celebrating over 1,901 years and 117 days worth of video content created in Meld 🎉 if you stitched the videos together and pressed "play" right now, it wouldn't finish until the year 3927

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@InfoComm 2026 is right around the corner. Something we’ll be cooking up in my workshop are production assets using @StreamWithMeld Spark. I thought a show schedule ticker would be fun to create and it ended up being really easier than I thought to make. Spark pulled the branding from the website itself. You can get 2 CTS / CTS-D credits by hanging out with me on Tuesday afternoon and learning free broadcast software. 🥳

X is about to become the most powerful livestreaming platform that exists... Yes, better than YouTube and Twitch. Here's why: - Sharing & attribution to original accounts. Shoutout @joelcompiles for the brainblast today. X already attributes QT impressions to original posters, even for live (MTS is great at this). Imagine a world where X also allows users to share your stream to their audience, and the audience can interact directly on the timeline... - Content is naturally time-based / news Live is the fastest way to react to news-based content. - Infrastructure to compete with incumbents. Livestreaming at scale is brutally expensive. It's why Twitch has never been meaningfully profitable for Amazon and why YouTube subsidizes live with the rest of Google. X under xAI is building out massive GPU infrastructure - Discovery. Huge. Comment section on streams, attribution of impressions, interest-based algorithm, sharing built-in... Their discovery for live content could be on-par with YouTube's discovery for regular VOD. - Payouts. Creator payout program seems to be going well, onboarding is meaningful but still attainable. Streamers need to make $ to spend time here. X won't be YouTube or Twitch by competing on what they're good at (culture Google search). Instead, it should focus on the unique advantage it already has: owning the live conversation. X is where the world comes to react in real-time. The culture to own live is already built in to the platform, but it won't perform well without strategic focus... Where I'd build if I worked on live for X: - Reliability & latency. This is tablestakes. - "Join from the timeline" Stop making people click twice to actually enter the stream from their timeline. Include chat engagement, all messages (not just the past 10 mins), and comments next to the stream, as displayed in the timeline. Allow people to interact without clicking. Encourage the click to create stickiness. - Browsing streams & replays. VODs need to live on. It is 50% of the value of a stream. - Real-time captions, live translation. Make platforms compete with your compute advantage lol. - Analytics. "Viewers" is currently total viewership, not concurrent. People think 2k "viewers" = 2k people watching live. This can be misleading for brands who want to work with creators, a fundamental monetization path for live. More analytics that empower streamers to know when they lose audience, what worked, what to comtinue doing vs. what to cut. - Mobile and TV. YouTube is being consumed more & more on TVs, mobile is also large % of social consumption. Live needs to work for both. The thing I have been historically concerned about... Video content is not what X users mainly consume. We are here to read things, at our own pace. (Quickly, if you are degen like me) There would be a bit of behavior shift for users from consuming written to video, and this is not an easy chasm to cross. But everything else is aligned, the opportunity is available. And if X invests in live strategically.. they could be the next Twitch. Better tbh, Twitch is structurally problematic Can't wait to see what happens over the next couple yrs in the streaming space... Bullish. DM me if you need help building live!

have discord group chats always been limited to 10 people?

I made a custom Pride overlay with Meld Studio Spark #PrideMonth #MeldStudio @StreamWithMeld

my phone gallery is just my cat and this tug

the morning tug.

excellent to seem more unified memory chips outside of the Apple ecosystem. not having to design around PCI bandwidth limits is transformative to many types of creative software (including Meld) eager to see the memory bandwidth numbers.

how to eat?

“for the birds” | oil on linen | 36 x 36 in | inquire for price

just got my new keyboard after seeing this glowing review. since i’m no longer banging out code by hand for hours on end, I’m branching out from my long term daily driver, the Kinesis Advantage 2 and trying something new.

hi @NYCParks i would like to report a swim violation. suspect is 3ft tall, dark hair, quickly fled scene with park property.

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what’s my play here?

.@StreamWithMeld and @joelcompiles care. That's the Tweet. 🤓

Yes!! Switched to @StreamWithMeld and since then… no crashes, less CPU load, and so much dang creative freedom for work!