Faircamp 1.6, Hyper 8 v0.23-0.24

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

[With a swift blow I clear fresh dust off the microphone]

Good news yet again! The update cadence on this feed has accelerated 1300% and I'm back with yet another update!

Again I already wrote a newsletter today (https://simonrepp.com/newsletter/) so this shall be today's RSS payload as well (this might just become a habit) - enjoy!

Most exciting news first: In only 2-3 weeks, Hyper 8 Video System 1.0 will be released! To get a glimpse of what's coming - better yet, you can actually already try most of what will be included! - read through the 0.23/0.24 news below. But even though I was busy on that, Faircamp has not been at a stand-still either (thanks especially to the many contributors!) - let's dive right in:

1. Faircamp (https://simonrepp.com/faircamp):

Four weeks ago, Faircamp 1.6 was released, shortly after the last newsletter. Most notably it provides two first, complete chinese translations of Faircamp, and an important fix for embeds - which (if you use them) requires your action (!) Read all about it at: https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/changes/1.6.0/

Faircamp 1.7 is coming very soon. I can already announce that it will introduce a complete danish translation of Faircamp as well as a comprehensive review and update of the new chinese translations. There will be functional additions too, although I've yet to figure out which exactly, reason being that (as mentioned) I've been very busy with ...

2. Hyper 8 (https://simonrepp.com/hyper8):

Five weeks ago 0.23 came out, introducing audio-only formats, customizable ordering for playlists and subcollections, refined site design and layout, deployment from CLI, improved background jobs, and numerous other improvements and fixes: https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/changes/0.23.0/

Two weeks ago this was followed by 0.24, or in more significant terms, the "1.0 Preview"! On the feature side the headline is Transcripts - which allow you to interactively read, search and jump around in videos through a text-based representation. Scope-wise this is dwarfed by the largest change in Hyper 8 since its inception: Hyper 8 is now (also) a deskop application! Additionally, linking to timecodes, "serverless" viewability of sites straight from disk, critical WebKit/iOS fixes and a dozen more changes and fixes make this a pretty epic release: https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/changes/0.24.0/

Since around last week, I'm distributing Hyper 8 through new, additional distribution channels: macOS (.app), RPM-based Linux, DEB-based Linux (cli edition) and AUR (bin/cli edition). All of this is available through https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/download.html - if you run into any issues with packages you're warmly invited to report them, I'm glad about the feedback and to resolve things.

Thank you for following these updates, and I'll be back with a 1.0 release shortly. ;) – Simon