My little Shiny app to visualize my last.fm data continues to tick along. This graphic shows the top artists of my year not in my top all-time played list. My favorite new album of 2024 is at the top of this list: Nick Cave’s WILD GOD is a tremendous, moving record.

If you’re still scrobbling, you can see your own data at deardestiny.shinyapps.io/tuner.

December 22; the longest night of the year is behind us. I have a warm coffee, I’ve worked out and made myself breakfast, and I’m finished with work for a long rest.

I started playing Balatro and, alas, it’s such a good game! I don’t care much either way about poker, and Balatro adds a fun, challenging layer of modifiers and risk that makes it awfully hard to to put down.

I didn’t know that Lucinda Williams had a couple of rollicking cover albums, of The Beatles and Tom Petty. Man, I’m a cryer for Wildflowers.

The “Christmas ships” tour stopped by the neighborhood beach tonight. I love that there’s a neighborhood beach here.

I’ve been hosting my little set of domains with Pair.com for nearly ten years (!), through a handful of small price increases; eight bucks a month to put my random junk online has always been fine. Now Pair is increasing my shared hosting plan to $14, nearly doubling it! Hmm.

Apple, I’m practically begging you to implement a multi-select editor in the viewer for activity data. When the Peloton app on my watch goes haywire and decides that I’m exercising from midnight to 3am – reader, I was not exercising – it would be nice to be able to selectively delete all those records instead of nuking the entire day.

I’m starting on some of my end of year data projects. First up, a bit of output from the summary visuals I’m building of my workout data! I know, I know, polar plots are bad data representations, but I really like the clock-like image for this depiction of workout times.

I hit this Turkey Burn ride pretty hard this morning and am resting deep in post-ride endorphins, now. Time to sip on my coffee and think on some thanks. I’m glad I get to do this.

I really like Garrick’s method of adding Bluesky comments to a Quarto-based blog. I’m already wired up to use Bridgy at my personal blog and Quarto datablog, and enabling it to connect to Bluesky was just a matter of adding the connection with an app-specific password. The difference between using webmentions versus the direct point-to-point link that Garrick and others have implemented is something to consider: it looks like the direct feed from Bluesky, at least, preserves a lot more of the continuity of a thread, while the webmentions approach (especially using Bridgy) potentially makes gathering comments a little more seamless in the POSSE sense by not requiring the link back to the original post.

At prettygoodhat, I needed one template change to insert the bluesky syndication link if specified in the post’s front matter. In single.html:

{{ if (isset .Params "blueskylink") }}
<a class="u-syndication" style="display: none" href="{{ .Params.blueskylink}}">{{ .Params.blueskylink}}</a>
{{ end }}

This adds the stub for the syndication link if one is found with the blueskylink id in the post’s header, and that should be all it takes for Bridgy to collect replies associated with the corresponding post.

Garrick’s extension gives me a thought on improving my own hookup of Bridgy to Quarto, too; that may be the right way to go over at the ol’ datablog.