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		<expansionState>3,5,16,29</expansionState></head><body><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Podcasting 2.0 October 23rd 2026 Episode 276 - &quot;Jackleg Leechers&quot;&lt;/b&gt;"><outline text="The Podcast Index turns six, and in its birthday week Dave pulled every PHP server offline ahead of a critical CVE, patched the API, then rebuilt web-ui on Node and blocked two scrapers on the way. Podnews Weekly Review asks the professor whether Adam's vibe-coded, ad-free, app-free future is real; his answer is ten years out. Plus MCP is everywhere, WordPress duplicates get merged by the identity layer, and Chrome drops XSLT in a month."/><outline text="On the docket: the PHP panic and the API, PNWR's liquid content and the Adam segment (2 clips), MCPs from TrueFans/show.fm/WebMCP, duplicate-feed merging and new podcast IDs, multi-creator publisher feeds, XSLT in Chrome, splits and Boostr_bot."/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;The only board meeting that doesn't need a php patch&lt;/b&gt;"/><outline text="I'm Adam Curry in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country"/><outline text="And in Alabama, the man who will never get enough attaboys for maintaining the podcastindex engine room -- &lt;i&gt;Say hello to my Friend on the other End — Dave Jones!&lt;/i&gt;"/><outline text="Download the mp3" type="link" url="https://op3.dev/e/mp3s.nashownotes.com/PC20-276-2026-10-23-Final.mp3"/><outline text="Podcast Feed" type="link" url="http://mp3s.nashownotes.com/pc20rss.xml"/><outline text="PodcastIndex.org" type="link" url="http://PodcastIndex.org"/><outline text="Preservepodcasting.com" type="link" url="http://Preservepodcasting.com"/><outline text="Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com" type="link" url="http://newpodcastapps.com"/><outline text="&lt;i&gt;Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure&lt;/i&gt;" type="link" url="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=m0z6N1K047lEsGvPDr3KMumKYHlUHRAdwPNY645UB0LR9fGf_OtpVByzHId7TEFYo9nXNS5aF33Zdjn9&amp;fromUL=true&amp;country.x=US&amp;locale.x=en_US"/></outline><outline text="Positioning"><outline text="The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem."/><outline text="We do this by enabling developers to have access to an open, categorized index that will always be available for free, for any use."/><outline text="Try a new podcast app today and see how much better the experience can be." type="link" url="http://newpodcastapps.com/"/></outline><outline text="&lt;b&gt;ShowNotes&lt;/b&gt;"><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"/><outline text="00 - 🚨 THE WEEK THE INDEX WENT DARK ON PURPOSE — PHP, NODE AND THE SCRAPERS"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Tue 20 Oct, steven:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;PHP 9.2 CVE&quot; → php.net archive. Two critical unauthenticated RCEs (Castopod lists CVE-2026-109618 &amp; -109619, PHP below 8.4.27)." type="link" url="https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 21 Oct 12:25 UTC:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Heads up, if Podcast Index api goes down at 9:00 am central time you'll know why.&quot; Then: &quot;&lt;b&gt;I've taken all the php servers offline until details come out.&lt;/b&gt;&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117479258728316180"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;16:07:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Podcast index api servers are patched and serving data again.&quot; &lt;b&gt;19:20:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;After upgrading php-fpm… &lt;b&gt;the fpm default config was in place so the api is running like a dawg.&lt;/b&gt; Restoring the pre-tuned settings now...&quot; &lt;b&gt;20:19:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Fixed.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117480517086273711"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave on the pile-on:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Security people are unbearable… I know you'll be up all night patching PHP servers but there are also 27 CVE's in 5 other parts of your stack that are just as bad... or worse! Sure.&quot; (amended: &quot;security influencers&quot;)" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117480812021901748"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Then Node, 22 Oct:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Working on getting the web-ui repo upgraded because &lt;b&gt;node.js blows worse than php&lt;/b&gt;. This day won't end.