Earth Notes: RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency Sonification 2

Updated 2024-09-02 10:02 GMT.
By Damon Hart-Davis.
Sonification: sounding out the carbon cost of sloppy implementation 12 weeks in... #frugal #greenSoftware #RSS
byHourSummary2
No voiceover: listening to the beat of heavy-handed RSS polling for twelve weeks from to the end of .
147s "12 weeks RSS type 2 GrindingWaves LiverpoolBass" (captions) Uploaded . Downloads:
Transcript:
[By-hour GMT bytes and hits (tom-toms) and status codes of RSS feed download traffic over 12 sample weeks; 4 hours in a 4/4 bar, 6 bars in a day.]
byHourSummary2

Show Notes

All part of trying to understand better RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency...

"Type 2" summary from statsHouse V5.3.4 with tweaked instrument voices from the GarageBand defaults.

A variant with Vintage Arcade in place of percussion/toms.

147s "12 weeks RSS type 2 GrindingWaves VintageArcade" Uploaded . Downloads:

2024-07-28: now with ice mallets

20240728 RSS type 2 IceMallets
192s "20240728 RSS type 2 IceMallets" Uploaded . Downloads:

"Type 2" summary from statsHouse V5.3.4 with alternative instrument voices from GarageBand.

  • Toms for bytes and hits per hour percussion from Heavy drums.
  • Ice Mallets for 200 responses.
  • Delicate Bells for 304s.
  • Liverpool Bass for error responses (406, 429, 503) and skipHours (overnight) hits.

2024-09-02: Chime Swell

20240902 RSS type 2 ChimeSwell
257s "20240902 RSS type 2 ChimeSwell" Uploaded . Downloads:

"Type 2" summary from statsHouse V5.3.4 with alternative instrument voices from GarageBand.

  • Toms for bytes and hits per hour percussion from Liverpool drums.
  • Chime Swell for 200 responses.
  • Delicate Bells for 304s.
  • Liverpool Bass for error responses (406, 429, 503) and skipHours (overnight) hits.
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