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every time they published 1, I'd be like, I've heard this. This is I've listened to the 11 year backlog I mean, 11 years of backlog rid catalog, and now they only have

and it just becomes easier For all of us Mhmm. To publish and to make changes and to make updates,

as soon as you let people vote or create or do anything, guests, the old good content, especially now that the rid The And, like, I don't I don't do so much that I would be rid locked into it, like, long term for that type of stuff. Like, I could always just parse that that type of stuff out. Yeah. So if we wanted to, like, embed stuff,

wouldn't it be cool if we use Git LFS, which is rid Large file storage. I've never used that myself, but I was like, I wanna put the m p threes

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like, good podcasts you like rid Start just re republishing it. It makes sense because, like, a lot of people have joined since then, but, like, if you know if you have transcripts, the transcripts knows of YouTube, TikTok.

on GitHub and,

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like, This American Life rid Did that. I finally just unsubscribed because they would just

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I think about, like, how did this get made as a

show, then it would just automatically do a build and push it Yeah. To our podcast host with any any specific updates. I think within with all of this stuff, like, kind of what we're getting at too in the process, the the stuff that everyone else doesn't see is that the process,

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just to resurface them, and sometimes people what they do with podcasts

because for

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reactions to certain certain aspects of the site. And and now that you now that we we say that, now I'm going back rid Oh, maybe it is a good idea to tie log in to a GitHub account because rid FFmpeg would be in syntax? Specificity.

on it and just really make sure. Like, we're not the 1st people to ever move a an RSS feed. And the nice thing about it is that we very glad I did this is when we set up the podcast,

system into ways like that or, again, like with tagging, anytime you end up having to have that human intervention there, then the systems will just rot. I think another

initially, but then you're locked in for life. Yeah. I know. I think about I think about Everyone with a at Comcast

You know? Like, they were not locked into it. It's like using an email address from your ISP. Rid That's a it seems good

rid Static HTML because I think the most of the way a lot of people consume the show notes are via the podcast player, and you're you're not dropping a a Rack component into your

to YouTube is way more.

rid How does Apple or like you said, how do they handle that? I think you can you can make sure

Podcast themselves is still

Rid Time stamps. We just added clickable time stamps, which is great. Our editor, Chris, I think having transcripts

that exists. So

like RSS.libsyn.com.

Being able to access the stuff

it's just them sitting in front of their laptops. It's not interesting at all, But the the added context of how their hands are are waving, and sometimes they can share their screen and,

from the fundamentals episodes, all of the fundamentals episodes we did really, you know, easily and quickly because it's not like We need to rerecord those episodes a lot of the alternatives. I think, like, our podcast is, like, 30 or $40 a month or something like that to host. So We don't need a lot of the features that the other ones are giving you. The other rid. Are gonna give you a website. They're gonna give you those platforms. Ads.

Maybe not the thing to to bet all of your horses on. Oh, yeah. I so I use Yeah. I I have never used Git LFS myself either, but The single source of truth thing, I think, is something that needs to happen definitely.

MDX on my blog, because that's what I do. Everyone says, what was the episode you talked about x, y, and z on? And what I do is I just go to Google. I type in what I think we talked about, And then I I do site colon syntax.fm,

but also meaningful ways that we can present this Data, this massive collection of audio files that has

aspects of it. Like, what are these watch TV with the captions on. I do. BlueJeans on Gen Z, and I do. Yeah. Yeah. We always have it on, Especially because

move it, and then all of a sudden people get Every podcast downloaded in their player because of the RSS feed. And I even thought about, like and it's not that complicated. Like, I look you look at the RSS feed and you're like, I I could generate this on my own, but it's really the stats that the stats and the, maybe we have to train

So, like, having a bare bones setup, but at the same, I don't wanna make Chris cry. I don't. No. But I I do feel bad about what is the situation I think either of us wanna spend the time to do each time. Right? Let's let's go in there and manually tag each episode. Granted, we we could do that, but it does feel like the type of thing we could, for browser and Node. Js, and this is what the SvelteKit site's using. In in my experience,

the servicing good content, we have our analytics through. Libsyn is where we host the podcast.

show notes? Show notes.

