Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I keep trying to improve my various web mashups as APIs change and I pick up a new trick or two. One idea I had was to decrease the number of albums from every CD I own to say one hundred. I thought this would make the code run better as a lot of effort [...]

When I started building my mashups with PHP one idea I had was to fetch audio previews for songs and albums, this was actually supposedly possible with the Amazon Product Advertising API, but I could never get it to work with the limited data I had in my csv file. Last.fm does not provide audio [...]

After finally getting my web mashup code into GitHub I spent a lot of time ensuring the code was easy to read and well commented. The code still needs testing on another box than that used by my webhost, volunteers? I use my collection of web mashups as a test suite of sorts for the [...]

Lost among all the glossy photos of the new iPhone, Apple quietly announce the closure and failure of Ping, their social network targeting music fans. Ping was built into iTunes and thus only accessible when you were using iTunes on your computer or other Apple device. Apple famously integrated Twitter more tightly into iOS as they [...]

I’m a collector. I’m not a hoarder because I display my collections. One of the things I’ve steadily collected over the last 15 or 20 years is quotations. Not “quotes”, quotes is a verb… These quotations were spread over journals, webpages, .sig files, and blog postings. As I had a lot of time on my [...]