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https://actions.work/listening-post - Listening Post is my macOS multi-scrobbler that works with Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Rocksky, Maloja, Shortcuts, social posting, etc., independent from Spotify or Apple Music. The app can also scrobble shazams (music recognitions) from iPhone and Apple Watch, without the need for an extra app.

Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)

Pepperidge Farm remembers!

You asked a number of good questions there on the live call just now! I agree, you having Hendrik on would probably make for quite an ep.

I second that. I've personally known him for almost 30 years by now, and he's still one of the smartest, most experienced, and most curious devs I've ever met. All around good guy, would work with him again any day of the week.

It's a first-class PWA currently but no native desktop apps yet.

Excellent timing. I am currently working on a macOS scrobbler that (also) works with Last.fm, and supports music recogs from iOS, Apple Watch, and macOS.

https://actions.work/listening-post

(AFAIK, the official Mac scrobbler is dead by now.)

Look around for EU LLM routers. There are some, but none are as big as OpenRouter. Still, Cortecs (Austria) is quite good and offers a couple of recent models through its EU-based providers. Zero data retention, GDPR compliant, etc. Really nice.

https://cortecs.ai/serverlessModels

Stop with the logic and whatnot

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688206

Archived: https://archive.is/l5PuV

Archive: https://archive.is/20260224182829/https://www.axios.com/2026...

I'm working on a macOS app that identifies music playing around you, constantly. You can scrobble them to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, LB-compatible sites, a Mastodon account, local Shortcuts workflows, and/or or local files. It also support Apple Music and Deezer.

I built it because most scrobblers only keep track of Apple Music or Spotify plays, but I have streaming stations on all day long, or the radio is on, and those never make it into my playing charts or recommendations etc.

Early days, more to come, public beta is ongoing, and I am looking for testers :)

https://actions.work/listening-post/?ref=hn

It's 2026. If you still host your newsletter on Substack, YOU ARE AN ENABLER. At this point, you're either complicit or plain lazy, neither of which is an excuse. You make a choice every goddamn day.

I had to look that up, found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice#Organization:

Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.

I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.

There's also Beans, doing MD-based ticketing in your project. It's really good. (Disclaimer: I've contributed a few of the agent rules.)

https://github.com/hmans/beans

Beans is an issue tracker for you, your team, and your coding agents. Instead of tracking tasks in a separate application, Beans stores them right alongside your code. You can use the beans CLI to interact with your tasks, but more importantly, so can your favorite coding agent! > This gives your robot friends a juicy upgrade: now they get a complete view of your project, make suggestions for what to work on next, track their progress, create bug issues for problems they find, and more.

Much, MUCH less invasive than beads (basically just a CLI tool and a `.beans.yml` & `.beans/` in your project, and a joy to work with. CLI, TUI, labels, status, types (epic, feature, task etc.), GraphQL query interface (agents love that).

It's good.

Hugged to death right now, therefore: https://web.archive.org/web/20251229204141/https://www.circu...

Here's the magnet URL to the torrent, can't hurt:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&xl=1483256352&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia601703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=http://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/

What the AF are you talking about. Stop spreading lies.

My German keyboard has umlaut keys: üäö. I use them daily. I was told that in other parts of the World, people don't have umlaut keys, and have to use combos like ⌥U + a/o/u.

Boy, I sure hope they don't think me an AI.

Just because many people have no idea how to use type certain characters on their devices shouldn't mean we all have to go along with their superstitions.

What makes you think this is slop?

Also, I think many people use the term "slop" and "AI was involved" interchangeably, but to me, they're not synonymous. To me, writing blog posts with the help of AI is fine (grammar checks, structural help etc.) while auto-generated content generation w/o human oversight is not.

Hypernormalization is a documentary by the British filmmaker Adam Curtis from 2016, which was produced by the BBC.

Contradictions and a lack of shame (about anything) are not lapses, they're integral part of the authoritarian playbook.

To be clear, I'm not "Just saying" – I'm actually saying.

Your comments make me think you've never seen hardships in your life that weren't self-afflicted.

Life can be cruel even if you've made great plans and took all the precautions you could think of. Illnesses, accidents, the lack of a social net because your country was set up that way, crime, the list goes on.

I am very certain it does occur to them but they simply have no financial means to do anything about it. Which must be soul-crushing to them.

Rest assured it usually isn't their choice.

Unasked-for meta complaint about the site, not the article itself:

I hate that thing where you visit a blog post (judging from the URL) yet the blog post is seemingly endless (judging from the scrollbar), and when you scroll down you hop into the next blog post (URL just changes).

The scrollbar is useless in that case, I can't gauge the real length of the article. The Gates Foundation has more money than God, maybe spend a tiny little bit of it on a good UI designer, yeah?

If you're still actively using Substack as a creator, you're obviously very okay with them sending out Swastika missives, and you don't feel it's detrimental to your own brand – you'll not get any sympathy from me.

It's the equivalent of "voting with your wallet". Or "giving market share with your wallet".

Context matters, not just for LLMs themselves. And Grok/X/Twitter's context is tarnished indeed for a lot of us.

I've seen that video. I've also watched his complete disregard for other people (DOGE, anyone), seen his ideas of "free speech", witnessed Mechahitler, and Twitter being turned into the fascist club house.

That fucking salute was one thing. He knows what he's doing or trying to do. Many people in Europe are appalled by what they see. So they stopped buying his shit. Fair game, this being goddamn free market capitalism and all.

It isn't. I'm from Germany, and Musk doing the Nazi salute has widely made the rounds. Lots of people are appalled, so are people in other parts of the EU, and here are some actually numbers on that:

https://electrek.co/2025/08/05/tesla-sales-in-europe-are-in-...

The new car demand has dropped like a brick, and I'm quite sure used car sales have, too.