Felipe

~15 years of film-watching data

wrote about my favorite things of 2025 felipecortez.net/2025-in-revi...

just fulfilled my long-time dream of automatically putting together a playlist of 125–135 BPM high-energy songs in ascending tempo order based on my Spotify listening history!

Slightly diminish a band: The Mercury Volta

the Severance Wiki is great www.severance.wiki/typography

got this beauty today

the best part about the new Shinichirō Watanabe anime is once again the intro song www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nX...

more books read, more spines drawn

the web platform is crazy. in 3 days I've discovered 1. there's a gamepad api, 2. line-clamp lets you truncate text containers by amount of lines, 3. you can now animate display: none → display: block through transition-behavior: allow-discrete. all mostly available according to caniuse

ok this is getting pretty cool

got the "Stream on Spotify" integration working. out of the 1055 albums in my library, MusicBrainz had a Spotify link for at least one release in a release group for 423 of them. not bad

2025 in books so far

@glennmcdonald.bsky.social just finished your book! lots of great stuff. thanks for writing it. really hope you get to work on Fifth Exuberantly Normal Form: The Data Alchemy Rock Opera next, as I'm really interested in reading the 20k word E.F. Codd digression

lastfm scrobbles hydrated with musicbrainz artist country data!

DuckDB is very cool tech. I ingested my last.fm music listening history into a small table, “attached” a MusicBrainz Postgres database and can do JOINs between them!!!

Elements of Clojure is now available as a free PDF: elementsofclojure.com

there isn't an obvious free, nice-looking, correct-aspect-ratio flag library I could find from my google searches but you can get them from twemoji github.com/twitter/twem..., which requires only attribution as per CC-BY 4.0 🎉

added flags to my music collection app!

> The country flags in Unicode are represented as pairs of regional indicator symbols. Each flag is made up of two regional indicator letters, which correspond to the country’s ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code ok this is quite clever!

silly project of 2025: illustrating the spine of every book I read. this is January

favorite things of 2024: stormy-interest-217.notion.site/2024-in-revi...

up until now my favorite way to pomodoro was this open source macOS widget app: github.com/michaelvilla... Raycast Focus lets me write what the current task is _and_ you can move the timer to the menu bar? I'm sold www.raycast.com/core-feature...

almost

I wrote a tiny Raycast extension this year that's a thin wrapper for a Thesaurus website I like. somehow it's got 0xFF downloads? nice. www.raycast.com/FelipeCortez...

2024 in kilograms