&quot; → &quot;Done. Site is now on a current LTS node release and fully patched. &lt;b&gt;Also blocked a large residential proxy scraper and a Chinese scraper bot in the process.&lt;/b&gt;&quot; → &quot;Well, the site is down. I'm not a node guy…&quot; (recovered). Adam: &quot;Thank you Brother. This was a rough day for you.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117484443011611511"/><outline text="web-ui PR #630: Harden outbound fetches to untrusted hosts (Node CVEs)" type="link" url="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/web-ui/pull/630"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Others in the fire:&lt;/b&gt; Internet Archive ops (boosted by Dave) &quot;used Claude to make fixes for our older php versions, used local models to run simulated attacks, deployed.&quot; Castopod 1.15.6 moved Docker to PHP 8.4.27. brianoflondon shut two MediaWiki sites." type="link" url="https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/117481215431503956"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;And Dave's timing joke:&lt;/b&gt; someone shipped a release &quot;on the same day as the global PHP panic? That's like someone choosing to release their indie film on the same day as Ghostbusters.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117480672660153787"/><outline text="🔍 &lt;b&gt;For Dave:&lt;/b&gt; what was in the scraper traffic, and is the API back to its pre-tuned numbers?"/></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"/><outline text="01 - 🎙️ PNWR: THE PROFESSOR, LIQUID CONTENT, AND &quot;SOMEBODY AS SMART AS ADAM CURRY&quot; (2 clips)"><outline text="Podnews Weekly Review, 23 Oct — &quot;Podcasting is liquid content now&quot; (1h36m). Guest: &lt;b&gt;Steven Goldstein&lt;/b&gt;, CEO/founder of Amplify Media and NYU professor." type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20007510-podcasting-is-liquid-content-now"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;The open:&lt;/b&gt; Sam Sethi: &quot;The Podcasting 2.0 and the Podcast Index, the Adam Curry and Dave Jones Project, &lt;b&gt;is now six years old&lt;/b&gt;.&quot; James: &quot;an awful lot of hard work going on with Dave Jones at the moment to make it easier for anybody to keep it updated.&quot;"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Liquid content, per Goldstein:&lt;/b&gt; not his term (Matthew Loran, Google DeepMind), but he brought it to podcasting: &quot;why does content have to be in one place when people are now consuming in multiple places in multiple ways?&quot; His model is the New York Times: print to ~400K, The Daily audio to 2–3M a day."/><outline text="🎧 &lt;b&gt;CLIP 1 — Sam Sethi - Adam Curry Vibe Codes His Own Podcast App, Is That The Future - POD NEWS WEEKLY REVIEW&lt;/b&gt; (0:58)" type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20007510-podcasting-is-liquid-content-now"><outline text="Sethi to Goldstein: Adam &quot;sees personalized apps where he doesn't need a podcast app from a company… in the demo that he gave on Podcasting 2.0 with Dave Jones, he took an episode that did have ads. He got his &lt;b&gt;Muse AI&lt;/b&gt; to strip out the ads, to create clips of the best parts and create a playlist. So he's doing the clip economy without advertising, without apps, all in one. &lt;b&gt;Is that the future?&lt;/b&gt;&quot;"/></outline><outline text="🎧 &lt;b&gt;CLIP 2 — Steven Goldstein - The Robot's Getting Smarter, Ten Years Out - POD NEWS WEEKLY REVIEW&lt;/b&gt; (1:47)" type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20007510-podcasting-is-liquid-content-now"><outline text="Goldstein: &quot;Is that really the future we want? …he's super smart and there needs to be people who are thinking ahead… &lt;b&gt;the consumer does not like friction&lt;/b&gt;… My wife, who is a Yale graduate… does not want to mess around with the settings on that iPhone… &lt;b&gt;I do know that the robot's getting smarter&lt;/b&gt;… I'm not vibe coding… I think it's &lt;b&gt;ten years out&lt;/b&gt;.&quot; Sethi: &quot;I genuinely think it's a decade away… somebody as smart as Adam Curry can do it, but… my wife, who used to run MSN… [isn't] going to want to waste her time doing that.&quot;"/></outline><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Adam's answer is already on the record, 19 Oct:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;While I am indeed not a 'normal' person, &lt;b&gt;I vibe coded this app with one prompt and 19 followups&lt;/b&gt; for bugs or changes.