It seems the Spotify Android app now link-shorten (spotify.link) when you copy a song link - which seems to break most universal link platforms. Unclear whether they consider this a feature or a bug.

Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.

I wish there was a rewind button on YouTube recommendations so I could easily jump back to my regular programming after going down some fleeting rabbitholes on woodworking, camper vans and electric motorcycles.

I'm not really a scary movie guy, but I just watched Weapons and enjoyed it.

There is a lot of software I use lately that I swear the product manager(s) of it has never used.

I'm honestly quite surprised that Spotify is testing inflicting everyone with this UI for a feature that most people aren't going to give a shit about. If you want to just scan the playlist to see what's in it, good luck.

Yesterday my wife hit a giant pothole on the BQE and got a flat tire. She slowly made her way to the tire shop off the next exit. In the waiting room she met a couple that had also just hit the same pothole. These tire guys are operating at the next level.

I'm so old that every time I buy a $16 sixpack at the bodega I think about the $6 cases of Milwaukee's Best we used to buy in high school. If we were really desperate, sometimes a $5 case of National Bohemian.

My apologies to all of my old coworkers that constantly have to field feature requests and bug reports from me for the rest of their professional lives.

I'm excited to see @leemartin.com documenting his explorations in using AI agents for good in music. I may have to dig further into N8N as it is giving warm Yahoo Pipes vibes from the Music Hackdays he and I would always attend almost 20(?!) years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4r...

I saw someone talking about the 2007 movie Children of Men yesterday, so I just rewatched it. Unfortunately, it hits a little harder this time.

Got my 💉💉. PSA: "I smoked a cigarette once in high school" is a qualifying risk factor.

Interesting music industry story no one is talking about (IMHO): the major labels gave up on pursuing massive music copyright infringement cases against YouTube years ago in exchange for them a launching a subscription music service (that they barely promote b/c YouTube is a much better business).

I was playing around with the new ChatGPT/Spotify integration, not to see what playlists it could create in Spotify but to see if it gave ChatGPT access to the audio files after you authorize it to connect to your account.

It's been 5 years but it's good to see you again HiFi. Time to fire up the Sonos...

Trying to find joy in the little things: today I did a pretty good headstand.

The ChatGPT commercial where the guy asks it how to impress a girl is a little too on the nose.

Shout-out to Oura who made getting a free replacement for a ring-that-no-longer-holds-a-charge pretty painless. (I would love to know how many times they have already had to do that.)

What kind of idiot drops new music on the same day as the biggest artist in the world? 🤚 this kind of idiot! But mine is only a 3:47 long 🎸 song - so may I humbly suggest you start there?

Just one more sleep.

Daniel Ek transitioning out of Spotify CEO role certainly feels like the end of an era.

It's amazing how you don't need the Blockchain when you can just agree to collaborate.🤷

Gowanus Sunset

Was just holding my phone in one hand and full glass of water in the other. I went to throw my phone onto the couch so I could go put the water down but instead my lizard brain instructed me to throw the full glass onto the couch instead. How's your Friday going?

OK, I just forced myself to be done with this new song. It's called Rat Handed and I will drop it on Bandcamp on Monday and everywhere else next Friday. In the meantime, here's a sneak... 🔊

Tuesday's yoga class laid me up for 2 days. Today's yoga class got me back to as good as new. The circle of life.

I'm pleasantly surprised that Spotify's messaging feature seems to show stuff you have shared off-platform (and the recipient has listened to from your share link) going back to at least 2021.

The Onion never misses.

Things I'm looking forward to this week, TV edition: Slow Horses The Lowdown

Worked all weekend on this new song and I'm feeling really good about it at the moment.

Hot damn, why didn't anyone tell me that there was a new Tim Robinson series coming out?! youtu.be/b0lDMHAGDnU...

I have a feeling that this will be both the first and last time I ever hear about Coda Music.

The company that bought the LimeWire brand just bought the Fyre Festival brand because of course. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Yes please

This to have a significant impact on how the event ticketing industry works... techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/g...

Alright, I have to give Apple credit for waiting until the morning after the Emmy's to announce their price increase.

Brooklyn is in a perpetual state of change. Being away for only a week means you will return to something different than what you left. A restaurant being replaced, a building having been torn down, a new traffic pattern. It's hard to remember what my neighbor looked like just a couple of years ago.

Greetings from Ithaca. Tomorrow we wrap up our 8 day/1200 mile lake roadtrip and head back to city life. Grass touched.

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

Left Canandaigua, checked out Bristol Ski Resort to see what it looked like, bounced around Keuka Lake, across to Watkins Glen and finally to Ithaca for the weekend. 🚗🗺️ Continuing to enjoy amazing weather and blissfully avoiding the news.

My daughter sent me this picture from her dining hall and I'm now considering pulling her out of school. 🤢

Wow, Spotify HiFi is actually starting to roll out today as a feature of Premium. I never thought I would see the day. (I was the Product Manager on it 5 years ago and left 4+ years ago after it was delayed the first time.) Congrats to everyone that were able to get it out the door.

Yesterday we drove from Lake Placid down through the Adirondacks to check out Schroon Lake, Lake George and Great Sacandaga Lake before heading a couple of hundred miles west to Canandaigua Lake to hang out in the Finger Lakes region for a couple of days. 🚗

My wife got this voicemail transcription today and I'm definitely going to be making references to it for the next several years.

My family's shared album of our dog has now surpassed 1,000 photos in 4 years. I think we have a problem.

Today we checked out the islands in Lake Champlain, waved to Canada, headed by Tupper Lake, drank some good beer in Saranac Lake and are now going to hang out in Lake Placid for the next day or so. It's pretty up here. 🚗

Damn, this Airbnb goes hard.

Is there a potential future where the best method for musical artists to keep AI from training on their songs would be by having them licensed to stream only (and having no downloads or physical sales offered)?

A tale of moving two children into college... Younger child, an Art major: completely forgets to pack her art supplies Older child, a Classics/Literary Studies double major: insists that he must have at least 5 crates of books he has already read with him

Ok, now do music. It's going to need to be at least 10x that. (It seems precedent is moving towards training on the data being Fair Use, but you need to be training it on content that you legally purchased.) 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...