Apache Cordova is a cross-platform software-development framework allowing you to code your application once and have it running on Android, iOS, Web and Electron (Desktop) natively. Cordova itself might not be so well-known, yet it’s the foundation for other Frameworks (such as Ionic) allowing cross-platform software development. While Cordova is a decent framework it can get quite hard to set it up correctly. This article will guide you through the installation of Cordova on Fedora (35 at the time of writing), so you can create your own apps with it.

When you’re searching for ways to live-stream / broadcast something to the world, you’ll most likely land at the usual suspects - services like YouTube and Twitch. Well, those might be great, but you know what’s even greater? Right, self-hosting your own broadcasting platform. Luckily there is an awesome F(L)OSS project called Owncast that does the heavy lifting for you. Owncast is a privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for services such as Twitch. Owncast finds a wide adoption throughout streamers already, because only YOU own and control the content. In this article I’ll show you how you can host your own Owncast-instance in just a few simple steps, containerized on any operating system that supports either podman or docker.