:56:21 UTC

I don't run a software team I'm a one man team but my head found this really useful to explain the change that's happened in my personal work flow over the last year.
https://youtu.be/h0hdaHPKDdI?si=Lg4vznLuEWlwyAYL

2026-05-02 06:09:43 UTC

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@nprofile…7epg sounds like no agenda has to be tagged made with AI: images, end of show mixes and your show prep! @nprofile…td70

2026-05-02 06:07:23 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 @nprofile…cyex let's talk. My podping cloud replacement side by side with gossip writer! All you need.

2026-05-02 05:38:03 UTC

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@nprofile…7epg the AI tag is like being asked if you're a terrorist or a Nazi on the US immigration forms. It's so they can throw you out later if you lied when you got in.

2026-05-02 05:36:10 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 btw my hivewriter and podping cloud drop in replacement is also solid. That code is pushing the gossip writer on my side.

2026-04-25 12:08:49 UTC

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@nprofile…20nz I have to tell my father something on YouTube is AI slop at least three times a week.

2026-04-18 13:28:53 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 ceasefire here means my nodes are both getting all the wifi they can slurp because the bomb shelter door is open :-) if it all goes to shit tonight, we'll see how they cope with flaky internet.
I haven't touched that machine in a couple of days.

2026-04-18 11:33:14 UTC

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@nprofile…x5pc @nprofile…td70 @nprofile…peg3
https://podping.org/Pingslurp_Accounts
That's the nice graphic way, you appear on the right hand side of the list of accounts!

2026-04-18 09:26:23 UTC

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@nprofile…w0mx hate speech laws are all dumb.

2026-04-18 07:05:36 UTC

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@nprofile…sqvl 100% I'm scared of anthropomorphising these things too.

2026-04-18 06:51:54 UTC

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@nprofile…sqvl dogs have names.

2026-04-18 06:36:36 UTC

I don't have a name for my AI coding assistant. Am I weird? Should I give it one?

2026-04-11 13:57:16 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 we are all monitoring the situation now 🙂

2026-04-11 13:31:32 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 I will let it run as long as it likes this time. That graph just kept going up so I thought it might be unbounded.

2026-04-11 13:14:57 UTC

@nprofile…lm4c I had to stop using the Testflight Castamatic I think because of the memory leak but the latest one seems to be much better.
Now I'm just stuck being annoyed that my older iPhone 14 can't make chapters!
I suspect I'll buy an iPhone 18 though. 18 is a special number in Israel 🙂

2026-04-10 18:24:47 UTC

Just so you know @nprofile…td70 I restarted both my writer and listener because the memory usage does seem to grow all the time.

2026-04-10 09:06:12 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 from my toot to your vibe code interface 😂

2026-04-09 16:15:08 UTC

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@nprofile…0fv8 @nprofile…td70 @nprofile…jnjt I have the log in to docker hub not github.

2026-04-09 16:00:26 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 @nprofile…0fv8 I can actually generate keys on Podcastindex-org docker hub!
I've actually created an API key.

2026-04-09 15:33:06 UTC

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@nprofile…0fv8 yeah that's what I thought. How do you trigger rebuilds, is it when you sync your fork to the origin?

2026-04-09 13:28:16 UTC

@nprofile…0fv8 have you changed the target of the container builds to podcastindex-org on github?
I'm getting unauthorized trying to pull it:
Error error from registry: unauthorized
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2026-04-08 15:38:45 UTC

I find it fascinating on the topology map that my yoga-listen and yoga-write nodes are not seemingly connected despite being side by side in the same docker network!

2026-04-08 15:23:22 UTC

I've turned off my re-broadcaster on gossip. I can turn it back on if you want it @nprofile…td70 just let me know.

2026-04-07 19:58:05 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 @nprofile…0fv8 I'm now running up to date via the containers built by the ci cd pipeline.

