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📡 Today I built a HTTP proxy that lets all the old computers in the world surf the web too Browsers from before 2013 don't support modern HTTPS so they literally can't acces any website That's very sad for all the old cute retro computers who also wanna go...

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💾 I renamed it to because AltaVista is still owned by Yahoo so I didn't wanna infringe 🔎 is a fully functional search engine and proxy that lets ANY old browser browse most of the web with just HTTP (instead of HTTPS), it converts modern web pages to something that any old device can access (like removing JavaScript code) So now devices like your old Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga, 486 PC, Dreamcast or PS2 can access the modern internet too! 🤓 And it's great for Kindles too because it converts most webpages to easy-to-read text ☺️
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💾 I renamed it to because AltaVista is still owned by Yahoo so I didn't wanna infringe 🔎 is a fully functional search engine and proxy that lets ANY old browser browse most of the web with just HTTP (instead of HTTPS), it converts modern web pages to something that any old device can access (like removing JavaScript code) So now devices like your old Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga, 486 PC, Dreamcast or PS2 can access the modern internet too! 🤓 And it's great for Kindles too because it converts most webpages to easy-to-read text ☺️

@levelsio

89,748 views • 2 months ago

💾 pieter™'s Windows 3.11 PC is now connected to another retro computer on the web It's Ryo Lu's Ryos X, a MacOS X inspired Web OS where you can listen music, watch videos, play games, browse the web and now chat with people on my retro PC too My dream with this project was to connect it to other retro computers on the web so they can all participate as first class citizens on the internet eventhough they're all old computers running in your browser, and that's happening now 😊 My dreams to see in the browser AND connected to the real internet: - Atari ST (we had one as kids for awhile) - Amiga (never had one, but heard a lot about it) - Apple II (every SF guy has this one at home) - Windows XP (I wanna do it but it's hard cause 32-bit)
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💾 pieter™'s Windows 3.11 PC is now connected to another retro computer on the web It's Ryo Lu's Ryos X, a MacOS X inspired Web OS where you can listen music, watch videos, play games, browse the web and now chat with people on my retro PC too My dream with this project was to connect it to other retro computers on the web so they can all participate as first class citizens on the internet eventhough they're all old computers running in your browser, and that's happening now 😊 My dreams to see in the browser AND connected to the real internet: - Atari ST (we had one as kids for awhile) - Amiga (never had one, but heard a lot about it) - Apple II (every SF guy has this one at home) - Windows XP (I wanna do it but it's hard cause 32-bit)

@levelsio

63,198 views • 2 months ago

💾 Vibe coded an entire dial-up TCP/IP stack for my TUI OS to get to the internet so it can now too browse the web It uses the same ISP as does which is (a real dial up provider) and then the browser routes you to my HTTP-proxy (because it doesn't support HTTPS yet) so you can open modern websites with it WebSocket → HDLC framing → PPP → LCP/EAP/IPCP → IPv4 → UDP → DNS (one round trip) → IPv4 → TCP (3-way handshake) → HTTP/1.0 → HTTP reverse proxy → HTML parse → render in OS browser -> render in your browser Also we have some techno in the music player now (not good yet) VERY GEEKY 🤓
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💾 Vibe coded an entire dial-up TCP/IP stack for my TUI OS to get to the internet so it can now too browse the web It uses the same ISP as does which is (a real dial up provider) and then the browser routes you to my HTTP-proxy (because it doesn't support HTTPS yet) so you can open modern websites with it WebSocket → HDLC framing → PPP → LCP/EAP/IPCP → IPv4 → UDP → DNS (one round trip) → IPv4 → TCP (3-way handshake) → HTTP/1.0 → HTTP reverse proxy → HTML parse → render in OS browser -> render in your browser Also we have some techno in the music player now (not good yet) VERY GEEKY 🤓

