Live Television & Outside Broadcast

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Live television & outside broadcast. Editorially, artistically, technically. Every second is craft. Based in Borås, working across continents.

Thåst Works is a broadcast production collective. We build content and structure for live television, studio and outside broadcast, from first sketch to final frame. Editorially, artistically, technically. A television production is always a craft under time pressure, and we carry the responsibility for the signal, for the story, for the people behind and in front of the camera.

Most of what we do lives in trucks, galleries and OB compounds and never makes it to a public repository. What you will find here is the tooling we build to keep those productions honest, protocol glue and the occasional experiment we couldn't not open-source.

We write software for environments where second chances are rare. That shapes decisions.

• Ship deterministic behaviour.
• Design the failure mode first.
• Measure, don't guess.
• Document like the rollback depends on it.
• Keep a one-pager in the gallery.
• Write in English. Dates in ISO 8601.
• Instrument everything.

• Prefer clever over correct.
• Mock the hardware.
• Over-automate.
• Ship silent failures.
• Patch around.
• Deploy on a Friday.

Selected building blocks. Not exhaustive.

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