david wong

Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity and the author of the Real-World Cryptography book. I was previously a crypto architect at O(1) Labs (working on the Mina cryptocurrency), before that I was the security lead for Diem (formerly Libra) at Novi (Facebook), and a security consultant for the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. This is my blog about cryptography and security and other related topics that I find interesting.

Nodster (node-webkit) posted April 2014

As always when I have to study for exams I find a gazillion other things to do.

Last night I downloaded node-webkit. I've been slacking when doing QT and WxPython because they were boring. And I thought that node-webkit would be as well. One hello world later and I was amazed at how easy it was to create desktop application with it!

Spent my day trying to figure out what are pipes, streams, websockets... I have to admit I have a long way to go but I really enjoyed this session of node.js.

I had this idea of a free spotify that would just get mp3s from google. There are a lot of legal issues around so I'm wondering if I should really keep this one, but here is what I did today: Nodster (Node-webkit + Napster).

nodster nodster2

The code is not pretty as I was trying and discovering new things all along. The design is crappy but this is obviously because I had other better things to code first :) I want to get the metadata of the mp3s to sort them more easily (most of them seems to have metadatas) but I have trouble figuring out how to do it.

Also it uses mp3skull.com to find mp3s, there are a lot others but eventually I wanted to just use google and crawl hard.

I could also add pictures for albums and... so many things to do!

If you want to help, fork away :)

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Comments

Fred

Amazing ! Greetings from Finland

David

This is amazing! I'm sure it's been done at some point, but I've never seen it. Congrats! An extension of this would be to be able to search for ebooks/pdfs on google. God knows they're available most of the time if you know what to search for.

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