Nostr notes by Andrew Grumet

listen to lowdown

2026-10-24T06:01:14Z

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listen to lowdown

they were so good live

2026-10-24T06:00:11Z

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they were so good live

@npub1thg…zq23 @npub13cg…ck4q spicy takes aside, Jake was in ...

2026-10-24T05:32:18Z

Sam Sethi :pc2red: ⁂ (npub1thg…zq23) James Cridland (npub13cg…ck4q) spicy takes aside, Jake was in a pretty rad Boston band in the 90s. My friends and I used to go to out to see them play https://www.google.com/search?q=two+ton+shoe&oq=two+ton+shoe&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMggICRAAGBYYHjIICAoQABgWGB4yCAgLEAAYFhgeMggIDBAAGBYYHjIICA0QABgWGB4yCggOEAAYChgWGB7SAQg2Mjk2ajBqOagCDrACAQ&client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:09f457f9,vid:vO8LZy_RSK8,st:0

maybe this is an option? ...

2026-10-24T01:05:22Z

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maybe this is an option? https://www.cloudflare.com/en-in/developer-platform/products/cloudflare-images/

I think what your app shows, beyond the magic of agent-driven ...

2026-10-23T23:04:27Z

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I think what your app shows, beyond the magic of agent-driven timing and discoverr (themselves huge), is untethering the user experience from the traditional subscription model. You can still express affinities that way, and set aside real estate for a fixed set of shows, but it's no longer fundamental to the experience. Episodes served up hot and fluffy like pancakes on Sunday morning!

love this. And since it's your muse, you can send telemetry, ...

2026-10-22T05:31:29Z

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love this. And since it's your muse, you can send telemetry, tune the content, probably swap stuff out multiple times a day via voice prompt. Neat!

Here's another one for all you feed parsing aficionados out ...

2026-10-22T02:29:28Z

Here's another one for all you feed parsing aficionados out there. >3k items, >20MB. https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6abacdd76ffb28f8d6775e00

we live in amazing times.

2026-10-21T01:23:31Z

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we live in amazing times.

then again a lot of this episode is about distribution and I ...

2026-10-20T07:09:55Z

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then again a lot of this episode is about distribution and I think you're talking about the opposite.

And in a totally unplanned move, @npub13cg…ck4q gets a shout ...

2026-10-20T06:57:18Z

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And in a totally unplanned move, James Cridland (npub13cg…ck4q) gets a shout out about five seconds after the end of that clip.

very cool! The Verge today is talking about this too ...

2026-10-20T06:46:40Z

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very cool! The Verge today is talking about this too https://whrv.cc/fvmh7h5y

that's fair though I'd venture that Google and Apple are ...

2026-10-12T15:28:58Z

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that's fair though I'd venture that Google and Apple are fundamentally different with respect to ads. Hence chrome is much more aggressive with respect to blocking the blockers. I don't see the current moment as a policy so much as a lack of one. But we'll see. It seems like every week there's a new ad free podcast app.

and regarding "change the terms", I think this is a ...

2026-10-12T00:14:35Z

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and regarding "change the terms", I think this is a classic case where the tech is ahead of the policy, and that the latter will eventually catch up.

I was thinking more about off device interference like muse, but ...

2026-10-12T00:13:11Z

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I was thinking more about off device interference like muse, but yeah even for on device it could be enforced tthrough the app store review process. Again nothing to stop you from vibing your own thing up, I just expect that most people won't. Or if the tech becomes so good that you don't even realize you're vibing it up, that the platform driving it will have the same terms built in.

I still think you're underestimating the pressure that will ...

2026-10-11T21:21:04Z

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I still think you're underestimating the pressure that will fall on platforms to create and enforce TOS that forbids this stuff. Average people _might_ vibe up their own apps, but I suspect that they won't self-host the LLMs.

Setting this aside, I agree with most of the rest of the observations on discovery and overall robot utility.

Linux, almost-viable for desktop since 1996 🤣

2026-10-10T16:25:50Z

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Linux, almost-viable for desktop since 1996 🤣

transcript + cheap flash-tier models will get you above 0.9 ...

2026-10-09T06:41:16Z

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transcript + cheap flash-tier models will get you above 0.9 word-level F1 on spoken ad reads, which is pretty good. You don't need to look at the waveform.

It's also probably safe to expect enshittification to set in, ...

2026-10-03T19:56:54Z

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It's also probably safe to expect enshittification to set in, eg "I saw that Adam sent you a clip from Better Offline. Would you like to subscribe in Spotify?"

fantastic. I'd expect there eventually to be some pressure on ...

