captbaritone

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   by captbaritone 5y ago

   We recently took on a project to use Wasm to speed it up a bit. Blog post here: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...
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   by captbaritone 5y ago

   Hey! Project author here! Happy to answer any questions. This project is open source and the code, and instructions to use it on your site, can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp Webamp's abilit
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   by captbaritone 6y ago

   Great questions! There are a number of different performance tradeoffs to balance here: 1. Rendering performance (how efficient is rendering) 2. Startup speed (how large is our compiler) 3. Preset transition speed (if our compiler is slow,
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   We made our music visualizer 73% faster by compiling to WASM in the browser(jordaneldredge.com)

   30 points by captbaritone 6y ago|3 comments
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   by captbaritone 6y ago

   A cron job that runs on a server and sends me a daily digest email. It’s composed of a number of modules that each check one thing and report a message and a “severity”. The glue code then orders them and send the email. Currently it checks
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   Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum(jordaneldredge.com)

   2 points by captbaritone 6y ago|0 comments
7. 97.▲
   by captbaritone 6y ago

   _poof!_ did someone say “Winamp”?
8. 98.▲
   by captbaritone 6y ago

   I recently put together a museum of ~68k Winamp skins if you want to feel that nostalgia a bit more: https://skins.webamp.org/
9. 99.▲
   by captbaritone 6y ago

   I am indeed! Thanks for the kind words Paul! If anyone is interested Webamp is open source and can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
10. 100.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    They are not supported in most browsers. Most users are going to have a bad experience if they load a page with Flash, and it makes sense to down-rank pages that will deliver a bad experience.
11. 101.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Should be fixed now.
12. 102.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    If you know of any ones we are missing, please send them my way. I'd love to add them here and to the collection we maintain at the Internet Archive.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    These "classic" skins were just a zip file (renamed to `.wsz`) containing a number of bmp sprite sheets. Future versions of Winamp had free form skins which consisted of XML and a custom scripting language called MAKI.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Wow, thanks for the kind words! My only fear is for mobile users on a metered data plan. I suppose we show fewer images per screen than on desktop, but I do fear that it will add up.
15. 105.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Thanks for flagging. I'll be sure to fix.
16. 106.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out. This website draws from that exact collection.
17. 107.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Thanks for mentioning it. I'll followup.
18. 108.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Glad you enjoyed it! The Winamp player ("Webamp") is open source: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
19. 109.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Some access patterns brought the API to a crawl. Seems to have stabilized now. I'm monitoring.
20. 110.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Hey! Author of the site here, thanks for sharing. I'm happy to answer any questions.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Should be stabilized now. Sorry about that and thanks for debugging.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Just to trigger you, we did that :P https://desktop.webamp.org/ It was just an experiment to see if it would work, but if you want something to hate-download check it out :P
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Should be stabilized now. Monitoring.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Thanks for flagging. It got reported yesterday but haven't had time to fix. Scrollbar blindness is real on mac: https://svenkadak.com/blog/scrollbar-blindness
25. 115.▲
    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Funny! Author of the site here. I came to post a "Show HN" but it got redirected to your post so I gave up :P
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    I think things have stabilized a bit.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Search results are capped at a certain limit, but no query should give you the full results. No query was breaking before due to hug of death, but things have stabilized a bit for now.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Hug of death. Working to resolve
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    Hug of death. Working to get things working again.
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    by captbaritone 6y ago

    It comes from here: https://blocsonic.com/releases/various-artists/netbloc-volum...