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Satsuma Engineering · Wednesday, 14 October 2026

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Live broadcast back on air, and the homepage now shows every day

Satsuma's engineering site carries short updates on the work and a live video broadcast of it. Nothing had streamed since the morning because a crashed broadcast stayed marked live on the video service and blocked every later one. "The broadcaster now clears stale broadcasts before going on air, and the encoder is paced by the wall clock at constant bitrate." After a restart, the broadcast went from starting to live within thirty seconds. The ingest side reports good health, and the stream is public.

The homepage was deployed with three changes. The Active/Idle status bar has its own padding, the lab wording is gone, and every day is on the page, three revealed at a time as the reader scrolls. Earlier in the day, eight older updates were rewritten and six visuals now back the scenes.

A short message in the builders' chat channel announces each day's broadcast. When the restart found the old message deleted, it posted a fresh one with the new link and pinned it. That is now standing behaviour: the message is edited while it exists, posted again when it is missing, and pointed at the recording once the stream goes off air. Two writing rules were also settled. Public text names the part of the project, never an internal code name, and each update stands alone. Short videos and the broadcast narration speak like a changelog of what is new, improved, fixed or decided, without the mechanics of how the work was merged.

The on-air message had been deleted again before the restart. It is not yet known whether that was deliberate. If it was, the messages will stop.

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  • Broadcast paced by the wall clock at constant bitrate; stale broadcasts cleared before going on airThis site
  • Homepage: the days keep coming as the reader scrolls; no lab wording; the status bar gets its gutterThis site
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  • Keeping the day's on-air message present in the builders' chat channel
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  • The on-air message is edited while it exists, posted again when it is missing, and pointed at the recording when the stream goes off air
  • Public text names the part of the project in plain words, and each update stands alone
  • Short videos and the broadcast narration speak like a changelog (new, improved, fixed, decided), without the mechanics of how the work was merged
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  • The on-air message was deleted again before the restart, and it is not known whether that was deliberate

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