Notes and Links
Notes, links, and other things I'd like to share. Could do it through my micro-blog, but that's a bit of a nicer format, isn't it?
🎧 Hidden Brain – The Cowboy Philosopher¶
A podcast I enjoyed for so many reasons! It's about archiving and cataloging music, American folk music, to be specific. It's about a true American archetype, the conman, huckster, crook and genius. And it contains a link to the Internet Archive, one of my favorite URLs on the internet.
This is an extended version of the podcast and beside some corrections, they added a segment about when it's better to keep a secret.
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-tale-of-the-cowboy-philosopher/
💻 HTML as an API¶
Just found this article by Fayner Brack from a few years ago again. A few dudes got mad at her, I'm pretty sure she knew what XML is. What I liked about it was that it countered the whole client-side rendering of JSON and showed how HTML acted as real hypermedia. https://fagnerbrack.com/html-is-an-api-8508362107a3
📱Geory – Travel Diary¶
Geory is a privacy-focused iOS travel journal app that automatically records your routes, visits, and trips in the background without requiring manual input, storing all data locally on your device with no tracking, ads, or foreign servers. It lets you enrich entries with notes, ratings, transport modes, photos, and weather data, then organize and filter them by categories like "Hotel," "Restaurant," or "Sightseeing" while offering export options in PDF, CSV, and GPX formats
Perfect for me nerding out about gps data.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/geory-premium-travel-journal/id1533522202
📱Went – Discover Walks Near You¶
Another location-related app: Went is a bit of a version of my Serendipity Drive that I discovered after I finished my project. It creates a walking route or hike nearby for you and uses POIs and AI to spin a little storyline for that walk. It's a sweet idea that I had too but never realized.
The gamification aspect of collecting some sort of stamps is not my thing, but overall it's a nice gimmick.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/went-discover-walks-near-you/id6757987320
📺 JK takes a photo every day for 25 years (age 22–47)¶
Is this the most dedicated selfie taker? I think so! His daily photo timelapse was already cool in 2006 and now, almost 20 years later, it still is! It's insane how disciplined he was and is. What makes the video a perfect odd internet find is the music. Apparently there is a music meme of an impossible-to-play piano tune called Rush E that exists as a MIDI file and I guess Keller mapped drum sounds to it and it's beautifully chaotic and mesmerizing at the same time.
Internet art at its best.
