Cue 02The log
Field notes
Why these tools exist, how they are built, and what broke on the way. Entries reference the actual pull requests and releases they describe, so the record stays honest.
- The desk stays litLight's console glowed in all the wrong places. Fixing it meant writing down what a lighting desk actually is, running four designs against each other, and then trying to prove the winner wrong.
- The sliders were lyingDatamosh's Mosh Amount spent most of its travel doing nothing and the rest doing everything. Measuring each control instead of trusting it changed almost every number in the plugin — and then a bug turned up that no test could ever have caught.
- Fifty-six things that were wrongCrewbox v0.19.0 is one release made entirely of fixes from a review of the last one. Not tidier code — a box that could be killed from the network, an updater that could not be used, and a disaster plan nobody had ever run.
- Reading NovaStar LED processors without breaking the wallEvery LED wall on a festival site runs through a NovaStar processor, and the only thing that talks to one is NovaStar's own software. Here is what is actually on the wire, and why the first release only reads.