Cancelled Spotify after 14 years and rediscovered my 2005 iPod Classic with Lee "Scratch" Perry tracks streaming never had. Now I'm buying records on Bandcamp with my old subscription money. Music sounds better and I actually own it! // cc @jfgreen.bsky.social www.jimgumbley.com/blog/why-i-l...

Why I Left Spotify in 2025

After fourteen years as a loyal Spotify customer, I finally cancelled my subscription. Here's why the platform's algorithmic direction no longer matches my simple, self-curated listening style.

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Shoutout to the Core Audio devs who decided that AudioToolbox should return the error code 'wht?' when encountering an unspecified error. A perfect blend of whimsy and pragmatism that lives on in MacOS to this day.

Internet Archive lo-fi beats to scan/read Microfiche to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2...

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

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Some of us have rekindled an emotional attachment to the 'Music' directory. (And some of us have a little collection of Python scripts to keep it all tagged and organised just the way we like it.✨)

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Welcome back. Some of us never left. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

ROU Back Once Again With The Big Refactor

I have printed copies of some of my very first attempts at programming circa 2007ish. We have a direct insight into my thought process as I commented _every single_ line of code. On global variables? “This variable needs to be global because it is very important”.

Swapping gym sets with my wife whilst simultaneously alternating responsibility for toddler entertainment is the kind of physical-mental discombobulation that chess boxing athletes must experience.

Relying on half recalled fragments of a compilers class to write a parser for a markdown-like language has been interesting. The good news: I have finally internalised what “context sensitive grammar” means. The less good news: Markup turns out to be really, truly, painfully context sensitive

Wife: “isn’t there an app we can use for meal planning and groceries?” Me: *furtively glances at @htmx.org book.*

Idle thought: it’s drilled into it us that code is read far more than it’s written, but I never see anyone talk about how code is run far more than it’s read. It feels like there’s a blog post there for the taking. Open with that framing and then start talking about things like uv, bun, biome, etc

@iglooghost.bsky.social trawling up those benthic beats Been listening to this one on repeat.

Spawn01 ft Cyst

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Love how Tranceparty just straight up reclaimed this piece of abandoned corporate iconography. Look at this happy little guy, skipping merrily here and there as he shares his sweet trumpeting with the world. Really puts you in the mood to dance.

Delightfully unrepentant behaviour from the British public in the face of being denied footpath access. 1) Golf course erects a misleading sign implying you cant use the public footpath. 2) Sign is drawn over with footpath reference. 3) Sign is repeatedly thrown aside. 4) Golf course relents.

The funny thing about a career spent using only public cloud is you end up not really associating network or compute with pretty blinkenlight or runs of cable. Instead my mental picture of “VM starts up” is more like “featureless cube rises up from murky ether”.

a computer generated image of a maze of cubes on a black background

Alt: Iconic PS2 intro screen, in which a maze of cubes float suspended in a black void.

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Throwback to my first nontrivial Rust project, back when generative was synonymous with a broader range of techniques. Here are the emergent dynamics of 100k boids, made possible using approximate spatial data structures.

Approximate Flocking Demo

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While trying to cycle a single unhealthy virtual machine I clicked “terminate environment” instead of “terminate instance”. In my defence the two buttons were right next to each other.

Honeybadger.io@honeybadger.io · 2y ago

Senior devs: Tell us about that time you took down prod

Another incredible moment for Linux Audio. Just discovered that recording via pipewire on my studio PC is introducing a several millisecond delay between left and right channels. Thank you Linux for making sure all my painstakingly recorded vinyl rips are sounding e-x-t-r-a w-i-d-e.

Also while I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from supporting act Lunng, this particular combo of doom laden modular synth droning and bone shaking bass-amp feedback loops was _heavy_. Had me grinning ear to ear. www.instagram.com/hotsalvation...

Hot Salvation on Instagram: "LUNNG🌀🔒 London Nov 22 2024"

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Incredible final performance by Three Trapped Tigers in Camden last Friday. Sincerely beautiful music. Here they are doing their thing earlier this year at ArcTanGent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWaQ...

Three Trapped Tigers - Reset (Live at ArcTanGent 2024)

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…with BlueSky video compression (triple cooked)

jfgreen@jfgreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Chiptune (crunchy) recorded through ye’olde cassette deck (extra crunchy). #chiptune

Chiptune (crunchy) recorded through ye’olde cassette deck (extra crunchy). #chiptune

Hello Bluesky As an intro post I thought it would be nice to list some of my interests. In no particular order: Audiodev / Systems programming / Rust Music production / Tape machines / Synthesisers / Gameboys / Chiptune / Breakbeats / Jungle / DnB Nature / Maps / Weird footpaths / Cats