Playing around with my last.fm stats Shiny app a bit more this morning, and I remembered how to get what I want out of a nested list returned from the API with only 20 minutes of cursing. Progress!
This thread of spreadsheet-based games contains a ton of inventive and fun stuff.
If vacation days are at least partly for making small color adjustments to your blog’s CSS, then I’m doing pretty good today. (Changes to my dark theme, borrowing elements from the various “pastels on dark” themes (which I think originated in TextMate?))
The first spits of rain are starting to fall outside as part of this winter storm forecast to slowly roll over us the next several days. It feels like a perfect time to curl up with coffee and books and music and …
I always like Jason Kottke’s end-of-year books recommendations. His list for this year has a few that I’ve read, a few I have wanted to read, and several that weren’t (yet) on my list.
Holiday tech support operations resume this year with setting up Dad’s 2009 MacBook Pro to migrate to my year-old model. Look at the ports on that thing!
Made one more small adjustment this morning to tuneR, adding a date range selector to limit the query. It’s fun to see how my top artists change when adjusting that window.
