day44 &mdash; Gerrit Niezen https://gerritniezen.com/tag:day44 Maker of open-source software and hardware. Sat, 02 May 2026 16:04:36 +0000 https://i.snap.as/aMPXpIot.png day44 &mdash; Gerrit Niezen https://gerritniezen.com/tag:day44 Serendipity https://gerritniezen.com/serendipity?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I saw this toot on Mastodon today and decided to see if there's anything interesting on Bandcamp: iframe src="https://merveilles.town/@irimi1/104324651873338892/embed" class="mastodon-embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="650" height="200" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"/iframescript src="https://merveilles.town/embed.js" async="async"/script And would you know, within a couple of minutes I discovered an amazing chiptune album created by someone living in my town (!): iframe style="border: 0; width: 400px; height: 472px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3982210254/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamlessa href="http://donotrunwithpixels.bandcamp.com/album/the-outside"The Outside by donotrunwithpixels/a/iframe Not only that, but this same person also created a Nintendo Game Boy game during lockdown, and their blog is pretty delightful too. The things you can discover when you don't depend on algorithms to do your discovery for you, which is basically what I've done with Spotify for the last decade. --- I’m publishing this as part of 100 Days To Offload. You can join in yourself by visiting https://100daystooffload.com. #100DaysToOffload #day44 iComment on this post/i div id="cusdis_thread"/div]]> I saw this toot on Mastodon today and decided to see if there's anything interesting on Bandcamp:

And would you know, within a couple of minutes I discovered an amazing chiptune album created by someone living in my town (!):

Not only that, but this same person also created a Nintendo Game Boy game during lockdown, and their blog is pretty delightful too.

The things you can discover when you don't depend on algorithms to do your discovery for you, which is basically what I've done with Spotify for the last decade.

I’m publishing this as part of 100 Days To Offload. You can join in yourself by visiting https://100daystooffload.com.

#100DaysToOffload #day44

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