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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(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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I spent 2 hours getting increasingly pedantic about XML validation and resubmitting my feed, roadblocked by their official acceptance process taking a nondeterministic amount of time estimated at 24 hours to complete.
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And so my software is still broken, my users are still annoyed, I have sharply diminished trust in Apple as a platform to do even trivial things on top of, and now I’m tweeting about XML over Christmas vacation because I sure left Java to do that more.
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