The codec nobody rewrote
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SACD rips come compressed with DST, and for twenty years nobody wrote a decoder you could freely ship. What that gap looked like, how 1-bit closed it, and what the app does with those files now.
Writing
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Pruning the garden
4 minI'm retiring three side projects at once: K.E.V.I.N., my AI red-teaming framework; Sovereign Shield, the privacy extension, which stays in the store but frozen; and Buildmancer, the AI Minecraft builder. What stays up, what goes, and why.
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PaperMC + native Geyser + BedrockConnect. Geyser caught up to my server's Java version, so the ViaVersion translation layer is gone.
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My son plays Minecraft on a PlayStation; I wanted him on a Java world I host and control. Here's the whole Bedrock-to-Java bridge — and the DNS trap that eats an afternoon.
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I'm retiring Sonogram, my WebGL music visualizer. The audio analysis underneath it — waveforms, EBU R128 loudness, key and tempo — lives on in 1-bit. What I kept, and what I let go.
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An iOS app can't tell whether your Lightning or USB-C output is a $9 dongle or a $250 Audeze Cipher cable. Why Apple's audio API is opaque, and how 1-bit handles the gap honestly.
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A self-hosted hi-res music manager — 6,980 lines of Python, 408 KB of vanilla JS, zero frameworks, and one patient AI. What it does and how it's built.
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Hello, World
2 minWhat coseac.swiss is: the personal site of a lawyer turned humanitarian turned engineer, with occasional essays on software, audio and AI — and why I bother writing them at all.
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Why I keep coming back to simpler tools, smaller APIs, and less code — and why true minimalism means fewer concepts to understand, not just fewer lines.