Let me be honest about something before I start: this post is about the actual site you are reading. Not a fever dream, not a fictional festival, not a thought experiment dressed up as a blueprint. It is a retrospective about a website I have run for a very long time, the mess I got it into over the last few months, and what I ended up doing about it.
There comes a point in any fever dream where you have to put the crimping tool down, pour yourself a pint, and admit there is still one job left to do.
This is that point.
The Command Nexus: a truck that turns a town’s festival into live TV. Sixteen feeds, one crew, and the mesh that holds it together.
Inside the Royal Hall’s £826k flagship build: 12K cameras, 100G IP production, resilient workflows, and the real cost of an unlimited budget on stage.
Step inside the Department of Magical Crimes, meet its unlikely investigators, and explore the strange, darkly comic world behind Book One.
The Priory and Spa Gardens reveal how professional broadcast evolves from hybrid SDI/IP to full SMPTE 2110 production.
Post 1 was survival. Three venues. Three budgets. Three radically different approaches to the same problem. Now we climb. The Black Lion is a …
Let me be honest with you from the start.
This is the jankiest corner of the entire mesh. Not in quality — I’ll fight anyone who says the bottom…
Let me set the scene. It’s a Thursday night in Bridlington. I’m standing at the back of the Harbour Tavern, pint in hand, watching a three-piece…
The story of the 2023-2026 production evolution of Eurovision doesn’t actually start with a piece of gear or a fibre optic cable; it starts with a ..