2026-10-03T19:55:35Z

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fantastic. I'd expect there eventually to be some pressure on the harness-runners (eg fb) to implement acceptable use policies. We may just be in a transition moment. But I also wonder if regular people (ie not us) will even bother to do extra work to skip ads. I want to say that James Cridland (npub13cg…ck4q) has reported on people not even bothering to hit the skip button.

Guaranteed AdLoad.

2026-10-01T03:33:27Z

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Guaranteed AdLoad.

https://docs.wherever.audio/developers.html#logo

2026-09-26T05:22:28Z

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https://docs.wherever.audio/developers.html#logo

@npub1thg…zq23 @npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1fmx…wp74 right there ...

2026-09-26T04:16:04Z

Sam Sethi :pc2red: ⁂ (npub1thg…zq23) Dave (npub1rcn…dw4h) Adam Curry :pci: :pc2blue: (npub1fmx…wp74) right there with you brothers. The siren song of "just wrap the webview" leads only to misery. It bites even harder if you store state on the client. I'm walking the same path, one review cycle at a time 😉

https://whrv.cc/a7m55rem

Happy Birthday Sam!!!

2026-09-19T03:35:54Z

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Happy Birthday Sam!!!

@npub1fmx…wp74 just booked flights to AMS for a trip in a few ...

2026-09-18T16:09:11Z

Adam Curry :pci: :pc2blue: (npub1fmx…wp74) just booked flights to AMS for a trip in a few months, and realized that the last time I was there was pre-podcasting. What a long strange trip it's been!

, it's funny, even as I happily embrace these new tools at ...

2026-09-13T17:01:43Z

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, it's funny, even as I happily embrace these new tools at work and for personal projects, I find myself missing hand-coding. Lately I've taken to working Advent of Code problems, ai-less. I still use Google to look things up but everything else is typed on line at a time. Maybe hand-coding will become like sewing or knitting.

since I don't think I saw this mentioned, I treat a ...

2026-08-30T18:16:04Z

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since I don't think I saw this mentioned, I treat a feed's atom:link rel="self" tag as a strong signal. This is especially useful in a pwa javascript where you don't have direct access to redirect status codes and header values.

I hope they brought back the fail whale too!

2026-08-27T19:22:48Z

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I hope they brought back the fail whale too!

wherever.audio pairs it with listener stats so you can assess the ...

2026-08-15T21:06:44Z

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wherever.audio pairs it with listener stats so you can assess the value you're getting

alt show title: Keep It In Yer Sandbox!

2026-07-25T16:12:56Z

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alt show title: Keep It In Yer Sandbox!

for me it's not so much the wonder (though that's there) ...

2026-06-15T00:40:49Z

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for me it's not so much the wonder (though that's there) as the joy of creation that fills my cup. But undeniably we've lost things in the process, and we'll grieve them to some extent.

@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1fmx…wp74 here to stand with the joyous ...

2026-06-13T07:21:42Z

Dave (npub1rcn…dw4h) Adam Curry :pci: :pc2blue: (npub1fmx…wp74) here to stand with the joyous camp. My experience is much closer to Adam's. Sure there's some mindless Yes-ing but it's a very low proportion of the interaction. What's maybe different is I can look at the output and point out bad abstractions, memory leaks, races or whatever.

I've said this before and it's still a great metaphor: working with these tools is like Earth bending. 😊

https://wherever.audio/listen?rssUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmp3s.nashownotes.com%2Fpc20rss.xml&itemGuid=PC20-263&feedGuid=917393e3-1b1e-5cef-ace4-edaa54e1f810&fallbackLink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.podpage.com%2Fpodcasting-20%2Fchatisdead%2F&t=1662.5&e=1723.5

back from a multi-week side quest. Just pushed out a revamp to ...

2026-05-16T21:54:36Z

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back from a multi-week side quest. Just pushed out a revamp to the transcript page that supports reading, search, and restores speaker identification. Web v0.66.3

https://wherever.audio/listen?rssUrl=https%3A%2F%2Frss.buzzsprout.com%2F1538779.rss&itemGuid=Buzzsprout-19180299&feedGuid=396d9ae0-da7e-5557-b894-b606231fa3ea&fallbackLink=https%3A%2F%2Fop3.dev%2Fe%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F1538779%2Fepisodes%2F19180299-amazon-music-adds-video-and-the-secrets-of-a-succesful-indie-podcast.mp3

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2026-05-16T04:03:42Z

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crehhhhdit

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sent me down a slight rabbit hole. I remember reading the Minsky ...

2026-04-26T19:39:39Z

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sent me down a slight rabbit hole. I remember reading the Minsky and Papert perceptrons book in college, and the McCulloch & Pitts paper. Crazy to thinks that ANNs were invented in the 1940s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

also great, so auto-scroll that follows playback is actually not ...

