This guy continually does things to his website that make me envious of his talent at development. It’s not just the music scrobbling or the slash pages (most of which I’ve blatantly copied here on my blog), it’s the ecosystem he’s built, and the control it has given him over his data. It’s truly awe inspiring.
🔗 This Guy Has Talent
This also means that I own all of my music, play it from a server I control, using storage I control, via a client I’ve written and all of the data is stored on my own infrastructure. I author my own charts and can do as much or as little as I want with the data. I enjoy being able to view my own listening habits and run whatever granular queries I want. I’ve integrated concert tracking with artist pages, I’ve added support for tracking upcoming albums and exposed a calendar subscription.