another bridgething update: we have cover art! this is all happening on-device via bluetooth with a custom backend for the webapp to hit. no servers, no raspberry pi, and works with any music app, not just spotify!

quick preview of Thing Labs’ BridgeThing, coming soon! this is the original spotify webapp running on-device with a custom Rust backend to connect to the phone long way to go, but making great progress!

Attention Kernel Engineers: The Spotify Car Thing revival project needs assistance with graphics acceleration. The device features a Mali G31 Bifrost GPU on an Amlogic S905D2. Currently, graphics performance is severely limited with Panfrost,

I wrote a really good 10% of a blog post and I want to show it off but I have to write the other 90% first. one of the worst things about macroblogging.

maybe i’m on the wrong part of the site but sometimes i wish there was more prolific shitposting going on here like i get that i’m not funny that’s what y’all are for

i love metadiscourse discourse about discourse is the best

sometimes it’s 3am

thank you to bluesky for adding ambiguity to the statements “watch out for that skeeter over there” and “they’ve got skeeter syndrome”

i love seeing a post and going “either this is extremely meta or i lack some crucial context”