@levelsio

129,985 views • 3 months ago

💾 Okay I finally bought a Raspberry Pi 5 to make into a real retro computer as a proof of concept I love the Raspberry Pi much more than my ESP32 simply because I can SSH into it and it's just like a normal computer or server, the ESP32 required specific software to re-flash it everytime and it was TEDIOUS!!!! I need a fast feedback loop to develop with so all this flashing is too slow for me The Raspberry Pi 5 instead just runs Linux which then runs DOSBox-X to run Windows 3.11 install live downloaded from there so it stays fresh I then also got a Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor by Stephen Jones (very indie and Kickstarter-style product) which is like a vintage retro PC monitor but with an OLED and it runs at 1280x1024, and the Raspberry Pi 5 has HDMI out so it works perfectly with it Then I got an 8BitDo retro IBM keyboard, but the spacebar broke, so I gotta send it back and get a new one, but it was great while it worked, so it's not in this video, and I got the 8BitDo retro mouse So altogether it's a proof of concept of a real vintage retro PC with internet and it works now My end goal is to make this into production and SELL it, not for money but more for fun because I think it should exist, just like Palmer Luckey's ModRetro Chromatic Gameboy-remake I'd go with something smaller than this 19" checkmate display though, it's great but too big for the Windows 3.11 era I think, more like 14" with a matching sized retro IBM-style keyboard and Windows 3.11 preinstalled (if legally allowed by Satya Nadella) with WiFi working out of the box We could also go with Windows 98/XP, because for me too Windows 3.11 was a very short time, so I too have vague memories of it, most of my computing memories is Windows 98/XP etc. Inside it could simply run on a Raspberry Pi 5 like here, which is easily powerful enough to run all of these OS'es I see many SF founders with Apple II's in their living room, and I guess cause Apple was more popular there back then, but in the rest of the world we were mostly IBM PCs and clones that ran Windows, so it's cool to have that as one retro object working with internet in your living room Anyway, step by step, we're here now 😊
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💾 Okay I finally bought a Raspberry Pi 5 to make into a real retro computer as a proof of concept I love the Raspberry Pi much more than my ESP32 simply because I can SSH into it and it's just like a normal computer or server, the ESP32 required specific software to re-flash it everytime and it was TEDIOUS!!!! I need a fast feedback loop to develop with so all this flashing is too slow for me The Raspberry Pi 5 instead just runs Linux which then runs DOSBox-X to run Windows 3.11 install live downloaded from there so it stays fresh I then also got a Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor by Stephen Jones (very indie and Kickstarter-style product) which is like a vintage retro PC monitor but with an OLED and it runs at 1280x1024, and the Raspberry Pi 5 has HDMI out so it works perfectly with it Then I got an 8BitDo retro IBM keyboard, but the spacebar broke, so I gotta send it back and get a new one, but it was great while it worked, so it's not in this video, and I got the 8BitDo retro mouse So altogether it's a proof of concept of a real vintage retro PC with internet and it works now My end goal is to make this into production and SELL it, not for money but more for fun because I think it should exist, just like Palmer Luckey's ModRetro Chromatic Gameboy-remake I'd go with something smaller than this 19" checkmate display though, it's great but too big for the Windows 3.11 era I think, more like 14" with a matching sized retro IBM-style keyboard and Windows 3.11 preinstalled (if legally allowed by Satya Nadella) with WiFi working out of the box We could also go with Windows 98/XP, because for me too Windows 3.11 was a very short time, so I too have vague memories of it, most of my computing memories is Windows 98/XP etc. Inside it could simply run on a Raspberry Pi 5 like here, which is easily powerful enough to run all of these OS'es I see many SF founders with Apple II's in their living room, and I guess cause Apple was more popular there back then, but in the rest of the world we were mostly IBM PCs and clones that ran Windows, so it's cool to have that as one retro object working with internet in your living room Anyway, step by step, we're here now 😊

