Rian van der Merwe

@rianvdm
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đź‘‹ Product person, curious learner, and music fanatic.
👨‍💻 Product at @cloudflare
🌍 Home → https://elezea.com
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Bloghttps://elezea.com
Find Your Musichttps://listentomore.com
Summarize podcastshttps://tldl-pod.com
Anyone use both Discogs and Last.fm and want to test an iOS app I’m making to scrobble your physical collection? Hit me up!

After lots of sweating the details I think it's finally time to call https://listentomore.com/ a v1 public launch of my music obsession side project...

It's a bit niche, but if you use Last.fm, I'd love for you to try it out. Go to Sign In and connect your Last.fm account. You'll get your own user page with stats about your listening, with lots more to come...

Listen To More

Learn some trivia, dig deep into an artist or album, find your next listen.

Listen To More

Metadata is the hardest problem in software, and these examples prove my point. Don’t @ me!

https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

I agree with @jmduke that “the era of VC-subsidized tokens may be coming to an end” is very important to understand—especially if you’re building products that rely on the Big Name Models™.

https://jmduke.com/posts/post/uber-for-tokens/

VC-subsidized tokens · Applied Cartography

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

Here’s a niche thing that might be of interest to at least two of you. Turn @raindropio links (with a specific tag) into Wordpress blog posts!

https://github.com/rianvdm/raindrop-wordpress-linkblog-sync

GitHub - rianvdm/raindrop-wordpress-linkblog-sync: A Cloudflare Worker that automatically syncs bookmarks with a specified tag from Raindrop.io to WordPress as link posts.

A Cloudflare Worker that automatically syncs bookmarks with a specified tag from Raindrop.io to WordPress as link posts. - GitHub - rianvdm/raindrop-wordpress-linkblog-sync: A Cloudflare Worker th...

GitHub
I'm retired in the sense that I was tired yesterday and am tired again today.

Solid, detailed post about what works (and what doesn’t) with AI code assistants.

“Your role as a senior engineer has fundamentally shifted. You're no longer just writing code—you're curating knowledge, setting boundaries, and teaching both humans and AI systems how to work effectively.”

https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-with-claude

Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude - diwank's space

Note: This post comes with a NotebookLM podcast (1linked at the bottom), and three generated audio recordings. You can read the conversation I had