Sup!

Former sysadmin for Podomatic here.

(trivia: Podomatic was hosting podcasts, before iTunes had podcast support).

I have no idea. Presumably, you are not the only audience for such things.

I never bothered to make podcasts myself; I was too busy running infrastructure hosting such things for others.

Moreover, even before I was a sysadmin at Podomatic? I thought real time streaming p2p was more fascinating; and AFAIK? PeerTube (@peertube@framapiaf.org) seems to have implemented that on a level that me and my predecessors only dreamed of being possible circa 2007 or whenever it was that my past employer (not Podomatic, though where I started coworking with Podomatic's founder) was hoping to get from the likes of BitTorrent (Inc. back when they had a realtime streaming p2p implementation they were teasing, yet never released in a way that we could meaningfully utilize).

IMHO, the actual interesting things with software have been and still are, largely found within the demo scene; for many decades now.

Outside of the demo scene? If you get a chance, check out DynamicLand (I visited their previous location in Oakland. I have not yet checked out their iteration in Berkeley, https://dynamicland.org/ has a video which is sort of an overview, yet it is the sort of thing which is ideally experienced in person; not intermediated via the distance of remote networked computing).

Many other things? To me at least: are not particularly interesting, or worse: "reinventing the flat tire" as Alan Kay would phrase it.

There are creative individuals, sometimes we/they coalesce into collaborative projects! Burning Man is happening soonish; though at least personally? I haven't visited that since 2012 and the last interactive grid sequencer/fire art project Syzygryd has been to some other festivals since then, yet I haven't personally so much as seen nor spoken with a lot of those collaborators in years.

Author & Punisher are going on tour soon. Tristan builds his own instruments, and open sources their designs. I don't think anyone has re-created his instruments yet? Though IMHO, A&P are worth checking out live. Here is a recent video which kind of has an overview of Tristan Shone's intentions behind his instrument creations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ0VDkEmGGU (they are, essentially, glorified MIDI controllers I guess, for lack of a better description).

At least from my vantage, the artists have always been those who have done the most interesting things with software (and hardware) and lamentably, we lose sight (or hearing) a lot of that with overwhelming hyper-fixations on those seeking instead to capitalize on software and tech. ;-(