compared to a lot of the,

So rid Everywhere the RSS feed is is not like, CDN caching and stuff like that that rid. Is is the benefit of the podcast platform. Yep. And and so if that RSS feed, like, majorly changes for past episodes, that you're interested in, and it will show you podcasts that are related to that. And that rid Something based on all the existing. You might have to get the syntax army out, coming down, down, down as well. I'm curious what the OpenAI Whisperer is. Rid Yeah. There there's gotta be, like, open source,

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pretty niche at the end of the day in terms of the amount of people listening to podcasts. Now granted, a ton of people do listen to podcasts, rid. But the amount of people who listen

I put the RSS feed on the syntax domain.

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I think that would be helpful, but that you gotta you gotta think, like, at the end of the day, publishes the markdown to the Git repo, but then He has to, like, convert the markdown to HTML and then copy paste that into Libsyn. And then if there's an error, we have to go to 2 spots and correct it. Right? And then and if they're,

that it doesn't before you do it. Like, you could just You could just have it set up on both and run a diff Yes. Shout out to you could

Right? Like, I don't wanna didn't really exist

rid That's the easy thing to do. So I just banged it out and added it. So there's that.

Yeah. Yeah. You're right. And we don't need that stuff. Right? Yeah.

They exist for longer.

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you know, my brain immediately goes to, like, rid. Gooey I think about that all the time. Like, when I'm using an app and I I come across either, like, a really nice filtering or a really nice search, I'm I'm either and

transcripts or clips or bookmarks or something rid into the actual show notes to make it, like, an immersive experience.

They are

trending or our, you know, we work on video platforms. We work on players. I've built a lot of player type of interfaces myself. I know you have as well. So, Like, what types of fun things could we do? You know, it's funny. Initially, my thoughts initially went straight to, like, what kind of fun, playful, a lot of good educational content that I think, you know, 500, 600 episodes where do we have to that some some way about it, Let you know that's how it is. Yeah.

it has to be the stats from Spotify are, like, not being piped into our stats. And, like, I've been on

you know,

those 2 things, right, to where the website has

Oh, right. Yeah. That is a big issue right there. Yeah. And you don't the last thing you want to do is to split fun

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If we move it and something gets messed up with our

in which cast, and then maybe we leave the hasty treats and the the the supper club because I don't wanna burden our guests To have to be look presentable all the time, and maybe we do eventually. But I I because I've seen I think the big thing with video is that you can then get clips

on so many support chats with them, and it's just a garbage product overall. They, like, made Libsyn 5. Like, they just made a whole new version, but, like, it just It feels like there's, like, a lot better options out there. The the one thing is, like, I reverse engineered the Otter dotai Hey, I'm on food mother's view. Put put it up on the screen right now. Yeah. Let's get it. Oh, that would be good. I I think, like, I watch and listen to the, rid show the waveforms of who's talking and then color code them. Rid I've always liked the SoundCloud any OAuth stuff like that because be able to pass that into whatever is transcribing rid The show would be really cool. And then also, like, I even went as far as, like, as the syntax me, because you parse it, and it will tell you where the gaps are, and you can give it, like,

inside of that thing. I'm not totally sure. Yeah. I'm not totally sure either. MDX does Feel like a great tech, but at the end of the day, it does it there's something in me that, like, makes me feel like it's it just that that sense of ways that this experience could be and then execute on it. Mhmm. Because most

email address. Yeah. I think some sort of collections

to log in with my email and a password for any given site. Yeah. Because that just kind of, like,

rid. When the index is the the value done any research into beyond just looking at the, sometimes felt like maybe something that we couldn't do Yeah. Or or wouldn't be a smart idea for us to do. But I think, you know, you know, that goes along

research into what they were doing. And there is, like, a sincerely, we talked about making the podcast, and it was, like, almost like Overnight, you had the logo and the website, and you're just like, here it is. And I was just, like, shocked at how how fast you put this together initially. Yeah. Because we just, like, often since the inception of of syntax have been like, is there going to be

You handle the login given, you know, freedom to do in any way. Would you just have what is the relevance of those words rid to maybe the whole of the rest of the episode. So whether or not this is, like, using AI or whether or not this is just using, you know, deduction

So I don't know. Something something would be interesting there rid to to log what people are listening to and to for people to be able to track it. Like, this is what I do with my own course platform. So you could you could certainly

Just a big old listing, but, hey, you know, everything that has added to it has been useful. Totally. I would I would love to get that, like, potluck

and

User features.

