Blog Posts

Over the years that I've been working on Webamp, I've written a number of blog posts on topics related to it.

• Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive
• Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser
• 100k skins: Reflections on the Winamp Skin Museum’s upload flow
• The Winamp Skin Museum has a secret debug mode
• The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by an sqlite3 database
• Winamp Skin Mosaics
• The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
• A Winamp Skin Detective Story
• Disassembling Winamp with Ghidra to find the Maki interpreter
• Building the @WinampSkins Twitter Bot
• Using Machine Learning to Generate Winamp Skins
• Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly
• Rendering Animated .ani Cursors in the Browser
• Mainlining Nostalgia: Making the Winamp Skin Museum
• Implementing a Robust Web Audio API Balance Node
• Making the case for building something useless
• A Tour of Winamp2-js Features
• Crash Safari with the Web Audio API
• How Winamp2-js loads native skins in your browser
• Surviving Hacker News traffic with the help of free CDNs
• I'm glad I factored out jQuery