6 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

I review the movies I watch on Letterboxd. Now I’m doing the same for the albums I listen to, on Record Club. I want to meet the music-lovers where they are and in writing on Letterboxd I’ve realized that a dedicated platform for a medium encourages me to write and enriches my enjoyment. So, just like with Letterboxd, I’m pulling those reviews back into my listening blog via PESOS. The shape of this is identical to my Letterboxd importer: read a public RSS feed, find reviews that aren’t already on my site, and write them out as Jekyll posts. Bless the open standard of RSS. Three differences from Letterboxd The feed mixes activity types. Record Club’s RSS includes more than reviews. It also logs when I add an album to my queue or my rotation. For now, I only want the actual reviews, so I filter on the phrasing of the item title, which is the only place that distinguishes them: # Record Club mixes review items in with queue/rotation additions in the # same feed. Only the "listened to…

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