Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar@mastodon.social

I’ll probably post here again now? Post here more now? Again more now post here now more again.

If nothing else, this motivates me to:
• fix my broken bots (all but one are not functioning)
• launch my personal blog where I can post stuff about WordPress and music trivia
• move all my yearly music lists off of Tumblr and onto my website

@darius Just got a real-life Glitch Logo in a Facebook tab’s favicon.

I am certain a lot of my concern comes from an obsessive, collector-mindset bias.

I also think my concerns about accessibility and third-party-owned non-archives of important information are valid.

I know concerns about walled gardens are nothing new, and that the idea that *all* content should be accessible to everyone and archived online forever is a reductive way of thinking about things.

But I think people are sharing things and seeing things on Instagram that they’d *like* to be able to find again more than a day later, but there is nothing that provides the same user base, content flexibility, immediacy/ephemerality, and re-post-ability that Instagram does.

I think the ability for content to be ephemeral is really important and necessary.

But in a time where so much important information is being shared on Instagram—calls to action, antiracist self-education starting points, news, even open-for-business hours—it’s frustrating that the only way to consume or work with that content is to look at a screenshot of text, hope you can determine its provenance/veracity, hope you can remember it.

I am really uneasy about the amount of content that is now shared only or primarily on Instagram (and Twitter, to a lesser extent).

There is little to no accessibility, sharing outside of Instagram is severely limited, searching for content is impossible, there is no organized archive whatsoever, and, in the case of Stories, the content literally disappears a day later.

I see a lot of great ideas and art happening there, but it’s so ephemeral and inaccessible that I worry it’s getting lost.

Hi, I made this: Steve Miller Band’s ‘The Joker’ but the Wah-wah Sound Happens After Every Line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JXHSb1LSQ

I am 35 years old today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6dGAZTj8xA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtpD0TJVdFY

The code for this bot is open source: https://github.com/matthewmcvickar/soundcloud-comments-bot

Here is a log of @soundcloudsaid finding its most recent comment. As I read the three comments it had to choose from I thought, “There is an obvious choice here,” and I am *so* pleased that the bot chose the way it did.

My bot @soundcloudsaid is back online!

Apparently SoundCloud changed their API (without telling anybody?) and no longer has a `/comments` endpoint, so my SoundCloud Comments bot has been broken for two weeks. I’ll fix it soon.

Was reading an interview with Axel Willner (AKA The Field) mentioning some of his old aliases. I found a release under one—Cordouan—on an old netlabel website, and the download still works! Here’s 23 minutes of ambience (free): http://www.subsource.de/sub/043

Amazingly, in the 'Composer' field of the MP3s is this email address: porte@aphextwin.zzn.com. (Porte is another alias, and aphextwin.zzn.com still exists!)

Also two Porte releases on the label: http://www.subsource.de/sub/040/
http://www.subsource.de/sub/036/

@joshmillard Just found out about http://mazeletter.xyz and thought of you immediately.

This reminds me of this fantastic album ‘Itasca Road Trip’ by Boreal Network (AKA California-based musician Nicole Johnson), a bright and synth-y travelogue that is a balm for fans of Boards of Canada (though it’s less often dark than their work). It’s 34 songs for $6 on Bandcamp and well worth it. https://illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/itasca-road-trip