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Stats for Spotify is a free site that shows you detailed insights into your Spotify listening habits, including your most played bands, songs, and genres over different time periods (last 4 weeks, 6 months, or all time). It uses Spotify’s official login system, so your password stays secure and private. Once you log in, it […]

“Caught up in the dynamics of the contemporary city, graffiti and street art unfold as a series of dialectical tensions, crisscrossing between legality and illegality, visibility and invisibility, art and action,* ephemerality and elongation.” (Avramidis & Tsilimpounidi, 2016). * ephemerality: the quality of being short-lived or temporary. The first thing I noticed when visiting Athens […]

Using Morsc code over the telegraph If you dig into the past, social media has been around way before Facebook and X, in a simpler form but still allowing remote communication between people. It may have started with the 18th century telegraph invented by Henry, which at first just rang a bell at the other […]

The other day, one of my friends posted this message in a motorcycle-related WhatsApp group: “We’re a community that’s very generous with knowledge and we often help out with a “come and take it” [spare parts] attitude, and it’s amazing to see and experience that. A lot of this stems from a crappy importer and […]

In this post I’ll introduce my guitar pedal board setup. It is basically unchanged for years. I mostly play a Fender Stratocaster 1986 (Made in Japan) which connects to a BOSS Compression Sustainer CS-3 which does colors the sound a bit, makes it a bit Twangy/round, but not so much to further modulate it. It […]