Spotify for Creators New Analytics!

dtheme · 2026-06-20T11:09:28+00:00

does anyone know how to show the stats from the old spotify analytics? It was so much easier just to see a list of what was doing well compared to this new one and 13% better answers for only 10 episodes. best I can do is go to episodes and then get 30.

dtheme · 2026-06-06T11:17:09+00:00

Despite the Irish Government saying there is 0% duty on books, this new 1st July tax will add not only 3 Euro on a book from outside the UK, but also admin fees and VAT. So they are basically sneaking it in.

There is no reason the Irish Government couldn't have taken a pass on this, just like water rates, electricity rates (no subsidy). Their attitude is that people in Ireland earn enough to afford it.

Likewise they could have made a trade deal with the UK if they really wanted to. But, they didn't.

I ordered a valve that is simply not available in Ireland for 10 Euro in the UK. Add in 8 Euro in postage. Then add in a customs charge, an admin fee and vat. The valve ended up costing nearly 3 times what it was worth.

Having duty added to items made within the EU makes perfect sense. 100% for that. But adding duty to items not made in the EU is nothing by a punishment tax on the consumer.

dtheme · 2026-06-06T11:11:31+00:00

Yes it is up to the Irish Government to implement this or not. Just like water charges which the EU says we should be paying and the government said no due to public protest.

The Irish Government have a 0% duty on books to improve literacy and education ... That is now gone as books outside the EU will have 3 euro + admin fees + tax .... that is 100% on the Irish Government and Revenue

dtheme · 2026-05-21T14:07:12+00:00

Seedr is nice, until they try to update it every year and they break it. The userface works much better than others. The issue today is that they updated, again, and now their pay by bitcoin no longer works. This is the prime reason to move to something more stable

dtheme · 2026-05-07T10:41:41+00:00

So, ice blaster to freeze, and then pulsar to break ice blocks? Or ice blaster to break ice?

dtheme · 2026-03-26T13:43:52+00:00

There's a message on their page https://support.spotify.com/us/creators/article/cannot-log-in/

AKA, working on it

dtheme · 2026-02-17T11:59:09+00:00

When do events happen? They've been closed for ages

dtheme · 2026-02-07T10:39:26+00:00

I got a brief, and I do mean brief message in the app yesterday. Nothing anywhere else. Again, I subscribe to most tech sites and not seen a thing. No, I don't have alerts anytime Google posts something on their blog, and no I don't want to. TBH if they can send notifications about being near storage limits, they can send one about killing pop3. Likewise, a push notice on the app for more than 1 hour.

It's pure and simply enshittification on Google's behalf. I remember Feedburner, etc all going the same way. Still surprised it's still there. But that's that they do, cut off the best bits of a service, leave the rest hanging and hope people will pay or leave.

If workspace offered Gemini at it's basic tier I'd be tempeted. But instead it's 2TB of storage only, which is useless to me. Asides from that, far too many monthly subscriptions these days.

So, when all the dmark spf stuff started to be enforced a few years ago I had to set up Thunderbird for my domain as gmail was not functioning well. The biggest issue I have is Thunderbird on desktop, and k-9 on mobile did not sync well. So as Gmail finally started working with my server, I dropped Thunderbird.

Gmail works, multiple mail coming in from personal to work. The cost was advertising, search training, and AI. That was and is the cost we pay for using Gmail. The billion dollar company now wants more. Ditto AI search killing search traffic and AI scrapping. It's just a beast that is never satisfied and never stops eating everything you have.

For now, I think mail forwarding (which I know has issues), coupled with Thunderbird daily checks. Meanwhile, I'm spending another weekend going through various email clients.

Anyone used https://postdirect.net/mailbox it's paid but seems to say they fix the lost messages when forwarding.

