I’ve just recently began to find that newer releases of Qobuz provide the continuity across devices that I’ve missed from Rdio for years. I think this is because Qobuz Connect creates a link between devices that hasn’t previously existed. It’s great: I can listen in the car, and then pick up at the same place from my desk. It’s a little thing that makes a huge difference, and nothing since the good days of Rdio has done it in such a seamless way.
Sometimes one does get the urge to change web hosts and screw around with servers for a couple of weekends.
I played through Cairn this week and have lots more thoughts to come on this endlessly scenic, challenging and interesting game.
After briefly operating again, authentication to the Peloton API has been re-restricted. There are apparently some workarounds, but building a bunch of OAuth mechanics on top of a non-public API is a lot of work on something too fragile for me to rely on. That means that RideShare is inoperable for the foreseeable future, and that’s a big bummer!
Much, but not all of the ride data continues to be available through Apple Health, so I can continue to use a lot of what I did to summarize the year’s exercise data last year. Here’s a quick comparison of workout intensity in 2025 and 2024.
The rest of the family slept late enough on Christmas Day that I started a Project — the proper sorting of the albums, which had been in a jumble ever since we moved.
Today’s hobby project troubleshooting: Darn, which library did I update in that other project (don’t renv me right now, I’m riffing) that’s causing this to fail? Okay, update some other libraries. Okay, maybe there’s new R version conflict; update R. Now reinstall all libraries. Hmm. Okay, rewrite to go around the place where I think the error is raised. Nope, but that isolated enough that I can see the problem. Fixed in one minute.
I’ve updated my annual last.fm summary stats app for 2025. I’m really happy with this year’s changes: The app should be faster for most users and it offers a simpler couple of visuals, displaying a shareable card for your top “new to you” artists as well as for your top overall artists of the year. It’s fun to update this year over year. If you’re a last.fm user, I hope you’ll try it out!
