A few years ago I started building a thing called Backcast. The idea was simple: I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I wanted a way to back them up. I got as far as parsing OPML exports, writing some unit tests, setting up PHPCS, and documenting the whole thing on this blog. Then life happened, I lost the thread, and it sat untouched.
The itch never went away, though. I kept finding myself thinking, “I know someone said something about this on a podcast, but which one? Which episode? When?” Podcasts are full of ideas and I had no way to get back to them.
So I started over. Different project, different approach, same underlying frustration.
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