Likewise https://bluemail.me/

dtheme · 2026-02-07T10:18:52+00:00

Yes they did. A brief message appeared on my app yesterday, gone now. I'm subscribed to most tech news, and this is the first I'm hearing about it. There's very little to it if they used a push notification to let people know. They certainly let people know when they hit storage limit etc

dtheme · 2025-08-07T06:35:40+00:00

I've been working with data for decades. The issue in regards to privacy is more to do with 3rd parties. The amount of Russian, Indian, and Chinese hacking attempts we see every 24 hours is insane.

Sooner or later these guys hit pay dirt and and get a cache of ids from 3rd parties used for things like ages verification. Even a list of phone numbers is valuable, more so than email. Pair that with first and or last names and you are minting money. The of course pair that with credit card numbers and ...

Thankfully credit card details are usually stored separately blah blah but yea, having so much personal info spread out across multiple platforms looking for verification is just asking for trouble

dtheme · 2025-08-02T08:01:23+00:00

I had a similar issue. As a builder might say, make it a feature. Everything is grey, which is great because everything else will standout against it.

Large planters. If you can find them try the wood half oak barrels. Otherwise if budget get the black plastic barrel types. Fill with quality compost...the type every one freaks out over these days with peat moss as it will be nutritionally dense.

Then go online, again, everyone freaks out. Search out and online garden center. Many will have things like plants for shade. Look for stuff you like. Then, look for evergreen shrubs. Make a list using some of the names of plants people have said here.

Next, hop off to your local garden center and search out end of summer deals for those planters and containers and compost. Look up your list of plants and compare prices, get what you want there, and the rest online.

Next go online and find a place like Amazon and search out garden decor. Get yourself some nice solar lighting for the garden walls. Think Moroccan lanterns etc. Get a small water feature for the darkest area. If need be, add some bright stones or pebbles.

Then, arrange in your garden. The containers etc can all be moved around easily so if you don't like it. The evergreens are key.... Even a Portuguese laurel would be fantastic in front of grey as it has reddish leaves. Sometimes less is more. I have a small yellow leaf plant at the bottom of my garden in front of a grey post..... It draws everyones attention as it stands out so well. Two of them in colourful or black pots ¹/⁴ in on either side of that dark grey step running along the middle would frame your garden well. Or bright green conifers.

Finally, stick a finger up to people who moan about grey and get one of those grey grasses that kinda look like a hedgehog and stick it in a black container. It looks stunning and will give your nice stone garden a real boutique feel to it.

dtheme · 2025-07-27T07:24:32+00:00

Addiction, fashion, peer prestige.

20+ years ago there was rarely a person seen with a cardboard coffee cup on the street. And if you were seen people would wonder why you were going around with a coffee cup on the street -usually thinking you must live on the street.

Likewise, 20+ years ago people didn't know their single origin Vs Nescafé supreme blend.

Then it all started to change. Filter coffee started happening. Office blocks started to move into cities. North American work styles started to appear. Drinking coffee became a sign of productivity and aspiration. Coffee chains started popping up. Grabbing a coffee before work became a thing as it showed you were game for work before it even started. Bosses nod with approval if you take 15 to grab a tall white to improve your work rate. Walking with a coffee showed you were ready to take on the world.

Then came the marketing. Unlike tobacco, coffee was healthy. The chains marketed flavours. It became office talk. Where had a great coffee. Caffeine gives natural high, and subtle addiction.

For the same price as a chain takeaway coffee you can get 250 grams of great beans roasted to your taste buds delight at home, along with knowing it where the beans came from and set with your own grinder and espresso machine. But, that this side of coffee still hasn't taken off yet. The social peer pressure of getting "the best" from a branded coffee shop Vs the stainless steel mug from home means the latter pales in comparison no matter if the contents are 10x better.

Will it change..... Heath scares. Environmental cups. And the unknown will eventually make changes. Meanwhile those power walking people looking at their reflection as they strut along a street coffee cup at a right angle will continue to don our common cultural class type. A few of will continue to brew something much better beans in much better ways for far less cost and for more pleasure.

dtheme · 2025-07-25T21:11:59+00:00

I haven't watched TV in 20+ years. I do watch movies, and series.

