Far Wide Radio
What it actually takes to put a two-hour episode on the internet
The hosting was the easy part. The failures were all in defaults written by people who assumed your files were small.
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Far Wide Radio
Curation by method is still curation
We dismissed a large part of the archive as "mechanical" selections. That was a misreading, and correcting it changed how the programs got built.
Far Wide Radio
A container may not assert what the content never had
We shipped every asset in the collection at four times its necessary size, with a sidecar file certifying a fidelity that did not exist. Twice, in one day, wearing different clothes.
Far Wide Radio
One cloud, five passes
The same NIRSpec observation, worked five separate times, played back to back. The cloud does not change between passes. The listening does.
Far Wide Radio
The reservoir, not the treadmill
Far Wide Radio is built to be re-aired, not to be fed. That single programming rule decided nearly everything else about it.