Also recently felt a need to leave Twitter and search for an alternative. I initially began using mastodon.social, and have now moved to my own instance https://mastodon.zone as I wanted to setup something in a closer geo location, join if you're around SE Asia!

https://github.com/http4s/http4s Is a a good example of a HTTP Framework in Scala providing idiomatic FP interfaces

There is also t which is a CLI app written in Ruby: https://github.com/sferik/t.

This is the one I've been using, it's quite nice since it plays well with typical unix streaming data through pipes workflow. Maybe not so much if you just want a interface.

The Good Samaritans law, which is enacted in varying forms across Europe and North America seems to be making it's way into Chinese provinces, Shenzhen being the first this year.

Reaper also has the excellent discounted license for $60 which covers a lot of musicians who would otherwise be forced by the singular license of Reason / Logic Pro / Ableton Live.

As mentioned in the article, the music is well worth checking out for this documentary (http://zoeblade.bandcamp.com/album/8-bit-generation). Lets hope a completed film gets released.

Thank you!

Hey! I love your music! Don't suppose you have any idea what's going on with this doco?

Thanks! I'm afraid I don't really know much more than anyone else here. I could tell you anything you'd like to know about the soundtrack itself, but as far as the rest of the film goes, I pretty much have just the trailers and archive of the website to go on, the same as everyone else. Sorry I couldn't be of more help!

I get the same feeling listening to this as the tron-legacy ost by Daft Punk. Would label the album genre as 'epic coding music' ;)

Sounds fantastic - having this in a film/documentary with the right cutting work would be totally awesome <3

This article reads better: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/pirate-bay-r...

The first word of your post needs another vowel :)

yikes! Embarrassing, but fixed nonetheless. Thank you.

The argument against the Desktop app seems unfounded, the author states: "I don’t usually like playlists and I’m the kind of guy who enjoys listening to whole albums, front to back". I'm of the same opinion, but when finding a new album to listen to I simply dray this into a new playlist and they become one and the same. This would also negate the argument against the mobile app as well.

I'm using Spotify right now. I just pick the album, click the first song and it plays the album. Am I doing something wrong? Why do I need a playlist?

This is the way I use it as well.

What I would like is some way to tag or bookmark an album. I find I stumble upon a new artist or album I like, but then forget what it was later in the week.

Just star a song from the album. When you view your starred songs you can just click the album name in the Album column and you'll be taken to the full album that the song is from.

I really like the fact that it's easy to go from a single song to an album. I have a lot of songs I bought in my library, and with Spotify its easy to now play these songs in the context of their full album.

I just have one large play list where I add albums that I find and currently listens to. If you sort it by "Added" you can always go back (scroll) and see a time line of albums that you've enjoyed.

Why not create a playlist called "bookmarked"?

This is exactly what I did. Then it's as easy as dragging the song and/or album straight to it. That's it.

My heart bleeds...