Notes from the studio
Short, practical posts about feeds, hosting and the choices behind Norsolia. Some are release notes, some are apologies for an outage, some are a single line. RSS.
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- November 2, 2026
Our own show, six years on
Carrier now has three dozen episodes, all generated in code.
2 min read · note
- October 3, 2026
We moved to a new address
Norsolia is on a new domain. Your feeds and this archive came with us.
3 min read · note
- August 19, 2026
A page of known limitations
We wrote down what the host does not do, in one place.
2 min read · note
- May 6, 2026
Upload several drafts at once
Multi-file draft upload in the dashboard.
1 min read · release
- February 11, 2026
A region in Asia-Pacific
Tokyo is open, independent like the rest.
2 min read · regions
- December 15, 2025
Six years, one page of notes
The usual honest review.
2 min read · note
- October 9, 2025
Private feeds are next
A tokenised feed URL for shows that are not ready to be public.
2 min read · note
- July 2, 2025
Forty minutes of 503s
A failed background job wedged a worker. We restarted and added a watchdog.
2 min read · incident
- April 14, 2025
A checklist for moving in
A step-by-step wizard that remembers where you are.
3 min read · release
- January 27, 2025
Download your play counts
A CSV of daily plays for a whole show.
2 min read · release
- November 18, 2024
Five years
Half a decade of a two-person host.
2 min read · note
- July 31, 2024
Still here, still small
A one-line kind of update.
1 min read · note
- April 20, 2024
Chapter markers
Add chapters as a small JSON file; we link them in the feed.
2 min read · release
- February 9, 2024
We are closing the Riga region
Low usage and a provider change. Here is how to move your data.
3 min read · regions
- December 12, 2023
Four years: what we said no to
A review by subtraction.
3 min read · note
- October 5, 2023
Transcripts, eventually
We will link transcripts, not host a speech model.
2 min read · note
- August 21, 2023
A disk filled up overnight
We came close to running out of space. The guardrails held.
3 min read · incident
- June 30, 2023
v0 is closed
As announced a year ago, the v0 API is retired.
2 min read · api
- March 3, 2023
A real status page
Component states from measured values, plus an incident history.
2 min read · release
- January 14, 2023
Why we have not added 2FA yet
It is on the list, and here is the honest hold-up.
3 min read · security
- November 27, 2022
Three years in
The quiet middle of a project's life.
2 min read · note
- September 8, 2022
Feeds were slow for big shows
A show with hundreds of episodes built its feed too slowly. Fixed.
2 min read · incident
- July 11, 2022
v0 of the API is going away
The pre-v1 endpoints retire next summer. Here is the plan.
2 min read · api
- May 19, 2022
Notes from a podcasting meetup
A few things we overheard that we did not already know.
3 min read · note