Posts for: #Development

Making My Own Task App

One of the things I’m trying to do with my life is lower the amount of money I spend on things I don’t really need. I call it The Don’t Buy Shit Challenge. I’m actually doing really well with that so far, which I’m proud of. I do have several yearly subscriptions, however, that I still need to figure out what to do with. One of those is TickTick Pro.

TickTick is a ToDo application that I’ve used for a couple years. Technically, I could probably get away with using the free plan, but there are a few premium features that I do use so it has, in the past, made sense for me to continue to subscribe to their service.

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Blog Update - New Music Page

I spent the last day or so completely redesigning the Music page here on the blog. I took inspiration from the week view on Last FM. It’s not as colorful, and I still have some work to do (the background of the div containers are not right), but it’s pretty great.

LastFM provides quite a bit of info via their API. I hate relying on LastFM, so I’ll probably eventually grab the data from ListenBrainz (which I mirror to already), but I know the LastFM API better, so the redesign still works off of that.

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