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Mark Boas

@maboa.bsky.social
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Developer, cook and hedge trimmer. Co-founder of Trint and Hyperaudio. Knight Mozilla OpenNews fellow. Exploring media accessibility.

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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 4h
Take two – Frankfurt -> Toronto. This time with feeling. (Yesterday's flight cancelled due to mechanical failure).
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good news! The did:plc directory (the registry every atproto identity resolves through) now has an independent Swiss association as steward with no owners and a board of cryptographers and governance people. That removes a strong objection to provenance built on DIDs. blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227
blog.plcred.org
First steps of the PLC organization
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Latest Hyperaudio Editor has experimental support for portrait video. Done by selecting a section of transcript, light editing to remove a few bits and skip any significant gaps between words. Exported the right-hand part of the landscape video, sped up 1.13x, captions burned-in. All in the browser.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looks useful.
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Boris @bmann.ca · 16/09/2026
Rewildpunk: The Counterculture AI Actually Needs by @abiawomosu.bsky.social: Plurality over monoculture. Relationship over command. Local usefulness over universal scale. Human judgement over automatic optimisation. And infrastructure people can shape & steward, over platforms they merely consume
abiawomosu.substack.com
Rewildpunk: The Counterculture AI Actually Needs
Punk took music back from the labels. Here’s how we take intelligence back from Silicon Valley.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well this is fun! New in Hyperaudio Lite Editor – publish a transcript to your own ATProto PDS as ionosphere/Layers records, unpublish it, read it back – and view a published talk on a static page, no server, no sign-in. hyperaudio.github.io/hyperaudio-l... Try it here: github.com/hyperaudio/h...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@leaflet.pub Quick question – I've got interactive transcripts resolving as a player in iframely. Pasted into Leaflet it renders as a link card. Is rich embed support limited to an allowlist of providers? I know audio blocks were on your "what's next" list. Thanks debug.iframely.com?uri=https%3A...
debug.iframely.com
Iframely URL Debugger - Open Graph, Twitter Cards, oEmbed
Check your URL against Open Graph, Twitter Cards, oEmbed specs. See what other apps see.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Airport release github.com/hyperaudio/h...
github.com
Release Version 1.3.8 · hyperaudio/hyperaudio-lite-editor
Better alignment, and the editor remembers where you were. Aligning a corrected transcript is markedly more accurate. Punctuation and capitalisation differences no longer count as mistakes — "reco...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Turns out that the art of debugging is as necessary as ever, even in the age of AI. Definitely a transferable skill!
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wrote about what I'm calling radical accessibility – the idea that accessibility runs through the whole stack. Your hosting, your dependencies, your build process all determine who can access what. maboa.it/radical-acce...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Pretty happy with v1.2.3 of the Hyperaudio Lite Editor – the local-first interactive transcript editor, that gives you free local transcription and publishing / mixdown options. All working within the browser. Install as a PWA if you like :) Try it out here: hyperaudio.github.io/hyperaudio-l...
hyperaudio.github.io
Hyperaudio Lite Editor
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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 05/08/2026
We've got interactive sub-titles and transcripts for all of the @atmosphereconf.org talks thanks to Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social contributions to the website. Here's the write up of his work using Hyperaudio
blog.atmosphere.community
AtmosphereConf Interactive Transcripts using Hyperaudio by Mark Boas
Exploring digital archiving approaches on atproto
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sounds like a band I could get behind.
The paragraph covers I'm So Hollow, an early-80s Sheffield band admired by peers across the local scene. They self-released a single ("Dreams to Fill a Vacuum"), recorded a Peel Session, and put out their only album, Emotion/Sound/Motion, in 1981. Despite a five-star review and major-label interest, they'd already broken up before it was released. Two members are quoted being cheerfully unbothered about it — one dismissing the idea of building a life around making it in a band, the other saying she'd got what she wanted and moved on. The album is described as a cult Sheffield post-punk classic.

