Cynical Developer

Another sprint where nothing shipped? Must be Agile's fault. Definitely not the seven stakeholders or the "quick pivot" that blew up the backlog or the standup that somehow lasted all day. cynical.dev

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@pocketcasts @spotifypodcasts No that's everything, maybe you could help Spotify get their act together as well 🤣

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts it's no trouble at all! Please let us know if you have any other questions!

Well the new episodes are flowing, they have made it into all the podcast players that I can see, apart from two of the biggest @spotifypodcasts and @pocketcasts I'm not sure why, does anyone know why?

@pocketcasts @spotifypodcasts Okay thanks for the responses and looking into this so quickly 😎

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts And if you're seeing the incorrect artwork in the mobile app, that cache will automatically refresh on its own. If you wanted to trigger that manually, though, you can navigate to Profile > Settings > Appearance and tap on 'Refresh All Podcast Artwork".

@pocketcasts @spotifypodcasts Evening, looks like the cover art still hasn't refreshed 🤦‍♂️ any help with that would be great. The episodes all look to be showing, we'll know tomorrow if it's keeping up to date with them 😎

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts Sure! Please let us know if you notice anything is amiss, we're always happy to help!

@pocketcasts @spotifypodcasts Okay great, I'll give it some time and check the app again tomorrow, I'll give you a shout if the artwork hasn't updated by then either

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts I'm seeing the show as the first search result when I check the web / desktop app. Typically the search results are updated quicker from there than in the mobile apps. So it's likely just a matter of time before it shows up in results from there. :)

@dracan @spotifypodcasts @pocketcasts Pocketcasts made a manual refresh and now the episodes are showing 😎 who knows why they were there and then weren't, the new content didn't ever show up in my pocketcasts feed. But it's there now

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts @pocketcasts It seems odd that they were there a couple of days ago, and then suddenly disappeared. Are you sure the feed hasn't changed at all since then? Maybe there's an issue parsing something in one of the episode's data? I'm interested in hearing what it is when they find it 😂

@pocketcasts @spotifypodcasts Awesome, thanks for the help @pocketcasts, I had to unfollow and refollow at the direct RSS feed URL, the podcast isn't in the search results, but I assume that probably a caching issue and it will sort itself out when a reindex happens, Oh and the artwork hasn't updated?

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts I triggered a manual refresh of the podcast from our end and you should see the latest episodes for it in the app now. :) pca.st/w8FN

@dracan @spotifypodcasts @pocketcasts Even giving the pocket cast app the direct feed it doesn't say there are any new episodes, so I'm assuming even with a direct URL it uses that to look it up in the pocketcasts system rather than just blindly using the feed, which makes sense

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts @pocketcasts Oh actually! They're not there now! When I replied to your message the other day - they were definitely showing in @pocketcasts then... x.com/dracan/status/…

@dracan @spotifypodcasts @pocketcasts @pocketcasts are looking into it for me 😎 I remember having issues with getting it on there back when I first started, and with the show being on hiatus for a long while it's probably become disabled in their system. OR I've screwed something up with my feed 🤣

@pocketcasts @spotifypodcasts That would be fantastic, thank you. The feed is here: cynicaldeveloper.com/feed/podcast

@CynicalDevs @spotifypodcasts We could take a look from our end! Do you have a link to the podcast's RSS feed so we can investigate?

@dracan Yeah same feed, but all the platforms seem to be taking their time in seeing there's been new episodes.

@CynicalDevs Nice. Same feed?

The Cynical Developer Podcast is back! I stepped away from my Podcast for a while. Like a lot of people, the pandemic took more out of me than I expected, and side projects were the first thing to go. Over the last year or so, I’ve felt ready to return. Let’s get back to it!

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Turns out, all those hours geeking out with tech stuff weren't just for developing apps & fixing bugs. I channelled my inner Shakespeare. Results in a tech poetry book! 🤪 "The Definition of Done and other tall tales" I'm officially a published author! 😅 jamesstuddart.co.uk/definition_of_…

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Turns out, all those hours geeking out with tech stuff weren't just for developing apps & fixing bugs. I channelled my inner Shakespeare. Results in a tech poetry book! 🤪"The Definition of Done and other tall tales" I'm officially a published author! jamesstuddart.co.uk/definition_of_…

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