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Sarah K Moir
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Endlessly curious about docs, music, data, ethics in tech, inclusivity, borders on the web, and so much more. Can be spotted taking the bus to the club. Technical writer in SF. She/her.
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New Portola lineup just dropped and here's how recently the artists on the lineup have played here. 15 by my count haven't played here ever or in awhile...

(but please remind me when Villager was here last because I could swear they played a set I missed in the last couple years)
Details of last played year for artists on the Portola lineup with 21 artists playing a non-Portola show in 2025, 20 having played in 2024, 4 in 2023 most recently, 3 in 2022, 1 in 2021, and 15 not having played recently or perhaps ever.
May 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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trying to set vaguely achievable goals this Q1 of 2025 🙃
Trello card list titled 2025 goals, with 3 cards: Read 3 nonfiction books, with 0/7 items in a checklist checked, Go to 1-3 cultural events, and Visit 1 new bakery/cafe in SF. All 3 cards are tagged with Q1, and the first 2 are also tagged learn, and the visiting a new bakery is tagged adventure.
January 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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me: wow spotify really thinks U2 was my top 2 artist of the year, huh?

also me:
bar chart for listening activity in november, with a reddish purple for OTHER artists and a lilac for U2, plus some other artists in the legend not in the graph. Other artists are 35 listens for Fri, Nov 1, 20 for Nov 2, 15 for Nov 3, then U2 is nearly 20 (with no other artists) for Nov 4, 10 for Nov 5, almost 40 on Nov 6 (with a few other artists) and 45 for Nov 7 (with no other artists). After that listening activity returns to normal, dominated by other artists.
December 7, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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The deprecated audio feature endpoint has a policy note as well, "Spotify content may not be used to train machine learning or AI model"
Get Track's Audio Features endpoint homepage with a Deprecated badge and an admonition for Important policy note, Spotify content may not be used to train machine learning or AI model, with more details that please note you can not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingesting Spotify Content into a machine learning or AI model
December 7, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Interesting to note that spotify has deprecated a number of API endpoints that are valuable for digging into artist and track metadata, namely the Get Track's Audio Features, Get Track's Audio Analysis, and Get Artist's Related Artists endpoints
Web API reference screenshot for Get Track's Audio Analysis with OAuth2.0 and Deprecated badges, with a description for the endpoint.
December 7, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Coming soon to a blog post near you — what is going on with this year's spotify wrapped
Venn diagram with Pop in the middle and four circles, with two overlaps showing Pink Pilates Princess and Strut (pop), with artists chappell roan, sabrina carpenter, olivia rodrigo, charli xcx, taylor swift, and doja cat listed; another two overlaps are indie sleaze and strut (pop) with charli xcx, chappell roan, sabrina carpenter, carly rae jepsen, tove lo, kesha, and another set of two overlaps is indie sleaze roller skating (pop) with beyonce, ariana grande, and sabrina carpenter, and a last set of 2 overlaps with pink pilates princess roller skating pop and artists chappell roan, charli xcx, sabrina carpenter, and ariana grande
December 5, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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climbs at a gym on vacation, gets shamed via email. is this supposed to be motivating somehow??
email from griptonite app with header text reading What you climbed and body text "Your climbing activity was on the lighter side this month. You logged 15 climbs in 1 session, putting you in the bottom half of climbers. Keep pushing in December!" with a link to view profile.
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 AM