Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal. Support.last.fm Seit zwei Jahrzehnten schreibe ich dieses Blogweiterlesen

A few months ago I was asked _why_ I publish the source code to this website for all to see and honestly up until that point I hadn't really put that much thought into it. I _had_ been inspired by seeing Xe Iaso linking the most recent git commit in each pages footer to do so myself and _that_ required having a public repository; but none of my previous website repositories are public so why this…

I started integrating music data into my personal website when I added Last.fm artist and album displays to my now page. Initially, I tried sourcing artist images from a few different services, knowing that Last.fm had updated their API to stop serving them. After a fair bit of searching I found that most services that supplied artist images covered only a small fraction of my library and often…

My roundabout journey of musical discovery on the internet.

For a while now I've had a line on my homepage displaying the track I'm currently listening to via Last.fm. In the interest of taking things entirely too far I've expanded what it does a fair bit.

As part of my commitment to writing about things I've written in other frameworks in Eleventy, this is how I re-engineered my /now page in Eleventy.