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Why is this a constant struggle
Why is this a constant struggle
My three-month-old is LOVING this morning’s NTS Guide to Indietronica and Folktronica.
Do you have recommendations or ideas for sets/shows that newborns and babies would enjoy?
I listen to NTS daily and love the physical player they made with Atonemo. Its Teenage Engineering–inspired look gave me an excuse to try skeuomorphic design. Physical device for reference.
I also wanted a native alternative to listening to this radio in a browser which can be a burden. So I built NTS Dial, a discreet player hiding in your macOS menu bar app.
Features:
- NTS Radio 1, Radio 2, and all 16 Infinite Mixtapes playback
- Keyboard media keys and macOS Now Playing support
- Current station streaming displayed in the menu bar
- Remembers your last played station
Process:
The project took four days: one for the design, one for the initial build, and two for debugging, QA, and publishing.
I built it entirely with Codex:
- 5.6 Sol High for planning, features development, debugging and code review
- 5.6 Terra Medium for UI iterations
- 5.6 Luna Medium for small visual adjustments
I first tried recreating the hardware in Figma using its MCP, but the result wasn’t convincing, so I designed it from scratch. I then used Codex to gather the streams, assets, implement the player and dial logic, reproduce the Figma UI component by component with dev mode on, audit the code, and prepare the GitHub release.
Pretty happy with the result for a four-day experiment. Let me know what you think!
GitHub: NTS Dial repo
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Hi all-
I preordered the new Atonemo player to the US and saw that a label was created for DHL July 20, but there's been no update since then. Customer service has been basically unhelpful and can't tell me what's happening.
Seeing on the NTS website that they are having "shipping delays." Wondering if anyone here has any more information?
TY
Looking for a designer with sharp eye, who understands the cultural world of brands like CDG, Kiko Kostadinov, Martine Rose, Cav Empt etc
This was probably about a year and a half ago, but it was about 9AM GMT (maybe a tad earlier or later) and the host mentioned that they were reading a book about tomb raiding, or something adjacent to egyptology. I was wondering if anyone remembers the book, the host, or even which show it was that I heard this?