Hacker News: captbaritone

New comment by captbaritone in "Winamp Skin Museum"

captbaritone — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:10:16 +0000

As part of building Webamp I did a side quest to enable rendering Windows animated cursor on the web. You can read about it here: https://jordaneldredge.com/rendering-animated-ani-cursors-in...

New comment by captbaritone in "Winamp Skin Museum"

captbaritone — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:15:53 +0000

Interesting! I've only ever actively used subdomains of webampskins.org, however during early testing I set a hard coded IPV4 IP as the A name for the root domain. Now it looks like that IP has been handed off to someone else who is hosting a spammy site.

Thanks for flagging, I removed that A name record.

New comment by captbaritone in "Winamp Skin Museum"

captbaritone — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:46:51 +0000

This is an idea that 3D artists have been playing with for years. I've collected 63 different artists imaginings of this here: https://jordaneldredge.com/physical-winamp/

New comment by captbaritone in "Winamp Skin Museum"

captbaritone — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:45:26 +0000

Looks like that was a "modern" Winamp skin, which are unfortunately not displayed in the museum: https://winampheritage.com/skin/pimeer-v2-2-ultime/142664

New comment by captbaritone in "Winamp Skin Museum"

captbaritone — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:42:01 +0000

Author of the Museum here. Agreed! That was true for "classic" Winamp skins which are what is shown here. I also took a stab at "modern" Winamp skins which were fully dynamic and scriptable and wasn't quite able to bring that to the browser. I did a writeup of that work here: https://jordaneldredge.com/webamp-modern/

New comment by captbaritone in "Winamp Skin Museum"

captbaritone — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:35:16 +0000

Oh! Author of the project here, but not op. Happy to answer any questions.

The code for the Museum as well as the Webamp player that powers the interactive preview can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

You can also find a blog post I wrote about the project here: https://jordaneldredge.com/winamp-skin-musuem/

New comment by captbaritone in "Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month"

captbaritone — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:48:31 +0000

His goal was to get a faster oracle that encoded the behavior of Pokemon that he could use for a different training project. So this project provides that without needing to be maintainable or understandable itself.

New comment by captbaritone in "Backing up Spotify"

captbaritone — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:35:27 +0000

Former classical singer here. Only theory I can come up with is that opera tends to have large casts where all the singers are credited individually which would inflate the absolute numbers of "artists" relative to other generes. I still struggle to imagine this accounting for bringing such a niche genera to the top here.

New comment by captbaritone in "Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99"

captbaritone — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:21:41 +0000

I recall hearing that SQLite actually had some significant issues with choosing public domain as their license and somewhat regret the decision. Apparently it’s not a concept which has broad understating internationally, and there’s less legal precedent in a software context which has made it harder for some teams to adopt due to concerns from legal departments.

React's useTransition and state update reordering

captbaritone — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:36:00 +0000

Article URL: https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/react-rebasing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962367

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by captbaritone in "In React {Transitions} = F(state)"

captbaritone — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:16:09 +0000

Author here. I think we might actually be in agreement. My point is that in React you don't formally describe the transition table because (and I think this is where we agree) that's infeasible for an app of any reasonable size.

The observation I'm trying to capture in this post is that even though we don't define a formal transition table, we actually _do_ implicitly define the set of valid (user) transitions for each state via the event handlers we bind into the DOM when our React component tree renders that state.

In React {Transitions} = F(state)

captbaritone — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:28:59 +0000

Article URL: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/transitions-f-of-state/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43615624

Points: 39

# Comments: 54

New comment by captbaritone in "Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser"

captbaritone — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:24:45 +0000

Hey! I run the museum, and these stories of people finding things they created and thought had not survived, are so fun to read. Also, your skin is… incredible.