Nerdsnipe on Sarah's Microbloghttp://salr.cc/tags/nerdsnipe/Recent content in Nerdsnipe on Sarah's MicroblogHugoen-usWed, 26 Aug 2026 23:00:02 +0200Got absolutely sniped todayhttp://salr.cc/tmp/post/tech/post/1787769902/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:00:02 +0200http://salr.cc/tmp/post/tech/post/1787769902/<p>I was asked <em>so how does this thing work?</em><br> <figure> <a href="http://salr.cc/tmp/post/tech/post/1787769902/papanek-tin-can-radio_hu_92efe24de91a5a3e.jpg" target="_blank"> <img src="http://salr.cc/tmp/post/tech/post/1787769902/papanek-tin-can-radio_hu_d52da476cd7bd118.webp" alt="The Tin Can Radio by Papanek and Seeger"> </a> </figure></p> <p>From <a href="https://papanek.org">papanek.org</a> via <a href="https://www.smjny.com/ex20240209williamcordovaradioreceiver">smjny.com</a></p> <p>This is the &lsquo;Tin Can Radio&rsquo; by Victor Papanek and George Seeger. There appears to exist exactly three images of this thing online. It&rsquo;s a radio reciever from 1962 intended for &rsquo;third world&rsquo; countries. From texts referencing it, it&rsquo;s generally explained that the radio is not selective (it can not be tuned), that it is somehow powered by burning candle wax or cow dung in the tin can, it features a transitor (?), a 9 cent bill of materials and is possible to assemble by hand.</p><link>http://salr.cc/meta/post/1787604871/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:54:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>http://salr.cc/meta/post/1787604871/</guid><description><p>Way to go sniping myself with figuring out a neat way to do bandcamp embeds. Turns out you can <a href="https://gohugo.io/functions/resources/getremote/#article">getRemote</a> the url of what you want to embed and then likely find relevant embed links and data in the meta tags using <a href="https://gohugo.io/functions/strings/findresubmatch/#article">findRESubmatch</a>. Don&rsquo;t forget to <a href="https://gohugo.io/functions/safe/url/">safeURL</a> it!</p> <p>If you don&rsquo;t mind the loss of interactivity you could get rid of the iframe entirely by extracting the track info and album cover to host locally&hellip; Later.</p></description></item></channel></rss>