| Sagiadinos | https://sagiadinos.com |
| GarlicSignage | https://garlic-signage.com |
| GitHub Sagiadinos | https://github.com/sagiadinos |
| GitHub GarlicSignage | https://github.com/garlic-signage |
Dark mode? Just pseudo-nerds trying to feel important. Or so I thought.
Yesterday I added dark mode to my open-source CMS and I’ve been using it for six weeks on my computer.
Why? In early May, I had a vitreous detachment in my left eye.
Floaters, flys dots, three retinal holes. A bright screen hurts; jellyfish and spiders swirl against a white background.
At some point, life throws you right into the very box you so arrogantly despised. Without asking.
Years ago it was really hard to run digital signage on Linux. No real free drivers, old kernels, tons of reverse engineering.
That's largely over now.
RK3588 is the go-to platform, Mali finally has open drivers (Panfrost/Panthor), and hardware video decode landed in mainline in early 2026.
I'm the dev behind the GarlicSignage stack and dug into the current state:
https://garlic-signage.com/resources/technology/linux-digital-signage/
The digital signage industry is allergic to standards and prefers SaaS with vendor lock-in.
My FOSS stack uses SMIL and Packaged Web Apps (W3C).
Just released a small but growing widget lib, plus plugins for JetBrains and VS Code.
Packaged Web Apps is technically deprecated but for signage perfect.
https://garlic-signage.com/garlic-widgets/
Curious if anyone else is fighting a SaaS-lock-in default in their field.
What standard did you bet on?
"Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." — Snowden
I'm curious who uses my software. I won't spy on you to find out.
#introduction
Son of a partisan smuggler. Been writing open source digital signage software for 15+ years. Apparently I'm the only one in that niche who actually talks about it.
Currently somewhere. Move when the mood hits.
Looking for FOSS developers and nomads.
