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I harvest the playlists from a variety of music shows hosted on public radio stations around the country and create Spotify playlists from them. Code is on GitHub: https://github.c…

I've had the same experience. Spotify abruptly deprecated their recommendations API endpoint ( https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/spot... ). I recently switche…

The first love letter I've enjoyed reading in quite some time. It left me wondering if my minimal, rarely updated website of ~12 years qualifies since it's hosted on big tech backe…

The hours of a public school day are generally about two hours shorter than the average workday, not accounting for commuting time. There is still a need for before and/or after sc…

I live in one of those cities that regularly makes the best places to live lists. I’m not able to get a spot in a before or after school program for my children, regardless of pric…

In a similar vein, I would suggest preparing by exercising. Being a parent of young kids is more physical than you think, or at least I thought. Carrying them while carrying other …

I believe this is the study that's being referred to. It's not by the NYT but they wrote about research by economist Raj Chetty, of Stanford, and others. https://www.nytimes.com/20…

Freebase doesn't have an ontology in the Semantic Web sense. It's always been a specialized tool with non standard protocols like MQL. Schema.org is somewhat related but not tied w…

Is there evidence that the migration to Wikidata is half-hearted? This was just announced in December. Not sure this is evidence of a "sad demise". Wikidata is non-commercial proje…

Dr. Valter Longo, who was an author of this study, was on the Diane Rehm Show in January of 2014 with others discussing the benefits of fasting. All the panelists endorse fasting t…

There is ipdb. "ipdb exports functions to access the IPython debugger, which features tab completion, syntax highlighting, better tracebacks, better introspection with the same int…

Chrome on an iPad is also showing the red SSL warning page.

An inspiring story. I wish it would prompt a discussion about access to quality education rather than HR policies at elite universities.

It's nice to see that Google is adding features to Scholar. There's concern in the library community that it will go away since its not a revenue producing service. Incidentally, M…