Twiga journal https://twiga.tv/journal Notes from the Twiga team — news, progress, setbacks, and the occasional engineering vent. New entries land when something is worth telling. en-gb We built the player five times https://twiga.tv/journal/five-engines https://twiga.tv/journal/five-engines Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. Two bugs that were the whole story https://twiga.tv/journal/two-bugs https://twiga.tv/journal/two-bugs Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://twiga.tv/journal/the-first-version https://twiga.tv/journal/the-first-version Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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 https://twiga.tv/journal/the-eye-is-closed https://twiga.tv/journal/the-eye-is-closed Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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.