Perpetual
This morning I saw an interesting tweet from Bryan Veloso:
Say hi to my first @dribbble in a -very- long time. Introducing Perpetual (a music app idea): http://t.co/e3YNNoop
The idea was awesome, the UI gorgeous and the app something I really would want to use myself. That didn't seem likely to happen soon, since the dribbble post ended with:
Sigh, one day I'll build this... or get somebody to help me build it. (o^_^)b
Lately I've been looking for motivations to sit down and learn some more Objective-C/Cocoa. When you want to learn a new language it really helps to have a real goal to work against instead of just following yet another tutorial. So I thought, "why not?" and fired up XCode.
During my lunch break I hacked together a quick prototype and this evening I finished up this basic version:
You basically load up a song, set the start and end markers and press play. The player will start at the beginning of the sond and when it reaches the end marker it will start over at the start marker.
The positive response made me really excited about this and I can't wait to continue working on it.
The next step is to figure out how to extract metadata from the music file and hopefully find a way to show some sort of cover image. After that, I'll try to implement the sweet-looking UI Bryan made.
You'll find the repo at https://github.com/revyver/perpetual
2012-02-15 00:15Simple Song
I've been a fan of The Shins for years. Their last album, Wincing The Night Away, released in 2007, was great and I've been looking forward to hear something new from them ever since.
At last there seems to be a new album on the horizon. The single Simple Song was just released on Spotify and it sounds awesome. According to their redesigned website the album, "Port Of Tomorrow", is going to be available March 20th.
Can't wait.
2012-01-17 09:10This is SJEUGAM
It's almost a luxury being able to write software for yourself. You get to control every aspect of it and you're able to adjust the entire workflow with how you want to work.
The site you're reading this entry on uses my self-written tiny static blogging engine that uses Markdown for formatting and Git for fetching entries from your computer. I finally got some time to clean up and push the source of this simple blogging engine to github.
The name is an abbreviation of "Static Journal Engine Using Git And Markdown". I had to call it something :)
At the moment it's a bit of a hassle to set up. It needs a non-included rewrite rule for the paths to work and I also haven't included the cron script that fetches new entries over git and updates the cache. Finally, there is zero documentation. With some luck, I'll get time to fix all of this soon(ish).
Feedback, be it bugs or anything else, is of course much appreciated.
2012-01-14 03:52Because I'm a programmer
Marco Arment, in the README for his Second Crack project, answering "So why did you make this?":
Because I'm a programmer, and this is what I do.
Some people jog away from their house every day, only to jog back. Others walk on a treadmill, expending energy to get nowhere. In both cases, it may appear to others that they've accomplished nothing, but they've chosen to do these seemingly redundant activities on a regular basis to incrementally improve themselves. And it works.
Inspirational. Also, I am glad to finally be able to peek at the Second Crack source.
2012-01-14 03:14Swedish problems
This blog is just awesome. Can't stop laughing at stuff like this.
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