BFS, the kit-based C++ API, and the pervasively multithreaded design behind BeOS's open-source successor.
How Haiku stores typed resources in files, exposes them through BResources, mirrors application metadata with BAppFileInfo, and avoids destructive update mistakes.
How Haiku's MIDI Kit registers producers and consumers, connects local and remote endpoints, schedules events, and manages latency and lifetime.
How Haiku connects file MIME attributes with its system database, preferred applications, sniffing rules, supported types, and Tracker behavior.
Haiku R1/beta6 arrives on August 26, 2026 with Firefox, NVMM acceleration, a new allocator, broad performance work, and more than 530 resolved tickets.
How Haiku tracks running applications, resolves signatures and files, enforces launch modes, sends roster notifications, and returns BMessengers.
An engineering guide to BMessage fields, flattening, messengers, reply semantics, validation, compatibility, and safe interprocess communication on Haiku.
A recovery-first method for Haiku launch_daemon loops: preserve first-failure evidence, inspect the roster and graph, isolate overrides, and verify readiness.
A current, non-destructive Haiku UEFI recovery path covering firmware mode, GPT and ESP checks, Installer's EFI-loader tool, and boot verification.
A robust Haiku translator design covering format identification, bounded parsing, streaming conversion, metadata, roster discovery, and hostile-file tests.
A safe Haiku Replicant design covering archiving, instantiation, BDragger integration, messages, resource ownership, and testing outside its host app.