The Rack can act. The model still cannot.
FF00 Studio reached a larger pre-alpha checkpoint: Surge control survived Waveform, worker replacement stayed bounded, and the first local advisor was deliberately given no mutation authority.
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FF00 Studio3 entries
- The Rack can act. The model still cannot.FF00 Studio reached a larger pre-alpha checkpoint: Surge control survived Waveform, worker replacement stayed bounded, and the first local advisor was deliberately given no mutation authority.
- I killed the worker and Waveform kept playingFF00 Studio reached its first real host-lifecycle checkpoint: independent workers, clean project closure, state restoration, and a crash that did not take Waveform with it.
- Yes, I started the flagship before VWM is finishedFF00 VWM works inside its current alpha boundary, and the problem pulling me forward now is bigger: building a local music collaborator whose actions can be trusted.
FF00 Video Wallpaper Manager3 entries
- FF00 VWM can handle pictures nowThe second alpha adds static wallpapers, rotation, mirroring, and the lifecycle work I said had to come first.
- FF00 VWM got a home in NURThe NUR pull request merged, so FF00 VWM now has a public package under the crimsonvariable namespace.
- FF00 VWM alpha.1: from an X11 workaround to a packaged applicationThe first public FF00 VWM release turns a manual video-wallpaper process into a bounded Rust application, publishes reproducible Nix packaging, and establishes the crimsonvariable namespace in NUR.
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I killed the worker and Waveform kept playing
FF00 Studio reached its first real host-lifecycle checkpoint: independent workers, clean project closure, state restoration, and a crash that did not take Waveform with it.
Yes, I started the flagship before VWM is finished
FF00 VWM works inside its current alpha boundary, and the problem pulling me forward now is bigger: building a local music collaborator whose actions can be trusted.
FF00 VWM can handle pictures now
The second alpha adds static wallpapers, rotation, mirroring, and the lifecycle work I said had to come first.
FF00 VWM got a home in NUR
The NUR pull request merged, so FF00 VWM now has a public package under the crimsonvariable namespace.
FF00 VWM alpha.1: from an X11 workaround to a packaged application
The first public FF00 VWM release turns a manual video-wallpaper process into a bounded Rust application, publishes reproducible Nix packaging, and establishes the crimsonvariable namespace in NUR.