The personal brain-dump of Garrett Coakley. It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
It's hot as hell today, 33C today, 34C tomorrow. My brain is mush, so seen as I haven't written anything in a while, and in attempt to be somewhat productive it's time for an update on the whole music self-hosting thing (parts one and two ). About a month ago I was spelunking in the loft and I came across an old backup hard drive that had a copy of my music library from about seven or eight years…
(I meant to post this the weekend after the conference, but between me coming down with the lurgy, and then my server having some issues, it's taken me until now to get my shit together) On March 12th I had the pleasure of attending Clearleft's latest conference, Web Day Out , in beautiful Brighton. Billed as "A one-day event all about what you can do in web browsers today!", it was a day…
Blimey, I've been doing these for 12 years ! If you like this, then you'll definitely like Simon and Jon 's roundups of 2025. I always find something new to add to the pile in their choices. Let's get into it then shall we… Albums I'm on last.fm you know, if anyone else is still using that? Lael Neale - Altogether Strange Marie Davidson - City of Clowns The Limiñanas - Faded Geese - Getting Killed…
The Internet Phone Book My copy of The Internet Phone Book arrived, and it is a thing of beauty. An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025. It's me Here I am, in the directory, amongst some very lovely people. It's…
It's been a few months since I first posted about my efforts to get out of the Apple Music ecosystem , and aside from a few rough edges, I now have something that works really well for me. The final setup As mentioned in the previous post, I moved all of my music to a NAS , and used beets.io in conjunction with some other tools to build a metadata rich catalogue. Any new purchases get added to a…