Howard the Geek

Canceled Spotify and realized that I have my hundreds of CDs ripped and sitting on a portable hard disk.

Grabbed a Raspberry Pi (version 2) and installed Samba ... that is all that is needed.

Thought I would start looking for clients and then I remembered ready-player project (https://github.com/xenodium/ready-player) for #emacs

Nicely done, @xenodium !

Feb 4 at 5:32pmWeb
Show threadÁlvaro R.Feb 4
@howard Lovely! It’s been ready waiting for ya ;)
Show threadHoward the GeekFeb 4

@xenodium Amazing how your work makes #Emacs look like a web page or other GUI.

I'm now playing with your agent-shell, and am impressed there too!

Show threadÁlvaro R.Feb 5

@howard Nice to hear. Thank you. We sure have some limitations, but we can get fairly far if we get a little creative.

Btw, here’s a world clock if you want a more visual alternative https://github.com/xenodium/time-zones

GitHub - xenodium/time-zones: An Emacs major mode to view the time at any city across the world

An Emacs major mode to view the time at any city across the world - xenodium/time-zones

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Show threadhmelmanFeb 5
@xenodium @howard Nice. Lars has a nice trick at the bottom of this to get the country flag from the 2 letter country code so you can avoid the mapping. https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2025/01/11/wordpress-statistics-me/
WordPress Statistics & Me

I’m using Jetpack Stats to see what’s happenin’ on mah blogs, and it’s never been whatchamacall “great”, but it’s been OK. It’s OK. It displays all t…

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Show threadÁlvaro R.Feb 5

@hmelman

Oooh. That's nice! I'll play with it and see if I can ditch the mapping.

@howard

Show threadÁlvaro R.Feb 5

@hmelman

Neat! https://github.com/xenodium/time-zones/commit/5513f14d857a67cfac56a86674dbf8d29f81fee5

@howard

Derive flags from ISO codes · xenodium/time-zones@5513f14

Based on https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2025/01/11/wordpress-statistics-me

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Show threadhmelmanFeb 6
@xenodium @howard Great
Show threadstackeffectFeb 5
@howard @xenodium There is also #mpd, easy to set up on #raspberrypi and with a client in #emacs .
Show threadRust BuckettFeb 5
@stackeffect @howard @xenodium Doesn't #mpd just allow remote control of the server via the client? I wasn't able to get it to stream from the server and play music on the client. The #mpd client basically just showed what was playing on the server.
Show threadstackeffectFeb 5
@rustbuckett @howard @xenodium Oh yes, you are right! My setup involves a BT speaker paired with #raspberrypi
Show threadRust BuckettFeb 5
@howard @xenodium I've been using #samba with a client side service to mount the Music share on boot and #emms in #emacs. Works well when I'm on my home network. Haven't tried it yet with #wireguard when I'm away. I generally use Jellyfin when I'm not on my home network. And it all scrobbles!
Show threadRust BuckettFeb 5
@howard @xenodium Whoa. I just looked at ready-player. I gotta give that a try! Very slick!