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 [...]

During my most recent period of unemployment, I’ve tried to brush up on some of my skills, perversely one thing I’ve spent a lot of time doing is writing PHP. I’m not a big fan of PHP, but I seem to have written and most importantly maintained some code I used to make web mashups, [...]

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 [...]

As my latest period of unemployment continues to lengthen I’ve worked on an ever larger collection of PHP code that I’ve written and used to make several web mashups. As I’ve learned of new APIs I’ve thought if it made sense to add them, most don’t.  I did start adding support for the BestBuy Remix [...]