People agree that after many years of irrelevancy Rock is kind of having a revival. Most bands leading it are prominently using non-guitar strings, which is the formula coined by Lou Reed and John Cale. Eno was right, Rock will perpetually owe to The Velvet Underground & Nico.

#NowPlaying: Mother Whale Eyeless by Brian Eno.

I’m trying out Trilium Notes for the last few days and gotta say it’s the closest thing to Notion I’ve seen, but it’s also Free software, which is amazing. The learning curve is somewhat off-putting and that keeps it from being a real and exciting alternative, but if I manage to get used I’ll probably stay.

Bridgy Fed wasn’t the solution for me, trying to set up its regular webmention endpoint has not been easy with Mastodon. Looking for solutions…

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...