013 — Maintenance Modes

All Play w/ Ryan Hefner

Trying to keep the spirits high in this otherwise kind of low week, littered with some Summer sickness and a lot of client work. As much as I had hoped to work some more on Transmits, I ended up getting wrapped up in a lot of client work, along with some maintenance work to clean up some spillage from last weeks publishing of the Transmits Podcast.

With that said, here’s what I was able to get done/am working on:

• Fixed an issue on allplay.fm where Transmits episodes were showing up on the site*. I ended up updating the site to consume the RSS feed, instead of the Transistor API, since I was running into rate limiting issues. Now the site builds faster, and I am not getting the episode flow-over.
• I am currently working on mitigating some issues affecting LinkCards, to see if I can get the service back up and running, since an application denial attack has pretty much rendered it useless. Assuming this work, expect some shiny new `og:image`’s across all my projects popping out soon! (And, hopefully get images rendering again for pkgstats.com)

Assuming things are looking good on those fronts, I have some immediate quick updates I am planning to work on for Transmits over the weekend, and some updates coming to that podcast (and this!) soon.

Take care!

*It turns out I was passing the show id, except I was sending it camel cased (`showId`), instead of snake cased (`show_id`). Whoops!

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