https://syntopikon.com/interests/music/Recent content in Music on SyntopikonHugoenFri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/adam-linder/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://syntopikon.com/conversations/adam-linder/<h2 id="who-are-you-and-what-do-you-do">Who are you, and what do you do?</h2> <p>My name is Adam Linder, and I am an app developer, data engineer, and all-around computer person based in Philadelphia PA. My day job is at a small start-up focused on helping non-profits think about, clean up, and operationalize their data. I am also the developer of <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/albums-album-focused-player/id1469948986">Albums</a>, an album-focused Apple Music client for iOS and iPadOS.</p> <h2 id="how-did-you-get-interested-in-that">How did you get interested in that?</h2> <p>I only really started learning to code 3 or 4 years ago, at the tail end of my 20s, but I&rsquo;ve been sitting in front of a computer for pretty much my whole life. More specifically, I&rsquo;ve been sitting in front of a computer and listening to music for pretty much my whole life. You could define eras in my life by the hardware and software I used to listen to music. There was the era of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp">Winamp</a> and the Creative Zen Nomad, then of iTunes and the iPod. I fell in love with a feature of the iPod called album shuffle — playing one full random album, then another one, and so on, and it became my default way of listening to music.</p>