"Where Fire Meets Water and New Things Happen"
"Making the Militantly Impossible Possible Through Elemental Harmony"
August 2025 - In a bold move that physicists are calling "concerningly impossible," the Halrad (HALRAD.COM) development team today announced the complete integration of four elemental control systems into a single, physics-defying platform powered by what can only be described as "a firebreathing jellyfish that shouldn't exist."
ELIMS (Extensible Lightweight Integrated Modular System) brings together Earth, Air, Fire, and Crystal - all swimming in Water - to create ELIMS, the impossible unified experience. by HALRAD (HALRAD.COM).
"Where Fire Meets Water and New Things Happen"
ELIMS Core is pure Water - the vast ocean platform, the tentacle controller, the hosting environment. It contains NO application logic - just the pure infrastructure for hosting hostile elements that were never designed to work in harmony.
"Solid Foundation for Musical Flow"
Extracted from the OG MusicBee Remote codebase(https://mbrc.kelsos.net/) , MusicBee control now exists as the Earth element - a ELIMS plugin for remote control of a MusicBee library grounds the system in solid music control.
"Disrupt the Silence"
The Air element - sound waves traveling through space, disrupting the silence. Not content with merely controlling Devialet Phantom speakers, this application has declared war on the very concept of quiet.
"Move Over Rover, Let the IP Take Over"
In the greatest naming lie since "JavaScript has nothing to do with Java," ToteRemote claims to be an IR blaster while containing exactly zero infrared components.
User Click → Windows Forms Event → TCP Socket →
Network Bridge → RS232 Serial → TV Control
↑
No IR anywhere in this chain"Making 5000 LEDs Dance to Impossible Rhythms"
Crystal integrates ElectroMage's Pixelblaze WiFi LED controller - bringing lighting control to the ecosystem - just because.
public class FirebreathingJellyfish : IImpossible
{
private IOcean elimsCore; // Pure water, no preferences
private List<IElementalPlugin> tentacles = new()
{
new EarthElement(), // MusicBee (re-factored MBRC app, recycled Music-Bee Remote Plugin compatiblity, rengineered for .net)
new AirElement(), // Phantom Speakers (disrupting silence)
new FireElement(), // ToteRemote (TV control via Sandworm tunnels)
new CrystalElement() // RGB Lighting (Lighthing control and trigger events)
};
public void Navigate()
{
// Physics has left the chat
foreach(var tentacle in tentacles)
{
tentacle.DefyReality();
}
}
}Problem: Window embedding causes focus issues
Solution: Windows now focus themselves out of fear
Problem: Three different protocol paradigms
Solution: Create a fourth paradigm that unifies them
Problem: Volume control priority conflicts
Solution: Implemented gladiatorial combat resolution system
Problem: Physics says this shouldn't work
Solution: Stopped consulting physics
Lead Developer: "We started with a simple question: What if a jellyfish could breathe fire? Underwater. While navigating. The rest is history. Impossible history."
Network Engineer: "The TCP-to-RS232 tunnel isn't a bug, it's a Sandworm. Totally different thing."
UI Designer: "I was told to make tabs. I made tentacles. No one corrected me."
QA Tester: "I logged it as impossible. They marked it 'Working as Intended' and promoted me."
Note on Mobile: We're NOT going mobile. The jellyfish swims in desktop/laptop waters only. Phones have enough remote apps.
The laws of physics were not harmed in the making of this software. They were, however, aggressively ignored, circumvented, and in some cases, actively mocked. No actual jellyfish were set on fire during development, as that would be impossible. The Sandworm protocol is a trademark of Frank Herbert's estate and we're pretty sure this isn't what he meant.
Breathing fire. Underwater. Making impossible things work.
Available at (HALRAD.COM)