📝After RateYourMusic banned my IP without any explanation, finding out is a common practice of them and being unable to browse their website with a VPN (in 2022!) I started looking for a replacement. Read more...
📝This year I focused on listening to albums that were on my collection and I hadn’t played. I didn’t listen to a lot of music released in 2021, but I did overplay Black Country, New Road's debut. Read more...
📝From cassette tapes, to MP3, to vinyl and back to digital. My experiences listening to music on Windows, Linux and mobile. And how I keep track of tracks and discover new music. Read more...
📝I recently explained why it was hard for me to criticize Spotify, and even though I am no longer a paying user of the service, my playlists, which I’ve built and posted over the last 2-3 years are still hosted by Spotify. Read more...
📝It’s that time of the year again. People are sharing their top music charts from Spotify. It’s become a tradition to screenshot the results and share them everywhere. What I wasn’t expecting this year was to see a #boycottspotify happening at the same time. Read more...
📝Two months ago I started implementing IndieWeb principles on my website. I use started because it has been a long process of tinkering with different tools and learning to use technologies I never expected to be using. Read more...
📝There was a time when I thought of The Beatles as the greatest Rock band ever. Rubber Soul basically redefined music for me, but these days unless it’s Sgt. Pepper’s… or Magical Mystery Tour that’s being discussed I find it hard to get too excited about them. Read more...
📝For the past month I have put more hours into this website than I ever have. I didn’t make huge changes in the design, there’s isn’t much to do anyways as my colorblindness and a pinch of paranoia have led me to settle with black and white as the “trusted colors.” So I’ll stick with it. I did, however, made sustancial changes on how the website (me) interacts with the interwebs, but this is not a post about the my website setup, who needs another one of those? Read more...
📝Does anyone know how much trash is Tumblr actually putting alongside people's content? It can't be just the ads making everything on the platform so slow load. Read more...
📝Trendy minimalism is dying off and it's never been as irrelevant as right now but here's yet another post about it. Read more...