Press Space to continue
Hardware customization enters the era of personal software
Press Space to continue
I love this time 😍 Everything is hackable now I now hacked my Amazon Alexa to play internet radio, including my own radio station @pieter but also @rinsefm and @bassdrive But also news radio like @bbcworldservice and @Bloomberg It's insane that this works, my Alexa just became 1000x more useful It never let me do this by default What a great time to live and hack on every hardware you own, and now you actually own it and can customize it to your own desires That's what I mean when I…
@levelsio@levelsio4d ago
It worked Of course it worked! It never ever doesn't work right? I vibecoded my own Spotify that works with Amazon Alexa and plays all my own MP3 music files 😊 Claude Code calls it the 🎶 Jukebox I put some coffee jazz MP3s (that I purchased) in an R2 bucket, made an Alexa skill in the Alexa Developer Console with help from Claude Code and now it plays it if I ask "Alexa, coffee jazz" It wrote a package.json and index.js, then I saved and built it on the console. Then I had to manually add a Routine to Alexa so that "Alexa, coffee jazz" became "Alexa, ask the jukebox to play coffee jazz" It also has Bossa Nova and Lofi and I can just drop music in whenever I want and it auto plays it Spotify with Alexa was giving me really terrible recommendations of music and always the same and the only thing I used it for was this! So I guess I can cancel Spotify now too 🙏
View