Links For You (8/2/26)
Happy August folks. Louisiana is celebrating the approach of Fall by gradually increasing the temperatures to roughly that of the surface of the sun. Last night we saw the new Spider-Man, which was really good, although not as fantastic as "No Way Home". The point of these posts is for me to share content from other folks, but I'll remind folks of my Youtube channel. This past week I shared a few new videos demonstrating some cool stuff with Cursor so if you've not checked them out yet, give me a quick watch and let me know what you think!
Web browsing on your gaming console
First up is a great post by Vale detailing the capabilities and history of web browsers on game consoles. I've been playing on consoles since the very beginning and a lot of this was still new and surprising to me. Honestly I can't imagine surfing any web page on a browser now. I think the last time I did was on my XBox so I could find a cool background picture.
Audio visualization with wavesurfer.js
Next up is a cool JavaScript library for audio visualization, wavesurfer.js. Also I think this is the first site I've seen on the xyz TLD. The library works pretty simply - point it at a div and MP3 and it visualizes it on your web page. Here's a simple example of it in action.
See the Pen wavesurfer.js by Raymond Camden (@cfjedimaster) on CodePen.
What the hell happened to frontend?
Ah, the good ole days, hand crafting HTML in Notepad and manually "deploying" via carefully selecting and uploading via an FTP client. In the following few decades things got... a little bit more complex. This great deep dive by David Poblador i Garcia goes into detail over the changes in frontend. Those of you new to this - you missed a lot. ;)
Just For Fun
With AI being everywhere, I'm curious how many of my readers ever saw Electric Dreams, an incredibly corny 80s film I remember watching on VHS over and over again. The story is... well... it was the 80s so that gives you an idea, but it had a pretty good songs in it including the main theme. Enjoy!