@levelsio

149,119 views • 8 months ago

✨ Today I rebuilt 🏔️ AltaVista Search, the main search engine before Google existed The problem: if you press the 🔍Search button in MSIE4 it'll open a sidebar with AltaVista in it that opens: http:// home . microsoft . com/search/search.asp But that URL doesn't resolve anymore of course, so how do I make this work? I asked Claude Code and built a Dnsmasq DNS server that routes all regular DNS queries to Cloudflare but for home . microsoft . com it hijacks it and sends it to my own server Then I let Nginx respond to that doamin and show the Altavista Search sidebar, I had to rebuild the design from a video on YouTube because I couldn't find any actual archeological remains of it anymore Also Altavista Search of course doesn't exist anymore so it can't respond to queries either so I use a SERP API to query search results from Google and display them instead This is stuff I wouldn't even be close to doing before AI, I'd have no idea how to configure Dnsmasq to spoof queries like this The search engine results are proxied via my HTTP proxy so MSIE4 can open most sites (because old browsers don't support HTTPS and most JS!)
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✨ Today I rebuilt 🏔️ AltaVista Search, the main search engine before Google existed The problem: if you press the 🔍Search button in MSIE4 it'll open a sidebar with AltaVista in it that opens: http:// home . microsoft . com/search/search.asp But that URL doesn't resolve anymore of course, so how do I make this work? I asked Claude Code and built a Dnsmasq DNS server that routes all regular DNS queries to Cloudflare but for home . microsoft . com it hijacks it and sends it to my own server Then I let Nginx respond to that doamin and show the Altavista Search sidebar, I had to rebuild the design from a video on YouTube because I couldn't find any actual archeological remains of it anymore Also Altavista Search of course doesn't exist anymore so it can't respond to queries either so I use a SERP API to query search results from Google and display them instead This is stuff I wouldn't even be close to doing before AI, I'd have no idea how to configure Dnsmasq to spoof queries like this The search engine results are proxied via my HTTP proxy so MSIE4 can open most sites (because old browsers don't support HTTPS and most JS!)

@levelsio

84,217 views • 5 months ago

when you plug Mighty into any phone or pc, it shows up as ethernet device with a web-ui built into it. No app to setup or even internet required. This lets me try it out and collect diverse datasets easily on-the-go.
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when you plug Mighty into any phone or pc, it shows up as ethernet device with a web-ui built into it. No app to setup or even internet required. This lets me try it out and collect diverse datasets easily on-the-go.

Asad Memon

124,055 views • 3 months ago

I built a FREE AI Agent that can browse the web, code websites, and automate tasks WITHOUT any technical setup I literally have my own AI assistant that works 24/7 In this video I'll show you how to easily set it up No coding experience required (Trust me, you want to bookmark this)
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I built a FREE AI Agent that can browse the web, code websites, and automate tasks WITHOUT any technical setup I literally have my own AI assistant that works 24/7 In this video I'll show you how to easily set it up No coding experience required (Trust me, you want to bookmark this)

Julian Goldie SEO

47,804 views • 1 year ago

And it works!!!!!!! 😍👌 Made a whole computer room from 1995 with Three.js on the web using Claude Code (on the server) in just a few hours I can connect to the internet and surf the web, play DOOM and mIRC and read the news, all in 3d now I like going super close to the screen and see the pixels I can't get blended occlusion to work yet though (so screen still shows as a perpetual overlay), maybe mrdoob knows how to fix And I have to figure out how to add that border-radius/distortion to the screen too But very nice progress for today 😊
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And it works!!!!!!! 😍👌 Made a whole computer room from 1995 with Three.js on the web using Claude Code (on the server) in just a few hours I can connect to the internet and surf the web, play DOOM and mIRC and read the news, all in 3d now I like going super close to the screen and see the pixels I can't get blended occlusion to work yet though (so screen still shows as a perpetual overlay), maybe mrdoob knows how to fix And I have to figure out how to add that border-radius/distortion to the screen too But very nice progress for today 😊

@levelsio

458,589 views • 11 months ago

I built an openclaw tool that automatically builds websites for leads it scrapes from google maps, auto-records the website as a video, and sends it to them as a cold pitch... It literally screen records the website that was made for THEIR business, so the lead will feel it's personalized This is an all encompassing machine to sign clients and fulfill all in one loop Reply "video" and I'll DM you a free prompt to build it yourself. (must be following)
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I built an openclaw tool that automatically builds websites for leads it scrapes from google maps, auto-records the website as a video, and sends it to them as a cold pitch... It literally screen records the website that was made for THEIR business, so the lead will feel it's personalized This is an all encompassing machine to sign clients and fulfill all in one loop Reply "video" and I'll DM you a free prompt to build it yourself. (must be following)

