Fashionably late, here's my second¹ big announcement for 2025:
Did you see the «Hyper 8 Video System» (simonrepp.com/hyper8), a static site generator for *video* that I beta-released last May?
Last summer I applied for a netidee.at grant - an open source funding programme by the austrian Internet Foundation - to ensure further #hyper8 development, and to my great delight, the application was accepted!
Hence, all throughout 2025 I'll be able to work part-time on turning Hyper 8 from a pretty solid beta into a full-featured production tool!
The plan in a nutshell: Initially I'll work on critical features like subtitle support, RSS/Podcast integration, video embedding and built-in FTP deployment, midway I'll put additional focus on layout, accessibility and design, and in the grand finale Hyper 8 will be published as a proper deskto
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Fashionably late, here's my second¹ big announcement for 2025:
Did you see the «Hyper 8 Video System» (simonrepp.com/hyper8), a static site generator for *video* that I beta-released last May?
Last summer I applied for a netidee.at grant - an open source funding programme by the austrian Internet Foundation - to ensure further #hyper8 development, and to my great delight, the application was accepted!
Hence, all throughout 2025 I'll be able to work part-time on turning Hyper 8 from a pretty solid beta into a full-featured production tool!
The plan in a nutshell: Initially I'll work on critical features like subtitle support, RSS/Podcast integration, video embedding and built-in FTP deployment, midway I'll put additional focus on layout, accessibility and design, and in the grand finale Hyper 8 will be published as a proper desktop application – emphasis though that *right now* you can already use the Hyper 8 graphical user interface! The desktop application is just the missing glue to make this easier to access for everyone.
I have two big announcements for 2025 - today's is all about #faircamp!
The response to the 1.0 release annoucement was incredible, way beyond what I had imagined, and I'm still glowing with excitement. (⌒‿⌒) Given this amazing response - for which I would like to say a huge thank you to all of you! - the @nlnet foundation has extended my current @NGIZero grant, meaning that there will be more big developments following in the wake of 1.0! To name two of them already: Podcast support and track-level metadata (such as lyrics, transcripts, cover art) are coming in the next months!
And now, to add some icing to the cake, 2025's first Faircamp release – 1.1!
Introducing opt-in Open Graph metadata (with support from @berdandy), M3U playlists for artists, catalog-wide and artist-level tag rewrite options (thanks @mahlon for facilitating this), process exit codes for failure/success (thanks @audiodude for the suggestion), multiple essential fixes and improvements (thanks to contributions from @sunny and reports by @axwax and @samae), as well as the introduction of japanese translations (ありがとう @dev![url=https://cobaltkiss.blue/users/MostlyHarmless])[/url] and updates to french, swedish and norwegian (thank you Élie, Filip and Matias![url=https://cobaltkiss.blue/users/MostlyHarmless])[/url].
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