2026-04-07 16:23:17 UTC

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@nprofile…0fv8 isn't Rust supposed to be memory safe? 😂

2026-04-07 16:10:19 UTC

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After a restart looks like
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/364/293/934/749/358/original/8f27bdac9d179065.png

2026-04-07 16:09:28 UTC

Something went bad with the gossip-listener came back to it and it was eating RAM and 300% CPU.
Can't see anything unusual in the logs before i killed it.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/364/289/196/352/237/original/9b96351b3f5436cc.png

2026-04-07 11:09:54 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex @nprofile…td70 I hope I didn't break your stuff :-) It'll be gone, I needed to update the threespeak urls because they've perm redirected all rss feeds.

2026-04-07 11:05:27 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex @nprofile…td70 a mistake you caught almost as fast as CoPilot 😂
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/363/094/261/121/944/original/aaa410b0f01d6fbc.png

2026-04-07 05:13:51 UTC

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@nprofile…jk0m @nprofile…0fv8 @nprofile…td70 I have compiled on a 2017 iMac and it takes 18 minutes 😂

2026-04-06 20:22:24 UTC

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@nprofile…jk0m @nprofile…td70 just for fun here's a screen shot. It's also running two minecraft servers b2 and b3 (there is no b3 bomber).
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/359/619/752/493/309/original/8a0d0a0664565fab.png

2026-04-06 19:54:51 UTC

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@nprofile…jk0m @nprofile…td70 my gossip listener and writer is running in docker on this headless broken Lenovo Yoga (you can't unfold it and use the keyboard any more)
It sits in my kitchen.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/359/514/506/340/065/original/75ceba0f545783ce.jpeg

2026-04-06 06:51:42 UTC

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@nprofile…sk9g @nprofile…7epg idiots. Do you think Mossad doesn't know how to hide when a spaceship flies by?

2026-04-05 14:41:38 UTC

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@nprofile…0fv8 I'm building a different container for the writer.

2026-04-05 12:42:59 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 the machine its running from may or may not lose signal (it's a wifi only connected machine and it's the wrong side of my blast door so if we close the door to the bomb shelter, wifi gets a bit iffy).
It's a great test for crappy internet 🙂

2026-04-05 12:38:43 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 i'm about to go to the gymn you want me to turn mine off or are we good with a stress test? BTW if you want to test blocking me or something like that go ahead.

2026-04-05 11:37:02 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 I'll leave this running for a bit, it's testing my hive writer as well (though it's not broadcasting so nothing is hitting the chain.)

2026-04-05 11:22:26 UTC

I see that there is nothing going out on Gossip, I'm filling the gap right now. @nprofile…td70

2026-04-05 09:40:47 UTC

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@nprofile…0fv8 and btw if you are able i can give you an access token for the podcastindex docker hub and we can put both images up on that? contact me direct

2026-04-05 09:40:07 UTC

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@nprofile…0fv8 can you add the gossip-writer to the ci-cd pipeline? The Dockerfile works fine (I think its the one I put there in the same docker folder) as the gossip-listener one.

2026-04-05 09:38:02 UTC

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OK after a lot of faffing I built my own 0.4.5 version of the gossip-writer (it's on my docker hub) and I'm running both that and the listener side by sid.
I'm still testing my new hivepinger and if anyone want to test that properly with me and put some real podpings out, please let me know!

2026-04-05 09:18:02 UTC

I love this 2017 iMac because of its 5K display but my word I wouldn't be able to develop in Rust on this thing. 1100s to build!!!! 18 minutes of my cpus at 100%
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/351/343/983/693/986/original/63bd1519ce1137e5.png

2026-04-03 08:56:42 UTC

@nprofile…6wqk someone asked me about a volume control on the player in PodLink and I can't seem to see one either.
Also is there anything that can be done about undefined images on X? I love using podlink instead of youtube links but this isn't great.
https://x.com/brianoflondon/status/2039983012616581296?s=20

2026-03-29 15:50:21 UTC

With the podping gossip system, is @nprofile…td70 running something which feeds all current podpings onto it? Is there any deduplication?