2026-04-18T23:51:59Z

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also great, so auto-scroll that follows playback is actually not useful for this case. This anticipates pure reading/flicking interface (which wherever doesn't support...yet).

this doesn't answer your q, but am kind of curious... Do ...

2026-04-18T21:55:07Z

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this doesn't answer your q, but am kind of curious...

Do folks get much value from the transcript feature? Or if you're a podcast app maker, do your users value it, and tell you?

Clearly an accessibility win, but beyond that it's a fully audio medium for me. I don't *look* at my app, I lock the screen and shove it in my pocket.

I remember coding this into wherever and thinking: "Neat, the words highlight and scroll! But I'll never use it."

Thoughts?

(yes video, but beyond that!)

just rebase and try again 🤣

2026-04-09T22:20:53Z

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just rebase and try again 🤣

@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1fmx…wp74 re: "vague anxiety", I ...

2026-03-29T01:15:03Z

Dave (npub1rcn…dw4h) Adam Curry :pci: :pc2blue: (npub1fmx…wp74) re: "vague anxiety", I think the fast feedback cycles have always been there, it's just that fast has gotten a whole lot faster.

I've definitely had to recalibrate and rework my relationship with the daily act of coding. It's turned into something more like, I don't know, terraforming.

Like Dave said, we seem to be in the middle of something that hasn't settled yet.

https://wherever.audio/listen?rssUrl=https:%2F%2Fmp3s.nashownotes.com%2Fpc20rss.xml&itemGuid=PC20-255&feedGuid=917393e3-1b1e-5cef-ace4-edaa54e1f810&fallbackLink=https:%2F%2Fwww.podpage.com%2Fpodcasting-20%2Fsnark-week%2F&t=1075&e=1197.4

opus 4.6 and gpt 5.4 have been a noticeable step up from ...

2026-03-26T03:19:23Z

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opus 4.6 and gpt 5.4 have been a noticeable step up from previous.

get thee to opus 4.6

2026-03-26T03:17:38Z

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get thee to opus 4.6

just don't show it to us ok? We don't want to see your ...

2026-03-04T04:26:27Z

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just don't show it to us ok? We don't want to see your micropod.

For the interested, this is very straightforward to build with ...

2026-01-25T18:40:30Z

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For the interested, this is very straightforward to build with current tech: download the content, transcribe it, and ask an LLM to find the ads. No need for fancy audio fingerprinting or heuristics, no knowledge of who is speaking. It's a solved problem.

We're entering the "find out" phase of how things are gonna shake out in podcasting.

You're gonna spend what now Scott? ...

2025-11-14T21:40:59Z

You're gonna spend what now Scott?

https://wherever.audio/listen?rssUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.megaphone.fm%2Fpivot&itemGuid=3c7f8eca-d380-11ef-a0de-17cfaf9162b7&feedGuid=0e37c030-9f9c-5c34-8a12-7f9342000052&fallbackLink=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%2Fpdst.fm%2Fe%2Fpscrb.fm%2Frss%2Fp%2Ftraffic.megaphone.fm%2FVMP7892205026.mp3%3Fupdated%3D1763086400&t=3453&e=3469

yeah I'm sure this has less to do with engineering talent and ...

2025-11-13T05:07:08Z

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yeah I'm sure this has less to do with engineering talent and more to do with incentives or politics

this I guess ...

2025-11-13T05:04:23Z

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this I guess https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/

not sure where this is coming from but fwiw the folks I worked ...

2025-11-13T04:59:25Z

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not sure where this is coming from but fwiw the folks I worked with on a day to day basis during my 9 years there were excellent particularly at fundamentals, ie stuff that is not as well represented in the general dev population. I've seen both and there's a big difference. That said, big company incentives tend to obscure that.

as a friend of mine once said, "life is way more fun, with ...

2025-11-09T04:03:24Z

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as a friend of mine once said, "life is way more fun, with other people."

I love hearing about your experience with vibe coding. This is ...

2025-11-08T18:29:02Z

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I love hearing about your experience with vibe coding. This is the killer app for people with product vision plus systems understanding, but maybe not the pain tolerance to deal with indentation, semicolons, and curly braces 🙂

Honestly I think "vibe coding" is a disservice as a name. I see it more as a natural language to code compiler.

ah ok interesting, I'll have to check that out.

2025-09-07T04:06:53Z

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ah ok interesting, I'll have to check that out.

they also have a separate paid feed. Still wanna sort that one ...

2025-09-06T21:08:45Z

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they also have a separate paid feed. Still wanna sort that one out in the namespace.

It Worked! Nicely done!

2025-09-06T21:07:41Z

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It Worked! Nicely done!

Nice to hear the shoutout to TF & sats in one of my regular ...

