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The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

Anyone know how to upload video *with audio* on Brewski? I've tried FF and Chrome, plus the official app on my phone. None seem to like it. Some say there are specific bugs but it seems uniform. And I just saw someone posted a video that was uploaded, with sound. 🤔

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

you have to be fucking kidding me. Is this their real account? is this legit? why did @bsky.app post this on twitter, and not here

🎶 Deno, the last dinosaur / He got pwned and a whole lot more 🎶

I'm really glad we're running this again. It helped us prioritise a lot of work this year. The previous method was 👍 on GitHub issues, which (imo) is too easily gamed, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Zionism is racism. The United Nations voted to declare it as such in 1975, half a century ago. This isn’t new, and this isn’t controversial.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

The self-destruction of the RayBan brand is fascinating. Wayfarers are history's most iconic sunglasses and probably the easiest way for anyone to look a little cooler, in any context. Now you get to look like a dork and a sex pest AT THE SAME TIME. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Allow me a moment of proudness as The Index has now made it to issue #200. This weekly curation job really does make me happy and I'm determined to keep going to make sure you get the good stuff through these very not good times. piccalil.li/the-index/200/

Good times! @heydonworks.com closed out @pixelpioneers.co Bristol 2026 in a way only they can. 🎵😀🕺

Started working on my demo for Fronteers Dark Mode, this is built with CSS scroll-driven animations, no JS 💅 My talk will go into detail on where you can replace JS with CSS! Tickets are still available: fronteersconf.org This cool effect is inspired by @thomasaufresne.com → bennettandclive.com

✍️ The AI Artist Paradox heydonworks.com/article/the-... Where AI is *either* intelligent or unintelligent, its usage precludes you from making art.

I got grumpy about it, so I built a single purpose browser extension that does this, and only this: underlines links. 👉 Link Underliner a11y-tools.com/extensions/#... Minimal options on this that let you apply to all links, just those inside <main> element, or OFF.

Write music, not JavaScript. Watch @heydonworks.com's talk from our June event: youtu.be/lmlE9oI8_2A?... Warning: Includes dancing by @brucel.bsky.social and @letorey.co.uk.🕺 👉 Also check out hyperblam.how, Heydon's system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.

😱 In a state of existential despair after listening to @heydonworks.com Hopeless Horror hole for days, I was lead from the torment by the hand of the @londonwebstandards.org & the opportunity to see the Ken Dodd of Standards @brucel.bsky.social in the flesh 🛐 londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-s...

I now know what a useful and benign technology React.JS is, all thanks to @heydonworks.com youtu.be/BO71b3l22mM?...

tech bros think consent is a brand of incense

Heydon Pickering has been very busy building out a declarative, web component-based system for making music with HTML, along with a stunning companion site. hyperblam.how

This is absolutely awesome! Love seeing HTML get this kind of attention. @heydonworks.com never disappoints.

I made this video (and the music) when I was in Iceland having a nervy b. I forgot how unhinged and overwrought it is. Yikes. Holds up though LMAO briefs.video/videos/intro...

Really important to understand that AI has not become *more* AI, *real* AI, or *good* AI since the late 70s. It's still a parlour trick. The parlour has just got a lot bigger and the trick a lot more tricksy.

Great to see folks still sharing videos from briefs.video. I could never keep up with the kind of release cadence youtube demands. Or, consequently, get any real reach or make any money. But, damn it, they're memorable. The few people that see them fucking _remember_.

To this day, this work of art by @heydonworks.com remains the finest video about accessibility ever made youtu.be/uNM8FR3yzWg?...

I was doing reading around **exactly that clip** a little while ago. Worth reading more (if you haven't) about Joseph Weizenbaum - he had things to say! Bit here too: remysharp.com/links/2026-0...

1969. www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwk...

"Yup, I'm drunk at the Jedi temple / Swinging a sabre, they like 'that Jedi's mental'" #CZARFACE

oh no you're gonna make me Math.sqrt

hyperblam.how is hosted on git.gay. It's run by queer and neurodivergent folks and there's no AI. It's just git. And it's gay.

football is coming home which always sounded like a threat, even at the best of times

we can do this we can do this we can do this we've done it, lads we've bloody done it wait no we haven't there's more? but we invented football oh dear

HYPERBLAM is now at version 0.0.4 🎉 (https:// git.gay/heydon/hyperblam/releases/tag/0.0.4) I've added a couple of simple but powerful event-based visualization elements. See this little demo: hyperblam.how/examples/typ...

Had the same thought. Would be especially useful for custom elements. hyperblam.how ends each node name with -blam and (since they are audio elements with generally no UI) I'd love to do: *-blam { display: contents }

Stop saying “AI is a tool.” Generative AI is a simulacrum.

Consider signing this petition about the UK Government banning the sale and promotion of smart glasses. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Last week, I launched hyperblam.how HYPERBLAM lets you design sounds and create music declaratively. It's devoid of AI, hosted on git.gay, and the most fun you'll ever have with HTML.

I feel quite emotional.