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I recently started self-hosting the episodes for the Beyond Blocks podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Instead of hosting the episodes on a third party service, the MP3 files are hosted on my server and played using the HTML5 audio element.<\/p>\n\n

The first step was to add the files to my website codebase and deploy them to the server. This was the smallest deployable iteration of this project.<\/p>\n\n

The second iteration was to change the player on the episode page.<\/p>\n\n

This is still a work-in-progress as I need to finish building the podcast feed to submit to iTunes, Spotify, etc.<\/p>\n\n

Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n

I didn't need to wait to finish this before I could change the player, and I didn't need to do that before uploading the MP3 files.<\/p>\n\n

Each was its own deployable step, and this is how I like to approach tasks.<\/p>\n\n

I like to break things down as much as possible to find the smallest piece of task that can be committed and deployed.<\/p>\n\n

Deploying features iteratively is less risky that deploying everything at once.<\/p>\n\n

You're deploying changes in smaller parts, making it less likely for something to go wrong, and easier to identify and resolve any issues.<\/p>\n\n

And, if you need to roll back or revert a change, you can affect only the part you need instead of everything.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

I recently started self-hosting the episodes for the Beyond Blocks podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Instead of hosting the episodes on a third party service, the MP3 files are hosted on my server and played using the HTML5 audio element.<\/p>\n\n

The first step was to add the files to my website codebase and deploy them to the server. This was the smallest deployable iteration of this project.<\/p>\n\n

The second iteration was to change the player on the episode page.<\/p>\n\n

This is still a work-in-progress as I need to finish building the podcast feed to submit to iTunes, Spotify, etc.<\/p>\n\n

Here's the thing<\/h2>\n\n

I didn't need to wait to finish this before I could change the player, and I didn't need to do that before uploading the MP3 files.<\/p>\n\n

Each was its own deployable step, and this is how I like to approach tasks.<\/p>\n\n

I like to break things down as much as possible to find the smallest piece of task that can be committed and deployed.<\/p>\n\n

Deploying features iteratively is less risky that deploying everything at once.<\/p>\n\n

You're deploying changes in smaller parts, making it less likely for something to go wrong, and easier to identify and resolve any issues.<\/p>\n\n

And, if you need to roll back or revert a change, you can affect only the part you need instead of everything.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-05-11T09:00:03+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "bd5f1ef86b1ea8d5f9af419bd836ded3", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }