I added photo blogs and micro blogs to author pages (along with a few other aesthetic tweaks).
On a Set Your Goals kick today. ‘Mutiny’ holds up so well. Listen: https://chorus.fm/share/alb…
On a Set Your Goals kick today. ‘Mutiny’ holds up so well. Listen: https://chorus.fm/share/alb…
I added photo blogs and micro blogs to author pages (along with a few other aesthetic tweaks).
I basically cloned an Instagram-lite feature for my blog so I guess I might as well add a micro blog here too.
January: the month that refused to end.
It was cold.
Most days had multiple absurd news push notifications, because, well, you know.
But we’re still here.
I’m trying to spend this year not falling back into bad habits of doom scrolling and feeling like I need go know everything all the time. I’m letting myself pick and choose, and trying instead to focus on what I can control. Getting back into a daily workout routine, spending time with family and friends, listening to music, enjoying coffee and a good beer.
January 2025
I have a handful of domain names I’ve stored up over the years for various projects. Some are in use, quite a few are not. When Chorus first launched I bought the short domain: chr.us for sharing short urls on Twitter to our content.
Since then Bit.ly (who was powering the short urls) has started charging a whole lot more for their service. And Twitter has put limits on how many posts can be automatically posted to their platform in a given month. Given that all the other social sites we post to don’t have as strict of limits on characters in posts, the idea of short urls doesn’t really make sense these days.
So, I am repurposing the domain name to re-direct specifically to my blog. I want to start using the “blog” portion of my website more. The goal will be to post things that don’t make sense on the homepage, and to move some of my other social media posting to one place that I control. I want to start bringing my monthly photo posts from Instagram here. I want to post more about my vinyl collection. I want to share random updates more.
And having a quick short URL to direct to the blog makes sense.
My blog: chr.us
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Ten songs is a weekly playlist from Jason Tate featuring songs enjoyed over the previous week. It is included in every edition of the Liner Notes newsletter and is free to sign up for via email.
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Read More “1/26/25 (Ten Songs)”We’re still slowly moving into the start of 2025 and there’s not a whole bunch of new music coming out yet, so this may be another relatively short one. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Read More “Liner Notes (January 26th, 2025)”Ten songs is a weekly playlist from Jason Tate featuring songs enjoyed over the previous week. It is included in every edition of the Liner Notes newsletter and is free to sign up for via email.
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Read More “1/18/25 (Ten Songs)”Quick one this week, but some early thoughts on the new Coheed and Cambria record and surprise release from The Maine. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Read More “Liner Notes (January 18th, 2025)”Ten songs is a weekly playlist from Jason Tate featuring songs enjoyed over the previous week. It is included in every edition of the Liner Notes newsletter and is free to sign up for via email.
This playlist is available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Read More “1/11/25 (Ten Songs)”Welcome to the first newsletter of 2025.
This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Read More “Liner Notes (January 11th, 2025)”Another year in the books and we’re back again to recap our favorite albums of 2024. Below you’ll find the contributor best of 2024 list with blurbs written by the staff talking about why we loved these albums. Each album title links to a streaming page so you can check out anything you may have missed. There’s also a playlist featuring a song from every album on this list, and a few staff members have shared their individual lists and some commentary in their blogs.
As always, thanks for spending 2024 with us, and I hope you find something new to check out and love.
Read More “Chorus.fm’s Top 30 Albums of 2024”Here we are again sharing yet another best of list. We’ve been here before. You know the drill.
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Read More “Jason Tate’s Top Albums of 2024”Dark Mode has existed as a perk for supporting members since 2016. It was brought to the main website in December of 2017. However, over the years as the website has been updated, so has Dark Mode, and none of the previous posts showcase how it currently looks on the main website and in the community.
This post is to give you a little preview of what life on the dark side looks like. As a supporting member you are able to set your theme on your supporter options page, or your forum browsing preferences page. Your choice will work across both sections of the website. You can choose to view the website in the Light or Dark theme, or select the “automatic” mode and the theme will be set to what your operating system theme choice is. This is a great option if you have your operating system change over to its Dark theme at sunset because then the website will automatically switch as well.
Dark Mode will also work on third party auto-embeds that support a dark theme and, of course, also works on mobile devices. And, because it’s a supporting member perk, it never has any advertisements on it.
Read More “Dark Mode”Ten songs is a weekly playlist from Jason Tate featuring songs enjoyed over the previous week. It is included in every edition of the Liner Notes newsletter and is free to sign up for via email.
This playlist is available on Spotify and Apple Music.
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