Jon Dueck

New music discovery has come up as a topic of discussion a few times with different friends.

Favourite Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, It Was Just an Accident Stellan Skarsgard, Sentimental Value (he really should be in Leading though) William H.

Every year, I like to put out my lists of favourites.

I listened to approximately 984 unique artists, and 5232 unique songs for a total of 9,929 plays, down about 9% from last year.

This April 14th, here are five covers of Aphex Twin’s Avril 14th: A pedalsteel cover by Will Van Horn A eurorack cover by Deadmidi A vibraphone cover by Robby Bowen and Adam Holmes A cover on a GameBoy by @MonkeyTrumpet A banjo cover by Max Allard

Ahead of this year’s Oscars, I want to revist my favourite films of the year from my Favourites of the Year post now that I’ve had the opportunity to see a few more 2024 movies.

Skip to: Music, Movies, Books Music of the Year I listened to 209 albums from this year.

I listened to approximately 1010 different artists, 1490 different albums, and 6357 different songs for a total of 10,938 plays, up about 85% from last year.

Visit A handful of former Pitchfork writers started a new, independent music publication: Hearing Things.

Jay Hoffman of The History of the Web traces the the cycles of hype and shamelessness through to today in Beware the Cloud of Hype A Website is a Room – “We ought to carefully examine the qualities of the living environment that each web space provides for

I’m a bit unusual in how attentively I track the music that I listen to.

Read We Can Have a Different Web says Molly White Celine Nguyen writes about Research as a Leisure Activity An interesting at experiment writing musical notation with CSS Grid Leo Kim writes about “the emergent aesthetics of artificial intelligence” for T…

The day after I had counted down all of your breaths Down until there were none, were none, were none, were none A hummingbird crashed right in front of me and I understood all you did for us You gave, and gave, and gave, and gave Colombia by Local Native…

Read AI Isn’t Useless.

Read Reading the Rocks by Jenny O’Dell What The World Needs by Jeremy Keith One of my favourite film critics, Alissa Wilkinson, did an AMA on Reddit Visit “Explore RSS feeds in your neighbourhood with rss-is-dead.lol” URL Anatomy Record.club, a new music…

No cheating – your Quietus style Baker’s Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by.

Read Bryan Manio wrote about How to quickly add RSS links with Raycast and Feedly.

A new year, already a month old.

Last year, Noah Jacobus wrote about his drafts to share what he was thinking about while starting his blog.

2023 was a year of celebration and sorrow.

Once again, this year’s listening was a mix of Apple Music (the app), Apple Music (the service), and Spotify.

Decided to set an automation to turn my phone to grayscale later in the evening and I can’t describe the relief it gave my brain @thetimmywall on Threads My friend Tim taught me a neat iOS 17 trick.

On the twenty-ninth, I made some pizzas and celebrated a birthday with some friends.

I was at my local library just over a week ago to return my copy of Ducks by Kate Beaton and I’ll be back as soon as my hold on Jenny Odell’s Saving Time is ready to pick up.

I know you’re back… Yesterday, I went to my first concert in a few years.

In case you missed February, here’s the second edition of my collection of links from the month.

I’m still trying to figure the best way to share links with this blog.

After weeks of milder winter weather, we find ourselves back in the negative mid-twenties.

Post 3/3 as a part of Bring Back Blogging. 🎉 Yesterday in the office, we talked about the music that we listen to while working.

Post 2/3 as a part of Bring Back Blogging.

Post 1/3 as a part of Bring Back Blogging.

Albums of the Year I only listened to 52 albums this year.

I primarily listen to music via Spotify (even when I own the music), but this year I trialled Apple Music for a bit as well.

“What are five songs where it Just Isn’t Christmas if you haven’t heard them?”

After seeing friends sharing their Spotify Wrappeds, and Apple Music Replays, I joked on Twitter: I’d like to see Paprika Wrapped.

In October, two friends and I took a short trip to Port Moody and Vancouver, British Columbia.

It’s hard to admit that it’s time to start on a fall playlist.

I’ve wanted to make a Twitter bot that tweets horse_ebooks-esque nonsense based on my personal tweets for a while.

Today, Chris Coyier announced that CSS-Tricks has been acquired by DigitalOcean.

It’s been a h*ck of another year.

It’s been a h*ck of a year, but there was some nice media to help me get through it.

This was a bit of an off year for me.

As originally posted on Listeners Club.

As originally posted on Listeners Club.

As originally posted on Listeners Club.

A response to @dustin’s Five Design Questions. 1 – Tell us who you are in one sentence.

I wrote an entry on Day One Publish outlining one of my favourite ways to journal.