deskFM: a pixel-art desk whose radio plays real stations
The maker built a single-file browser toy with Claude doing most of the coding: a pixel-art room whose radio plays live internet stations and whose window shows the town picked on the wall map.
Credits
- Reddit poster Puzzleheaded-Ad-832 Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
deskFM is a free browser toy: a pixel-art room where the radio plays live internet stations and the window changes to whatever town you pick on a wall map. A cat may knock the antenna, and tuning between stations gives static, as on a real radio.
Everything is one HTML file of about 110 KB gzipped, with no build step and no image assets: the room, over 100 window views and the cat are drawn on a 320 by 180 canvas. Stations come from the Radio Browser directory and play from each station's own stream. Live listener dots use Firebase, with locations rounded to about 50 km.
The maker says they know very little about this kind of work and built it with Claude doing most of the coding.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: [Showoff Saturday] deskFM: a pixel-art desk with a radio that plays real stations from anywhereReddit poster: Puzzleheaded-Ad-832Posted
The maker's Showoff Saturday post in r/webdev with technical details.