2026-03-28 13:25:32 UTC

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@nprofile…x5pc @nprofile…td70 @nprofile…peg3 yes that's it.
If you can run the docker container that's all there is to it. If you need a Hive account drop me a line and we can talk.
It's perfect for very occasional use. It runs in a tiny footprint.
I'm playing with gossip writer but that can be added when it's more stable.

2026-03-27 21:48:42 UTC

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@nprofile…x5pc @nprofile…td70 @nprofile…peg3 you interested in trying my own self contained system where you run your own Podping writer? Very easy to set up.

2026-03-25 16:56:46 UTC

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@nprofile…lm4c all the time. I've stopped sending them to you. Iphone 14 Pro Max. I can do transcripts but not chapters. Got another one typing this message.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/290/862/015/250/669/original/8a0d737d57b79a0d.png

2026-03-25 15:43:07 UTC

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@nprofile…td70 @nprofile…lm4c ahh I'm on a 14 as well. Kinda waiting for the Hebrew significant 18 before I upgrade 😆 Chai!

2026-03-25 15:23:25 UTC

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@nprofile…lm4c
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/290/498/727/879/517/original/36d7b1ad67986e29.png

2026-03-25 12:28:49 UTC

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@nprofile…lm4c I see magic transcripts but not magic chapters? I've had a lot of background crashes this morning. Sent you feedback with my podping email.

2026-03-24 08:49:09 UTC

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@nprofile…7epg for 18 years I've been thinking you needed an Access Database instead of a spreadsheet....

2026-03-22 17:58:00 UTC

Oh @nprofile…td70 how can you say all the way back to Jesus when it's back to the beginning of HUMANITY and your podcast partner is called @nprofile…7epg 😂😂😂😂😂
Hello!!! McFly!!!!!

2026-03-02 09:12:29 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex nice to see Tel Aviv is green, we've heard a lot of explosions.

2026-01-10 06:16:02 UTC

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@nprofile…vfcp I'm still scared of letting it write more code than I can review and understand and I can also see this could end up costing a fortune.

2025-12-14 05:17:58 UTC

The true future of audio is what you're here to see!

2025-12-06 17:00:17 UTC

We're trying again to do an X space about Podping and Podcasting 2.0.
Last week was a technical mess with the host's connection.
https://x.com/CryptoRichYT/status/1997329545775460653?s=20

2025-12-06 12:18:30 UTC

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@nprofile…wsp3 @nprofile…y5nd yes. I just remembered My implementation of Lightning Address has a minimum of 50ms.

2025-12-06 10:28:50 UTC

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@nprofile…wsp3 what is the expected behavior if a boost is attempted to a lightning address which is below the minimum for the address? @nprofile…y5nd

2025-11-29 15:11:00 UTC

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@nprofile…wqpy yes I'm pretty sure they're posted later I'll ask where.

2025-11-29 14:35:12 UTC

I'm talking on an X space in a couple of hours about Podping and I'm planning on telling the story of Podcasting 2.0 along the way.
https://x.com/tcr_news_/status/1994673886932447669?s=46

2025-11-23 06:34:45 UTC

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@nprofile…wsp3 @nprofile…y5nd Dave don't set up an LNUrl on your node.
Adam: when you say you're running Alby hub at home your own Adam@ getalby address still uses Alby's API infrastructure. That is the thing they blocked me from using so my brianoflondon @ address became unusable for me even though I have an Alby node.
A small voltage node will not like getting the volume you will get.
I wouldn't want my Voltage node to handle your volume. It would crush my node for sure.

2025-11-23 06:28:49 UTC

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@nprofile…wsp3 I just got to the bit in Podcasting 2.0 about Alby and LNAddress.
@nprofile…y5nd I said all this.
LNAddress is a fucked up system. You can crash any LNAddress system and I've known this since I hand coded my own LNAddress API.
I've got massive rate limiting on creation of invoices because the system sucks.
Keysend was GENIUS because the invoice was created AFTER the node finds out the paying is already ON ITS WAY.

