Jul 15, 2026
In just 3 short years, we’ve gone from Stack Overflow and manual debugging to a full-blown almost(?) sentient cloud-based helper with deep understanding of almost all valuable human knowledge. Over the course of many years I built this site line-by-line and put in the building blocks for a floating player that users can use to control music (as referenced in the prior post). Now with the help of AI, I implemented it in 30 mins! More features are planned, but I’ll save that for future posts/updates.
The floating player (currently) appears when any audio or video track is played and persists with scrolling. It also surfaces the ability to skip to next tracks and has autoplay functionality, so that tracks keep playing, one after the other.
First up is The Japanese House, project of Amber Bain, an English songwriter who puts out dreamy indie pop. The project takes its name from a Cornish holiday cottage she stayed in as a child. Both of these tracks are from her second album In the End It Always Does, which has stayed in my rotation since it came out.
Barry Can’t Swim is the alias of Joshua Mainnie, an Edinburgh-born producer with a warm, jazz-flecked take on house music. His debut When Will We Land? picked up a Mercury Prize nomination, and both tracks below come from it. It’s a record that feels like summer.
SUMIN (수민) is a Seoul-based singer and producer whose fingerprints are all over modern Korean R&B, writing and producing for others in between her own releases. For the MINISERIES albums she teamed up with the producer Slom.
TOPS have been making silky, sun-faded soft rock in Montreal for over a decade, built around Jane Penny’s airy vocals and David Carriere’s guitar. I have been listening to their latest record Bury the Key frequently.
Django Reinhardt: the Belgian-born Romani guitarist who, after a fire left him with only two working fingers on his fretting hand, invented a new way to play the instrument — and with it, gypsy jazz. Recorded in 1930s Paris and sometimes with the violinist Stéphane Grappelli, they are perfect for some mornings or weekends.
Nicola Cruz is an Ecuadorian producer who folds Andean instruments and ritual rhythms into his electronic beats. These two tracks are from Cantos de Visión, the companion EP to his debut Prender el Alma.