2025-09-06T20:30:01Z

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Nice to hear the shoutout to TF & sats in one of my regular listens! This, even with the sarcastic humor 🤣

Grumpy Old Geeks (not Bens) on signing up for value tag payments ...

2025-09-06T20:26:02Z

Grumpy Old Geeks (not Bens) on signing up for value tag payments Sam Sethi :pc2red: ⁂ (npub1thg…zq23)
https://wherever.audio/listen?rssUrl=https%3A%2F%2Frss.art19.com%2Fgrumpy-old-geeks-podcast&itemGuid=gid%3A%2F%2Fart19-episode-locator%2FV0%2FM3GSoIZ8poWgWPYKL9tcdBbBQhsVLgCE0zSc4pPgzUg&fallbackLink=https%3A%2F%2Fgog.show%2F712&t=223&e=281

NPR is listening ...

2025-08-22T18:23:33Z

NPR is listening

that's consistent with what I'm seeing. If anyone's ...

2025-04-28T04:42:52Z

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that's consistent with what I'm seeing. If anyone's got a copy of a recent full export -- last week's or a fix for this week, I could use it.

https://lookup.wherever.audio/pidb Shouldn't we have more ...

2025-04-27T19:47:46Z

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https://lookup.wherever.audio/pidb

Shouldn't we have more like 4m vs 800k?

Hmm the # of podcasts looks low

2025-04-27T19:44:22Z

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Hmm the # of podcasts looks low

interesting. Fwiw my scripts found a new etag and new urls vs the ...

2025-04-27T19:42:02Z

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interesting. Fwiw my scripts found a new etag and new urls vs the prior week . It ran about 12 hours ago.

did the feed lose its cors headers at some point? ...

2025-04-26T18:13:21Z

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did the feed lose its cors headers at some point?

lovely wine country and not too far from Kangaroo Island!

2025-04-11T21:32:08Z

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lovely wine country and not too far from Kangaroo Island!

gotcha. Hope it resolves before much longer. FYI just created a ...

2025-03-05T21:53:42Z

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gotcha. Hope it resolves before much longer.

FYI just created a bug for the parser bug. Your feed is now famous to a new group of devs 🎉

https://github.com/mmcdole/gofeed/issues/236

confirmed that gofeed is bombing out on uris like ...

2025-03-05T20:47:40Z

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confirmed that gofeed is bombing out on uris like `at://did:plc:pzznkrzajsaqev3ffamg3jnr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkhwqun7l2b`. It's treating these URIs as URLs, and complaining about not being able to parse the port number 🤦‍♂️ Looks like a parser bug to me at this point.

Looks like your bandwidth issues are with episode downloads and not feed downloads though, so maybe this is unrelated.

@npub13cg…ck4q did you figure out the bandwidth thing? I just ...

2025-03-05T20:20:44Z

James Cridland (npub13cg…ck4q) did you figure out the bandwidth thing? I just noticed one of my parsers fail on podnews.net/rss. Seems it doesn't like the decentralized bsky identifier in socialInteract. Digging a bit more...

NY times daily, over 2k episodes ...

2025-02-16T14:52:24Z

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NY times daily, over 2k episodes https://feeds.simplecast.com/54nAGcIl

if you want more Zitron he does a podcast on iHeart called Better ...

2025-02-01T08:38:14Z

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if you want more Zitron he does a podcast on iHeart called Better Offline

still need a hand with that devops thing? I cmhave some cycles.

2025-01-28T16:38:00Z

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still need a hand with that devops thing? I cmhave some cycles.

maybe it was a "charrette", which seems to be coming into ...

2024-08-26T03:45:55Z

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maybe it was a "charrette", which seems to be coming into fashion and generalizing...

Hey all, a quick personal note -- I'm looking for a new gig. ...

2024-08-16T18:40:22Z

Hey all, a quick personal note -- I'm looking for a new gig.

I'm talking with friends in startups and big tech, but not limiting myself to those options.

I've actually been here a couple of times before, and it's not unusual for wonderful things to happen when I have no plan. It was during my first stint in freelancing, for example, that podcasting was born :-)

continued...

I see that you did not throw away your shot

2024-08-10T15:20:35Z

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I see that you did not throw away your shot

thanks for the heads up, I should probably add some notes to the ...

2024-08-01T04:42:03Z

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thanks for the heads up, I should probably add some notes to the README.md on how best to handle that.

Any reason not to disallow in robots.txt?

that Hmm... at 7 minutes has me on the edge of my seat.

2024-08-01T00:27:42Z

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that Hmm... at 7 minutes has me on the edge of my seat.

the fun part is you don't even need fancy algos for this. ...

2024-07-30T23:16:41Z

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the fun part is you don't even need fancy algos for this. Just opt-in sharing of skip times and mining-style rewards for the early bird skippers.