2025-11-19 21:38:23 UTC

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@nprofile…9ap7 yes. More will come back up soon but most of my stuff has kept chugging along.

2025-11-19 16:38:19 UTC

Hands up who noticed that Hive upgraded the entire system with Hard Fork HF28 today at 13:00 UTC!
Nope, nobody noticed. As it should be. Podping kept on pinging.

2025-11-19 05:52:45 UTC

So this time it was SQL not DNS.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/115/574/804/332/227/847/original/dd7673f16bf49d4b.png

2025-11-18 12:58:31 UTC

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@nprofile…y5nd whilst my monitoring system went nuts and various other bits of my infrastructure fell over my Hive witnesses chugged on and no Podpings were lost. I love it when decentralised infrastructure works.

2025-11-12 20:29:29 UTC

I think X has completly effed up their transition from Twitter dot com to X dot com for all Passkey users.
I'm locked out of Brianoflondon for now.

2025-11-12 06:31:37 UTC

If 3speak have the talent and time to make a reference platform for video podcasts what would you tell them to do to their feeds and enclosures?

2025-11-10 19:00:15 UTC

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@nprofile…pnt8 @nprofile…kdkm just remember that in order for the Alby addresses and the connection to podcast apps to work you are relying on their centralised servers.

2025-11-09 18:29:12 UTC

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@nprofile…amf2 @nprofile…5yxp what was lost was the only easy api which could keysend boosts and stream sats.
Whilst their API was public they largely made it irrelevant when they stopped their wallet service.
In addition, specifically affecting me, even though I set up an Alby hub on my own lightning node, I couldn't use apps like Podverse and Castomatic because they geo block Israel.
They completly screwed podcasting 2.0 and made it harder for me to implement my version of their api.

2025-11-09 08:44:45 UTC

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@nprofile…amf2 @nprofile…5yxp and now it's pretty much moot because the Lightning bros have decided they don't want to deal with Keysend any more despite it being a fantastic protocol.
I can't be bothered fighting Bitcoin maxis.
It's possible in a few months I will propose a stable coin based Hive Dollar system which will just work and we'll see if anyone wants to try it.

2025-11-09 08:43:20 UTC

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@nprofile…amf2 I pretty much got about 80% of the work done on replicating the ORIGINAL pre-Nostr Alby API which all the podcast apps used to send keysend payments based on a custodial wallet model.
In my case the backend would be a wallet secured against your Hive account (which which is moving to a non custodial model over the next month).
I have most of the auth flow working, but then Israel was attacked by Hamas and Bumi went to war against me.
@nprofile…5yxp

2025-11-09 05:21:00 UTC

I'm a week late listening to @nprofile…5yxp on Podcasting 2.0.
What a pity @nprofile…60s3 and @nprofile…u49x banned Israel from Alby: I had a drop in replacement for a non custodial keysend wallet almost ready to go.
And even now I can't do the work to turn it on because testing without Alby during the transition is impossible FOR ME.
Alby completly screwed the entire world of Podcasting 2.0 and nobody should trust them for any business critical process.

2025-11-08 10:22:00 UTC

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@nprofile…ge5x about two months ago I moved to a 2TB ssd from a 1TB because I saw it was getting close to filling the original disk.
Warp AI terminal guided me through the migration. I'm not sure that helps your situation.

2025-11-05 20:52:11 UTC

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@nprofile…pnt8 @nprofile…fhrz but I can do it? By claiming the podcast via the email in the feed I assume?
It won't mess with the audio served to every other podcast app.

2025-11-05 20:29:16 UTC

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@nprofile…pnt8 @nprofile…fhrz answer this: can you "claim" an rss feed on Spotify and add video to it? Or do you need to soup to nuts host the whole thing including audio on Spotify?

