HTML5 audio trouble

For a website of a music band that I’m currently developing, I needed a onscreen playlist controlled by javascript. The features are: Save the songs in the same .playlist as the currently playing audio-tag. Save current seek time of the playing audio-tag as it changes. Save current song in the .playlist, so the index. Restore the playing playlist on page load in a .playlist-player element if this exists. This way the audio keeps playing when navigating through the website.

Code Reviews

Scrolling through my twitter timeline I read a tweet from Zef Hemel and found myself reading his blog the complete afternoon. One post that catched my attention was entitled “Never Commit to Master”.

WhatsApp, running on your computer

I previously wrote about playing WhatApp through VNC on your Mac, but this wasn’t useful if you didn’t have a phone near. Anyhow, there has been some development in the reverse engineering of Whatsapp and there are also some great emulators available right now, so I would like to introduce to you: Bluestacks running WhatsAppWarning: you can only have 1 device connected to WhatsApp at the same time. Once you have entered the verification code on your computer, you can’t use WhatsApp on your phone anymore until you reactivate WhatsApp on your phone.

[OS X] High process numbers

Ever experienced high process numbers (20k+) in Finder? That’s probably since some process keeps respawning over and over. Some launchAgents fail to start and launchtcl keeps trying to start them. This is filling your hard disk with logs and keeps your hard disk busy writing, preventing it to spin down. 12-07-12 11:11:25,732 com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres[66258]) Exited with code: 1<br /> 12-07-12 11:11:25,732 com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds<br /> 12-07-12 11:11:34,034 com.