Andrew Grumet

wherever.audio pairs it with listener stats so you can assess the value you're getting
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2026-05-16 21:54:36 GMT

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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

2026-05-16 04:03:42 GMT

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crehhhhdit
https://media.tenor.com/kcIwkVR6mUsAAAAM/give-me-give-it-to-me-now.gif
🤣

2026-04-26 19:39:39 GMT

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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

2026-04-18 23:51:59 GMT

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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).

2026-04-18 21:55:07 GMT

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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!)

2026-04-09 22:20:53 GMT

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just rebase and try again 🤣

2026-03-29 01:15:03 GMT

@npub1rcn…dw4h @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

2026-03-26 03:19:23 GMT

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

2026-03-26 03:17:38 GMT

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get thee to opus 4.6

2026-03-04 04:26:27 GMT

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

2026-01-25 18:40:30 GMT

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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.

2025-11-14 21:40:59 GMT

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

2025-11-13 05:07:08 GMT

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

2025-11-13 05:04:23 GMT

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

2025-11-13 04:59:25 GMT

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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.

2025-11-09 04:03:24 GMT

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

2025-11-08 18:29:02 GMT

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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.

2025-09-07 04:06:53 GMT

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

2025-09-06 21:08:45 GMT

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

2025-09-06 21:07:41 GMT

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It Worked! Nicely done!

2025-09-06 20:30:01 GMT

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

2025-09-06 20:26:02 GMT

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

2025-08-22 18:23:33 GMT

NPR is listening
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2025-04-28 04:42:52 GMT

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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.

2025-04-27 19:47:46 GMT

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https://lookup.wherever.audio/pidb
Shouldn't we have more like 4m vs 800k?

2025-04-27 19:44:22 GMT

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Hmm the # of podcasts looks low

2025-04-27 19:42:02 GMT

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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.

2025-04-26 18:13:21 GMT

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did the feed lose its cors headers at some point?
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2025-04-11 21:32:08 GMT

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lovely wine country and not too far from Kangaroo Island!

2025-03-05 21:53:42 GMT

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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

2025-03-05 20:47:40 GMT

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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.

2025-03-05 20:20:44 GMT

@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...

2025-02-16 14:52:24 GMT

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

2025-02-01 08:38:14 GMT

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

2025-01-28 16:38:00 GMT

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

2024-08-26 03:45:55 GMT

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

2024-08-16 18:40:22 GMT

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...

2024-08-10 15:20:35 GMT

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I see that you did not throw away your shot

2024-08-01 04:42:03 GMT

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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?

2024-08-01 00:27:42 GMT

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

2024-07-30 23:16:41 GMT

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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.

2024-07-08 04:04:50 GMT

Umbilical, explained
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2024-07-07 16:55:23 GMT

Streamlined wherever's settings page a bit. Now you only have to enter an Umbilical url and key once. 🤙
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2024-07-04 05:24:30 GMT

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thanks and @npub1fkf…84sp give me a shout if you have any questions.

2024-07-01 03:16:15 GMT

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have you all seen anything keysend-ish in Cashu? Shooting from the hip it looks like it should be doable to generate a stream of ecash tokens from a podcast player, but the where to send them?

2024-06-30 22:06:47 GMT

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Anyway that's the summary of what I learned from trying out Greenlight. Definitely cool to be able to play with this stuff w/o having to run full bc and cln nodes.

2024-06-30 22:04:25 GMT

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In the end it looks like the greenlight node operator still needs to manage liquidity, and if you're going to create per-user nodes -- even with a bunch of whizzy automation that hides the underlying complexity -- this is a nonstarter for LSPs.
@npub1rcn…dw4h & @npub1fmx…wp74 talk about this on PI #184 and Roy from Breez was really the one to enlighten us all on the LSP view of things.

2024-06-30 21:58:48 GMT

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The python wrapper is pretty capable. I was able to create bech32 addresses, send payments to them from coinbase, open a channel with outbound liquidity to the PI node, and send some small payments to my alby wallet. I was also able to close the channel with PI, and withdraw remaining funds back to coinbase.
Docs were minimal but the community has a discord and telegram group which were helpful.

