Daemon Pizza

Continuing my exploration of suckless tools I wanted to try compiling a program with tcc and musl. tcc stands for Tiny C Compiler, and musl is a lightweight libc alternative to glibc. I was generally sold on the principal of these tools, but I could not for the life of me find documentation on how to get these two working together.

Turns out it is rather quite trivial if you use the right OS. In my case, I was doing this on Void Linux running inside of a QEMU vm. The reason I chose Void, was because it has a musl build, so all of the tools are built with musl instead of glibc. musl-devel is not available on the glibc version.

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This post will layout the steps for setting up an internet radio using only Debian packages. The last part of it will go over how to create a Golang proxy server to make a fun website to host your stream.

One of my other hobbies besides programming is music. I love listening to music, making music, and even curating music. One thing I’ve always wanted to participate in is a silent disco, either as a listener or a DJ. If you aren’t familiar with a silent disco, it is simply a group of people all listening to the same music via headphones. So I thought to myself how hard might it be to make one myself? Turns out either really hard or fairly easy depending on the approach you take.

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