1. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 27, 2017
      Amazon's numbers are incredible, god damn AWS is killing it.
    2. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 27, 2017
      [​IMG]

      New desk friends.
      1. Christian Romero
        Christian Romero
        The Scarlet Spider looks really cool. I always loved that suit
        May 10, 2017
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    3. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 27, 2017
      Fun day of music releases. Lots of stuff.

      And I've got to edit a giant podcast episode later ...
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    4. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 26, 2017
      I want to add Apple Pay to this feature I'm working on, but really don't wanna drop $99 for an Apple Developer account just to create a sandbox to test it and make sure it works given that's basically all I want to use the account for.

      Shit.
    5. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 24, 2017
      The Trumps are cylons with no plan.
    6. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 24, 2017
      Getting ever so closer to being done with the "2.0" changes for the main website. (I talk in more detail about what this is on the an episode of the Missaligned podcast). It'll be a huge project to check off the 'ol to-do list when that finally happens. And then on to the next thing.
    7. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 24, 2017
      Caught up on all the Spider-Man (Miles Morales) comic books over the weekend and am almost completely caught up with Spider-Gwen now as well. Both are great. I love, love, love the art and colors in Spider-Gwen ... what a fantastic comic.
    8. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 21, 2017
      Fun stuff in the supporter forum today. I'm still just over here laughing to myself.
    9. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 21, 2017
      I've got a really fun episode of Encore planned for next week. Should be a great one if it all goes as planned.
    10. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 20, 2017
      Hannah's gone for the weekend playing in an out of town orchestra, so I've got Spider-Man cartoons lined up to binge for the next few days and an avatar to match.
      1. Colby Searcy and scottlechowicz like this.
    11. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 20, 2017
      The simplicity and ease of use of Apple Music and Spotify has fundamentally changed leaked albums in a way I never thought I'd see. 10 years ago when an NFG or similar album leaked it would be a fight to see who could download it first ... now there's so many "ah, I can wait a week" comments.

      I didn't see it being that big of a shift.
    12. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 19, 2017
      I've discovered the world of "fidget spinners" and my life will never be the same.
    13. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 18, 2017
      Writing an entire new ad serving, buying, database system is taking about two weeks longer than expected. Also, I want to murder jQuery and marry Stripe.
    14. Jason Tate
    15. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 12, 2017
      I've grown to like the third Academy Is... album more than I thought I would 10ish years later.
      1. Chase Tremaine
        Chase Tremaine
        Yes! Thank yooouuuu. I hate feeling alone with loving that album, but it took years before it "clicked" with me.
        Apr 19, 2017
    16. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 12, 2017
      It's getting pretty fucking gloomy outside today.
    17. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 8, 2017
      Dinosaurs are cool.
    18. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 7, 2017
      The Maine's banner ad on this site is my favorite anyone's done.
      1. Petit nain des Îles likes this.
    19. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 7, 2017
      Downloaded all the Jurassic Park movies for a marathon this weekend. I need something to look forward to.
    20. Jason Tate
    21. Jason Tate
    22. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 3, 2017
      I wish Portland had an MLB team. I miss going to baseball games.
    23. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 3, 2017
      The darkest timeline continues.

      Ugh. Ok back to work.
    24. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 3, 2017
      I get more pleased with myself than I should when I get a perfect score on the Amazon Echo's Jeopardy game.
    25. Jason Tate
      Jason Tate Apr 3, 2017
      The RSI is bad today. :-/
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    I’m a writer, music enthusiast, web-developer, typography geek, and a coffee and beer snob. Sometime around 1996 I created absolutepunk.net — a music community to discuss under-appreciated music I loved. Over the next few years, it got popular. Then it got really popular. The goal of the website was to introduce people to new music and provide a community for people to discuss music that was not often heard in the mainstream. Oh, and for me to whine and moan about things I felt like to a chorus of “why is this news!?” posts.

    In 2004, I (sold-out and) sold the company while staying on to keep running AP.net and manage a variety of other websites. My passion turned into a job and I drudged through the next few years frustrated. For a while I thought about walking away from the internet completely. However, my passion for music, technology, and a slightly off centered pop-culture remains. So, I decided to take a chance and with that spirit build chorus.fm. I hope for this to be a platform to write and share my passions with you, and with that, I also want to continue my vision of a community for music fans looking to connect with kindred spirits.

    I send out a weekly newsletter that recaps the week in music and offers thoughts on music, media, and other cool stuff.
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