I also happened to aquire the worst laptop I've ever used (an aliexpress nameless piece of trash) and have been delaying writing a blog post about it since it might not be interesting enough. Maybe I'll find a spare moment.
Fazign
The 0.1.0 initial release of Fazign is now tagged. I've implemented all the basic features I need from a digital signage system and it's time to put this one in production. It does need to have a few quality of life features fixed so I guess there'll be another release soon for it.
- Implemented gallery multi-image uploads to have stored archives of pictures
- Implement gallery slides that take a few random pictures from a gallery instead of manually having to make image slides for them and randomly picking images.
- Fix the admin frontend not reloading properly when not on the home page
- Fix a memory leak in the HTML renderer, Golang is magic but you still need to free() in the CGO bindings to clean up that memory...
- Implement caching in the HTML and website renderer with cache rules per resource to actually give you some control over when data is refreshed.
- Rebuilt the admin frontend in vuejs
FOSDEM
- Added the plutobook renderer from Fazign into the FOSDEM video mixer software to render overlays
- Got the first working prototype of the Audio mixer V2, this test board has a 32-bit 4-channel ADC chip and seems to have significantly better noise performance than the cheap-ish audio interfaces I already owned.
- Designed a DAC test board for the V2 mixer. This will provide a 32-bit balanced stereo output and a headphone amp to complete testing all the seperate parts for the V2 audio board. Once this is verified working the final production design for the audio mixer will be made (hopefully in time for FOSDEM 2026)