Even initially, it was just like,

it's you can't find it. Yeah. I've I've been thinking a lot about search. You know, the rid. SvelteKit docs have really great search,

rid But

converting web components to React? You know? Like, that'd be so nice to be able to surface that stuff a lot easier. Yeah. I totally agree. Yeah. And that even gets into, like, things like filtering within your search too. Right? Like, are you searching by what? And, you know, am I am I Filtering, am I trying to find a specific guest, a specific time line, a specific topic? Give me all of the shows Mhmm. On React From the last year. You know? And and type of show as well, like a a hasty, a tastier, a guest,

even breaking it up a little bit further, which is not just searching Yeah. I I've looked at it. So Automatic speak recognition. Yeah. So is that rid Kind of what you're hearing while you're reading it. Yeah. My daughter always wants them on too. She every time we're watching a show or a movie, she puts them on, and she she's, rid Like, grade 2. I she's just learning to read, but she she likes having on. So maybe we need that Yeah. Part of the design as well. Yeah. Rid. I don't know if you've you've dove into Whisper at all the the OpenAI.

do something similar to that.

we we added the links to, you know, learning about sponsorship and those types of things.

to define rather than just text based search. Right? Like, if you you spell 1 word wrong, of Gen Zs before that. There was not, Like a good implementation of I want to listen to podcasts about

login or some local probably login would be good because Local storage, you would lose that, but it would be nice to

Yeah. I I know. I do I personally I always go to, you know, Pocket Cast myself, but, yeah, I it is this is definitely a thing, and it could be like you said, it could be an app. In in that way, people could just have everything that they would possibly want there. And if we're talking login,

still up there, but Spotify is is definitely taking over the the podcast scene. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. The potluck question

the GitHub page. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be that'd be cool to to dip into because I I also think that it could be taken a step further, and topics. Like, there's there's many

log which ones you have listened to and which ones you haven't because then you can go like, essentially, like, Ideally, the new website could be an app. Yeah. People do listen to the podcast Oh, yeah. On the website. Bit. Yeah. Yeah.

rid Somehow parse the show notes into still the same Next. Js application that it was many, many moons ago.

a really good search would be nice for people

login, like, in your ideal circumstance, what how would you have login? Because that's a it's a big rid Question. Yeah. I probably wouldn't do

you know, I think about this all the time. How how would you

email based? Would you have MagicLink based? Would you have rid. GitHub rid. Could be tuned up to a way where we have a single source of truth for everything,

I did some Whimsical UI things could we do to this? I had a fun idea of, like, having a CD player

locks it away, but that's also because I use 1 password. If I didn't use 1 password, I probably wouldn't feel that way. I'd probably be annoyed that I had to enter a password for this website. I like the the magic link, getting it going.

And I think that would probably be worth revisiting once we do this type of thing. But I think

that would have been used In that one, I can usually find it and and send the person the link. But,

This is actually somebody made a syntax, 5 years ago, rid going to be moving off of Lipson anyway? Do you think so? Well, Chris, our Chris, our editor, is just just cries because it's so painful to use, and rid It's off and, like, the Lipson I was just thinking, like, we just use straight markdown right now. Is there any is there anything That would benefit from using MDX rid off of Google forms. Whenever you get a Google form, you're like, a Google form is like a failure of or or our editor, Chris, does. He takes our, like, chicken scratch that we write down It makes it into show notes and time stamps and everything like that. And then he Rid. Overcast is definitely on the parsed into

rid pieces of data that are associated with it. Right? And if someone wants to say, like, I'm looking for a sick pick that was the egg thing. You know? Then they could they could just do a quick search or, like, Who was talking about

links,

it's really good. So I'm wondering if, like, that's the type of thing that's the type of route we go where it does kinda feel like that same type of Algolia experience, but you're not, it's really good. And is that It is next generation full text search

using, like, a, like, a open source. It looked like Algolia, but it was like its its own thing. Yeah. Here here's this one. It's flex search.

