Rian van der Merwe

@rianvdm
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šŸ‘‹ Product person, curious learner, and music fanatic.
šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Product at @cloudflare
šŸŒ Home ā†’ https://elezea.com
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Bloghttps://elezea.com
Find Your Musichttps://listentomore.com
Summarize podcastshttps://tldl-pod.com
Rian van der Merwe3d ago
Anyone use both Discogs and Last.fm and want to test an iOS app Iā€™m making to scrobble your physical collection? Hit me up!
Rian van der MerweDec 13

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...

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

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Rian van der MerweNov 15
@andy Also I havenā€™t been here in a while. Worth making it part of my daily routine again?
Rian van der MerweNov 15
@andy Iā€™ll allow it.
Rian van der MerweNov 14

Metadata is the hardest problem in software, and these examples prove my point. Donā€™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

Rian van der MerweJul 20, 2025
Simon WillisonJul 3, 2025
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.
Show threadRian van der MerweJul 16, 2025

@dan @[email protected] This is called Cunninghamā€™s Law and itā€™s the primary way I get work done.

ā€œCunningham's Law states ā€˜the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.ā€™ā€

Rian van der MerweJul 10, 2025
Ivan ReeseJun 19, 2025
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"
Rian van der MerweJul 6, 2025

I agree with @jmduke that ā€œthe era of VC-subsidized tokens may be coming to an endā€ is very important to understandā€”especially if youā€™re building products that rely on the Big Name Modelsā„¢.

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

VC-subsidized tokens Ā· Applied Cartography

Rian van der MerweJun 26, 2025
Anuj AhoojaJun 26, 2025
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"