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CBC Arts: "What are all these beavers doing in Kent Monkman’s first public artwork?" I didn't realize from the first photo how big the sculpture was until I saw Monkman for scale. #Art www.cbc.ca/arts/what-are-all-these-…

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 03/10/2026

Good morning. 🎧️ Listening to Leon Bridges #Music

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 03/10/2026

Here's the thing... I hope you have a FANTASTIC weekend! 💚

Watercolor drawing of honorary Fantastic Four member She-Hulk lifting up some Thing. Sensational!

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Luminous Music Player @luminousmusicapp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fun milestone: Luminous Music Player has been installed from the Microsoft Store in 50 countries!

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 03/10/2026

It's a personal preference, but I try to avoid calling them "tracks" in Luminous. They're "songs". Calling them tracks makes me think of "content", another word I've grown to dislike. #Music #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 03/10/2026

🎧 Listening to "The Second Coming Was a Moonrise" (2026) album by Hammock #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 02/10/2026

Sometimes a fun phrase will come up during work: "Track Love Mutation" #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 02/10/2026

🎧 Listening to "Coastlines" (2025) album by Thousand Gardens #BandcampFriday #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 02/10/2026

🎧 Listening to "Freshman Year" (2019) album by The Reklaws #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 30/09/2026

Bought a tiny Hiby R1 so I can add support for portable music players to Luminous. So cute! 😍 #BuildInPublic #Music store.hiby.com/products/hiby-r1

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 30/09/2026

🎧 Listening to "Los Ojos Del Cóndor" (2026) album by Hermanos Guitérrez #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 30/09/2026

🎧 Listening to "I Wrote You a Letter" (2026) album by M83 #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 30/09/2026

Have to admit #MetaMuse has been helpful where other agents haven't been. Sending me new music updates with links I want, movies at my local theatre, etc. Nothing complicated but other agents would find some reason they couldn't do it. Muse is: "There's a CAPTCHA. Want me to do that for you?" 😄

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 30/09/2026

Excited how the updated parametric equalizer is coming together in Luminous #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 30/09/2026

El País: Sven Beckert, historian: ‘Capitalism is not natural; in fact it is very strange’ #Books english.elpais.com/economy-and-busi…

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 29/09/2026

🎧 Listening to "Stray Dogs" (2026) album by Nothing But Thieves #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 29/09/2026

CBC: "Elephants may use medicinal plants to treat themselves and their babies" including scraping rocks in caves for nutritional minerals www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/elepha…

Mount Elgon elephants are known as salt-mining elephants because they explore caves and scrape the rocks to extract minerals for nutrition. (Ian Redmond/Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine)

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 28/09/2026

CBC: "Kamloops man finds rare mastodon tooth on B.C. Interior lakeshore" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-colu…

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 28/09/2026

🎧 Listening to "The ArchAndroid" (2010) album by Janelle Monáe #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 27/09/2026

Added visual diffs to my QA workflow #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 27/09/2026

🎧 Listening to "Afterburner" (1985) album by ZZ Top #Music

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Luminous Music Player @luminousmusicapp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Version 2.5 🌠 - OpenSubsonic streaming from Navidrome and more - Artist profiles and portraits from MusicBrainz, fanart.tv, and Wikidata - Album links to Discogs, AllMusic, and Wikidata - Opus playback - Smart playlists from folders - Official Flatpak added esoltys.dev/luminous/

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A high-performance home for the music you already own.

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 25/09/2026

Enjoying the Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred expansion. Nice endcap for the Lilith story arc.

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 25/09/2026

Recommended feed: 🔥 Indie Devs & Designers by @sklaboi.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 24/09/2026

Are you old enough to remember recording songs from the radio? Received an interesting user request to make automatic playlists from folders. Upcoming Luminous release adds smart playlists based on a folder location. #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 24/09/2026

I've got OpenSubsonic working with Luminous. Wasn't too bad to extend streaming from a WebDAV library to supporting Navidrome. #BuildInPublic

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Luminous Music Player @luminousmusicapp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📦 Flatpak added as a #Linux installation option in addition to .deb/.rpm esoltys.dev/luminous/

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 20/09/2026

💻 Watching KDE Community “Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?” #KDE2026 youtu.be/V7AfAcQwLW0?...

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Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 19/09/2026

Beyond the product launch, this project has been an incredible opportunity to exercise end-to-end Technical Product Ownership and modern systems architecture. It's been fun and inspiring. 🎉 #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 19/09/2026

Saw #ResidentEvil last night: WTF? WTF is this? WTF is that? WTF are you? Austin Abrams is very likeable and relatable as his day gets progressively worse.

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 19/09/2026

Updated the Microsoft Store screenshots for Luminous 2.0 and had Claude update the content from the staged landing page. Glad I automated the submission process using StoreBroker. #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 18/09/2026

It's fun watching the app installs grow. Tempting to see how it does in more languages, but I'm kind of happy having EN/FR reinforcing its Canadian roots. #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 18/09/2026

🎧 Listening to "Shadows" (2019) album by Cannons. Looking forward to seeing them in Montréal next month. #Music

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 17/09/2026

Perfect 20th wedding anniversary with my honeybun. My heart expands. 💗 Visited regional art galleries in Castlegar, Trail, and Nelson.

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 16/09/2026

Nighthawk decided our patio railing was a good spot. Ok, then.

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 16/09/2026

I intially had a heatmap that dev tools or habit tracker apps use, but my wife had never seen them before. So, changed up the 7d/28d/1y personalized music listening streak graphics. #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 15/09/2026

What a cool project! fugleramme is an E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. #Tech github.com/arnegiacomo/...

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 14/09/2026

It's been fun adding these integrations. #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 13/09/2026

I don't know how many people will use Luminous MCP, but I made it because I'd like to: - provide Pop-Up Video style trivia for the current song - DJ that speaks to introduces songs or bridges between two songs #BuildInPublic

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Eric James Soltys @esoltys.dev · 13/09/2026

🎧Listening to "Pure Heroine" (2013) album by Lorde