I feel the same way. The only way I found that lets me cope with this is by having 1-2 personal projects, closed source, with me as the only user, where I slowly build things the way I enjoy, and where the outcome is useful software that doesn't try to monetise at the expense of the end user.

I think your last sentence is the key point - the times I've used bisect have been related to code I didn't really know, and where the knowledgeable person was not with the company more or on holiday.

Exactly. And even if I do know the source pretty well, that doesn't mean I'm caught up on all the new changes coming in. It's often a lot faster to bisect than to read the log over the month or two since I touched something.

Even so, normally anything like a crash or fatal error is going to give you a log message somewhere with a stack dump that will indicate generally where the error happened if not the exact line of code.

For more subtle bugs, where there's no hard error but something isn't doing the right thing, yes bisect might be more helpful especially if there is a known old version where the thing works, and somewhere between that and the current version it was broken.

Or they were barking up a wrong tree and didn’t know it yet, and the rest of us were doing parallel discovery.

Tick tock. You need competence in depth when you have SLIs.

Note that the scope of the project goes beyond CDs, it's a catalogue for pretty much any format where you can play music.

> Even with a significant amount of time double checking and fixing the metadata, I consider it a good use of time. I was not simply ripping my CDs, I was helping maintain the historical record.

This is the spirit - I've started doing the same for releases that don't appear in MusicBrainz and it feels great knowing that I'm not just doing this for myself.

I use MusicBrainz and donate every month - yeah data is not perfect, but you can go and fix it yourself if needed, and the UI is extremely functional without any frills.

I’m still working on my physical music management application.

It integrates with MusicBrainz and Last.fm, so that I can easily add records, scrobble them, and search/track stats.

I want to figure out how to track availability for records I want to buy, which would involve interacting with marketplaces.

Using Elixir, SQLite and Phoenix LiveView, which is what I know best and lets me focus on UX and UI.

For a few months I've been working on an application to manage my physical music collection. Records I own, records I want to find, with some stats/search/metadata that actually use.

It's built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, backed by SQLite. Records are imported via MusicBrainz, and data enriched via Last.fm.

I'm looking now to add notes for each artist and record, along with arbitrary associations. Think supergroups, side projects, etc. and some trivia/quotes/stories that I can easily add for my own reference.

Claudio Ortolina

  Location: London, England, UK
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I’m a software professional with 15 years of commercial experience in complex web applications, apis and highly available distributed systems.

I’ve worked both as an engineer directly building products and as a manager at different scales, with my last work experience as a CTO for an industry-leading document company.

I'm coming back from a year-long sabbatical where I focused on my family.

I'm looking for a product development role (so no management) where I can also train/coach other engineers, in a company that values taking part in the development community of the tools they're using.

What an album Pornograffitti!

I spent an entire summer blaring it from my clapped-out Grand Cherokee in high school. It's an underrated gem sold short by the massive success of "More Than Words". My friends and I saw them a year ago in LA and they were fantastic (as were Living Colour who opened for them). Hearing Nuno play the opening to "Women In Love" as a Van Halen tribute was icing on the cake and probably the closest we'll ever come to hearing Eddie do it now that he's gone.

Sadly I’ve never seen them live. Nuno is really one of the great ones, when you’re that good it’s easy to go overboard and lose track of what the song needs.

How was Living Colour? That’s one I have on the bucket list.

> How was Living Colour? That’s one I have on the bucket list.

Amazing. The entire band was in top form and Corey sounds as amazing as he did 30 years ago. Getting to hear all of the great deep cuts from "Vivid" and "Time's Up" was a real treat. They also did a little old school hip-hop medley based around Doug's time as a session musician for Grandmaster Flash et al. I didn't even realize that they were opening until the day of so it was a very welcome surprise.

From my perspective, the negativity stems from a general disregard of environmental impact, copyright or intellectual property, or education around hallucinations.

yes this is indeed a huge problem. all these models are trained on massive amounts of stolen data and the creators aren't receiving any of the benefit. that seems a sheer disregard for private property rights, the one thing the govt should be in charge of.