kracker.org

The site

SkyWriter, the music video show. A radio of music videos I pick as I listen, on YouTube Music, on my headphones and on my phone. It started in August 2024 and holds more than 6,300 videos in 33 dated playlists. A cron job imports new videos from the YouTube playlists every three minutes, so a song is on the site within minutes of being added. listen.kracker.org shows the newest videos and every playlist by month, and a whole month plays as one YouTube playlist.

The docked player. Pressing play starts a player docked at the bottom right that keeps playing while you browse, across every kracker.org host. It has previous and next buttons, moves on when a video ends, follows the playlist order, and can be resized and minimized.

The lyrics library. More than 4,300 song pages with title, artist, album, year, cover and lyrics with their source, browsable by letter and searchable on their own. Each video links to its lyrics where they were found.

The blog. blog.kracker.org, the infrequent musings: Exponential releases, the projects, music discoveries, counterculture and stories, with tags, comments and a calendar of post days.

The think tank and partners. The Partners page presents the kracker.org think tank and its partner program, with an application form for anyone who wants to build with us.

Projects. Everything I build and run, grouped: the studio sites (kracker.org, TheDoctor.earth, grahambrookins.com), the companies (7x, Brookins Consulting, Tetra Web Systems), the Exponential family, the community news engines (SlashNews.earth, Hacker News Delta, Digg.one) and the communities kracker.org supports.

Try Exponential. The story from eZ Publish in 1999 to Exponential, renamed by 7x in August 2025, with the services of 7x, sites built with Exponential, starting points in the documentation and every way to take part.

The design. krackerdotorg2027 by 7x: a matrix header with a typing title, the newest video large, light and dark mode, a menu tree of every section, a phone bar, a feed panel, and a random Slashdot quote above every footer.

Offerings

Music and media

• SkyWriter, the hand-curated music video show, updated every three minutes
• The docked video player that keeps playing across the sites
• Dated monthly playlists, Anthems, Radio and artist pages
• The lyrics library with covers, sources and search
• Instagram and SoundCloud, imported with captions and images

Publishing

• The blog, by tag, by month and by day
• About, Projects, Credits, Status and Work pages
• Try Exponential, the story and the starting points
• A tag cloud and a sitemap page of every section

Think tank services

• Spec-driven, agile and scrum development
• Systems security analysis
• Fail-proofing and failure testing
• Security spec design
• Architecture design
• Documentation creation and distribution
• Network management
• Rapid portal application development
• Exponential engineering
• Upgrades and migrations
• Release engineering
• Performance and hosting operations

Open source and community

• Exponential, its documentation and its share portal
• Community news engines: SlashNews.earth, Hacker News Delta, Digg.one and their open source clones
• The partner program, sponsorship of the Exponential Foundation and 7x
• Communities kracker.org hosts and supports

Feeds and data for machines

• Five Atom feeds and an OPML file of them
• A sitemap of every public page, rebuilt every six hours
• The playlist order as JSON
• llms.txt, a guide to the site for AI agents and crawlers

Site: https://kracker.org

Listen: https://listen.kracker.org

Blog: https://blog.kracker.org