J Herskowitz 👋

@jherskowitz
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Half-thoughts all my own.
🎸 as "Quarantine Angst"
⚒️ Advising + Tinkering
⏮️ Product at #seatgeek, #spotify, #tomahawk, #LimeWire, #aol music, #DigiScents, #GameShark, and some other stuff.

He/him.

Intro Posthttps://mastodon.social/@jherskowitz/109303852503148287
Musichttps://quarantineangst.com
Workhttps://linkedin.com/in/jherskowitz
J Herskowitz 👋1d ago

I purposefully didn't bring my laptop on vacation, but for good or bad (probably bad) I have made decent progress on the Parachord Android app only using my phone while the family is sleeping.

I'll probably try to get out a build folks can try in a couple weeks.

J Herskowitz 👋1d ago
Sitting by the pool and seeing a bunch of tree branches suddenly move and then hearing the louder-than-you-imagine roar of a howler monkey makes it feel like I'm in Jurassic Park tbh.
J Herskowitz 👋3d ago
Yesterday we hiked Volcán Tenorio National Park and saw sloths and capuchin monkeys and a pit viper. Oh my.
Show threadJ Herskowitz 👋6d ago
(if anyone wants the nerdy deep-dive: https://parachord.com/blog/2026/03/15/parachord-android-3-days/)
Building Parachord for Android in 3 Days | Parachord Blog

So last Tuesday I woke up and thought, “I should start to scaffold out an Android app.” By Friday, I had a full app. A real one. With Spotify and Apple Music...

J Herskowitz 👋6d ago
Once again, it was much harder to get Apple Music to work in a Parachord app - but once it is working it is a more seamless experience IMO.
J Herskowitz 👋Mar 15

Me, on Thursday: "maybe I'll just start scaffolding out the UI for a future Parachord Android app before I leave for vacation on Monday"

Me, on Sunday: "well damn, I'm pretty much done"

J Herskowitz 👋Mar 14

Two months ago tomorrow I released my first full-length album.

Much love to everyone that has given it a spin. 😘

J Herskowitz 👋Mar 12
... and so it begins.
Parachord Android
Show threadJ Herskowitz 👋Mar 11
I've been paying the price for weeks for trying to build a universal Mac app. Learn from my mistakes kids, it hasn't been worth it.
J Herskowitz 👋Mar 11

Ugh, so the bug that had users on newer Macs inadvertently downloading the Intel-silicon version of Parachord was worse than I thought. If you're on Mac and the app feels sluggish at all - this is the issue.

If you are still interested, best to manually download it again and make sure to get the "apple-silicon" .dmg. Sorry about that!

https://github.com/Parachord/parachord/releases

Releases · Parachord/parachord

Multi-source music player with cross-platform resolver support. The conceptual spawn of Tomahawk. - Parachord/parachord

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