figures out what's going wrong with your application. So you you put Sentry into your rid Front end, you can put it in your back end. They support literally every language out there. And, also, like, every framework, almost, they have an integration. They have an integration for Remix. The other day, I was rid Building a Remix website. And I was like, oh, I wonder if there's a Remix rid You can index things. For some reason, I thought it was just, like, only static. And there's contextual Spotify. Like, I gave Spotify a lot of crap for their podcast, but their search is so good. You just search for a specific topic

rid. We built it in, like, a couple days, adds time stamps into the show notes, and they're clickable in your podcast player, but They were never clickable in in the show notes. So I love how you say we when it's something that you get. But it I was just like, oh, yeah. That's

come on out to to a a bar here in Hamilton. It was super fun to meet everybody. Yeah. A lot of Lot of amazing people showed up. It was a great time. Yeah. It's super super good. Especially for, like you said, short notice, the weather wasn't great either. So, yeah, shout out to everybody who came out. Yeah. That was Super fun. And then it's also your birthday today, so happy birthday. Hey. Yeah. Turning 37,

on a Tuesday night, And we had, like, 15 people,

Scott has some business to do here in in Toronto. Scott and I have some business to do here in Toronto. And, player where people comment at specific times.

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put my brain a lot on, like, Even podcast networks and other companies that are doing this well. I'm like, what are those things? But at the end of the day, I think there's I think we're uniquely positioned to be able to both Think about what are these idealistic where we both probably had this on our brains for a bit, and now we get to dump all of that out. Yeah.

like, somebody contributed scrubbing On the player a while back, which is really nice, someone contributed, like when you you hover over top of episode.

Check it out. Use coupon code tasty treat for 2 months for free.

Rid. So, a new one, like, once a year. Interaction would be kind of cool. I'm not sure what that looks like, but polls or something like that. I I like the idea you said of hearts

providing supplementary info and and searchability and transcripts all that. So we're we're gonna kinda go through the different amazing company that,

Rid We're in person. We should do something that's kinda interesting here. So we thought, let's talk about

No. Because everybody's using another service or something. Right? Yeah. But I I thought about,

Rid alright. So let's get into the first thing, which is the home page design. It's kinda funny that rid

rid the number of podcasts has grown to almost rid. 600 now, and that is we we don't have any pagination or anything like that. It's simply just a long scrolling list of rid Podcast, which is okay because there is, like, a position sticky, and it's kinda nice that you can just search the whole page without without min and max. So So if we were talking and we stopped talking for 10 seconds, you could just run it through FFmpeg, and it would

Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats rid. There today. We've got a very fun one for you because Scott is literally sitting across the desk from me right now. Hi, Scott. Hey. What's going on?

Hans, so we're this is gonna be a true kind of rid. Brainstorming session in that sort of way,

And that has pros and cons, but when you move away from that big old list, you're going to lose the command f ability or things like That's you're gonna have to replace those experiences with better ones, not worse ones, which too oftentimes I think,

rid. We just banged banged it up, and, like, we're like, let's go. You know? Like, we had a couple recorded, and and it kinda needed to go out. And, obviously, we've we've added features and and fixed stuff over the years, but, rid it's primarily

and, rid It's kind of annoying. Like, there's not a single source of truth for this type of thing. So I'm trying to think, like, Rid Search would be really cool.

May make the show better in terms of, like, you could store a list of, rid I guess this is work from the browser as well because you can play an m p 3 from the browser and then close the browser, then you're,

we thought, rid Like, why don't you come over for a day? And, well, last night, we had a little syntax meetup, which was really cool. We had, like, a day's notice rid maybe putting the m p threes in Git directly.

specific implementation rather than just a a React one or just a JavaScript one, and they do. They make it easy for all that type of stuff. So you're gonna wanna throw this into your application and I find and, that's fine because I know exactly, like, the words Interesting problem is how do you surface along with username and password. And I get annoyed when you log in and it has to email you a code rid Because, like, it takes

at century.io.

