Large Heydon Collider
@heydonworks.com
Doing things with web technologies and writing/talking about it. Author of Inclusive Components (https://book.inclusive-components.design/) and producer of Webbed Briefs (https://briefs.video/). Agender. (Avatar by Cole Henley)
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Large Heydon Collider
@heydonworks.com
· Jun 22
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
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
It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.
hyperblam.how
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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.
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.
Making HTML Make Music – Heydon Pickering | Pixel Pioneers 2026
YouTube video by Pixel Pioneers
youtu.be
September 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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.
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.
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😱 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...
londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-s...
LWS Sept 2026 | London Web Standards
Want to speak at our events, please get in touch [email protected]
londonwebstandards.org
September 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
😱 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...
londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-s...
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I now know what a useful and benign technology React.JS is, all thanks to @heydonworks.com
youtu.be/BO71b3l22mM?...
youtu.be/BO71b3l22mM?...
What Is React.JS?
YouTube video by Heydon Pickering
youtu.be
August 22, 2026 at 7:48 AM
I now know what a useful and benign technology React.JS is, all thanks to @heydonworks.com
youtu.be/BO71b3l22mM?...
youtu.be/BO71b3l22mM?...
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tech bros think consent is a brand of incense
August 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
tech bros think consent is a brand of incense
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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
hyperblam.how
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
August 10, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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
hyperblam.how
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on two occasions I have run into a dude who went with the "I identify as a woman" thing because he thinks its really funny and my learning has been that if you take his word for it and start calling him a woman he stops finding it funny in about 1 second and starts getting upset & so you don't stop
August 9, 2026 at 2:47 PM
on two occasions I have run into a dude who went with the "I identify as a woman" thing because he thinks its really funny and my learning has been that if you take his word for it and start calling him a woman he stops finding it funny in about 1 second and starts getting upset & so you don't stop
I found a bug with my `` element: the detune value wasn't accounted for in ADSR calculation.
In other words, the Bootsy Collins-inspired algorithmic porn-funk of this example is now 25-50% more Bootsy Collins.
hyperblam.how/examples/05-...
In other words, the Bootsy Collins-inspired algorithmic porn-funk of this example is now 25-50% more Bootsy Collins.
hyperblam.how/examples/05-...
Give the drummer some
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
August 7, 2026 at 8:05 AM
I found a bug with my `` element: the detune value wasn't accounted for in ADSR calculation.
In other words, the Bootsy Collins-inspired algorithmic porn-funk of this example is now 25-50% more Bootsy Collins.
hyperblam.how/examples/05-...
In other words, the Bootsy Collins-inspired algorithmic porn-funk of this example is now 25-50% more Bootsy Collins.
hyperblam.how/examples/05-...
Reposted by Large Heydon Collider
This is absolutely awesome! Love seeing HTML get this kind of attention. @heydonworks.com never disappoints.
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
It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.
hyperblam.how
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
August 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
This is absolutely awesome! Love seeing HTML get this kind of attention. @heydonworks.com never disappoints.
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It's very convenient how people's definitions of cause and effect are such that they are never the cause and their actions have no effect
July 24, 2026 at 6:09 PM
It's very convenient how people's definitions of cause and effect are such that they are never the cause and their actions have no effect
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...
briefs.video/videos/intro...
Introducing: Webbed Sites
A video from Webbed Briefs
briefs.video
July 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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...
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.
July 24, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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_.
Webbed Briefs
Brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them
briefs.video
July 24, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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_.
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To this day, this work of art by @heydonworks.com remains the finest video about accessibility ever made
youtu.be/uNM8FR3yzWg?...
youtu.be/uNM8FR3yzWg?...
July 24, 2026 at 9:05 AM
To this day, this work of art by @heydonworks.com remains the finest video about accessibility ever made
youtu.be/uNM8FR3yzWg?...
youtu.be/uNM8FR3yzWg?...
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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...
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - Ted Chiang
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - Ted Chiang
remysharp.com
July 20, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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...
Was doing some research and... wow... 1978.
July 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Was doing some research and... wow... 1978.
July 17, 2026 at 4:12 PM
oh no you're gonna make me Math.sqrt
July 17, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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.
July 17, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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
which always sounded like a threat, even at the best of times
July 15, 2026 at 9:13 PM
football is coming home
which always sounded like a threat, even at the best of times
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
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
July 15, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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
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...
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...
Typerblam
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
July 15, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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...
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 }
*-blam { display: contents }
July 12, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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 }
*-blam { display: contents }