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mozilla falling behind?

http://kyle.graehl.org/2012/08/27/mozilla-falling-behind.html

I thought I would see how Mozilla’s browser would work with my new app using the HTML5 FileSystem API. I install Firefox. Eww, no retina support still. Okay let’s see how the app works. Oops Mozilla hasn’t implemented the FileSystem API yet. I was led to a discussion on https:/ hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/why-no-filesystem-api-in-firefox/. It seems Mozilla is a bit behind! The arguments against the FileSystem API are weak. No file locking? Raquo; My Devtools wishlist. Raquo; MP4Cast for Google Cast.

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Non-blocking UDP in Tornado web's IOLoop

http://kyle.graehl.org/coding/2012/12/07/tornado-udpstream.html

Non-blocking UDP in Tornado web's IOLoop. I’ve always enjoyed working with Tornado Web. The python web framework that is centered around the idea of using non-blocking sockets. It is a very versatile framework for working with asynchronous streams and I’ve used it to write a number of applications, including proxy servers, media streamers, and even BitTorrent clients. But tornado is noticably lacking in UDP support. This is fine, of course. After all, it is an HTTP library. Raquo; My Devtools wishlist.

kyle.graehl.org

ISO Extractor Chrome app

http://kyle.graehl.org/javascript/chrome-app/2014/09/11/iso-extractor.html

ISO Extractor Chrome app. I have been using a Chromebook for my main computer for a long time now. Every once and a while I have a strange itch I need to scratch. Most recently, I had an ISO file that I needed to extract some files from. Now of course the ISO 9660 file format is not exactly one that many using ChromeOS need to know about, let alone want extract files from. But for some reason I wanted to write an app that would let me extract the files. ISO Extractor - Available on the Chrome Web Store.

kyle.graehl.org

complaining about osx window manager again

http://kyle.graehl.org/2012/08/30/complaining-about-osx-window-manager-again.html

Complaining about osx window manager again. The past few days I’ve had an external monitor plugged into my macbook. It’s been nice having more real estate. But now I’m sitting in a comfortable chair away from my monitor trying to do some work. But there’s too many windows! And I can’t move them around! I want my dream setup virtual desktops that I can page around by just moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. Why does osx only let me page desktops horizontally? I want more options, not fewer!

kyle.graehl.org

Chrome fileSystem notes

http://kyle.graehl.org/javascript/development/chrome-app/2014/02/26/chrome-filesystem-notes.html

Update I found out what the problem was. The app was being suspended and I was not listening for the event. When an app is suspended, nothing is guaranteed to work anymore). So make sure and listen for the chrome.runtime.onSuspend event! However, if you do the same thing to the result of a FileEntry.file() (the actual File object on which you can do .slice() and use a FileReader to do reads), the reference becomes invalid once the underlying file is modified in any way (even touch ing the file wi...Origi...

kyle.graehl.org

Saving a torrent to your cloud

http://kyle.graehl.org/programming/2013/02/08/saving-torrent-to-your-cloud.html

Saving a torrent to your cloud. I finally have a working prototype of saving a torrent to your cloud disk. The motivation for this was to be able to consume torrent content while on an iOS device, such as an iPad. Check out JSTorrent.com. Note: the iOS App store does not approve of torrent apps, so we need to put the app in the browser instead) this is not working anymore, as BitTorrent, Inc. disabled websocket connection access to their clients. Please go complain on their forums. You can inspect the up...

kyle.graehl.org

waiting for WebRTC DataChannel

http://kyle.graehl.org/2012/08/27/waiting-for-webrtc-datachannel.html

Waiting for WebRTC DataChannel. I have been spending some time recently with Websockets, and while they’re quite powerful (the latest spec supports sending javascript byte arrays), they still have one rather limiting problem: two browsers still cannot communicate directly to each other. I work with peer-to-peer software as a part of my job. Having WebRTC’s DataChannel API available would make my life such a pleasure. Raquo; My Devtools wishlist. Raquo; MP4Cast for Google Cast. Raquo; Web Server for Chrome.

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BitTorrent video streaming in your browser

http://kyle.graehl.org/coding/2012/12/07/torrent-in-your-browser.html

BitTorrent video streaming in your browser. This post contains outdated information! Proceed reading with a grain of salt. I’ve abandoned trying to get torrents working on the open web platform :-). But especially for those who don’t know or don’t care what a torrent is. There are polyfills that make use of IndexedDB, but they have severe limitations for my use case, which needs to support files up to multiple gigabytes in size. I went ahead anyway implementing the protocol. I currently work at BitTorrent.

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Torrent in a google chrome packaged app.

http://kyle.graehl.org/coding/2013/01/14/torrent-chrome-packaged-app.html

Torrent in a google chrome packaged app. I finally released something based on the jstorrent code. You can download the packaged app. From google play. If you’re not aware, packaged apps are like browser extensions, only they get their own top level window. As of the date of this writing, they are not searchable within the google app store that you find in your chrome browser, but should be at some point. There is an ongoing discussion thread on google groups. For commonly encountered issues. Currently I...

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Spotify skip track chrome extension

http://kyle.graehl.org/chrome,/development/2013/08/15/spotify-skip-track-extension.html

Spotify skip track chrome extension. The more advanced extension ( Spotify Web Extension. Has remote-control abilities. It uses Google Cloud Messaging to setup a push channel. When you want to remote control another computer, my server wakes up your extension using the channel, and then sets up a relay between the two (a WebSocket connection on both ends). I just published a very simple extension to skip to the next track in the spotify web player. Here is the chrome web store link.