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Viet Phan
[Day29] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 88.5
What’s New?
✅Made audio scrubbable
- jump to any part of the track with a simple click!
✅ Fixed click detection on the waveform
- by setting IsHitTestVisible = true
Sorting and rating your MP3 files have never been easier! https://t.co/Axn9hYBExc
4:00 PM · Feb 16, 2025
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Viet Phan
[Day28] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 87
✅ Playback position now moves in real time!
- Audio sounds glitchy and waveform clicks
works only 10% of time
- Solved with UI async thread
💥 Wanted to make waveform RGB
- Applied Fourier Transform but app crashes on load https://t.co/graf7CjLUs
4:00 PM · Feb 14, 2025
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Viet Phan
[Day27] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 84
✅ Completely ditched old audio library for smooth playback
😤 Spent all day refactoring WPF code to Avalonia:
Had to move event-handling to code-behind since they manipulate canvas.
Waveform works, but loading is laggy https://t.co/lJbNhh4BEi
4:00 PM · Feb 12, 2025
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Viet Phan
[Day26] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 71
✅ Added pause functionality
✅ Playback speed was sluggish so switched audio libraries
—now playback is almost instant ⚡
😤 Couldn’t stop playback even after disposing the stream
—turns out I needed to low level process cleanup https://t.co/ShKhluqSQT
4:00 PM · Feb 10, 2025
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Viet Phan
[Day25] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 69
Here’s what I’ve been working on
✅ Added a toggle Play/Pause button
✅ Spent 1h styling the button
✅ Made selected song to load its waveform
🚧 Challenge: Figuring out how to stream audio in chunks instead of loading entire file https://t.co/xY9J4YxesO
4:00 PM · Feb 8, 2025
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Viet Phan
[Day24] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 67
Here’s the latest on building the file explorer part
- Added a Avalonia DataGrid to display the contents of selected folder
- When a folder is clicked in the sidebar, DataGrid automatically refreshes to show the folder contents https://t.co/EnRLf0kQtq
4:00 PM · Feb 1, 2025
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Viet Phan
[Day22] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 54
Avalonia TreeView…is a nightmare
Why not working like React?
Two-way binding? Not allowed
Had to hack it:
- Listen for click
- Crawl XML
- Find DataContext
Feels wrong…but it works
Avalonia, why you make me suffer? https://t.co/fcJRODkBfA
4:00 PM · Jan 30, 2025
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Viet Phan
It's hard to admit, but software engineering is a blue collar job
Similar to plumbing, bests are self taught
Most days you build or fix pipelines
Can be fully automated post AGI
By age of 40, you are done. Either physically or mentally
TLDR: Its OK to be digital plumber https://t.co/unezswVi3r
4:00 PM · Jan 28, 2025
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Viet Phan
[Day21] Building MP3 Manager
Total hours: 46
Today I am building a file explorer
- Added TreeView Avalonia component to the sidebar
- Mirrored folder hierarchy with nodes and subnodes, structure needed to rebuild the entire tree
- Made the sidebar vertically scrollable https://t.co/aiQ1SK2rLj
4:00 PM · Jan 26, 2025
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Viet Phan
This is what it takes to get close to 1000 subs
4 years later…
Never ever give up https://t.co/7ywZyi7HzC
6:44 PM · Jan 25, 2025
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