Adding Music Previews to My Now Page / / No Comments About two months or so ago I added a Now page to my site. It shows my current reading list, my last watched movies, my Untappd beer check-ins, and my most recent Spotify tracks. You can see that part here: When I built it, I used a Pipedream workflow to wrap calls to Spotify’s API. My Pipedream workflow gets my most recent tracks, slims down the data quite a bit, and returns just what I need. I use some client-side code to hit that endpoint and then render it out on the Now page. (I also use a bit of caching with LocalStorage such that the endpoint is only hit every ten minutes.) Currently, when rendering each track, I link to its URL and Spotify users can listen to the track completely.... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Adding, Music, Page, previews
Microsoft previews Azure Maps Creator to enable indoor location apps and AR – SiliconANGLE News / / No Comments Microsoft previews Azure Maps Creator to enable indoor location apps and AR SiliconANGLE News “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: apps, Azure, creator, Enable, Indoor, location, maps, Microsoft, News, previews, SiliconANGLE