I submitted my application for the LinkedIn REACH Backend Apprenticeship and wrote three essays, so I didn’t have time to code. Fortunately, I finished everything, sent it off, and now I’m back to coding.

Originally, ProxyFeed was built specifically for podcast feeds, and even now, when adding new code, I still come across traces of that mindset. But my approach has changed: I now add Podcasting 2.0 tags to any feed, not just podcasts. Still, I’ve kept the relevant flag in the database — just in case.

I also changed the logic for adding the <podcast:funding> tag. Now a user can add only one, whether it’s a podcast or not. Technically, it was possible to add unlimited funding tags — but what for? No one’s going to see them anyway. Most podcast players show only one, and I assume the same applies to RSS readers. Now, once the tag is added, the feed is immediately re-fetched so the tag shows up in the proxy right away. Also, I hadn’t implemented tag deletion before — now it’s done.