Yesterday, I dropped episode 1907 of Toronto Mike'd. It was a rather wild and wonderfully bizarre romp with musician-turned-novelist David Baerwald.
Mere moments after I said goodbye to my guest, I hand-edited my XML file, as I've done for every episode since day one. Here's that block of code.
The full XML file, after yesterday's episode, is 34196 lines long, and that's how it will remain... on my laptop. After 14 years, I've hand-coded my last XML file. It's pretty amazing I made it this long, and I suspect no other podcast with as many episodes can make the same claim.
I'll publish Monday's episode with Kevin Newman following a completely different process that won't require a stitch of code.
Closing this chapter is bittersweet, but everything ends.
