Episode 268: Dead Hanging Safari

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Podcasting 2.0 August 21st 2026 Episode 268 - "Dead Hanging Safari" It's always DNS or CORS - and how your right brain is gating bad robots Show Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 - THE LOCATION TAG — SPEC TO DATASET TO GLOBE IN 48 HOURS <b>The lead, and it's yours:</b> Wednesday afternoon Dave posted — "There is a new <b>locations</b> data set on the public datasets page... The db tables are still back-filling since I updated the db and aggregators to support the <b>new &lt;podcast:location&gt; tag format</b>. After a couple of days it should be mostly complete." He cc'd <b>@james, @alberto, @js</b> and then @DavidMarzalC. That cc list is the whole story — within 48 hours all four had done something with it. @dave — the locations dataset post (20 Aug) <b>The shipping trail:</b> web-ui <b>PR #608</b>, "add locations export to public data sets," branch <code>public_datasets</code> &rarr; merged to master the same afternoon. This is the first public dataset built on the new location tag format rather than the old one. <b>Then somebody built the map.</b> By Friday