Category Archives: general

Love, ban and tag Last.fm tracks from Spotify

I use Spotify a lot, I mean a lot. Between it and Last.fm I’m fairly sure I need never buy another album again. Sure, I miss the old days of listening to a freshly-purchased album whilst flicking through the artwork … more…

12/01/10 | Cats: general, mac, web | Tags: lastfm, music, spotify

Building My Fixie Pt.1 ~ Background

So you own a bicycle, right? You know, a couple of wheels, handlebars, a saddle, some brakes and gears, right? Well what if you took away those last two ~ the brakes and gears ~ is that still technically a … more…

12/12/09 | Cats: general | Tags: bicycle, bike, fixie, singlespeed

Beautiful Last.fm library visualisations

If you’re a regular last.fm listener and you have a penchant for stats then take a look at the beautiful Last.fm spiral by Sha Hwang. Entering your Last.fm username causes it to look back through your last years’ listening and … more…

03/09/09 | Cats: general | Tags: lastfm, music, web

Music to design sites by

I have fairly specific auditory requirements to accompany my design time. I’ve never been able to work with lyrical music, so I constrain myself to acoustic music. To further narrow it down I swing between the alt-instrumental post-rock noodlings of … more…

12/12/08 | Cats: general | Tags: audio, design, lastfm, music

How to update your website without a CMS

I came across this conundrum a couple of weeks ago when I suggested to a client that it might be more productive to show them how to update their website, rather than keep asking me to do it for free. … more…

10/12/08 | Cats: general | Tags: cms, web

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