This is the fourth post on my never ending Spotify building bad UI and UX following my posts on Spotify’s new Create button , the long road to add an item to a playlist and changing the view while the user interacts with the app . Now I’m back with something new: the blue dot that is not indicating that a new episode or album was released.

The Blue Dot

The blue dot next to an artist or podcast is a good indicator to know when something new is released.

I recently built a web text editor with LLM integration. It is a simple editable div. You can write text with basic markdown support like * and ** for bold and italic. I wanted to implement a feature to automatically open a context menu when moving the mouse above a sentence. The context menu should then be used to trigger a LLM to rewrite the sentence. The text is stored as markdown without any deeper structure.

Auto-Renew QNAP NAS TailScale Let’s Encrypt Certificates

In this guide, I set up a cronjob to automatically issue and renew the TailScale TLS certificate to access my QNAP NAS via ita TailScale name with a valid TLS/SSL (https://) certificate.

I’m late to the pizza party. A few days ago, everyone was talking about the Pentagon Pizza Report or Pizza Index. Every time I read something similar to this, I have a Eureka moment thinking oh my gosh, this digital world is so crazy. Two weeks later, when I’m back to normal I’m already less aware of these things. Another report that is stuck in my head is the US president’s bodyguard being tracked via their Strava activity. I wonder how much do all these secret intelligence services know (obviously they know almost everything) and how much does each of the digital businesses know¹. If there’s a pizza index, then there must be a Uber index, Google maps and Apple maps index. Maybe even Spotify knows this since the Pentagon employees do not listen to music or podcasts while driving home.