audiodude

It's not the engineering effort that's killed easter eggs, it's the corporate culture. The "millenial gray" of software.

This was a thought experiment, and with the help of Claude I turned it into a real experiment. Just a curiousity really, but it also brings back that sweet blogosphere nostalgia for me (the admin panel mentions technorati).

This works! It's a musical Linux user's dream!

You know, there's a good chance that my Claude scraped this. Also it needs way more image and way less map. I care more about browsing the gallery/stuff than where it is physically.

If you live outside San Francisco, you might not necessarily see all the _absolutely ridiculous_ AI startup billboards along the highway and throughout the city. The marketing copy is so "inside baseball" that sometimes I don't really know what it would mean to "Observe MDP workflows. With an agent".

Here's a vibe coded website poking fun at them.

I think I will always get more fulfillment from the rush of leaving work a bit early on a Friday afternoon, knowing I have a couple of plans for the weekend but not being too busy, picking up a treat for my wife and I on the way home, when the weather is good (cool and crisp or partly sunny and dry), and the city is alive; I will get more satisfaction from that feeling than any "dream" I could imagine.

Reminds me when Toy Story 2 was deleted and they found the backups on an artist's laptop that was working from home.

Behind the scenes: https://gist.github.com/audiodude/8eb6934539f3f54a2bd1ee6d83...

TODO: 1. Automate registering the domain 2. Automate setting up the DNS 3. Better automate deploying to Netlify (Claude kind of choked on this one)

I also used my trick of immediately changing the Namechep NS records to AWS Route 53, to avoid getting a parking page and having to wait for an hour TTL to expire.

The most frustrating part was waiting for Netlify to figure out the Let's Encrypt cert. It takes ages and I have to manually recheck. Fix this Netlify! (If anyone from Netlify is reading this, it seems like I click "veryify DNS" it says "Success!" but if I reload the page it asks me to verify again).

Time spent: ~30 minutes Total cost: - Claude: $0.56 - Domain: 12 bucks of course ;) - Hosting (Netlify): $0.00

So....just rot then?

Isn't this what TFA suggests?

Crazy, thanks!

All day in ChromeOS at work it's accidentally open the dev tools in chrome (you Ctrl-Shift-C'd when you should have just Ctrl-C'd) or kill my server in the terminal (opposite direction). All. Day.

While we're talking keyboards, what about emoji? Every messaging app has a different interface for them, some like Discord and Whatsapp allow you to use :smile: shortcuts, but the enumerated names are different across apps. I've occasionally gotten a dedicated OS emoji picker to show up on my Mac, but I don't know how.

On Ubuntu Cinnamon, I managed to create keyboard shortcuts for the 8 or so emoji I use the most by binding something called a "compose" key and modifying a .XCompose file, but it still took other config file gymnastics to make it persist between X sessions.

To me, it makes sense that "Give me the active/main/primary account", when multiple accounts are signed in, is inherently ambiguous. Which account is the main one? You suggest Accounts.first. Is that the first account that was signed into 3 years ago? Maybe you don't want that one then. Is it the most recently signed into account?

The designer of the API decided that if you ask for "the single account" when there are multiple, that is an error condition.

Is there any intrinsic reason why Jupyter Notebooks can't be imported? You don't know which code blocks to run?

If you, like me, have never heard of a .netrc file...

https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/netrc.html

Volunteer for Kiwix here (https://kiwix.org), we do a lot of offline Wikipedia stuff. I've personally worked on MWOffliner (https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner) which scrapes MediaWikis, primarily Wikipedia.

We have apps for basically every platform. Our PWA even supports IE 11!

You can use the WP1 tool which I'm the primary maintainer of (https://wp1.openzim.org/#/selections/user) to create "selections" which let you have your own custom version of Wikipedia, using categories that you define, WikiProjects, or even custom SPARQL queries.

What really blows my mind is not the fact that all these songs borrow from and remix one another, but the overall "problem of universals" from metaphysics. In the realm of music, how do we even identify specific characteristics that lead to properties of resemblence? How does your brain know "Oh, that's the Funky Drummer beat" when it's played on a different drum kit or at a different tempo, etc etc.

edit: Would love to see an AI driven project where you drag a slider to "mutate" a sample until it's no longer that sample but another piece of music. A "boil the frog" type thing.

I often tell my friends, we can't be wealthy, we still pay taxes.

Yeah I wouldn't call this easy...

Yes, elsewhere in this thread people were complaining about how Canadian government PDFs only work in Acrobat Reader on Windows and what a PITA that is.