So I took the database of 43m songs from Musicbrainz.org and made my own player, with b̶l̶a̶c̶k̶j̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ Wikipedia integration and playback via Apples MusicKit, plus a 3D VR version via WebXR.

Short demo: https://stardrift.gerlach.dev/demo/stardrift.mp4

Direct link to the 3D galaxy: https://stardrift.gerlach.dev/galaxy

That last bit was the most fun to build (with AI help) and thus escalated a bit into a VR playground. 2.3 million stars/albums, a custom Three.js UI kit and a bunch of extras to have something to do while the music plays. Like a full-size USS Enterprise to fly around with Jerry Goldsmiths soundtrack. Or a Mahjong game, black hole, Theremin, banana duck etc.

Works best on Quest 3 and /should/ be useable on a Vision Pro with gestures. If you have an AVP, I would appreciate feedback, the Xcode simulator only goes so far.

The Venn diagram of people liking to explore random music, having an Apple Music account and a VR headset is probably pretty small, but I for one love it and have discovered a bunch of new music and learned a lot.

Frontend built with Svelte 5, Three.js, backend PHP. It takes about 50GB in Postgres + ~150GB for cover images. I'll keep it online as long as my little VPS doesn't melt.

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Apples model to generate Gaussian splats from a single image. Takes about 30 seconds on an M1 Pro.

It falls apart once you move too much, but for a little side-wiggling or a second-eye view for VR, it's great. And looks a lot better than the old approach of depth map + vertex shaders that I use in https://github.com/combatwombat/tiefling. But ml-sharp has 2.6 GB weights, a bit too big to run in the browser.

Pretty fun to discover what’s out there, without being influenced by YouTubes algorithm. It’s based on the YT Archive project and some other sources, since YT sadly has no randomize function.

Like https://www.pangeosyacht.com/projects, an $8 Billion „Terayacht“ maybe launching in 2033. Until then they sell NFTs for a place in the virtual Unreal Engine version of this (also still to be built).

The design studio behind that (https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com) has many renderings of vehicle concepts, but nothing realized yet.

Except for one thing, the Songball https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com/the-songball. A little plastic speaker that plays back one song you can record yourself, starting at 20€ (https://www.songball.com/?lang=en).

Too bad IMDb doesn't provide more data in the export. Budget, box office or country of origin would be nice.

https://github.com/combatwombat/rmdb imports the IMDb database (at least the limited .tsv files they provide) into MySQL so you can query it. List the highest rated horror movies of the 90s, genre distribution by year etc. I made that mostly to c̶h̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶ help with https://www.reddit.com/r/GuessTheMovie, with limited success. Still fun though to SQL-query over all movies ever made.

> Although terminal emulation has been largely supplanted by the Web for online access, Kermit software continues to play a role in other applications such as remote sensing and data collection, management and troubleshooting of networking and telecommunications equipment, back office work, cargo and inventory management, medical insurance claim submission, electronic funds transfer, and online filing of income tax returns. Kermit software is embedded in network routers and switches, in cell-phone towers, in medical diagnostic and monitoring equipment, even in cardiac pacemakers, not to mention the cash registers of quite a few big-name "big box" retailers. In 2002 Kermit flew on the International Space Station, and Kermit software is the communication method used by EM APEX ocean floats (left) supplying realtime data to hurricane researchers and trackers to this day (the hurricane project entered a new expanded phase in 2010 based on a new version of Embedded Kermit).

It contains its own Perl-like scripting language that predates Perl (https://www.kermitproject.org/ckscripts.html#tut), which supports „Prolog-like declarative logic programming“ (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/socrates), some OOP (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/oop) and S-expressions (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/shortest_pa...).

There is a text-to-HTML converter (https://www.kermitproject.org/ftp/kermit/scripts/html). Someone should build a static site generator with that, running on a calculator or embedded system on some buoy.

But I added MIDI keyboard support to the secret fart piano recently and thus Firefox throws up a scary warning. It's now disabled unless you access https://frt.rip#midi. But you can also use your computer keyboard to play/fart a little tune, see Web Inspector for instructions :)

Also https://frt.rip, a whoopie cushion with spatial audio, because I had the domain lying around.

Both don't make money, but they also have no users besides myself so they can run on my cheap server for free basically.

Although I get an 500 error right now: https://sc.robsite.net/files/1667596588-pikmaker-500-2.png