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More on Spotify metrics

Based on the best data I can find, last year Spotify had 602 million active users as of early 2025,

10 Dec

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It's just technology

Richard Stallman in Reasons not to use ChatGPT I call it a "bullshit generator" because it generates output

10 Dec

More on the messy economics of streaming music

Earlier today I wrote about why I think the pay-per-stream metric is a bad singular reference point, and doubly so

09 Dec

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My favorite terminal emulator, Ghostty, is now a non-profit

Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Ghostty, wrote about this last week: I believe infrastructure of this kind should be stewarded

09 Dec

Pay per stream is a messy metric

Here's a question: let's say Music Service A pays me $0.01 per song streamed on

09 Dec

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09 Dec

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Generative AI use continues to rise

I recently discovered the Generative AI Adoption Tracker and it's a really interesting look at the data on

08 Dec