Martin Mouritzen :podfriend: / is on Nostr

Creator of the Podcast App Podfriend & the open source "Simple Player" Podcast App.

Country: Denmark
Podfriend: https://www.podfriend.com
My website: https://www.martinmouritzen.dk/
LUD16: [email protected]

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2024-08-18 14:04:25

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One way to do it is to use a image atlas. Basically put them all in one image, and then adjust background position to show the right one.
There's more about the technique here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_images/Implementing_image_sprites_in_CSS
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_sprites.asp

2024-08-09 11:05:29

I am thinking of re-inventing Podfriend, not specifically as a player, because god knows there's enough of those. (I'll probably still keep the capability, at least on web, though).
But... What could a reimagined Podfriend look like? Nice podcast pages for podcasts? Tools for podcasts, like realtime polls, comments, whatever? Podcasting 2.0 widgets?
I'd like to start with something small and just build from there (since my kryptonite is always trying to build something huge 😂 )

2024-06-15 19:02:06

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Another place where AI shines is simply to not start from nothing.
I would never use AI to write my emails, however for some professional documents & messages I will make a version 1, that I will then change completely. Still saves me time compared to starting from scratch.
Code is the same, where if you ask Chat-GPT 4o to generate a skeleton of a project for you, it's probably going to save you time, but unless simple code, it can't do all the actual work for you.

2024-06-15 19:02:06

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2024-06-15 11:43:50

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AI is bloody fantastic at automating grunt work. I use it in my day job to keep a database of information, and when someone sends a questionaire (RFP) my way, I can just use AI to fill it out and check the answers. 10 minutes of work instead of hours.
Same with writing code boilerplate, understanding technical documents etc.
It's not very good at a lot of other things and people have a tendency to overuse it, but it's only going to get better. :)

2024-06-15 11:43:50

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