Coding tunnel
Added 2020-11-29 23:42:07 +0000 UTCHi everyone, hope folks are staying warm this winter if it's cold where you are.
I've had my head down for a bit working on some new software projects.. I did a little bit of streaming about them lately but largely I've been feeling like it isn't at an especially visually interesting point yet. ("yay, the segfault is now slightly different... progress")
The larger context here though is that I want to make tools that are useful for people to create smaller video sites and other online communities that don't have to be limited to the social and technical parameters set up by the current crop of tech monopolists.
To that end, an IRL friend and I want to try doing a regular video show podcasty thing about extracting your own personal online life from the jaws of google, amazon, facebook, microsoft, apple, and so on. We're still working on the details of a format, but if you have any questions about this already please send them my way and we'll try to work that into the show!
The coding I've been busy with... well, that started out as just a video server project, but then I decided that none of the existing options for sandboxed video transcoding were great, so I started working on a weird little sandboxing library in Rust. That's been a whole lot of work so far but I feel like I'm still making good progress.
That one goes pretty deep into low-level coding and weird Rust, but maybe some folks are interested in that? I want to do some more streaming on this, but I'm also wary of it becoming an unstructured several hours of staring at text.
I've got both of these projects on github currently, in case you want to check them out in their very rough state. Any feedback would be welcome!
https://github.com/scanlime/rectangle-device
https://github.com/scanlime/bandsocks
Stay warm, talk to you soon, and thank you again for your support.
