Video Streaming with Laravel
2026-04-25
How I built Samson Media — and why, for me, it beats Jellyfin.
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Moving my video transcoding to Apple Silicon
2026-03-31
A rack of Rock Pi 5s couldn't keep up, so I moved transcoding to Apple Silicon — and built Barn to run the jobs.
My First Cluster
2025-02-17
My adventures with a home streaming server and Kubernetes
Jellyfin - A Buggy Mess
2024-10-24
Exploration of the "Architecture" of Jellyfin