EOFY sales: the gift shopper’s mid-year cheat code
June EOFY sales are Australia’s second Boxing Day — ideal for buying the year’s remaining gifts at a discount. What to buy, what to skip, how to shop with a list.
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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.
DeckLink output from a Mac: the parts that bite
SDI is refreshingly binary: either the switcher locks to your signal or it does not. When it does not, it is nearly always one of four things.
The calibration problem: every room is a different shape
Every room is a different shape, at a different distance, with different people in it. That means there is no such thing…
Experience gifts vs things: what actually makes a gift memorable
Research says experiences beat objects for lasting happiness — but only when given well. When to gift an experience, when a thing, and how to wrap time.
Getting ProPresenter onto a second surface without a second Mac
The obvious answer is a second machine. The cheaper answer, if the Mac has the headroom, is to stop thinking in outputs and start thinking in sources.
Designing a game one person cannot win
The design constraint we keep coming back to: no individual should be able to move the outcome much on their own. It…