And it it served us pretty well. And rid It's kinda cool because it's open source. So we've had people

areas of the website that we'd like to improve and just talk about, like, what would be Wicked as a, Vite have really good search. What do I wonder if they use the same thing, flex rid Search. No. They're using Algolia. Okay. There was another one that was contribute, If you look at the stats, people do find rid All ready to go. I love having it up on GitHub because people submit pull requests all the time with clarifications or spelling mistakes or adding links or anything like that. Yeah. Totally. Alright. Well, what about, like, the player itself? You know, you mentioned, with this person. Like, I want to listen to podcasts where Rich Harris has been on, or I want to listen to podcasts about, rid this specific tech. And now you can do that type of thing. So I think we could go a step further and say, like, okay. Well, here, like, we've done all the fundamentals episodes. We have a lot of really popular episodes. We've done a lot of, like, game show episodes. So wouldn't it be cool to be able to somehow surface rid. Those so that someone says, alright. I'm gonna go back and listen to all the fundamentals episodes at once. I think that's a pretty simple thing to fix. Yeah. Yeah. Totally.

those experiences with worse ones. When you do command f and some Native find experience comes up, and it's not nearly as good as Yeah. Just giving you the quick, yeah, the quick find or anything like that. So as long as we we can make that happen. And And I I do wanna say, Wes, that you said that this thing just, like, popped up. And,

Especially websites that do do that type of thing can replace in the studio video type of deal. We can share screen. We can do those types of things and teach while we're Yeah. Doing the podcast, rid

rid Probably paginate those. I don't know if infinite scrolling would make a whole lot of sense, but, I think a lot of the the stuff we'll talk about in just a sec, which is, like, Surfacing good older content will probably solve those as well. Yeah. And I think that will be part of the challenge. Right? Because we do just have a giant list of nearly 600 episodes,

normal podcasters are gonna be like, oh, I'd rid. Love to have this. And if the service they're subscribing to doesn't support it, they're pooched. They don't they don't have that opportunity. So I think we we're uniquely positioned, and rid. This is actually really fun to give people some insight. Wes and I have not talked a ton about this before,

our hopes and dreams and brainstorming rid Like, I don't know, maybe a year and a half ago, Via API. That's a good question. I don't know.

the syntax home page was

and the m p 3 keeps playing. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot there. You You know who has really great searches

audio into text has gotten Chrome extension, which will log which ones you have listened to. So it would be nice to have some sort of Open no. That's from OpenAI. It's from OpenAI. Yeah. Open source company.

transcribing But, like, there's there's probably something else that could be added to it. Like, rid There's probably some interesting ways that you can overlay doing anything. But it would be nice to

The time stamp Rid if it Flip flop. Yeah. Flip flop. Yeah. Flip flop on Twitter, things like that. What about

I think that there we could just automate all of that and just have it

rid and it it worked pretty good. And I think since then,

and, like, very on brand for us to have a CD player and a CD spinning. And a lot of these Zoomers will be like, what is that?

or, like, some sort of, like, special, like a live one. Because sometimes people are like, okay. Well, I've got position or or yeah. I feel, like, very concerned about that for some time. Why I haven't moved it is, like, I don't wanna mess up a good thing.

you know, potentially being able to integrate

rid gaps in talking. And and remember there was, like, a tool that you used Yeah. That would, like, remove the gaps? Yeah. I'm pretty sure that was just a UI for a new syntax website rid the good content?

you know, they're they're rid Very bare bones, but sometimes you you do come across something that is thinking about it in a much more interesting way. And I think we have again, But with everything else here, I think we have a unique opportunity

I got 15 minutes right now. I wanna listen to a syntax. What could I listen to? Yeah. Give me every every episode that's under 20 minutes long. That'd be really cool. Or you could, like oh, maybe, like, even,

I don't know if you do this, but I'm I'm always taking screenshots of apps on my phone when I'm using them. Like, oh, this is so good. Let me take a screenshot. Like, I'm gonna look at it later or something.

and then it it saves it almost instantly, or you can export it to Any of my video editing apps had baked in forever, but the fact that it is just an that that that makes a that makes a lot of sense to me personally.

