Today it’s Monday and this is my cure:

The photos were sent to me by one of our lovely beta testers, with whom I share my love for The Cure!

Thanks a lot, Andreas! :)

We have started testing ads in Spotify for a group of interested beta testers. If you want to be a part of the test, please let us know and we’ll get you some ads. In this phase we’re testing different formats and models, so any ideas, input or feedback is highly appreciated. How would you like to see ads in Spotify and what do you consider a good ad?

Something weird happen today: I got back from lunch and half of the team was stored in a server rack… I thought they were doing some kind of claustrophobic test but apparently they were just checking the quality of our new server rack. :)

This rack could contain four developers!

Thanks a lot to Daniel, Börje and Stefan at Diligentia for the best fredagsfika ever! This healthy stuff is exactly what the developers need after a crunch week like this! :)

Today is Mardi Gras, which in Sweden is celebrated by eating a pastry called a “semla“.

So this afternoon, we all took a break from our keyboards and sat down together to have a semla. And I even had one for breakfast (!) this morning.

This nice animation is from last year’s Mardi Gras at Spotify. You can really see how good this pastry tastes!

Make sure to have a semla and listen to some Mardi Gras music you too!