Trying to make it so my players can click a button and play a MIDI file, because I can do a MIDI playback in like 20kb vs like 4 megs for an MP3.
1999: yeah no problem dude
2024: well, no, but there's a JavaScript thing that you can install via whatever the hell NPM is, there's twenty megs of soundfonts to go with it,
I think I've found the problem, the problem is that I'm old
1999: go grab a .zip from hotscripts, upload it to your server, write <script src=nowwheredidiputit>, job done
2024: write <script src=somebodyelse'swebsite>, everything works fine for a few months and then everyone's CPU fans start whirring as somebodyelse'swebsite starts mining cryptocurrencies
🐴 come on Dan that cryptomining malware thing was a bit far-fetched
🦝 literally the top result for this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5662293/how-to-play-a-midi-file-in-html#30418147
@ifixcoinops
How much is that in computer years?