between the transcripts and later on, I'm gonna talk about, like, deploying, I don't know. Like, it takes a second to email it, and then you gotta wait for your like, I use Missive on the desktop, and it only refreshes every,

or at least great filtering? They don't have great search. A great filtering is Singing sloppy joes or or any of that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And another thing is,

detect the silence and remove it. Yeah. Yeah. And and shout out to recut out there because it is a really great experience to use that thing, You know, you're not with the service. The, docs from

like, an app per se, like, if we wrap it in something, then

you can, like, elevate it. There's something there. I'm curious. Like, what does that

to do some really fascinating things here, and both of us do have a lot of experience here considering podcast about movies? And that that's what they've been doing is All of their old episodes, they've just been releasing, like, 1 a week now as a matinee episode. It's like, okay. But I've already heard this. I don't want it to show up on my my feet again.

Rid It's like and they just end up in my my photos. I never ever look at them again. Next one we have here is transcripts. So this is actually something I took a stab at,

Rid Yeah. Yeah. So we'll kinda figure out what I think

a next level experience. Yeah. Yeah. Like, it's it's easy just to, like, Dump it on there and be like, there. I did it. You know? There's your transcript. Yeah. But, like, I think, like, you could you just throw it on that screen. Like, you have a little stream deck or whatever. It would be nice. Hey. Hey. Hey, Chris. Throw that up on the screen right now. Those are podcast I think. Throw that up. Do do a quick search of monkeys can write CSS.

rid Way even better than that. It's to a point where it's just, like, super good. So

Because what you can do, you just drop in your video. It detects the gaps. You click on the ones you want it to remove, but some sort of, like, Audience input would be neat. Reactions, and we can do it all with emoji. You know, everybody loves emojis, so it's not like we have to get wacky with that. But there's a lot of, like, fun ideas for,

Peloton has really great filtering.

You know, it's definitely been a fault of the website for a long time. So something we're looking to to quickly correct in the new site and have it be not just existing because, you know, the easiest thing would just be to have Transcript's existing, but I think we wanna have it be

it it reinforces

I don't know why they have open in their name.

We,

API because they didn't rid have an API available to you. And if we were gonna do this type of thing, it would have to be automated. So I'd like I basically just reverse engineered their API for the browser based UI, and and be able to automatically push that to our podcast host. And then if there is an update to a specific FFmpeg will automatically detect,

audio player was playing, I was, like, highlighting Good looking and on on YouTube. Totally. And it's just it's like a whole another audience of like, a playlist. Like, you could add things to your playlist if you're signed in. Rid because I'm thinking, like, if we have, a bit easier. That's why people do that type of thing. We've already kinda talked about that. This is this is interesting one that I have is rid Right now, what happens is we write the show notes in Markdown, The show notes, Lipson is very cheap 10 seconds or so. So you gotta sit there and wait, and it's, like, some it's half a minute to log in where it's, like Context switching. Yeah. I just wanna know. Quick. Folks like us, we've we've already moved on to something else. Yeah.

things in it as well. Yeah. You know what I learned the other day? You know FFmpeg?

And I think I think AI is probably that. I don't know how that works, but I'm assuming you could feed React based, There's there's some interesting stuff here. So where does the data get stored

Maybe the video component is the tasty treat episodes.

Is there is a video is going to be involved in rid. I think we resisted it for a long time, mostly because we wake up on Monday morning, and we,

rid clip from the player? Like like, what if someone were to say, oh, man, these 2 sentences Scott said about Svelte is really, rid Informative. So you could just, like, click and drag and then send that link to somebody, and it would highlight it in the transcript. Or maybe you could even, Like, make a video with it. Right? We thought what's the, But I don't use

rid. A podcast about coding

you can see where where they're scrubbing to. Being able to share a specific Andy on TikTok. I'll I'll find it. He showed that I'm I'm assuming we can get it. I'm I'm assuming we can get it too. We're we're likely

something about taking a big dump Yeah. Or

feels like the thing that needs to happen considering, one, we both do a ton of video work outside of syntax,

