Create a Winamp Player, Make a Market, and Veganize any recipe

Winamp in real life

Feb 21, 2022

Hey everyone! How are y’all doing this morning?

This weekend was pretty nuts - with that insane open sea hack. Absolutely NUTS. If you’re interested in diving in - check out this thread.

Definitely made me pause on how I handle wallet security.

If I ever get a blue chip (I.e. the next Bored Ape, Alien Frens, Doodle) I’m gonna put it in a cold wallet that I will NEVER connect to anything.

Have you seen Antlers yer? It’s a great horror-thriller that is so intense. It’s one of the best movies with Wendigos that I’ve seen.

In my humble opinion - it’s more on the thriller side - so if you don’t like horror per se - you should check it out!

It’s goooood.

I also watched the new found footage V/H/S 94 movie.

MUCH better than the last one - but with a pretty intense “body horror” 80’s vibe.

If you haven’t seen the VHS movies - they tend to have some sort of loose story that involves a series of creepy “tapes". The character inserts tape after tape as unsettling things happen in the background.

One of the short films involves a late-night wake at a funeral home - AND IT’S SO CREEPY. That one was probably my favorite . . .

Well, let’s hop on in - shall we?

🎶Create a Winamp Player

Ok - so in the past I’ve obsessed a bit about Winamp - from the Winamp skin museum to the Spotiamp music player.

I’ve even fantasized about building Winamp into an old cassette player . . .

Today I discovered that someone WENT AND DID IT. THEY MADE A WINAMP PLAYER.

It’s a little bitty Winamp music player - and it will play music too!

Now - it does have a few limitations. It isn’t fully interactive - like a tablet. You can only do play, pause, forward, and back track.

To make it you’ll need a Pyportal and an external speaker. It’ll require a bit of technical knowhow - but still within the realm of an afternoon project.

The Pyportal comes with a bunch of features - so you could probably add more functionality to the Winamp player if you wanted to!

The PyPortal Titano includes: speaker, light sensor, NeoPixel, microSD card slot, 8MB flash, plug-in ports for I2C and 2 analog/digital pins. Open-source hardware, and Open-Source software, CircuitPython and Arduino. The device shows up as a USB drive and the code (Python) can be edited in any IDE, text editor, etc. (source)

A physical Winamp Equalizer anyone?

Here - watch the demo.

Cool, right? Who doesn’t want a 10 hour playlist of Lofi playing via Winamp?

It would be fun to connect it to a speaker in old radio player . . .

Ohhhhh the retro vibes

Check it out at the link!

Winamp Player

📈Make a Market

Have you ever wanted to put your money where your mouth is?

Yeah - there’s sports betting, Crypto betting, and Stocks - among other things.

but what about putting $ on questions like - “When do you think Apple will release their AR/VR headset?”

Now you can - and create your own markets with Manifold Markets.

There are different markets for different categories - and you can create your own too!

For example - I could create one about Winamp - and ask questions like - Will Winamp ever return? Will someone ever create a functional real life winamp player with all the bells and whistles?

To me - placing a bet on a question like this is MUCH more interesting (to me personally) than sports.

Here’s a bet in progress regarding the Queen of England.

You can buy YES or NO - and bet any amount of the coin that you wish. You can leave a comment underneath your bet explaining why you bet a particular way.

Can you imagine the insights you could glean from looking at other’s reasons for betting one way or another? The research people would gather? It could be awesome.

Go check it out at the link!

Manifold Markets

🥕Veganize Any Recipe

Ever wanted to create a meat free version of a recipe, but not sure what you would substitute?

Eat Kind has created a really nifty tool for recipe substitution.

To test it - I went and grabbed a recipe for Steak and Shrimp Stir fry and entered it in the bar.

It appears that it spits out answers based the keywords that it finds within the recipe - and then offers potential substitutes.

I haven’t heard of half of these products - so there’s a lot to check out in here.

Here’s what it spit out for this chocolate cake recipe - It started out with a ton of milk substitutes.

So - I just directly entered the ingredient egg - and voila! Egg substitutes.

It looks like a ton of features are planned for the upcoming apps - and they’ve recently released a chrome extension.

I’m excited to see how the product develops in the months to come!

Check it out at the link!

Eat Kind

🐙The Land of Random

Random Links of Randomness from Randomville. Where is Randomville? Hmm.

Do you have 100+ browser tabs open right now?*

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Give Your Memory a Boost Today

Read the Timemachiner

I’ve discovered fellow Random newsletter! I chatted with Aaron last week about all the cool content that he curates each week. He creates articles about interesting content that he finds on the net - and does a awesome deep dive. For instance - in the last issue he dove into the decline of catalogue showrooms. I didn’t know those were a thing! Go subscribe at the link.

Timemachiner

Gail.com

I have so much respect for the OG web domain purchasers of the 90’s who bought one word domains and never sold. Check out this fun page for gail.com

Gail.com

On Air Horror Survival

This game looks super intense

If That Scared Ya Listen to this

CATWAVE SYNTHWAVE YESSS

Why RSS Matters

This is a awesome little article that advocates for the importance of RSS - in a matter you might not expect. RSS is perfect for IOT (the internet of things).

RSS is 👑