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Comparing minor features of Spotify and YouTube Music

Nov 25, 2025 • 11 min read • 2400 words

Since Spotify recently updated their prices across all available premium plans, I decided to test out one competitive platform: YouTube Music from Google.

While many reviews and comparisons focus on the major differences, like price, algorithms, music recommendations, playlist creations and other promoted features by those platforms (including garbage AI features), this post focuses on unnecessary comparisons between little things most people don’t care about.

Earworms and the message hidden within the pattern

Jul 23, 2025 • 3 min read • 500 words

Felix Schneider

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Yes, this title is a small nod to the excellent Netflix series “Arcane”, but that’s not what this post is about.

Today, I want to share some thoughts about earworms, a term that originated in German (“Ohrwurm”) and was later adopted into English as a literal translation. The meaning behind this rather abstract term is catchy tunes—sticky music, as Wikipedia calls it. This phenomenon often occurs unpredictably, especially when our thoughts drift away from the present moment.

Some aspects of creating a blog are really easy, and some are extremely difficult!

Jul 8, 2025 • 8 min read • 1400 words

Felix Schneider

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Talk a little bit about how one can become better (not master by any means, nobody is perfect) in writing a blog post. These are just my thoughts after two awesome guys from the Astro Community (Jacob and Lou) decided to write blogs about how hard and easy it is to write blog posts.

Please read their posts first as this is the follow-up on both of them:

After that you have successfully completed this awesome trilogy of blog posts about blog posts.