You might be interested in this app I'm building.
parachord.com
06.03.2026 16:40
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You might be interested in this app I'm building.
parachord.com
I'm so glad to see @plamere.bsky.social rebuilding SmarterPlaylists and even happier to see when my Parachord browser extension just magically works in the type of scenarios I build it for. ☺️
Parachord (https://parachord.com)
In addition to dark mode, next week I will ship concert recommendations and artist dates with multiple event plug-in providers.
Also, a tiny thing I've wanted for a long time - just a little indicator to show if the artist you are currently listening to has an upcoming show near you.
TFW when you find a critical build/CI issue that was causing major issues in all of the alpha releases (but "works for me(TM)" for anyone that build it themselves).
Yeah, until the bug reports start flowing in.
Given I'm working blind on a few platforms, there are already a fair number to tackle and I'm trying to stay on top of them so I can get back to the creativity part.
Highly related... 😉
bsky.app/profile/jher...
I needed to clean up some UI inconsistencies, so Dark Mode is coming sooner than later.
Sometimes Claude likes to try and guilt me by saying "this is a massive amount of work" and I'm just like... "yeah cool, have fun!".
Thanks. I'll leave that for a nice open-source contributor to tackle. 😉
If you are wondering where all of the snow in Brooklyn goes, I found. It apparently gets trucked and dumped in two square blocks down by the IKEA.
I was pretty productive today. I fixed a lot of Parachord bugs, improved the Friend feed, added customizable embeds on the smartlink pages and pushed an update. (No concert dates in this one, but hopefully soon.)
Time to put down the laptop and pick up a guitar and a beer. 🍻
Who do I know that works at BandsinTown?
Hey, unsurprisingly ChatGPT is not a trustworthy source of concert dates given it is showing I'm playing in LA in a couple of months. 😝
Good news, I made downloading Parachord from parachord.com *much less scary*. Just click the download button and it will do the right thing based on your computer OS/silicon.
I lied about the Universal builds for Mac. There are now separate builds for Apple (M1+) and older Intel silicon machines.
I pushed the new release to existing users, or get it here: github.com/Parachord/pa...
It was easier to build this whole app than it is to get Apple codesigning and notarization to work.
Someone read my post and said it reminded them of this 20 year old Clay Shirky article and sure enough, time is a flat circle.
gwern.net/doc/technolo...
<Ron Howard narrator voice>: It *did* work that time.
I had another day of fighting with Mac codesigning issues - but now I have Parachord builds that *should* also work on Intel-based Macs. Also a bunch of bug fixes, new full-album/playlist embeds, and the browser extensions should be in the Chrome/Firefox stores soon.
github.com/Parachord/pa...
This is the first time AI made me LOL.
I was wondering how long it was going to be until someone requested dark mode for Parachord. Well, I have to wonder no more. 😆
I added a bunch of working demos to the site to better help convey - much more fun if you are running Parachord, but hopefully you get the picture.
parachord.com/demos/
So we have two new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees that only put out one proper studio album each, and I'm totally ok with that. "Grace" and the "Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" are both all-timers.
Now shipped. 🚢
FWIW, I have plans to start mobile work relatively soon.
You could argue that curators need better solutions to expand their reach without increasing their workload - but either way it's not that big a market. Also as soon as you become a commercial enterprise, all the rules changes.
My sister's friend had questions. Maybe you have the same ones, so here you go. 🤪
If anyone is interested, you can read more about this project here: parachord.com/blog/
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