So i heard some clicking noises behind me and i turn around to see Minnaloushe just going to town chewing on the joystick of my barcade like it's a jawbreaker

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Les Orchard

So, the deepest of rabbit holes and bouts of ADHD hyperfocus gripped me this week: I built a static site generator to export my playlists from Spotify and republish them - along with a web component to play them. It might be a kind of music blog? We'll see if I actually keep it up with new mixtapes

mixtapes.lmorchard.com/

I'm especially happy with figuring out how to virtualize the tracklist in the web component, so this 8000+ long playlist doesn't do completely stupid things:

mixtapes.lmorchard.com/00-conc

And I think it's pretty cool that even though this thing defaults to playing stuff from YouTube, I got it working with my homelab installations of Navidrome and Plex - so it can play music from my personal collection (or yours) without uploading all the files somewhere.

2026/07/13