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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently Gowalla was bought by Facebook.  I immediately said the user accounts would be merged, users would be forced to transfer to Facebook and Gowalla would be shut down.  Turns out I was partially correct.  Some people on Twitter were happy for the founders of Gowalla as they made some money selling out to Facebook [...]