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Announcement of a new SoundCloud API sharing interface that enables retrieving, creating, updating, and deleting sharings for tracks and playlists via users or emails, with state control and deprecated legacy endpoints.

Improved sharing interface for sharing sounds in SoundCloud via the API that resembles the website's sharing process, allowing retrieval, creation, updating, and deletion of sharings between users based on user_id or email address.

How to design read-optimized statistics in MySQL with InnoDB, covering and clustered indexes, and time-series aggregates.

A pragmatic approach to turning a write-heavy MySQL log into fast statistics with InnoDB, using covering and clustered indexes plus time-series aggregates for efficient reads.

A practical exploration of designing read-optimized MySQL schemas with InnoDB for statistics from a high-volume log, leveraging covering and clustered indexes and aggregate time-series tables to achieve near real-time insights.

Exploring how MySQL can be effectively used for statistics and analyzing disk access patterns driven by storage

A concise tour of SoundCloud-based hacks across Web, mobile, and desktop, highlighting API-powered audio tooling, social sharing, mood-driven features, and crowdsourcing ideas.

Overview of practical SoundCloud hack ideas across web, mobile, and desktop, detailing audio-centric collaborations, social integrations, and scalable ingestion and UI techniques.

A concise overview of weekend hack ideas leveraging SoundCloud to prototype web, mobile, and desktop audio experiences, including APIs, recording, and visualization.

A list of hack project ideas that can be built using the SoundCloud platform, with an invitation for readers to contribute their own ideas.

Announcing a lightweight Java API Wrapper for the SoundCloud API with OAuth2 support, designed for easy embedding in desktop and mobile apps and released publicly.

Java API Wrapper for SoundCloud demonstrates an OAuth2-enabled Java client with minimal dependencies and practical usage, including login, requests, and updating user resources for desktop and mobile.