I decided to build it. It's currently totally anonymous (bi-directionally) with no user accounts. Owner mints QR codes, prints them out an sticks them in their window (or on their bike, boat, or other of their things that sit in public spaces). Sender scans QR code and sends message. </scene>

I'm planning on bringing my in-house expert (my Classics major post-grad son) to my screening of The Odyssey so he can dumb it down for me afterwards.

Damn, I wonder how fast it can go outside.

Guys, it had a hell of a run but it's time to put the brand out to pasture.

Tried to make it more obvious that those were streaming links in the flyout. The more people scrobble to ListenBrainz and the more @para.chord users, the more external links that show up. Because your music community should be bigger than your music service silo.

Some firsts today: played one on my songs live, with a full band, at a real venue, with people in the audience (at a local Guitarmaggedon). It definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone, but I'm happy I did it. I may even do it again some time.

I've been busy with a bunch of other stuff lately, but this one is finally starting to come together. I feel like I'm in a bit of a Big '80s guitar thing right now, but maybe you all hear something different? 🔊

I was skeptical, but now I'm in deep.

Nothing quite like getting a 4GB OS update to get 8 new emoji.

Worked on a new feature today and educated myself that I've been scrobbling listening data for 20 years now. Happy anniversary to me.

Achordion album pages now display critical response summaries - with links to editorial album reviews as well as user reviews (via new CritiqueBrainz integration). Power to the people.🫧📌

BRB, gotta help my kid with her homework.

How it started (yesterday). How it's going (this morning). cc @listenbrainz.org @musicbrainz.org

Dammit, I just relic'ed my Taylor. 😢

My 6 hour drive yesterday motivated me to wake up early and add Android Auto support to Parachord this morning. 🙌

First time hiking Letchworth State Park in upstate NY. It's legit.

My sweetheart looking particularly fetching in the morning sun.

I'm bringing back another one of my old favorite Tomahawk tricks to @parachord.bsky.social...

The new one is getting closer. "Meddle Shop" by Quarantine Angst. 🔊

I'm a sucker for sunset pics. These were tonight's.

Me, on Thursday: "maybe I'll just start scaffolding out the UI for a future Parachord Android app before I leave for vacation on Monday" Me, on Sunday: "well damn, I'm pretty much done"

Two months ago tomorrow I released my first full-length album. Much love to everyone that has given it a spin. 😘

... and so it begins. Parachord Android

I'm so glad to see @plamere.bsky.social rebuilding SmarterPlaylists and even happier to see when my Parachord browser extension just magically works in the type of scenarios I build it for. ☺️

In addition to dark mode, next week I will ship concert recommendations and artist dates with multiple event plug-in providers. Also, a tiny thing I've wanted for a long time - just a little indicator to show if the artist you are currently listening to has an upcoming show near you.

I needed to clean up some UI inconsistencies, so Dark Mode is coming sooner than later.

If you are wondering where all of the snow in Brooklyn goes, I found. It apparently gets trucked and dumped in two square blocks down by the IKEA.

I was pretty productive today. I fixed a lot of Parachord bugs, improved the Friend feed, added customizable embeds on the smartlink pages and pushed an update. (No concert dates in this one, but hopefully soon.) Time to put down the laptop and pick up a guitar and a beer. 🍻

Hey, unsurprisingly ChatGPT is not a trustworthy source of concert dates given it is showing I'm playing in LA in a couple of months. 😝

This is the first time AI made me LOL.