Development
Classic TV Player
As part of my asymptotic rebuild of dieselpunkindustries.com I turned to ChatGpt to see how I might improve things or create more offerings. So I asked ChatGpt to help with the following:
- using php read a list of old tv shows from a .json file
- use vanilla JS to auto play each episode continuously on a loop
- JS active search
- a refresh link
- pull random backgrounds from a specific directory using php
OTR Audio Player
As part of radio.dieselpunkindustries.com, the Old Time Radio Archive contains nearly 40,000 episodes and over 450 series from the US, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. I wanted to improve the current version by updating it to use Flexbox and replacing JQuery with vanilla JS. I also wanted to have autoplay enabled by default, which can be toggled on and off. I asked ChatGPT to do the following:
- Convert JQuery to vanilla JS
- Play continuously in a loop
- Add a button to toggle autoplay
Random Classic TV Player
I asked ChaptGpt to modify the Classic TV Player above to use the Archive.org API and pull 100 random episodes from the Archive.org Classic TV section it takes a while too load but it’s a cool way of discovering horrible old tv shows.
Book Reader
I asked ChatGPT to create a single page book reader application that reads the contents of an image directory and displays them in a simple, fadein/fadeout slideshow. I consider this an archiving tool to handle scanned document to make use of the maximum about of space available for reading the document. Features include a dynamic interface that changes based on if the document directory has downloads available, and data files to provide more info about the document.
