Gabe Kangas

It’s not uncommon for people to feel generally nostalgic about Twitter “before it sucked”.

In 2024 “Owncasts” for iOS was released as a side project to give a native interface on the iPhone and AppleTV.

It’s been a year since I’ve written a blog post.

May 23rd, 2024 marks the 4th anniversary of the first commit of Owncast, aptly titled: “WIP”.

Owncast is server software.

I missed the first week of the year, but I still wanted to write a bit about Owncast and share my appreciation what this past year has brought for Owncast.

While I try to keep a public roadmap, and keep a reasonable plan for Owncast, I rarely have an opportunity to gush to anybody (other than my therapist, and he doesn’t get it) about features I’m looking forward to building.

This post is a continuation of posts leading up to Owncast v0.1.0 that discusses some of the high level goals for the release.

With Owncast v0.1.0 starting a bug fixing and a super early testing phase now, I thought I’d write some blog posts about what it’s been like to get this far in this rather large release.

Imagine you were hired as a babysitter by some parents for their child.