My experience attempting to debug a freaking podcast feed reminds me of how far we as an industry need to go with regards to developer experience.
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I then go to their documentation about submitting podcasts and error states, and promptly wished I hadn’t. Their actual suggestion with regards to debugging feeds is to pass them through a 3rd party validator and pray, because they have no first party way to validate.
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(They do, of course; something needed to crawl my feed and try to download episodes. But because it is entirely opaque they hope that other software is broken in exactly the same way theirs is. Sadly, this is not the case.)
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