Chris

122,612 views • 4 months ago

Okay I improved the chat a bit on both AIM and IRC, it has more tools now like Search and Thinking so you can actually have deep convos with it now that can query the web, very nice I tried asking it what's going on on Hacker News today and it told me Chat Control 3 and I asked about what it was etc. and what it thought about it, all inside AOL Instant Messenger 😊 Feels really fun to have access to modern LLMs on retro Windows
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Okay I improved the chat a bit on both AIM and IRC, it has more tools now like Search and Thinking so you can actually have deep convos with it now that can query the web, very nice I tried asking it what's going on on Hacker News today and it told me Chat Control 3 and I asked about what it was etc. and what it thought about it, all inside AOL Instant Messenger 😊 Feels really fun to have access to modern LLMs on retro Windows

@levelsio

150,803 views • 6 months ago

MEGA update: 🥳 IT WORKS: we now have a working dial up internet connection on a virtual Windows 3.11 computer running inside a browser over a virtual modem that talks via Websockets to a PPP daemon! So you can open open the computer, browse the web and even open the page you're on itself again at or chat inside mIRC chat app on or browse gopher:// or whatever you like to do Probably the nerdiest challenge I've ever taken on for the totally arbitrary reason that it seemed completely impossible to do this but we did it (now need to test it more so that it works with 250 parallel users at same time, but the prototype works now, so if you ask why it's not live yet) James Baicoianu, probably one of 2 people in the world who knows how to do this, helped fix my setup and created a virtual dial up internet provider for me that we can dial in to Somehow my mouse doesn't work yet, so I had to do it with the keyboard but here we run Winsock to dial up on a virtual modem that runs then emulates a virtual dial up ISP over Websockets [Next todo] - Fix the mouse - Make the 90mb emulated file smaller - See if it doesn't die with 10 or 50 parallel users - Speed up the Em-Dosbox emulator a bit so it's more usable
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MEGA update: 🥳 IT WORKS: we now have a working dial up internet connection on a virtual Windows 3.11 computer running inside a browser over a virtual modem that talks via Websockets to a PPP daemon! So you can open open the computer, browse the web and even open the page you're on itself again at or chat inside mIRC chat app on or browse gopher:// or whatever you like to do Probably the nerdiest challenge I've ever taken on for the totally arbitrary reason that it seemed completely impossible to do this but we did it (now need to test it more so that it works with 250 parallel users at same time, but the prototype works now, so if you ask why it's not live yet) James Baicoianu, probably one of 2 people in the world who knows how to do this, helped fix my setup and created a virtual dial up internet provider for me that we can dial in to Somehow my mouse doesn't work yet, so I had to do it with the keyboard but here we run Winsock to dial up on a virtual modem that runs then emulates a virtual dial up ISP over Websockets [Next todo] - Fix the mouse - Make the 90mb emulated file smaller - See if it doesn't die with 10 or 50 parallel users - Speed up the Em-Dosbox emulator a bit so it's more usable

@levelsio

2,070,117 views • 1 year ago

I used Figma Make to build the most delightful link library and book cover configurator ever vibecoded. For the Contra x Figma Makeathon, I decided to build an app to turn my 47 open tabs into a beautiful book. Then I put it on a shelf for the whole internet to browse. It's called Stash For each collection, you have the opportunity to design the best cover ever using the in-app configurator. It has pencils, markers, stamps, graffiti... The entire thing is made in Figma, including stamps, illustrations, and graffiti artworks. I think this is my best public work so far and I hope it lets me leave a mark on the internet.
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I used Figma Make to build the most delightful link library and book cover configurator ever vibecoded. For the Contra x Figma Makeathon, I decided to build an app to turn my 47 open tabs into a beautiful book. Then I put it on a shelf for the whole internet to browse. It's called Stash For each collection, you have the opportunity to design the best cover ever using the in-app configurator. It has pencils, markers, stamps, graffiti... The entire thing is made in Figma, including stamps, illustrations, and graffiti artworks. I think this is my best public work so far and I hope it lets me leave a mark on the internet.

