What to save before you leave site
The rig worked. In four months you will need it to work again, and the only record will be whatever you saved in the twenty minutes before the truck left.
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Tips, updates and behind-the-scenes from the Bitstream team — the lessons we pick up building live-production tools and shipping websites on real deadlines.
Expect deep dives on macOS app development, screen-mapping and AV workflows, WordPress & WooCommerce builds, and the occasional honest retrospective on what worked — and what didn’t.
Spring-clean your website: a 12-point audit you can do yourself
It’s spring — time to look at the website you’ve been avoiding. A practical 12-point audit you can run yourself in under an hour.
Office Secret Santa: rules that keep it fun (and HR-safe)
Office Kris Kringle has more failure modes than the family kind — budgets, boundaries and the colleague who takes it too far. Rules for a workplace draw that works.
OBS on macOS: getting clean sources in, and clean signal out
OBS is very good at everything except the two ends. Both ends are fixable, and neither fix involves pointing a camera at a monitor.
Why your website is slow — and the fixes that actually move the needle
Slow site costing you customers? Here’s what actually slows a website down — and the fixes that genuinely move the needle, from engineers who build them.
3D-printed gifts people actually keep: ideas from practical to personal
A 3D printer is a gift factory if you print the right things. The prints that get used — organisers, fixes, personalised pieces — and the ones that gather dust.