Very applicable to programming too. I'm pretty conservative as a programmer and I've had coworkers want to completely change a segment but you never know why some weird programming was done. There be dragons sometimes.
As a software engineer who has sometimes specifically specialized in handling dragons, I always try to leave (sometimes voluminous) comments about why a thing was handled that way when it's not obvious to a surface reading.
Good practice in general but particularly so when you find a heisenbug that must be exterminated.
This is neat! I built a similar service that basically uses song playlist co-occurrence to generate song recommendations for any given Spotify track, and have found some good initial success for more popular tracks / artists [1].
The bottleneck here is using the Spotify API to find relevant playlists - as others have noted here, Spotify's API doesn't provide a way to perform direct lookup of playlists containing a given track, so the best approach I've found is to perform many text-based searches for desired search terms (e.g. artist, song name), and then do breadth-first-search on playlists created by the same users from the initial result set, in order to find other playlists that might have the artist or song you are looking for.
[1] Available in very limited fashion at https://vybe.link; this is a Spotify beta application so the full app only works for whitelisted Spotify accounts
For the record, he did so at the age of 67, facing both failing health and the loss of that which he seemed value most (his ability to write). While you can argue (with no small amount of validity) that his life choices contributed to this decline, his decision to take leave of life seems consistent with his views expressed herein on being true to oneself and one's calling, and he does seem to have fit plenty of life into those 67 years...
This quotation seems pretty apt and in my view makes his suicide seem reasonable and consistent with his views:
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S. Thompson