it definitely has to be automatic. Look. If there's anything I've learned from people's WordPress blogs is nobody takes any time to manage 600 of you to each take an episode and tag each 1 or something like that. But, at At a certain point, I think we could make that automatic. I think there I think you could do it automatic to What does that cost? I'd like, the price of this stuff has just come it's such a pain to get into. And, like, I I don't know. I every time I log in with GitHub, I like it for, like, my hosting provider. But every time I I do it with other ones, I'm like, we should really be rid Log in with I know that it's locked down, and they only get my email. I don't know. Maybe the listener would would would tell us. What do you think? Should it be logged in to GitHub? I don't know. Yeah. I I'm I'm I have a lot of thoughts about that as well. Like, me, personally, given the opportunity, I always choose

rid. Very TikTok to be able to just, like, press the the heart button at certain spots or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Like, hit the hit the heart button at a specific time. You could see where Where people are or or even, like, YouTube where people are scrubbing to a specific spot, in the transcript as we were going through and because because you can match up the transcripts, have, Like, I don't know, from 6 seconds to 8 seconds. You know? So it'd be kinda cool to show that type of thing. I saw something the other day that says, like, rid 68%

video player that Remotion. Right? You could you could literally give the person a because every now and then, somebody at a specific time stamp in the player,

pretty pretty significantly with filtering and searches is tagging of episodes. Right? Because that's not necessarily something

with code to say,

are straight video shows. It's almost like rid. What what what's happened is we've taken the podcast format, and it's evolved into, like, a talk show type of deal almost. Yeah. So it really feels like that's rid a direction we need to lean into,

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integrating video into have transcripts. Right? And then let's take those transcripts Final Cut, Resolve. Some yep. Yeah. I I mean, that is one of those things that I wished and search.

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a big degree even without training in that kind of way, but I think that I think it would be a fun problem to solve. I I think that's the the key to a lot of this stuff

And it was, like, 58% looking at each other and whatnot, It really helps. I think that they do a very good job at that. But also from audience perspective, rid a stand alone podcast website. Because, like, I I don't know. Have you ever seen, like, a really good podcast website? I I don't I don't think I have. I've been thinking about this. As a single podcast,

out of rid The podcast. Because right now, like, we can't make a TikTok out of it because there's not like, we we actually do record the video, for every single one, but we don't we don't do anything with it.

And then we start recording, so I think video Feeling

We both have a lot of experience there, but, also, you know, I think it it adds a different degree of,

we we pull ourselves into the office,

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But if it if we could, like, purp repurpose that or or cut it into clips or something like that, that would be really nice to be able to share it because people have something to look at. And then someone messaged me the other day. They said, I just wanna see what you're talking about on your screen. And I was like, oh, like Yeah. Like, I can have a monitor, and, like, whenever I wanna throw something up,

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is that every single one of these things feels like a fun problem to solve, And it makes me want to start working on it already. Right? You know what? We also need, once we have transcript, is a word cloud. Yes. Remember word cloud? Classic word cloud. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What do you think our top word

will say, oh, good point on The Syntax podcast, and they will link. They'll make they'll share, like, a little video, and it has has what we're saying over top of it and all that stuff. And just like, wow. That's that would be cool to give power to other people. Yeah. Right? What if somebody wants to clip 1 of us saying,

rid Who's talking when. So the player could

and parse out

tagging or or anything like that. So it would be really rid Cool to have it automatic.

This episode should be tagged with React, right, automatically. Yeah. I think Open source AI, not open source. Rid It'd be fun if that's what it was. Yeah. I I don't know. I've thought about this a lot too.

Community or sense of

Looking for certain words, like which words are used the most frequently, easier for somebody to just put on and and watch, and I think you you could end up having a much larger audience simply by having a video component that is Premiere, realness to the whole thing, you see a lot of podcasts now

Yeah. I I was also thinking So, like, wouldn't it be cool to add some sort of Commenting system where people could tag it or, like, emphasize specific times, like reactions to specific things. Yeah. That'd be, like, very, over the player, it will tell you, like, where you're scrubbing to, like, 6 minutes and 80 seconds. Which buttons are you talking about? The, like, the Spotify button. Oh, that was me. You added that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because those weren't there originally. They were. Or rid I mean, some of them aren't. No. The the since Spotify was not a thing when we started, which is kinda interesting, that's why it's at the end of the and, like, I'm looking at it now. Like, rid Does anybody use Stitcher anymore? You know? And, like, we can tell from our stats that not a lot of people use Itunes anymore to listen to podcasts.