Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

Category: Uncategorised

  • I’m curious. Has anyone managed to build a personal (music) recommendation engine? Something where you could plug-in your own trusted sources. The same music daily across each of the eight personal Spotify auto-generated playlists is tiring.

  • https://scottmallinson.com/blog/2023/01/06/894812/ by scottmallinson Implemented better caching on my website through Cloudflare Cache Rules. Let’s see what impact it has on loading times as well as on server load and bandwidth. This post serves several purposes: to test caching changes I’ve made on my website, #indieweb replies, and Micropublishing to Twitter.

  • Went to El Llobregat estuary and the Delta del Llobregat today. It was cold, windy, and at times, wet. Fun to see the planes taking off and landing so close though.

  • Starting off the New Year with a morning of self-care. Had a mani pedi courtesy of @tesshumphrys.

  • I had the dried bean in my piece of the Roscón de Reyes. That means I have to buy next year’s, right?

  • The neighbourhood’s Cabalgata de Reyes or Parade of Kings, celebrated on the Twelfth Night, was somewhat underwhelming considering the significance Epiphany (Día de los Reyes Magos) receives here in Spain.

  • Literal has one of the best onboarding processes I’ve come across for a web app and a much better UI/UX than Goodreads. Looking to get into reading some more for 2023, starting with 1984.

  • A lunch break well spent. Managed to finally get webmentions working again by simply changing the microformat structure on my website. The output of microformat parsers can be a little challenging to interpret.

  • Looking at setting up a Pleroma instance for personal use as it seems lighter-weight than Mastodon and supports fediverse (OStatus and ActivityPub) standards.

  • Discover scottmallinson’s listening stats for Last.year (Last.fm) Check out scottmallinson’s 2022 in music on Last.fm 10,099 scrobbles 3,503 albums 38% new artists 67% new albums 58% new tracks 27 days, 11 hours listening time 28 average daily scrobbles Sadly general listening stats are down compared to 2021. That needs rectifying.