Image: reddit.com · I built AUDIOPOST: type a tumblr username, see and listen all of their audio posts. Filter by month/year, listen with a built in player that plays even with scr
A broken Tumblr audio-post player rebuilt
A musician rebuilt a long-broken web app for browsing and playing a Tumblr blog's audio posts with Claude Code, adding retries for dormant files.
Credits
- Reddit poster out-of-phase Source ↗
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The full story
AUDIOPOST lets you type in a Tumblr username and see and play all of that blog's audio posts, filtered by month or year, with a player that keeps going with the screen locked. The maker, a musician, used to rely on a similar web app made by an early Tumblr editor that has been broken for years, and missed it.
It was built with Claude Code in TypeScript using test-driven development, with the logo and front end worked out in Claude Design. One feature works around Tumblr returning 502 errors for tracks that haven't been played in a while: the app checks each file first and quietly retries every 31 seconds, up to five times, so playback carries on. The maker rewrote the site's copy themselves.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built AUDIOPOST: type a tumblr username, see and listen all of their audio posts. Filter by month/Reddit poster: out-of-phasePosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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