2025-11-05 17:23:04 UTC

What's the deal with Spotify video podcasts.
I really hate this but if I have a podcast feed on @nprofile…fhrz but they want to have a Spotify Video feed, what are the options?
Start a spotify hosted video channel and just maintain spotify + open rss?
I'm loathed to do that but if they insist on video on spotify what choice do I have?

2025-10-07 11:09:51 UTC

What are your numbers?
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/115/332/571/973/340/473/original/e93cbd5a6eb53f2a.jpeg

2025-10-05 06:36:38 UTC

Another day another reason why I'm using Warp terminal. It's like I've got a Git expert sitting with me.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/115/320/172/937/571/958/original/12d3a824699b8f67.png

2025-06-07 10:40:15 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…h82d curious: I just unsubscribed and re-subscribed via finding Podcasting 2.0 in the podcastindex search.
Is there a way for me to see which RSS feed URL I'm on?

2025-06-07 10:06:26 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…h82d I think I need to resubscribe via the one in podping to get live notifications then.

2025-06-07 10:04:53 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…h82d this is a big deal actually

2025-06-07 08:43:45 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…zn42 @nprofile…h82d OK yes searching for the http gives 55 results last one is 105 days ago.
That's about right, i last purged the database 15 days ago I think.
I don't like to let it grow for ever.
pc20rss.xml
it's definitely on a different RSS URL than is declared in the Index. That might be causing issues.

2025-06-07 08:30:12 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…h82d @nprofile…zn42 I'm just doing some regex searches right now to figure this out.

2025-06-07 08:25:18 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…h82d @nprofile…zn42 I'm getting 100's of hits for
http://feed.nashownotes.com/rss.xml
which is No Agenda which is the address podcastindex . org gives

2025-06-07 08:23:47 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…h82d @nprofile…zn42
I'm getting 8 results for this iri:
https://feeds.podcastindex.org/pc20.xml
I'm not sure what the address pc20rss.xml is
It should go back around 90 days so I'm a bit confused about the number of hits in the database too

2025-06-07 05:19:37 UTC

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@nprofile…h82d Megyn Kelly is on Simplecast and they do not podping.
Getting them on Podping would be great. @nprofile…zn42

2025-06-07 05:18:26 UTC

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@nprofile…r3p6 @nprofile…6746 @nprofile…h82d @nprofile…zn42 api.podping.org/docs gives anyone a ui to look back at recent podpings.
Put in the rss url (regex) is there but a bit janky.

2025-06-04 13:27:29 UTC

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@nprofile…pvn3 @nprofile…gqx9 I have Alby Hub running but they geo block Israel for using their login.
I have an Alby alternative almost finished but I'm not actively making it work.
It would fix all the broken apps.

2025-06-04 07:44:31 UTC

Wow I just tried to log in to @nprofile…gqx9 for the first time in a while.
I'm blocked from doing that because of the geo block on Israel by Alby.

2025-06-04 07:43:14 UTC

https://open.spotify.com/show/5qbXje6KaVOHwjsHNTELjA
That's BBC Newshour on Spotify.
If I search the index I get this
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/527927
which seems to be a few days behind.

2025-05-22 04:39:42 UTC

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@nprofile…sjnm 😎 Didn't Have To Look That Up.
Ps Why Is My Text In This App Capitalizing!!!!

2025-05-21 20:14:41 UTC

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@nprofile…sjnm You've Been Down To Long In The Midnight Sun.

2025-05-09 05:04:59 UTC

Is it just because I'm in Israel but does iHeart ever have any adverts for anything other than other iHeart podcasts? Minutes of them.

2025-05-08 16:40:24 UTC

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@nprofile…mg8l Feel Free To Fork and Do Whatever You Want! I Have No Idea Why My IPhone Is Capitalizing Everything!

2025-05-08 14:00:14 UTC

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@nprofile…mg8l https://github.com/brianoflondon/podping-tiles
Single plage hosted on Github! Pull me baby!