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
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)
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...
Introducing: Webbed Sites
A video from Webbed Briefs
briefs.video
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.
Large Heydon Collider@heydonworks.com · 2w agoWas doing some research and... wow... 1978.
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
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...
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - Ted Chiang
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - Ted Chiang
remysharp.com
As someone who is ND and supports a lot of ND people: a lot of us find this relentless push of GenAI tools unhelpful. GenAI is unreliable when we need reliability, and has become a way for coworkers, bosses and the world at large to wash their hands of any personal responsibility to support us.
"Yup, I'm drunk at the Jedi temple / Swinging a sabre, they like 'that Jedi's mental'" #CZARFACE
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.
hperblam.how
GitHub@github.com · last mo.The story around AI used to be about generating more. For many neurodivergent professionals, the bigger benefit is offloading invisible labor: remembering what you promised, the dozen tabs open in your brain, the thread you meant to reply to. ⬇️
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...
Typerblam
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
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 }
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 4w agoI was thinking about wildcards in CSS, and wondered why we don't have them for elements 🤔 remysharp.com/2026/07/11/w...
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...
Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses
The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...
petition.parliament.uk
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.
So much of reading Brewski feels like this. What the fuck are you talking about?
This. Is. SUCH a Thing Of Beauty... *tells self to try to avoid spending 3 hours here*
Large Heydon Collider@heydonworks.com · last mo.Now has a proper public URL: codepen.io/heydon/pen/R...
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...
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.
bbc.co.uk
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
HYPERBLAM (HELLO HYPERBLAM)
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codepen.io
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
This is extremely bewildering as a UK reader.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
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.
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
What Happened To Text Inputs?
A video from Webbed Briefs
briefs.video