Senior photo excursion today around Buffalo. Can’t believe it’s almost here. 🥹

More big news in our household! My son Milo is a semi-finalist for the Shea’s STAGE Program, which is an intensive week of theater training that could ultimately end as our area’s nominee for the Jimmy Awards – the US high school musical theatre awards. He’s one of 8 actors nominated. ❤️

The bummer is we miss so many great little things because it doesn’t conform to the implastic version of ourselves that lives in some blindingly lit menagerie where everything is just so. Where we store the notional version of ourselves that’s never existed.

Source: It takes a worried man.

Love this… it’s probably the biggest “unlock” I’ve discovered in my adulthood. So much more joy.

Another setting on Crucial Tracks! If you are connected to Apple Music, you can share your playlist link. Turning this on adds the link on your public profile page, to the bottom of each RSS feed item, and on the Public Tracks page. (See my profile page.) More ways to share and discover music!

Two new settings are available on Crucial Tracks! You can now:

  1. Set the date format for your entries
  2. Set the RSS item title prefix (default is ‘Crucial Track for’)

So you can change it to say, “Song of the Day for 21 April 2025” if you want to adjust both new settings.

Both user requests. 😀

If any Crucial Tracks + Apple Music users want to give the Apple Music playlist functionality (save your song to a playlist when you publish) a go, I’ve added some basic instructions here:

www.crucialtracks.org/crucial-t…

Just made a breakthrough with the Apple Music add-to-playlist functionality. I will release it in the next day or two, but it will have a super beta tag until we can get users (other than just me) testing the connections and playlist support. More soon! Just need to clean up the UI a little bit.

New update to Crucial Tracks tonight and it’s a popular request: You can now link to individual public entries! (Perfect for sharing and RSS feeds…)

Enjoy!

Crucial Tracks the app is ready for beta. If you are willing to provide feedback, please sign up! app.crucialtracks.org

The app is a music journal where you can share the songs that made you: 1 post / day, search w/ Apple Music, and a public profile w/ RSS feed

Hope you like it as much as I do! 🤘

Crucial Tracks, the app, from idea to existing on the internet in 7 days. SO excited… more to come once I can put it through the paces for a few more days. If you are really interested in checking it out, send me a message!