Anna's Library is Backing up Spotify.
This sounds interesting, not for the music but for the metadata they've also scraped. At least for the database schema and some kind of mildly universal track ID and genre association, this seems promising.
Also, this means a non-spotify version of Hitster is possible.
The AI now watches Youtube videos and gives you a summarized text with relevant images. Just to counteract the AI that takes a text and generates a video from it:
https://toolong.link/v?w=dQw4w9WgXcQ&l=en
Summary:
This video is the official 4K remastered music video for Rick Astley's iconic 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". Key details include:
- The song was a massive international hit, topping charts in 25 countries.
- It won a Brit Award for Best Single in 1988.
- The track was written and produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman.
- The video was directed by Simon West.
- The video famously surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube in July 2021.
The AI also links to the sections of the verse and chorus.
https://toolong.link/v?w=FJtF3wzPSrY&l=en
This video presents a technological showcase of The Witcher 4 running on a PlayStation 5 at 60fps with raytracing, built with Unreal Engine 5.6. Key highlights include:
- Advanced Character & Mount Interaction: Featuring Siri and her horse Kelpy, showcasing seamless multi-character motion matching and realistic muscle deformations using ML Deformer. * Dense, Dynamic Open World: The game explores the region of Kovier, emphasizing highly detailed and memory-efficient Nanite Foliage with adaptive voxel representation.
- Vibrant and Responsive Towns: The port town of Vest is demonstrated with busy marketplaces, hundreds of animated NPCs, and responsive character actions powered by MetaHuman tools, Smart Objects, and a new animation framework.
- Significant Performance Gains: Unreal Engine 5.6 boasts over 2x faster raytracing and Lumen, an asynchronous rendering pipeline, improved Chaos Physics for cloth and flesh, and a new Fast Geometry Streaming Plugin for quicker open-world loading, ensuring high fidelity and smooth gameplay.
RSS.Style: Better UX for your RSS and Atom feeds!
In true old-skool fashion, even my RSS feeds are now also viewable in the browser, thanks to the XSLT stylesheets from rss.style. They rewrite the XML into something a browser can render. Obviously using a proper RSS reader, like Thunderbird is better, but hey!
This is already a bit older, but I'm still amazed of how much is possible when using one of the state of the art engines (and lots of custom code, I suppose). But this is certainly nice eye-candy. Hopefully, the story and writing of the game will hold up the mark set by The Witcher 3.
The Witcher 4 - Gameplay UE 5.6 Tech Demo | State of Unreal 2025 - YouTube
A colleague reminded me of this:
Strudel is very much like Supercollider / Sonic Pi, but as a (Haskel and) Javascript library that can do live editing in the browser.
They also have a tutorial .
What I like about this are the built-in sliders / visualizers. Connecting this to MIDI inputs for live performances could also be fun, if I was doing live performances or performances at all.