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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · 4h

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

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Cyd Stumpel @cydstumpel.nl · 16/08/2026

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

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 28/09/2026

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

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The AI Artist Paradox

Whichever way you cut it, you cannot be an AI artist.

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Lloydi @lloydi.com · 18/09/2026

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.

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Pixel Pioneers @pixelpioneers.co · 11/09/2026

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.

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Making HTML Make Music – Heydon Pickering | Pixel Pioneers 2026

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Steve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

😱 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...

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LWS Sept 2026 | London Web Standards

Want to speak at our events, please get in touch organisers@londonwebstandards.org

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Steve Faulkner @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

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

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What Is React.JS?

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 13/08/2026

tech bros think consent is a brand of incense

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 10/08/2026

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

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Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 07/08/2026

I found a bug with my `<envelope-blam>` 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-...

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Give the drummer some

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Joe Dakroub @dakroub.co · 06/08/2026

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

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 24/07/2026

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

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 24/07/2026

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...

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Introducing: Webbed Sites

A video from Webbed Briefs

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 24/07/2026

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.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 24/07/2026

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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Webbed Briefs

Brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them

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Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

Constipated cat wearing a sombrero that is on fire, labelled catural appropriation

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 20/07/2026

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...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - Ted Chiang

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 20/07/2026

Was doing some research and... wow... 1978.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 17/07/2026

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

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 17/07/2026

oh no you're gonna make me Math.sqrt

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 17/07/2026

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.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 15/07/2026

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

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 15/07/2026

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

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 15/07/2026

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...

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Typerblam

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 12/07/2026

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 }

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Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 30/06/2026

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

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 29/06/2026

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.

On stage at Pixel Pioneers in Bristol. I'm waving my arms while Bruce and Dave dance in front of the screen wearing owl masks.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 28/06/2026

So much of reading Brewski feels like this. What the fuck are you talking about?

Person holding a sign that says I require context, wearing a hat that says context hat and wearing a shirt that says context shirt

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Stuart Homfray @jackplug.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This. Is. SUCH a Thing Of Beauty... *tells self to try to avoid spending 3 hours here*

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The company that used the books I co-wrote to train its model without permission is weeping that China "brazenly" and "illicitly" extracted its Claude AI model's capabilities. I'm sending snorts and stares. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities

The firm alleged that Alibaba used fraudulent accounts to access data from its Claude AI model.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 26/06/2026

For the folks asking for a hyperblam.how playground/sandbox, I now have you covered! Fork this CodePen and mess around with the lazy groove: codepen.io/heydon/pen/R... @remysharp.com

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HYPERBLAM (HELLO HYPERBLAM)

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you call Starmer "a decent man" you endorse: - trans folks being unable to go for a piss when they're out and about - getting rid of jury trials so that people who threw paint on a plane being used for war crimes are done for terrorism - arresting pensioners for saying the above is bad

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 25/06/2026

This is extremely bewildering as a UK reader.

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 25/06/2026

now that i have emerged from hibernation i would quite like to do some talks or podcasts or interviews or whatever like a real author and educator. if you run a (AI-free) conf/content creation THING and want to me talk about mindful design and/or surviving this hellscape of an industry then HIYA.

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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 25/06/2026

I have yet again found a place and time to share this with a colleague - it's evergreen, apparently - and very good: briefs.video/videos/what-... @heydonworks.com

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What Happened To Text Inputs?

A video from Webbed Briefs

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 24/06/2026

Was fantastic getting to launch hyperblam.how among friends ❤️

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 22/06/2026

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

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Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 22/06/2026

In urgent need of funds. If you know of anyone looking for contract/freelance web development work please send them my way! I specialize in accessibility, design systems, & documentation. Open to full stack as well! Email: inquiries@semanticfish.com Website: semanticfish.com

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Adrian Teodor @submillimetre.com · 22/06/2026

software can still be fun!

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greenlightening.bsky.social @greenlightening.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You had me at “not Javascript”.

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DaoToaD @daotoad.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Just about the coolest use of web components ever.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 22/06/2026

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

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Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · 16/06/2026

😲 So looking forward to this talk! There's still time to join us this Friday. Check out Heydon's talk description and the rest of the schedule: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

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