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

Wednesday: drive due north 3 hours, load Kid B and her stuff into car, drive home and unload piles into corner

Friday: drive due north 6 hours load Kid A and his stuff into car, come home a couple days later and unload piles into different corners

Rest of summer: try not to live like hoarders

Wednesday: drive due north 3 hours, load Kid B and her stuff into car, drive home and unload piles into corner

Friday: drive due north 6 hours load Kid A and his stuff into car, come home a couple days later and unload piles into different corners

Rest of summer: try not to live like hoarders

I got tired of waiting for Last.fm to become what I wanted it to be, so I built Achordion on top of ListenBrainz

If that sounds interesting to you, I can be found here:

https://achordion.xyz/user/jherskowitz

jherskowitz's listening on Achordion

Pins, listens, and stats from jherskowitz on Achordion — the open ListenBrainz/MusicBrainz community.

I've been working on making Achordion feel a bit more socially alive... both natively as well as through deeper integration with Parachord (desktop and mobile).

https://parachord.com/blog/2026/05/18/achordion-the-community-layer/

Achordion grows up: identity, feeds, and a tighter Parachord knot | Parachord Blog

Two weeks ago I introduced Achordion — the web-and-community front door to the open music stack. A week later, the follow-up post was about how Parachord is ...

Any time there is an Ebola outbreak I tell anyone who will listen about how there was one in my hometown of Reston, VA when I was a teenager (without anyone telling anyone afaik) and kids would break into the "abandoned monkey lab" for years afterwards because it was creepy. 😬
BRB, gotta help my kid with her homework.

You know how when couples get engaged they often get a puppy before they start a family to practice on?

Well my neighborhood is full of those people 15 years later - and I gotta to say that a lot of the dogs aren't looking so good lately.

I wish someone would build a nicer front-end for ListenBrainz so that I don't start thinking about doing it.
Dammit, I just relic'ed my Taylor. 😢
The fact that - for some unexplained reason - I'm ineligible to renew my passport online makes we question whether my government is hunting me.