How did my listening evolve? Spotify Wrapped 2024

I did most of my year-end discussion in my post How did my listening evolve? Spotify Wrapped 2024, but I wanted to spare a post for my favorites (subjectively, not quantitatively) of the year. As a shortcut, I put most of the items on my lists that are available on Bandcamp in this Buy Music Club list. Best albums of the year SWIM - In Circles...

Over the years the dominant genres in my music taste have evolved, from mostly pop-punk in the early aughts, to primarily indie rock and bloghouse music in the late aughts, to house in the early tens, and now a much wider variety of electronic music, including UK garage and some trance. As what and how I listen to music has changed over the last...

Tianyu Fang researched a long and detailed essay called Whose Domain Is It?, detailing the politics of the Internet’s domain names, especially the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) that you might not realize are actually associated with countries. The unexpectedly popular ccTLDs can operate like a tourism effort, at least in terms of...

Most of the Internet is held together by best practices and good intentions, and WHOIS servers are one of those. One security company was investigating vulnerabilities in WHOIS and got a whole lot more than they bargained for: Each TLD (the bit at the end of the domain), you see, has a separate WHOIS server, and there’s no real standard to...

The UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius: Half a century or more after the UK relinquished control over almost all its global empire, it has finally agreed to hand over one of the very last pieces. It has done so reluctantly, perhaps, but also peacefully and legally. The Chagos Islands are also known as the British Indian Ocean...