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J Herskowitz

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🎸 as Quarantine Angst (https://quarantineangst.com/) ▶️ Advising + Tinkering ⏮️ Product @ SeatGeek, Spotify, Tomahawk, LimeWire, AOL music, DigiScents, GameShark & some other stuff 🪹 Brooklyn, NY

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J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 3d

It seems the Spotify Android app now link-shorten (spotify.link) when you copy a song link - which seems to break most universal link platforms. Unclear whether they consider this a feature or a bug.

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 4d

Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.

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J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 6d

I wish there was a rewind button on YouTube recommendations so I could easily jump back to my regular programming after going down some fleeting rabbitholes on woodworking, camper vans and electric motorcycles.

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 7d

I'm not really a scary movie guy, but I just watched Weapons and enjoyed it.

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 8d

That said, my superpower is in breaking software. An engineer I used to work with once called me "Captain Cornercase".

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 8d

There is a lot of software I use lately that I swear the product manager(s) of it has never used.

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J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 8d

I'm honestly quite surprised that Spotify is testing inflicting everyone with this UI for a feature that most people aren't going to give a shit about. If you want to just scan the playlist to see what's in it, good luck.

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 8d

Yesterday my wife hit a giant pothole on the BQE and got a flat tire. She slowly made her way to the tire shop off the next exit. In the waiting room she met a couple that had also just hit the same pothole.

These tire guys are operating at the next level.

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 9d

I'm so old that every time I buy a $16 sixpack at the bodega I think about the $6 cases of Milwaukee's Best we used to buy in high school. If we were really desperate, sometimes a $5 case of National Bohemian.

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 9d

My apologies to all of my old coworkers that constantly have to field feature requests and bug reports from me for the rest of their professional lives.

J Herskowitz @jherskowitz.com · 11d

I'm excited to see @leemartin.com documenting his explorations in using AI agents for good in music.

I may have to dig further into N8N as it is giving warm Yahoo Pipes vibes from the Music Hackdays he and I would always attend almost 20(?!) years ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4r...