Jacob Tender

@Tender
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A midwest web developer, indie archivist, and Senior Librarian @hardcover.

Posts about #film (#letterboxd), #technology, #music, #genealogy, #history, #travel, #photography, #books, and #design.
Website / Bloghttps://jacobtender.net
🍿 Letterboxdhttps://letterboxd.com/jacob
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💿 Apple Musichttps://music.apple.com/profile/jacobtender
Last.fm is now independent

What’s happening? Last.fm is now operating as an independent company following a change in ownership. Is Last.fm shutting down? No. The service continues as normal. Is Last.fm being acquired by another company? No. Last.fm is now operating independently. Is the team changing? The team building and operating Last.fm remains in place. What does independence mean for users? It means we can focus fully on building listening insights and community features for music fans. You’ll see continued, s...

Last.fm Support Community

We all love #music.
And we want to share it with our buddies.

However, there are different ways to listen to music. And to catch them all, I made a thing.

#musiccloud #Spotify #AppleMusic #Deezer #Tidal #Qobuz #Soundcloud #Bandcamp #Boomplay #Beatport

Use it.
Boost it.
It's really good! 🤩

Thank you for sharing it. 🙏🏻

https://musiccloud.io

musiccloud

Paste a Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube link and get a universal share link that works everywhere.

musiccloud

Poverty Run School, a one-room schoolhouse in Carey, OH where my great grandfather taught in his younger adulthood. (Maybe the 1920s?)

Photos taken in 1980 and 2026.

It appears the building is now stores farm equipment.

The Oxford Comma is correct English. If you disagree, you're wrong.

#English #Writing

The 13” MacBook Air M5 is a glorious machine. Tahoe aside, I’m very pleased with what this achieves for me. So glad I didn’t go for the 15” model. This size is perfect.

Substack promoted Andrew Tate as their #1 "bestseller" last week. Cool company. Great leadership.

So I went ahead and made a browser extension.

Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link (even on custom domains) and redirects it to `archive.is`.

Substack's numbers go down. You still get to read the thing tho.

https://jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-substack/

Update: If you have problems with `archive.is`, Ghost Archive is now available as an alternative redirect as of version 1.2.1.

Kill Yr Substack

Jason Cosper

Knew I wouldn't be a fan of Liquid Glass on a Mac but I didn't expect it to harsh the setup of my new Macbook Air so badly.

Great hardware. Infuriating OS.

Another Day Closer to the End

Finally, I've automated the backup of my bi-monthly playlists to my blog. https://jacobtender.net/blog/automated-playlist-archiving/
Automated Playlist Archiving

A reasonably reliable solution that not only pulls my lists on an weekly basis, but updates my blog as well.

Jacob Tender