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I subscribe to QiReader for exactly this feature. Works great. https://www.qireader.com/


Another tip: Spotify seems to ignore anything you listen to during a "Private Session".

I listen to a lot of ambient and instrumental music while I work, but I don't want recommendations based on this, so I always start a private session.


Woah, thanks! My 2020 list was topped by some tracks off kids albums which...are for my toddler!


Mentioned to the below responder, but you should give this a try if you're on a family plan, I heard it helps with that problem: https://www.spotify.com/us/kids/


There's not Desktop version for this though, right?


Yeah, same here. Spotify should offer a 'kids' account with every premium subscription, the way video streaming services do.


The family subscription actually does! https://www.spotify.com/us/kids/


Unfortunately, "private session" resets every X hours.


After 6 hours of inactivity or app restart specifically if you plan on utilising this


That's an awful idea for a privacy feature.


You can disable sharing altogether if you want. This is specifically for a single "session." Like if you want to listen to a guilty pleasure and don't want your friends bugging you about it


It's also useful if you have a second musical "life" that you don't want to involve in your recommendations. Parents with kids' music, for instance. In my case, I turn on private listening when I go to bed, because my sleeping music is repetitive and nothing like the music I want to discover.


Of course. But even then I wouldn't want the session to end without confirmation. A prompt/reminder after six hours would make sense.


Wait wait wait, Spotify notifies my friends of what I am listening to (not a user, so honest question)?


No no, but in the UI you can see what your friends are listening to (if you're added as friends). Example I found online (the right bar is the friends feed):

https://miro.medium.com/max/3836/1*C_ImLXQdMOGljMRhLcV-Yw.jp...


And to be clear, this is an optional feature.


Appreciate that clarification. Good to know.


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• 10+ years of experience building complex business applications in Ruby-on-Rails, Javascript, React, HAML, SASS, Rspec, etc.

• I also have experience in Elixir and Phoenix

• I've helped start 2 successful SAAS businesses, one in healthcare and the other in legal tech. One was recently acquired while the other is a thriving business.


SEEKING WORK | Remote or Columbus, Ohio

Full Stack Software Engineer

https://www.adamalbrecht.com

• 10+ years of experience building complex business applications in Ruby-on-Rails, Javascript, React, HAML, SASS, Rspec, etc.

• I also have experience in Elixir and Phoenix

• I've helped start 2 successful SAAS businesses, one in healthcare and the other in legal tech. One was recently acquired while the other is a thriving business.


Downloaded it, but it asked for permission to use MacOS' accessibility features, which I thought was weird.

But they mention iOS and mac apps on the site coming soon and have an email signup form.


A lot of non-accessibility apps use the accessibility features to do things like window resizing and clipboard management. Looking at my relatively pristine MacBook Pro's settings, I've got Flycut and Rectangle (expected) and less expectedly Dropbox and Aquamacs with accessibility access.

I think (but could be wrong) that it's a relatively low-risk permission to grant.


It’s a risky permission. It allows the app to read keystrokes and manipulate other apps as though they were receiving input from the user.


Agreed. Accessibility permission gives pretty much root access, since you can click anything and give yourself any other permissions.


I totally understand why certain apps need it, but not a simple music player.


Even "simple apps" can improve their UX with it like a translator app that you can summon with a global keybinding.

There just seems to be lack a convention around telling the user why the app might need those privs. Users don't even know what accessibility privs do.


Yellow Springs is actually a neat little town on its own, with several good restaurants and coffee shops and stores. It has a reputation as sort of a hippie town. And Dave Chappelle lives there. Probably not a lot of nightlife or jobs, though.


Richard Feldman (who works with Evan Czaplicki at NoRedInk) mentioned it in the Elm slack channel.

http://i.imgur.com/pqk9oMl.png

It will definitely be a very different compile target. But Elm really doesn't take any inspiration from Javascript, so I don't think it will change much about the fundamentals of the language. Of course they'll need to add capabilities for concurrency, OTP, etc.


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hopefully not too late - but thanks regardless!


This is why I have a sit/stand desk. Often I'll start the day sitting, then once I've achieved a good flow, I'll switch to standing (usually in the early afternoon).


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