From the book Groovy, Laidback & Nasty - A History of independent Music in Sheffield.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm here for your opera singing in the background. I'm looking at you Tricky, Vini Reilly and of course Franco Battiato.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just back from a 10 day tour of Sardinia in a campervan. Warmer than I would have liked, but an amazing island if you're into beaches and snorkelling. Bonus being that you feel the heat less when you're in the sea lazily paddling after fish.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I've been playing about with a 13 year old application written entirely in vanilla JavaScript and it's unbelievably quick to load, smooth and responsive. I don't know what I was expecting. Currently trying to port it without losing any of the smoothness. Try it out here textav.hyperaud.io/pad/
textav.hyperaud.io
Hyperaudio Pad
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
That's all the talks transcribed and live for atmosphereconf.org/talks/ Was super happy to try out the latest Hyperaudio Lite lib and some new batch techniques for correcting Thanks to all who helped out! @bmann.ca @blaine.bsky.social @iame.li @essentialrandom.bsky.social et al. It's been fun :)
atmosphereconf.org
ATmosphereConf 2026
ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@iame.li I'm working on transcripts for Atmosphere Conf. bsky.app/profile/bman... Apparently you are the person to contact about the videos being down. Eg atmosphereconf.org/event/xXWE9Dv Any ETA on getting them back up? Thanks!
atmosphereconf.org
ATmosphereConf 2026
ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Back into blogging and just published something I've been thinking about for a while now – making archival content more resilient and discoverable on atproto. Oral history, interactive transcripts, content addressing, and keeping important stories from being quietly erased. maboa.it/resilient-ar...
maboa.it
Keeping Archives Alive: Resilience and Discovery on ATProto
The Black Reproductive Justice Archive (BRJA) gathers the voices of mothers, organizers, healthcare providers and scholars – first-hand testimonies about reproductive justice, in the words of the peop...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Getting my mojo back...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My brother in law makes mixed media sculptures. This one is marble and wood.
A sculpture consisting of a face of white marble mounted within wood.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
@jakearchibald.com Any plans to support this feature in Firefox? caniuse.com/wf-highlight
caniuse.com
Custom highlights | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Saw the Buzzcocks on Saturday. Cue Buzzcocks earworms ever since. I like the Buzzcocks but could do with a break.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Our first ever apricot harvest...
A basket of apricots.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Months in order of preference: 1. May 2. June 3. September 4. August 5. July 6. April 7. March 8. October 9. February 10. January 11. December 12. November
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Oranges conserve remarkably well in a cool and dry environment. Though more difficult to peel, I have no qualms about eating a well preserved month-old orange, although I do wonder if any of the sugar has turned to alcohol.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I'm pretty sure there are bands I don't listen to because I get them confused with other bands. Viagra Boys and Vengaboys, for example.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Oh foggy day.
Photo of a vineyard in the fog. A pylon fairly visible in the middle distance.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Not a big fan of new year resolutions, but a focus of 2025 for me will be about expanding the communities and networks I'm part of.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 21/02/2024
Rather than allow other browser engines to install-to-homescreen on iOS, Apple is removing the feature entirely in the EU. Some features are tied to install-to-homescreen, such as push messages. Apple is unshipping those for EU users. We need to act now: open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attemp...
open-web-advocacy.org
Immediate Action Needed! - Open Web Advocacy
Apple has officially announced that they attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
I wrote a little bit about what I got up to in 2023 and what 2024 has in store... maboa.it/2023-a-retro...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
The new cybertruck mini....
A picture of an old car that looks like a cybertruck, but smaller.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
It may have taken half the morning but the vacuum cleaner is fixed! Fixed I tell you!!
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
The often unspoken complication of having solar panels is the meteorology skills required to decide whether to turn the dishwasher on.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Yes I did just record 10 seconds of background noise to test a speech-to-text API, and yes it does treat it differently to a file containing absolute silence. No text is produced in both cases, which is good.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Music software has always been a bit quirky.
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
96 degrees in the shade (by Third World) is so last century. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE5gfZlMZY
youtube.com
THIRD WORLD - 96 DEGREES IN THE SHADE
This song is about the execution of Paul Bogle (ca. 1820 -- 1865) a Jamaican Baptist deacon and is a National Hero of Jamaica. He was a leader of the 1865 M...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 14/08/2023
A double album of Nick Drake covers you say? The version of Pink Moon by AURORA is sublime and very gorgeous open.spotify.com/track/7fHzjaSpIqRP…
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
Proud to be a '6 Music Dad'... www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/…
theguardian.com
From weird nostalgia to weak formats, 6 Music is having an identity crisis | Daniel Dylan Wray
In trying to shake off the ‘6 Music Dad’ tag and not be thought of as an indie rock hub, the BBC radio station isn’t sure what it wants to be any more
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
I wrote about media accessibility and the steps you can take to make sure *all* users can take best advantage of your audio and video on the web. maboa.it/media-accessibility
maboa.it
Media Accessibility
I’ve been working on media accessibility for several years now – this post is an attempt to collect my thoughts on the subject and provide a useful resource. Accessibility is not a new word, altho...
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Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social · 10/07/2023
OK. Where was I?
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