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Stack №500: Aug 5, 2025 Stack is Hype Machine's weekly music newsletter

Sad to see the @hypem.com newsletter being put to bed. I've found some genuinely interesting stuff there over the past few years that I probably wouldn't have picked up elsewhere 🎶 Another loss in the battle against soulless algorithmic streaming dross: hypem.com/stack/500 #HypeMachine

Wake up babe. A new reason to hate Prince Andrew just dropped 🚁

My fellow Englanders who can't dedicate an entire weekend to watching a music festival: You have until midnight tonight to catch-up with the #BBC #Glastonbury coverage on iPlayer before it's - bafflingly - all removed and replaced with that one Radiohead set from 1997.
(hat tip to `get_iplayer`)

Not knocking Foursquare (used to love that service), but this is damning: So much #AI 'insight' is based on what was succeeding years ago, rather than what's relevant now. It's like bizarro-world #SEO

/via www.brightlocal.com/blog/ai-sear...

AI Search Makes Local Listings More Important Than Ever - BrightLocal Uncover how AI search platforms like ChatGPT and Google are using local listings & citations. Learn to optimize your Google Business Profile, website, and directories for AI visibility.

"A few months ago, Foursquare teamed up directly with ChatGPT, meaning Foursquare’s location data is now powering many of the AI’s responses. What’s really wild about this is that Foursquare has pretty much retired its consumer-facing apps and websites. Yet, it’s now a key aggregator for AI search."

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

Saddened to learn of the passing of Tom Lehrer and I will just say the song 'We Will All Go Together When We Go' has really got me through some ever-so-slightly dark moments over the last couple of years. Godspeed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

I live in the expensive, authoritarian hellhole that is the UK, so when I tried to seelol funnymeme on BlueSky I was asked to prove my age.
As I trust this platform somewhat I let them check my debit card.
Didn't work. Had the same account for 20+ years. Not a great start, lads. #OnlineSafetyBill

“If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.”

So happy that #SouthPark is relevant again.

Working through my #SEO newsletters. Some takeaways:
1. Be thankful you're not working in publishing anymore
2. Structure / semantics / linking still important for ML… same as it ever was
3. If you can afford therapy, you should absolutely do it.

Sounds conclusive.

Jo Tanner: "People are always surprised that I voted Labour in '97 and then voted Tory later on" - Nope. No one is at all surprised by this. _Everyone_ voted Labour in '97. #BBCLauraK

What a horrible way to find out that your partner likes Coldplay.

YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing basically the 2 reactions to the Epstein news

Just gonna put this out there: this was a better use of time than Jon Stewarts somewhat egotistical & very flabby take on the #Epstein stuff this week: youtu.be/l6rRz7sr2Nw

These are absolutely your worst sort of posts, but you kinda saved it at the end there with a big long ding a ding dang dong a ling long.

#LastFM has a new first-party 'album quilt' generator. I'm using this as an excuse to share mine because it's the one time of the year I look _reasonably_ interesting: www.last.fm/labs/album-q...

Good to put a name on this one. You seen the piece on the old Red's BBQ place on Ecclesall Rd? It's dope.

<Pretty much what Tom said, but maybe a bit more concisely> #FrontEndNorth

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.

I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Salma Alam-Naylor on stage

Amy Hupe on stage speaking from the lectern

Craig Abbott, mic in hand

Huge well done to our final 4 speakers of the day 💚 Hope you all had a wonderful day! @whitep4nth3r.com @amyhupe.bsky.social @craigabbott.co.uk @joehart.bsky.social

Next step, National Videogame Museum! 👾🍕

Notes from #FrontEndNorth in Sheffield today on my website at www.kevinmarks.com/frontendnort... apologies for the typos.

Great contribution today, Kev.

Command and conquer via Jira anyone?

There’s a collection at Joehart.dev/games

GO MAKE SILLY STUFF.

A great sign off from @joehart.bsky.social imho #FrontEndNorth

I take this back. Well _played_ @joehart.bsky.social @ #FrontEndNorth

Vouchsafe slide.

Vouchsafe is now a gov-approved solution for the 11 million people who don't own proper ID yet don't want to have to be friends with a vicar @amyrogers.design @ #FrontEndNorth

That Animal Crossing project wasn't a weird @kitation.co.uk joke I didn't understand, see: animalcrossingdiaries.thenvm.org #FrontEndNorth

“How do we talk to designers who do not code? We gave our designers our base grid (column structure as lines in a document) and told them to design around it” - @ichimnetz.com #FrontEndNorth
you can see this site at dasruhrgebiet.de

This is the sort of layout that is possible when one combines @ichimnetz.com #CSS skills with @bell.bz cross-dominion communication skills.
🦄 S Y N E R G Y 👯‍♂️ @ #FrontEndNorth

Nils presenting a slide with a SpongeBob meme showing the text ‘Boring’, surrounded by the logos for Figma, Tailwind and ChatGPT

“The holy trinity of boring” – @ichimnetz.com at #frontendnorth

Nils overlays CSS properties on the Figma interface.

At #FrontEndNorth @ichimnetz.com provides the #Figma interface with an actually useful 'dev mode':

z-index: 9999 !important;