Everything lived on Instagram and WhatsApp. Services, prices and availability had to be explained again to every new client.

WordPress rather than a static site, so they can change prices, add services and publish events themselves. A custom theme with only the fields they actually touch, and a professional mailbox on their own domain.

The site is the catalogue now. People arrive already knowing what is offered and what it costs.

A school project with one hard rule: playback has to start before the file has finished downloading, and every library that already does that was banned.

The torrent is downloaded in order, first byte to last. A background worker watches the progress and, as soon as enough of the file exists, cuts the next ten seconds into a small MP4 the browser can read.

Playback starts at around five percent of the file. The whole problem becomes a race: the converter has to stay ahead of the viewer, and the player keeps two pieces buffered in front.

Players in the same room have to stay in sync over a socket, with no canvas, no DOM libraries, and board logic in pure functions only.

Boards are computed in the browser, never on the server. Only six messages travel over the socket. The room name seeds the piece order, so everyone gets the same pieces without syncing anything.

Garbage lines and live opponent skylines, with no shared game state to keep in sync. The heaviest thing on the wire is a list of ten column heights.