&quot; And: &quot;Sooner than even I expected&quot; — Google Play now supports private vibe-coded apps built for one person." type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@adam/117468254555290308"/><outline text="TechCrunch: Google Play now supports private vibe-coded apps built just for you" type="link" url="https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/google-play-now-supports-private-vibe-coded-apps-built-just-for-you/"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;The &quot;normal person&quot; who already did it (PNWR listener mail, 87:06):&lt;/b&gt; Claire Waite Brown had her husband build her own show-notes/titles/clips platform with AI a year ago, with a spelling dictionary. James: &quot;it relates back to what Adam said… you don't need external platforms to do this.&quot; Then: &quot;Dave was talking about normies, and Adam was getting upset about people talking about normies.&quot;"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Pushback from our side:&lt;/b&gt; ChadF: &quot;I haven't seen a great vibecoded 2.0 app yet and that includes my own stuff b/c they are extremely hard to make.&quot; Dave: &quot;&lt;b&gt;Give the listener control of the entire experience. Let their agents customize the whole experience.&lt;/b&gt;&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117458253586547155"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Adam to aegrumet, 22 Oct:&lt;/b&gt; his Muse app gets new recommendations through the day, &quot;based on lots of parameters, including where I am physically… It has become exciting to see what pops up vs a 'new' indicator in a mailbox.&quot; And 20 Oct: &quot;Why would you want to be in the middle of the dream/build loop?&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@adam/117484567222515844"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Also on PNWR:&lt;/b&gt; Spotify paid podcast memberships (34 markets, 10% cut, bought on the web, not in-app) · Substack tests dynamic ad insertion · Netflix podcasts (&quot;revenues up 12%, that's not failing&quot;) · Castos launches UltraClip · Podgagement's Networking Radar."/></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"/><outline text="02 - 🤖 EVERYBODY HAS AN MCP NOW"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Sam Sethi to Adam and Dave:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;&lt;b&gt;TrueFans MCP connector will be ready by the end of the month.&lt;/b&gt; We already have a test version working internally… Kevin &amp; Kelly prototypes to let users ask questions.&quot; (&quot;This was a boost that never got read or seen. ;-(&quot;)" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi/117452022498456195"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;show.fm&lt;/b&gt; (danmaby): developer docs updated for the new API and &quot;the read-only MCP&quot;." type="link" url="https://show.fm/docs/developers/"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Sam Sethi is testing WebMCP&lt;/b&gt; — Google and Microsoft's proposed standard that lets a web page expose tools directly to a browser AI agent in the same tab." type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi/117490827424243472"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave Hamilton (Business Brain 799, &quot;Agents talking to Agents&quot;):&lt;/b&gt; had Claude build an MCP connector for his company's backend in about 30 minutes; &quot;When your customer's AI agent hits a roadblock… it simply goes somewhere else.&quot;" type="link" url="https://businessbrain.show/fridai-agents-talking-to-agents-business-brain-799/"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;billynewman:&lt;/b&gt; a 220-degree immersive Oregon film cut and rendered by &quot;KINOCUT MCP for ffmpeg&quot;, with a V4V support interface under the theater." type="link" url="https://billynewmanphoto.com/films/oregon/"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;JS:&lt;/b&gt; people are vibe-coding their smart TVs &quot;to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher… disable tracking features.&quot;" type="link" url="https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/"/><outline text="&lt;b&gt;mikek999's topic suggestion:&lt;/b&gt; AI prompt injection (YouTube example)." type="link" url="https://youtu.be/T9LPrGXbyt4"/></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"/></outline></body></opml>