Noman

30,679 views • 4 months ago

✨ Added a CRT curvature distortion to pieter™ now It takes the Em-DOSBox and processes it in WebGL and builds a new with the distortion of a classic CRT screen which had this convex curvature (like an old TV) even though the screen itself was square I had this working on DOSBox on MacOS and on Linux with CRT-Pi shader, but on web it doesn't support shaders so I had to build my own with Claude Code in JS, very easy I remember trying this a year ago and Claude Code fucked it up so bad that I gave up, so I think the models have improved a lot Tomorrow I'll try add some scanlines, it really helps make the simulation more passable (and nostalgic!) 😊👌
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✨ Added a CRT curvature distortion to pieter™ now It takes the Em-DOSBox and processes it in WebGL and builds a new with the distortion of a classic CRT screen which had this convex curvature (like an old TV) even though the screen itself was square I had this working on DOSBox on MacOS and on Linux with CRT-Pi shader, but on web it doesn't support shaders so I had to build my own with Claude Code in JS, very easy I remember trying this a year ago and Claude Code fucked it up so bad that I gave up, so I think the models have improved a lot Tomorrow I'll try add some scanlines, it really helps make the simulation more passable (and nostalgic!) 😊👌

@levelsio

88,054 views • 6 months ago

🤓 You can now read live Hacker News on via Gopher Gopher is the old internet protocol that was kind of a precursor to the web, it ran on port 70 instead of 80, and was pretty similar to the web, also live pages with hyperlinks but more limited You can open it via the computer or in any Gopher browser at gopher://hn.pieter.com:70 or via Gopher proxy like this: It runs on hn-gopher by Michael Lazar
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🤓 You can now read live Hacker News on via Gopher Gopher is the old internet protocol that was kind of a precursor to the web, it ran on port 70 instead of 80, and was pretty similar to the web, also live pages with hyperlinks but more limited You can open it via the computer or in any Gopher browser at gopher://hn.pieter.com:70 or via Gopher proxy like this: It runs on hn-gopher by Michael Lazar

@levelsio

148,911 views • 10 months ago

.Kevin Robert Kesar reflects on his time in NXT: "I've probably played it down in other interviews that I've done, but since we're so far away from it... I'll just tell you the truth, when I was going in there and that was happening, I don't want to say who I called because again it's a private conversation, but I called somebody and I said this all feels really wrong. This all feels messed up and it feels like they're trying to kill my relationship and connection and my equity that I've built up with the audience. That time was all very weird, but I will say those people I was dealing with at the time, just to reiterate it, they're not with the company anymore."
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.Kevin Robert Kesar reflects on his time in NXT: "I've probably played it down in other interviews that I've done, but since we're so far away from it... I'll just tell you the truth, when I was going in there and that was happening, I don't want to say who I called because again it's a private conversation, but I called somebody and I said this all feels really wrong. This all feels messed up and it feels like they're trying to kill my relationship and connection and my equity that I've built up with the audience. That time was all very weird, but I will say those people I was dealing with at the time, just to reiterate it, they're not with the company anymore."

Ariel Helwani

66,587 views • 1 year ago

Fun fact: the weather during this set was so hot that we had to put ice on the computers to cool them down. I spent the entire set freaking out because computers and water don’t mix well. So each piece of ice was seeping water into the computers as we mixed the next track. Was waiting for them to shut down at any moment. Luckily the computers made it through the full 60 minute set. I honestly couldn’t believe it 😂 Shout out to the old Awake squad! Feels so nostalgic looking back on that moment. Shout out to all the og’s that were there 🙌
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Fun fact: the weather during this set was so hot that we had to put ice on the computers to cool them down. I spent the entire set freaking out because computers and water don’t mix well. So each piece of ice was seeping water into the computers as we mixed the next track. Was waiting for them to shut down at any moment. Luckily the computers made it through the full 60 minute set. I honestly couldn’t believe it 😂 Shout out to the old Awake squad! Feels so nostalgic looking back on that moment. Shout out to all the og’s that were there 🙌