2024-06-30 21:57:07 GMT

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You hold all the secrets and can therefore reconstitute the node at any time. But it does not have a stable IP address, so you can't point other parties to it.
There are python & rust samples which just wrap cln's GRPC interface (https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/blob/master/cln-grpc/proto/node.proto). I experimented with python.

2024-06-30 21:53:09 GMT

Quick wrap up of my Greenlight experience for anyone interested. They make it pretty easy to spin up a core lightning node running on their infra, and interact with it via API. No need to wait for the full blockchain to sync, it just springs to life and is up to date or very close.
The node is ephemeral, appearing just-in-time when you want to interact with it and stays alive as long as you're using it, then goes off line to keep the infra costs low.

2024-06-15 16:31:56 GMT

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no need for struggle...my bone is connected to the rest of the network via a single channel ✂️! I understand that I'm general you want to be well connected, but from first principles if I am connected to a well-connected peer and there is sufficient liquidity in the channel, shouldn't it work?

2024-06-15 06:01:34 GMT

Managed to make a few small payments from GL to GetAlby via the PC20 channel! And I can see the resulting shift in the balance of funds across the channel. In theory I should be able to now make small payments in the other direction but haven't been able to get that to work. Not sure why.
This is awesome learning. I'm getting to appreciate firsthand the reality of channel balancing, fees, and whatnot.
Still haven't figured out how to connect GL to an LSP. May or may not dig around in that.
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2024-06-13 15:11:10 GMT

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ITM!

2024-06-13 14:43:49 GMT

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fyi I can see the confirmed tx on block explorer, and PI's amboss page shows a channel 9h old. So I think we have an open channel! I tried generating an invoice in breez and paying from the GL node, but hitting a WIRE_UNKNOWN_NEXT_PEER error. Adventure continues...

2024-06-13 06:36:29 GMT

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got a success response after setting announce to true in the fund channel request, and by making the channel big enough that 1% of the channel met the minimum reserve. Think we're still waiting for the channel to commit.

2024-06-13 04:18:50 GMT

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logs from GL node below. Note I've truncated the addresses to fit in masto limits...
DEBUG 03ae9f91...-openingd-chan#4: billboard: Funding channel start: offered, now waiting for accept_channel
DEBUG 03ae9f91...-openingd-chan#4: peer_in WIRE_ERROR
DEBUG 03ae9f91a...-openingd-chan#4: aborted opening negotiation: They sent error channel fa3d1f6bb2fec848ae1ea3712a8418ec12c30ab2471a953d2e71e9ee966186e4: funding failed due to internal error

2024-06-13 04:05:14 GMT

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yup, I can call listfunds and see the onchain sats

2024-06-13 03:04:26 GMT

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is totally possible I'm doing something wrong...running with ✂️.
Yeah the quick-spin-up thing is interesting. Still wrapping my head around how payment channels work.

2024-06-13 02:14:05 GMT

For those following along on my adventures with Greenlight, this note from a recent post in the Greenlight Discord chat explains why I can't find the host/port for inbound connections ...
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2024-06-09 19:20:38 GMT

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don't know but it'd be cool to see an invoice work, just for the learning.
Voltage docs: "In order to use the Voltage LSP, be sure you have SCID aliases and zero-conf enabled in your node"
Greenlight docs: don't seem to have an answer for how to enable SCID aliases and zero-conf 🤷

2024-06-09 17:32:47 GMT

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oh that's interesting. Ok I need to read up a bit on LSPs.

2024-06-09 05:25:07 GMT

Has anyone messed with Greenlight? I managed to create a node and an invoice using their python samples, but attempts to pay the invoice from breez fail with no route, and fail silently from getalby's web ui.
Digging further, the node doesn't appear to have any peers. I think this fits in the category of stuff that greenlight aims to abstract away from the developer. Any ideas for an LN n00b?