The fix for a segfault that never shipped

https://www.recall.ai/blog/the-fix-for-a-segfault-that-never-shipped

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190nJan 20, 2026, 10:56 PM
I thought I had read this story before, and it seems like a similar account was published to this company's blog in 2023 but since taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20250624191934/https://www.recal...

Still a good read though.

NightMKoderJan 20, 2026, 10:50 PM
This might speak to the craziness of the gstreamer plugin ecosystem - good/bad/ugly might be a fun maintenance mnemonic, but `voaacenc` is actually in `bad` - not `ugly`. Most plugins you'd want to use aren't in `good`. How are you supposed to actually use "well supported plugins" with gstreamer? Is it just to not use gstreamer at all?
j16sdizJan 24, 2026, 4:53 PM
just don't use gstreamer.

Never have good experience with it

heyitsdaadJan 24, 2026, 3:18 PM
Things you shouldn’t spend time on in a start up
ycombinatrixJan 24, 2026, 10:53 PM
A startup shouldn't prevent their main product from irrecoverably crashing?