A bank holiday on a thursday, that’s the perfect opportunity for an extended DJ set on a friday, starting at 11:00 – just as tradition demands it.
The show started off extremely brilliantly with a raid by Triode during the second song! More than 60 people joined us and most of them actually stayed all the way until the end which made me very happy! 😀
The next show is going to be a Top of the Week show on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, at 🕖 19:00 UTC+2/CEST.
Download & Playlist →I rewrote my chart generator tool and the code is now leaner, better to understand, and faster than before.
It also generates charts that are identical to last week’s charts… which left me puzzling for a bit until I realized what’s wrong and that the previous version of the code probably didn’t have an actual error. The three missing tracks were caused by a change in the algorithm, yes; however, the tool only ever uses a single algorithm for all charts it calculates, including the ones it uses to determine whether a track is a new entry. And because I have changed that algorithm before last week’s show, it didn’t tell me about the missing tracks because according to the new algorithm those tracks were already part of the week before!
Okay, mystery solved, code better than before, I guess that is a great success! 😄
I initially started messing around with the code because I wanted to know how Tinlicker is still in the charts and basically the answer is “because the track never really drops below place 31.” Well, if you’re consistently in the top third of a daily Top 100 you have kind of earned the right to be in a weekly Top 50. 🙂
Because there is a bank holiday tomorrow I have taken Friday off, and I will be playing a Top of the Month show! It will start at the usual time of 🕚 11:00 UTC+2/CEST to accompany you during lunch and maybe the last hours of your work week (in case you didn’t take the Friday off or don’t actually have this holiday).
The next Top of the Week show will then be on next Wednesday, June 1st, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
→ Download and PlaylistThis week was a wild ride. First one of the best tracks of the last weeks was suddenly at #45 or something like that (Plumb’s “Same Sky Same Stars,” if you must know) and then I discovered that I was missing not one, not two, but three tracks! Tracks that my tool should have told me to download but didn’t. And the charts themselves are looking rather weird again so I probably broke something when I added some functionality that lets me evaluate a track’s movement through the charts over time. So I guess I need to spend more time debugging that mess!
The next Top of the Week show will be on next Wednesday, May 25th, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
→ Download and PlaylistOkay, the second week with the new algorithm behaves a bit like I predicted, there were only six new entries. I’m very interested to see what amount of new tracks per week it will stabilize on and also if reducing the number of new entries makes the show less interesting because most of the tracks are already known? I have no idea, I guess we’ll have to wait and see!
In more important news, The New Cat™ is slowly, very slowly warming up to us three. Most of the time he still starts to run off as soon as there’s hectic movement but being allowed to pet him for a second or three is starting to look like a possibility! He’s also still quite wary of our other cat but at least during food time the proximity between the two can be reduced to almost zero… at least as long as they’re eating and nobody tries to eat the other one’s food. 😁
Also, Tinlicker dropped down to #46! Is that the lowest position that song ever had in these charts? Quite possible!
The next Top of the Week show will be on next Wednesday, May 18th, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
→ Download and PlaylistLast night, when I was preparing the tracks for today’s show, I noticed that apparently I was generating the weekly charts from the charts of a single day… which does give you a kind of nice snapshot but was somehow not what I intended it to be! So I fixed the bug in the software that I have written especially to generate these charts and believe with absolute certainty that my code is now 100% bug-free. Guaranteed!
I do wonder how this is going to influence the charts in the future… my current assumption is that there will be less movement because actually calculating the charts over seven days instead of one acts like a lowpass filter and thus should smooth out any hectic motion. Normally we do have around 20 new entries, and the generated list for today gave me 15 new entries which is a bit more than I would expect. But we will totally have to wait and see how this all plays out. I’m looking forward to next week already!
Also, Tinlicker is still in, nothing changed about that. 😄
The next Top of the Week show will be on next Wednesday, May 11th, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2. I might play a Top of the Month show this weekend, stay tuned for more info!
→ Download and PlaylistThe cats are still in the process of getting used to one another, a process that we think might easily last months. Monty has gotten a bit more relaxed but still doesn’t like being approached by anybody. Feeding both cats almost next to each other is less of a problem now, only every now and then there’s a bit of hissing but mostly it has been peaceful over the last week.
I also played some music, can you believe it? Tinlicker’s oldest track is still on a yoyo course through the charts, bouncing back up to #17 from last week’s #29 while Tinlicker’s newest track (I think it was played last week?) hasn’t managed to make a reappearance this week. Let’s see what the future holds!
The next Top of the Week show will be on next Wednesday, May 4th, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
→ Download and PlaylistAnd just like that we’re back to a regular number of new entries, or maybe even a little less… I don’t even know and at this moment I can’t be assed to actually check some statistics… so, I’m simply gonna claim that the 17 new entries we had is totally an average amount. Who’s gonna prove me wrong? You? I didn’t think so. 😀
In cat-related news: the new cat (dubbed “Monty”) has been given a territory in the living room and my study. So far he’s quite shy, he’s hissing if you get too close but he doesn’t seem to be overly frightened. He’s spending quite some time in a plush cave thingy we put up on the window sill, and he has a scratching post/wall-mounted bed combo that he also likes quite a lot, looking down on us, like cats usually do. Most encounters with our old cat were, let’s say, non-negative, and except for one occurrence tonight where both got a little louder they mostly just stare at each other when they’re both near the wire-mesh gate that we use to separate them.
It will stay exciting and I’m looking forward to spending more time with both cats!
The next Top of the Week show will be on next Wednesday, April 27th, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
→ Download and PlaylistWow, this week had a lot of new entries! Twenty-nine tracks displaced more than half of last week’s tracks, making this probably the least stale episode ever. 😀
In other news: we contacted some people last week who had a cat to give away and after a short visit the couple currently owning the cat decided to give him over to us. He will arrive on friday and my wife has already switched to cat heaven construction overdrive mode, painting, sawing, and building a couple of things that the cat will hopefully enjoy.
If all goes well I will have some pictures to show next week. 🤞
The next Top of the Week show will be on next Wednesday, April 20th, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
→ Download and PlaylistSo, work has picked up again and it’s keeping me busy. Anyway, it was Wednesday once again so without further ado here is last week’s Top 50:
The next Top of the Week show will be on next Wednesday, April 13th, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
→ Download and PlaylistThat has to be the most minimal delay for a Top of the Month show, like, ever! The new month is just eleven hours old and I’m already starting the Top of the Month show for the month that literally just finished? How crazy is that?!
Well, just a little bit, to be honest. I believe I did spend the last day of my vacation well, so after the weekend it’s back to work for me but right here you can pretend it’s still this morning at 🕚 11:00 and listen to the whole thing in one go:
The next show is going to be a Top of the Week show on Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, at 🕖 19:00 CEST/UTC+2.
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