Exams are over, the sun came and went, I got a first (hurrah!), a job for a couple of months and now it’s just .. working out what now? Completing Chrono Trigger is my first priority :D
Spent some time moving the last.fm charts thing to Python, because Python is tasty, PHP is clumsy, and matplotlib [...]
Just a note to say I updated Historical Charts to take advantage of Last.fm automatically correcting misspelled info.
Forever ago, in the glory-days of Napster and Kazaa, I discovered Radiohead (hurrah!) and amidst the 28.8kb/s hunt for b-sides and rarities on other people’s computers found myself in possession of a song called Cogs. It was a weird and haunting song that seemed to fit right into the Kid A/Amnesiac theme but didn’t [...]
I updated my historical charts program to allow album and track charts, make it utf8 compatible and give it a graphical overhaul too, hurrahs all round.
Same process as before – when you first create each kind of chart it’ll take a while to fetch your data, subsequent charts will be created a whole lot faster. [...]
I made my program to generate charts for any date range from LastFM data available to anybody a few weeks ago and it’s had a positive response, being included on build.last.fm as an interesting extra kindofthing. Though still nobody has feedback or suggestions. Maybe in itself it’s relatively complete and I should think [...]