This resonates with me so much. I’m also building a project right now where I fed my 10-year-old C code into an LLM to reincarnate it as a modern Flutter app.
Like you, I couldn’t have done it without the AI "doing the heavy lifting." The way you used Phaser 3 to bring those 2D aesthetics to the browser is inspiring. It’s amazing how AI is now allowing us to bridge the gap between our nostalgia and modern tech. Great work!
Building a terminal UI in pure C is a fantastic challenge!
I wrote a simulation game in C about a decade ago, but I relied heavily on a wrapper library to handle all the complex UI and system loops because it was too daunting.
Seeing you tackle ncurses and GStreamer directly for a learning project is really impressive. It’s a great, hardcore way to truly understand what's happening under the hood. The feature set, especially the radio stream playback, looks surprisingly complete for a terminal app.
Great work, and thanks for sharing your learning journey!
Sorry to hear about the layoff, but building this to solve your own problem is the perfect hacker mindset.
I'm not a Staff Engineer, but I heavily rely on AI like Gemini for my own personal projects, so I really appreciate that you offer Gemini Pro in your app. Keeping PII strictly on-device is also a huge trust-builder for a resume tool.
Good luck with the job hunt and the app!
Like you, I couldn’t have done it without the AI "doing the heavy lifting." The way you used Phaser 3 to bring those 2D aesthetics to the browser is inspiring. It’s amazing how AI is now allowing us to bridge the gap between our nostalgia and modern tech. Great work!