ILLENIUM

64,472 views • 1 year ago

🖨️ It took over a year and lots of help from Claude Code but I have now been able to create a real dot matrix printer on the web that prints from Windows 3.11 in your browser: Here's the test page: I couldn't get the LPT1 port to work but COM2 did work (the dial up model already uses COM1), the JS receives the COM2 serial data (just raw print data) and then prints it Next is to make the dot matrix printer better looking (kinda 3d like on pieter dot com) and have the paper also flowing in 3d out of the printer and integrate it on the page My idea was that it might work because we also capture the COM1 data (from the dial up modem) and send it to a Websocket as a dial up connection, so we should be able to capture the COM2 traffic too but I didn't know how, but now I do IT WORKS!! 😊
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🖨️ It took over a year and lots of help from Claude Code but I have now been able to create a real dot matrix printer on the web that prints from Windows 3.11 in your browser: Here's the test page: I couldn't get the LPT1 port to work but COM2 did work (the dial up model already uses COM1), the JS receives the COM2 serial data (just raw print data) and then prints it Next is to make the dot matrix printer better looking (kinda 3d like on pieter dot com) and have the paper also flowing in 3d out of the printer and integrate it on the page My idea was that it might work because we also capture the COM1 data (from the dial up modem) and send it to a Websocket as a dial up connection, so we should be able to capture the COM2 traffic too but I didn't know how, but now I do IT WORKS!! 😊

@levelsio

85,708 views • 1 month ago

VERY COOL!! Thanks jordan for the tip, I can now test my iOS app on web I asked Claude Code to set up serve-sim, a web-based iOS simulator that can stream the iOS app my Claude Code on VPS built live to me, because it's on some Mac Mini in the cloud without even a GUI (it's headless) I cannot actually try it on the Mac itself! Before Claude would make me a page with screenshots but I had no idea how the app felt, now with this it works This is hosted on the Mac Mini via SSH (it shows localhost but it's a tunnel via SSH to the Mac Mini), bit laggy but nice!
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VERY COOL!! Thanks jordan for the tip, I can now test my iOS app on web I asked Claude Code to set up serve-sim, a web-based iOS simulator that can stream the iOS app my Claude Code on VPS built live to me, because it's on some Mac Mini in the cloud without even a GUI (it's headless) I cannot actually try it on the Mac itself! Before Claude would make me a page with screenshots but I had no idea how the app felt, now with this it works This is hosted on the Mac Mini via SSH (it shows localhost but it's a tunnel via SSH to the Mac Mini), bit laggy but nice!

@levelsio

416,322 views • 4 days ago

I've been building a music player with Next.js for fun. Here's a quick demo of how it works (it's open source!) • Demo: • Code: If you want to learn more about how it's built, here's more details ↓ I'm using Postgres (with Drizzle) to store information about the songs and playlists. Audio and image files are stored in Vercel Blob (object storage), and the URLs are then referenced in the database. For the UI, I'm using shadcn/ui (so Tailwind CSS and Radix). This made it easy to copy/paste in some nice components, like the dropdown menus. I built the entire first version of the UI in v0 and then iterated from there, feeding it my Drizzle schema as a source in the project and having it scaffold some of the boilerplate for me: I added support for keyboard navigation (using arrow keys) or vim motions (j/k to go up/down, and h/l to go between playlists and tracks). Also, space to toggle the now playing song, and / to focus the search input. The search function has a nice utility to highlight the currently searched text on the page in yellow. Then, I was exploring how to pass metadata from my application to macOS or iOS. Turns out there's an API for that – MediaSession. Web apps can share metadata about what media is playing (title, artist, album artwork) and sync play/pause/seek with system media controls. Works across modern browsers — even integrates with iOS dynamic island and shows up on lock screens: I set up my app like a PWA – it has a manifest.json file, so it can be installed to my iOS home screen or added to my dock on macOS. On iOS, it then uses the full screen height `100dvh` (dynamic viewport) and has padding on the bottom for the safe area with the `env()` CSS function. Finally, I was able to use the Vercel AI SDK in a script to clean up the metadata on audio files I downloaded from YouTube. Bonus: I even was able to dogfood the React Compiler, which helped me fix a performance bug! That's all! It's fun to make personal software:
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I've been building a music player with Next.js for fun. Here's a quick demo of how it works (it's open source!) • Demo: • Code: If you want to learn more about how it's built, here's more details ↓ I'm using Postgres (with Drizzle) to store information about the songs and playlists. Audio and image files are stored in Vercel Blob (object storage), and the URLs are then referenced in the database. For the UI, I'm using shadcn/ui (so Tailwind CSS and Radix). This made it easy to copy/paste in some nice components, like the dropdown menus. I built the entire first version of the UI in v0 and then iterated from there, feeding it my Drizzle schema as a source in the project and having it scaffold some of the boilerplate for me: I added support for keyboard navigation (using arrow keys) or vim motions (j/k to go up/down, and h/l to go between playlists and tracks). Also, space to toggle the now playing song, and / to focus the search input. The search function has a nice utility to highlight the currently searched text on the page in yellow. Then, I was exploring how to pass metadata from my application to macOS or iOS. Turns out there's an API for that – MediaSession. Web apps can share metadata about what media is playing (title, artist, album artwork) and sync play/pause/seek with system media controls. Works across modern browsers — even integrates with iOS dynamic island and shows up on lock screens: I set up my app like a PWA – it has a manifest.json file, so it can be installed to my iOS home screen or added to my dock on macOS. On iOS, it then uses the full screen height `100dvh` (dynamic viewport) and has padding on the bottom for the safe area with the `env()` CSS function. Finally, I was able to use the Vercel AI SDK in a script to clean up the metadata on audio files I downloaded from YouTube. Bonus: I even was able to dogfood the React Compiler, which helped me fix a performance bug! That's all! It's fun to make personal software:

Lee Robinson

117,624 views • 1 year ago

Auditioning is a completely different performance than how you’d perform it when you get the job. Most actors don’t realize that. What do I mean? In an audition, I only have 1 set up, 1 frame from the chest up. On set you’ll have multiple set ups and multiple camera lens sizes. So for example if I have to do a very explosive emotional scene for an audition I’m beholden to that one set up which is the chest up how casting likes it. BUT if I’m too big and too emotional for that frame size it might come off as melodramatic/Over-acting or I’m forcing it. So I have to do a little less. Now on set during the master I can be as big and as ferocious as I want and then dial it down as the camera moves in closer. The same goes if it has to be small and intimate scene, I might have to project a bit more to convey that emotion in an audition where if it was on set that close up sees everything and I can be as small an intimate as I want. So during these auditions you’re predominantly handcuffed to the size of the frame that casting wants. I like to be subtle in auditions and sometimes that can look like you’re doing absolutely nothing and its not as engaging for the audition process. (You’re trying to get a job) So I amp it up 10-20%. Again, where as on set I can be as small and subtle as I want and when they move in on your close up it sees the minutia of every detail that your face and eyes make. (Also in an audition you’re acting with a friend or a family member who might not be an actor. No professional makeup or hair, bad lighting, dog barking, cat meowing, fedex guy ringing your bell,etc etc) So to recap… AUDITIONING SUCKS!🤦🏻‍♂️ #kidvicious🔪
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Auditioning is a completely different performance than how you’d perform it when you get the job. Most actors don’t realize that. What do I mean? In an audition, I only have 1 set up, 1 frame from the chest up. On set you’ll have multiple set ups and multiple camera lens sizes. So for example if I have to do a very explosive emotional scene for an audition I’m beholden to that one set up which is the chest up how casting likes it. BUT if I’m too big and too emotional for that frame size it might come off as melodramatic/Over-acting or I’m forcing it. So I have to do a little less. Now on set during the master I can be as big and as ferocious as I want and then dial it down as the camera moves in closer. The same goes if it has to be small and intimate scene, I might have to project a bit more to convey that emotion in an audition where if it was on set that close up sees everything and I can be as small an intimate as I want. So during these auditions you’re predominantly handcuffed to the size of the frame that casting wants. I like to be subtle in auditions and sometimes that can look like you’re doing absolutely nothing and its not as engaging for the audition process. (You’re trying to get a job) So I amp it up 10-20%. Again, where as on set I can be as small and subtle as I want and when they move in on your close up it sees the minutia of every detail that your face and eyes make. (Also in an audition you’re acting with a friend or a family member who might not be an actor. No professional makeup or hair, bad lighting, dog barking, cat meowing, fedex guy ringing your bell,etc etc) So to recap… AUDITIONING SUCKS!🤦🏻‍♂️ #kidvicious🔪

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