Episode 269: Verbal Pollution

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Podcasting 2.0 August 28th 2026 Episode 269 - "Verbal Pollution" Shownotes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 - DATABASE SURGERY WEEK — AND THE THIRD EMERGENCY OF THE MONTH <b>The lead, and it's Dave's:</b> Saturday 22 Aug — "#api I'm in the middle of a <b>big refactor with the Podcast Index database schema</b>. If I do my job right, nobody will notice it. But, the side effect will be an overall <b>huge increase in the consistency of the data</b> (duplicates, url change lag, etc)." @dave — the big schema refactor (22 Aug) <b>Wednesday night:</b> "<b>Podcast Index database surgery will begin in the morning.</b>" Thursday: "Step 1. Expect a brief api outage. It should last just a few minutes." — then "Done" — then "#api <b>Adding a very large table index...</b>" — and finally, Thursday evening: "<b>Finished. Butt is intact.</b>" (6 favourites. The board's favourite status update of the month.) <b>What Adam should ask:</b> what actually changed under the hood, what does "consistency" buy an app developer in practice, and is there anything a host or an app should do differ