GiftGambit vs an Amazon wishlist: when a list stops being enough
An Amazon wishlist is free, universal-ish and already in your account. Here is exactly where it stops working for family gifting — and where it doesn’t.
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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.
You’ve Got the Content. Now What? The LED Wall Mapping Problem Nobody Talks About.
Nobody compliments the pixel mapping. They compliment the content, which only looked good because the mapping was right. Here is the problem, and what it takes to solve it on a Mac.
Great gifts on a tight budget: the January-was-expensive survival guide
Christmas cleaned you out and February birthdays don’t care. How to give genuinely good gifts on a small budget — without it looking like you tried to save money.
Audience participation ideas for conferences that aren’t a Q&A app
Most conference “interactivity” is a poll. Here are formats that ask something more of a room, roughly ordered by how much nerve…
How to get one window into Resolume on a Mac
Resolume will happily take your whole desktop, notifications and all. Getting it to take one window and nothing else is a different job. Here are the three routes and what each costs you.
We’re building a game the whole audience plays at once
We have started building something odd: a game that cannot be played by one person. The idea came out of watching audience-participation…