We built the player five times
Once the server was forbidden from seeing the stream, the player had to decode it — so we built it five times, V1 to VX, around one rule: hardware, then software, then our own decoder.
Journal
Twiga journal
Two bugs that were the whole story
A five-character fix the demuxer hid for days, a single wrong number that left a channel silent for two — and the build gate we wrote so we couldn't cheat our way past either.
The first version of Twiga could see your streams. So we deleted it.
The first version was self-hosted software that reshaped your streams on the server — which meant the server could see them. Four days later the transcoder was gone, and the rule was law: the server never sees what's inside your stream.
The eye is closed
We deleted the engine we'd just gotten right, shipped its browser-native replacement, rebuilt the mobile player — and, on the last night, closed the logo's eyes to match the promise.