Dropping the Spotify link

I pulled the Spotify link out of this site’s Music section this week. Not a UI change, a decision - I’m boycotting Spotify going forward, and that meant looking at everywhere the site pointed people there.

The catalog itself is staying up. Vicstradamus has been on Spotify for years, long before I decided to stop pointing new traffic at it, and pulling existing releases down felt like punishing past-me for a call I’m making now. So: no new links to Spotify anywhere on the site, but the grandfathered catalog stays put. That’s the line I drew.

The fix was one line - src/data/projects.ts has a music.links array feeding the Music section’s link grid, and Spotify was just one entry in it. Delete the entry, the grid re-renders with one fewer tile, done. No component logic to touch since the grid maps over the array generically - no per-platform icon or styling keyed to “Spotify” anywhere.

The only interesting part was making sure it actually looked right afterward - four tiles instead of five in a two-column grid, no dangling reference to the platform in the footer or anywhere else in the codebase. Grepped for “spotify” case-insensitively across src/ and public/ after the edit and got nothing back.

Small change, but it’s the kind of thing where the code is the easy part. Sister change on the Vicstradamus site next.