Pocket Casts is on Apple TV” 🎉🎉🎉 “Video podcasts finally get a screen worth watching them on. Browse Discover from the big screen when you’re after something new.” This is awesome @pocketcasts.com 👏👏👏

Fireside now sends real-time feed notifications via Podping and WebSub. I think this was the last piece of our podcast standards implementation (podstandards.org). Apps in the Podcast Index ecosystem now get notified instantly. Nice little Thursday ship. Of course I httparty'd the whole time. 🎉

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Ok, reading the public text closely, you can see that Apple is not hosting the HLS video, but relying on the (partner) hosting company to do that. Apple just takes part in the monetization. The hosting company will determine supported video formats/features podcasters.apple.com/support/5593...

This is one of the reasons we convene PfP✨ events: developers get to spend quality time with publishers and dig into real use-cases and domain knowledge. It is a platform for "customer validation"

Just wrote a new post for @podcaststandards.bsky.social members: "We need to play the game on the field: understand what genuinely motivates podcasters and listeners and respond with features they care about. But, we're trying to change the game." podstandards.org/2026/02/13/p...

Playing the game on the field

If we're going to introduce new RSS-based features, they should reflect what podcasters and listeners want. The biggest danger to our project is adopting our own pet-projects instead of building stuff...

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