Music on fournm

Music Stuff

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I keep finding a lot of stuff right as it gets posted that matches up with my music tastes! It’s been pretty great, always happy to find more bands to follow while I wait for the new Voxtrot album. Okay, so, I know not all of these are sleepers or anything, but this is just a sample of what all I’ve been running across lately. I’m not including the stuff that I just included on the links post a week or two ago.

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Links! Again for 2026

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One more time with feeling!

sleep

https://www.fastcompany.com/3057465/why-six-hours-of-sleep-is-as-bad-as-none-at-all

I do not like the implications of this even if I probably don’t disagree with them as much as I would like.

silliness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsFM1C78HIg

This is hilarious. A math teacher looking at what courses in Mario Kart DS could be done in a normal car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as8s6QQcjp0

Escalator logistics!

electricity and engineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

Fantastic Technology Connections video about renewable energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl3zHuih_CY

A friend of mine digging into a plasma toroid generator she made!

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2025 - Year in Review, Music

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I mostly had scrobbling working again this year! Mostly. It wasn’t perfect (like me actually remembering to upload this on the date I wrote it, cough cough), and my kids’ music tastes dramatically shifted what shows up here thanks to car listening (guess why there’s so many musicals on my list!), but yeah, I like having music stats again. I’ve been trying to make sure that I don’t get set into only listening to things from when I was a teenager, and according to ListenBrainz at least, the majority of what I went through this year was less than five years old.

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2024 review: part 5, music

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Last but not least, music! Since I’m actually scrobbling again (or whatever you’d like to call it for ListenBrainz instead) the list actually has SOME data. I don’t do spotify, this is what you get.

Notable callouts: City Girl’s new album dropped in December, and so did a new people you meet outside of bars. One of them had enough time to make the top 10, the other did not, and that’s tragic, but both are great.

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December 2023: Life and links

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Been a minute, hasn’t it? I’m going ahead and putting out the RSS guide, which has been sitting 95% done for ages. I hope it’s helpful to someone. Health’s been a bit wonky, been busy with work, so on, so forth. A friend died, which… I’m going to be honest, everything’s a bit of a blur in the aftermath of that, which is why this is actually going live… quite a while after I wrote it. We started playing Final Fantasy XI as a friend group in addition to XIV, a game I’ve missed dearly. I’ve done a lot of informal writing about why I think it works so well, and I should collect that and post it here, which I’ll probably get around to…

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music, in review

Fri, 25 Dec 2020 14:14:22 -0800

Okay, so–I’ve been a Google Play Music user for the past 7 years or so, which has meant that unlike most people, I’ve not had a Spotify Wrapped. I’ve tried to use Last.fm reliably over the years, but it just takes one “I reset my phone and forgot to scrobble” to leave my trends messed up for most of the year.

But someone put together a script that builds a list based on your play music activity! This is really neat! That only goes back so far, and the 2020 numbers are just fucked (technical term) between the GPM shutdown and the pandemic. However, I’ve got a working ListenBrainz setup (and mostly local playback) going so I should be able to get good numbers for next year. I might switch to Maloja instead, since it looks pretty cool and I’m into the self-hosting thing, but finding some easy ways to make a python server accessible for as little cost as possible is… not trivial. Sigh.

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