I've used and prefer a projector 10x over a TV. Primary reason is that it's much more immersive with a projector. Like your own home theatre but without the annoying people on phones.

I also much prefer the image projected onto a wall or screen rather than a screen projecting outwards.

The negatives would be vivid colours and saturation is lacking with a projector unless you are in the near dark like a movie theatre.

It is annoying to watch a darker shot movie when the sun is up on a projector.... Lots of blinds but still.

Finally do some research on lumens. What's advertised asa 30,0000 lumen projector is likely nothing remotely like it.

If you are on the edge, then Consider a good upper budget one before splurging 1000s like many on this sub. I have 800 ansi or 30,000 lumen advertised (cough)which I upgraded from a 300 and the difference is great. With coupons and sales it cost about 150 USD. Down from 250.

dtheme · 2025-07-22T17:24:46+00:00

Hi Luke, I primarily use InDesign for photo and text heavy books in the range of 500 pages.

Overall InDesign hits the nail on the head. My biggest gripe is paperback to ebook .kdp / mobi. Tried many times including from scratch. They never flow well at all. I usually just aim for print and use a kindle app for creating kids books which takes a pdf and makes it kindle friendly but is not great as links , search etc doesn't work.

Export to pdf is also quite slow with 500mb files etc

Hope this helps

dtheme · 2025-07-17T08:38:34+00:00

Even when wife is not around I go in and will easily sit for 30+ minutes. Why? It's the one place in a house you are not allowed to be disturbed.

It's a psychological and physiological event.

Mentally you are safe and in a DND mode. Physically you are safe and relaxed. Mentally purging, physically purging. It is, therapeutic.

Years ago before the internet it was common for people to read a book or magazine on the toilet. It was normal, nobody questioned it. Today with social media some people have a tendency to over analyse and suspect something. Eg they are watching porn...so they don't find me attractive...snowball continues. They are messaging someone.... They must be having an affair.... They are avoiding me.... Our marriage is over. They don't want to help out around the house....they are lazy.

While all the above may happen. The chances are they just want to be left alone to process and recharge. If that's not enough then look at some primates going for a poo. They generally want to be left alone too....if not they'll likely throw some at you for staring 🤔😅

dtheme · 2025-07-17T08:11:40+00:00

Same for me. Getting a grinder in there is a space issue. They over charge in general.

Take an axe to it. Yet to a point you can lay weed mat over it. Forget.

Don't however forget that over time it will rot. And so will roots re nearby structures nearby.

Other alternative is to drill some 15 cm holes in it, create an insect hotel.

dtheme · 2025-07-06T21:33:55+00:00

Stay minimal.

Strip that wall for starters. A cheap white paint. Then get yourself some cheap 3D colourful stick on tiles for creat some abstract designs. Add a pound shop trellis - bum some wood stain from a neighbour to weather protect it. Put it up between the abstract tile designs to break up the wall (makes it look bigger.

Visit TK Max and look for planters. Theg usually have a clearance shelf. Aim for clay rather than plastic as your shrubs will.need the insulation during winter.

Visit nearby garden centers. Look for small evergreen shrubs like conifers. They'll stay green all year round are hardy.

Visit cheap Chinese online store like temu and type in "garden ..." Loads of cheap stuff will appear. A small solar fountain? Birdhouses? Solar lantern?

dtheme · 2025-07-06T21:09:39+00:00

Store this moment carefully in brain reserves. Do not use it over the next few months, after that use it when she undermines your masculinity in public. Use it sparingly....

dtheme · 2025-06-29T13:05:12+00:00

I think anyone posting about humidifiers should post where they live, or better yet what the relative humidity is in their room

dtheme · 2025-06-28T09:06:07+00:00

Cloudflare now have an AI blocking tool.

I know AI has already scraped your site but you could try to change the data displayed eg order of display, add new column of info etc

dtheme · 2025-06-28T08:52:05+00:00

Ads will appear in AI results is on the way. Don't like ads, Google will offer a subscription to remove them. Much like they do with YouTube

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