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brianzelipon A web platform for using YouTube as a drum sequencer

Love the micro whimsy of <title>Dancing In The Datacenter</title>. An old web vibe for sure.

https://github.com/eastmountaincode/youtube-sequencer

brianzelipon I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)

A couple podcast episodes featuring the author (mostly regarding his TinyBase project):

- https://www.devtools.fm/episode/67

- https://www.localfirst.fm/12

brianzelipon Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget

Useful recent podcast about homelab LLMs, https://changelog.com/friends/79

brianzelipon Build a link blog like Simon Willison

Great idea! Viewing source is a big reason I visit.

brianzelipon Developer Philosophy

Thanks for the pointer, lots of good looking topics in the back log!

brianzelipon Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering

Interesting license:

This project is dual-licensed.

You may use this project under the terms of the MIT License for non-commercial projects OR as long as you are sponsoring this project through GitHub sponsors with a monthly minimum donation of 1 (one) dollar using the link below:

    GitHub sponsors, Simon Lecoq: <https://github.com/sponsors/lowlighter>

You may use this project free of charge under the terms of the GNU Affero v3.

Via https://github.com/lowlighter/mizu?tab=readme-ov-file#-licen...

brianzelipon Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release

Informing recent podcast episode with the Electric SQL founder, https://www.localfirst.fm/18.

brianzelipon The story of Rogue

Not it, but see this related modern work! https://departuremono.com/

And a recent and informing podcast episode about it, https://changelog.com/podcast/618.

brianzelipon Rewrite Git history via drag-and-drop

Here's a recent informing podcast episode about Retcon with its author, https://www.devtools.fm/episode/116

brianzelipon Vitest vs. Jest

Good write up that helps you get started if you haven't used either lib.

brianzelipon USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

Here's a recent podcast episode chapter where the author of the original petition talks out the argument, https://changelog.com/jsparty/340#t=3409.

brianzelipon Helena Zhang, Designer and Iconographer

See https://departuremono.com/ !

Informing recent podcast with Helena and Departure co-creator Toby Fried, https://changelog.com/podcast/618.

brianzelipon CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

An official logo for CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42124786 - November 2024

brianzelipon Show HN: HTML for People

Here's a great podcast episode with the author about "home cooked apps", https://shoptalkshow.com/609/

brianzelipon Elle's Homepage

There's an expand button on the browser screen when you click on the laptop! So dope.

brianzelipon The Static Site Paradox

> the web doesn't belong just to software engineers. The more we make the web complex, the more we push normal users into the enclosures that we like to call social networks.

Big up this author. Here’s a recent podcast about the recent conference this quote came from (Squiggle Conf), https://changelog.com/jsparty/339

brianzelipon How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes

ArchivesSpace has a "space calculator" feature to help with this!

https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace

brianzelipon CRDT Survey, Part 1: Introduction

Very informing podcast about CRDTs, operational transformations, and more, https://www.localfirst.fm/14

brianzelipon Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

Finally something not chromium!

brianzelipon GitButler is now fair source

Here's an informing podcast episode about their thinking behind "fair source" and more, https://changelog.com/podcast/586.

brianzelipon Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland

> Just because a company is large doesn't mean it needs to start making poor business decisions

To be clear this is also inflammatory rhetoric disguised as what some would have you think is ‘common sense’.

brianzelipon TinyBase: Reactive data store for local‑first apps

Informing recent podcast episode with the TinyBase author, https://www.localfirst.fm/12.

brianzelipon Making the Kinopio source code public

Here's a great podcast episode with the Kinopio author that also touches on the design of Glitch.com and more, very informing! https://www.localfirst.fm/8

brianzelipon The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred

Ras G! RIP

brianzelipon Gleam 1.2.0 release – Fault tolerant Gleam

Here's an informing podcast episode with Gleam's maintainer, https://changelog.com/podcast/588.

brianzelipon Exercises to Learn Rust

Here’s a great podcast episode with the author discussing Pavex, etc.

https://rustacean-station.org/episode/luca-palmieri-pavex/

brianzelipon Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU

Nice personal hosted image service!

brianzelipon Zed Decoded: Async Rust

Informing article. We are rooting for Zed, keep up the great work y’all!

brianzelipon Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging