Here's another little update on Weird Waves, since I did a little bit more work on it since the last post!

The first thing is, it's got the barest skeleton of a layout now: sections in different tabs (but on the same page so the audio keeps running). Here are the different sections so far:

• About, which has basic info about the site and about each section.

• Schedule, which lists all the shows on the schedule by weekday/weekend block.

• Forecast, which has the big tables for exact showtimes every day, which should track your local timezone (but no matter where you are, the station should play the same show at a single point in time).

• Archive, which lists all the shows by series/source. Right now there are 2 sources, both radio play anthologies from the middle of last century: Quiet, Please and Suspense. There's a position: sticky sidebar on the left with the series info, then a list on the right side that has all the show details per series.

• News (also the default section), which has some lorem ipsum test posts (probably way longer than most news updates I'd add).

• FAQ, which has some lorem ipsum test Q&As. Further along I'm probably gonna just show the site to a bunch of people and ask for any questions they have and see whether anything shakes out as actually frequently asked questions, but for now this is gonna be blank.

• Help, which has a few questions and answers for tech issues (which basically boil down to “try refreshing the page”).

The second thing is, it's got some new shows. I found out about Suspense when someone recommended me the episode Fugue in C Minor (starring Vincent Price and Ida Lupino), which has a really, really obvious first twist and then takes a bit of a fuckin swerve in the last few minutes. It's on the schedule this weekend (along with The House in Cypress Canyon, another decent horror story from the series).

It's kinda hard to find episode summaries for the series, but I found a blog with episode reviews and picked out ~80 more shows from their “Best of Suspense” post categories… out of the 500 in that category (it's more of a thriller series than a horror series). I dunno exactly how many of those'll actually be a good fit for Weird Waves, but they were about evenly split between a “probably” list and a “maybe” list. A lot of the ones I didn't pick were noir-ish murder plots, or adultery plots that led to murder, or fraud or embezzlement plots that led to murder, or…

Also every Suspense show seems to have ads for the same vineyard in it (Roma Wines, which sponsored the series for a while). Right now I think it's kinda funny, so I'm leaving them in.

Lastly, I added a spoiler effect on the content notes for each show (only the ones with spoilery notes). I tried with :hover, then ::selection, but neither was mobile-friendly, and I couldn't do the checkbox hack because show info gets duplicated and you can't have more than one checkbox with the same ID. There were a few fixes I could've done with javascript, but I wanted to keep it simple, so I just went with <details>/<summary> widgets—specifically set up so when you click the <summary>, it disappears, leaving the irreversibly-revealed <details>. It's a neat space-saving effect.

So, what's left to do? Pretty much everything on the to-do list on the first post I made about Weird Waves. Still, even just the basic layout's a big step forwards in how the app feels. My plan's to have it all set up and be well into beta by the start of October, hopefully just tweaking things and adding more and more shows by that point.