Blog – Page 4 – David Fabri

✦

Writing

A mix of what I write here and pieces from Bitstream Media. Posts marked Bitstream open on the studio site.

The obvious answer is a second machine. The cheaper answer, if the Mac has the headroom, is to stop thinking in outputs and start…

The design constraint we keep coming back to: no individual should be able to move the outcome much on their own. It…

Birthdays are the real gifting workload — spread thin across the year, easy to forget, and badly served by apps built for December.

Grandparents are the hardest people to buy for — decades of owning things, zero desire for more. Gift ideas that actually land, from photo…

Two interfaces in one aggregate device means two crystals counting at almost the same rate. Almost is the whole problem.

Every camera-driven crowd system rests on one assumption: the only thing changing in the picture is the audience. Automatic exposure destroys that…

The processor does not care about your beautiful canvas. It cares about a resolution it recognises, a frame rate that matches the panels, and…

A crowd game is a warm-up instrument. Put it in the wrong slot and it works against the thing it was supposed…

Newborn sizes, seventeen soft toys and nothing useful — baby gifting goes wrong in predictable ways. What new parents actually need and how to…

Every wishlist app claims to work with any store. Here is what that claim actually means, where it breaks, and what to check before…