#over-engineering
1 piece tagged over-engineering.
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I Wrote an FFT to Play Music: An Over-Engineered Terminal Player
The browser ate gigabytes to play a song, so I wrote a 2,000-line terminal music player with no pip deps. Along the way it grew a hand-rolled Fourier transform, a filesystem-as-LRU cache, two mpv processes, and an LLM that scores my songs by vibes. A field report on accidental over-engineering.