Cory Dransfeldt • Posts

I run my own analytics on this site.

Merriam-Webster: An organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.

I've written at length about my scrobbling implementation on my site.

Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees.

I've been getting more email from agents lately and it's all both formulaic and irritating.

When I started setting up private, self-hosted services one of the things I wanted to maintain was a pattern of friendly, human readable names to access them.

I've been working on a number of connection points between my site and the broader web.

Replying to "I made a music app" I'm indecisive, so Cadence is back on the app store.

I only ever use Siri to set timers and turn on Do Not Disturb.

Due to my compulsive need to self-host whatever I possibly can1, I decided to set up a self-hosted PDS.

For a while now, my home page has shown whatever song I'm listening to (or, if idle, the last one I played).

I've had this long, long running relationship with bookmarking and read it later services.

Now that this site is written in Go1, I've turned to restoring and adding more features connecting it to the open web.

I work from a big corner desk and part of the space on that desk is taken up by a small TV positioned in the corner.

I'm a reluctant Bluesky user and a new Bluesky user.

Watching the tech hype train while working in the industry has always felt a bit surreal.

I built a native iOS client for linkding and launched it, as I usually do, with a sarcastic-ish Mastodon post.

That I even need and have made a diagram of the infrastructure for this site speaks to how over-engineered it is.

I've already blocked entire countries to combat scrapers, I update my robots.txt for well-behaved bots (and 403 any included in the list that access anything other than my robots.txt).

I've spent a while recently migrating my personal infrastructure off Coolify.

Navidrome released plugin support a few weeks ago and I've been working on implementing a plugin that scrobbles my listens to my own API endpoint.

Owning your own data is hard.

You learn something new every day.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the open web.

I use analytics on this site primarily to see where referral traffic comes from.