Eric James Soltys
@kootenay-eric.bsky.social
Canadian software developer and hobbyist creating art and music in the BC Kootenays https://esoltys.dev
New release of the Luminous desktop music player: - advanced search and playlist creation - in-app update for future releases - album ratings - toggle between compact rows or full cover art - some UX changes following user feedback #BuildInPublic #Music
“The Griffin Incident” was spooky fun! I knew from socials to look to the corners and saw some creepy hidden figures. Great lighting. Any reason to see T’Pring is welcome. #StarTrek 🖖
Long weekend bike ride on the Columbia and Western Rail Trail at Christina Lake
Luminous desktop music player (Windows/Linux) 0.97 is a large polish-and-stability release closing out both the Windows and Linux 1.0 QA pre-release checklists alongside several new features. #BuildInPublic
[gasp] Someone withdrew their star from the Luminous repo. #BuildInPublic
Ron Burgundy's Hilarious Phone Call
ALT: Ron Burgundy's Hilarious Phone Call
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🎧 Listening to "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love" (2026) album by Olivia Rodrigo #Music www.albumoftheyear.org/album/175482...
Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
Music Reviews: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love by Olivia Rodrigo released in 2026. Genre: Pop Rock.
albumoftheyear.org
Air Quality map from Davis Instruments #WeatherSky www.weatherlink.com/map/b7ca8f66...
WeatherLink gives you real-time weather & air quality data from the largest network of sensors in the world.
WeatherLink gives you real-time weather & air quality data from the largest network of sensors in the world.
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Listening to Hasan Minhaj and Joanna Stern discuss AI beyond marketing. youtu.be/hzp-5JeqNkE?...
Why Is So Much AI Tech Useless?
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
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My 20s were rough. My 30s started smoothing out the bumps. My 40s felt like I found my groove. My 50s are cozy and chill. Don’t listen to anxious thoughts about getting older.
Toggled on Dependabot for security vulnerabilities and the CodeQL code scanner. Had to tweak the configuration a little and use Advanced CodeQL. Raised some dependencies with pinned versions. Glad to have a second-pair of eyes and that open source projects have easy access to them. #BuildInPublic
Back into "The Invincible" for a short session
A heartfelt thank you to firefighting support personnel coming to BC from Alberta, Yukon and Mexico. They’ll work alongside BC Wildfire Service crews to support wildfire response efforts across the province.
New: Getting ready for the public. Luminous landing page, discussions, and opening up bug reports and feature requests: esoltys.dev/luminous/ github.com/esoltys/lumi... github.com/esoltys/lumi... #BuildInPublic
Luminous
A high-performance home for the music you already own.
esoltys.dev
Fixed first bug report from a Luminous user. #BuildInPublic github.com/esoltys/lumi...
Background file watcher shows as ongoing scan activity after library scan completes · Issue #166 · esoltys/luminous
🔴 Description User reported that scanning activity appears to continue indefinitely after a library scan finishes and the collection has been created: Having an issue where the scan seems to contin...
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5-day response isn't bad. Glad that was easy to clear up. Hopefully their automated AI tagging system gets better.
Surprising (to me): dependencies in my current project: Rust = 734, Node = 249. 3:1 compared to node modules?
Couldn't resist doing more work on the Luminous. (Having too much fun.) Very glad I automated the screenshot system. I can easily update them with new builds and now take both EN/FR versions for the user manual. #BuildInPublic
🎧 Listened to “Little Miss Twain “ (2026) album by Shania Twain. 15 tracks carried me through mowing the lawn. Quite the tour: 60s Grand Ole Opry, 70s Vegas, 80s Nashville. #Music music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Little Miss Twain - Album by Shania Twain
Listen to Little Miss Twain by Shania Twain on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
music.youtube.com
Finished Episode 2 of #DispatchGame today. Funny and great animation and voice acting. The hacking mini-game and choice decisions have honest-to-goodness time pressure.
“A LLM can never "know" if its output is correct since it merely produces syntactically likely combinations of the training data.” Oh good lord. They use the same test runners, linters, and tools as human devs. “But AI…” So do human devs.
Debian wants to ban contributions written with LLM assistance: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
Ok, no more working on Luminous this weekend. I keep getting swept up in "just one more thing". Added a full user guide to the app. #BuildInPublic
Working on the design system for my Luminous music player today. Very happy with the results so far. Going to be fun updating the app! #BuildInPublic
Finished my last bugfix and feature today for Luminous 1.0, but I'm going to live with it for another week. See what issues come up in day-to-day life. Things like I need to a way to fav my track in the miniplayer! How'd I miss that? #BuildInPublic