stephband
@stephen.band
Sound generator. Front-end engineer. Cofounder of cruncher.ch. Scot-ish.
I remember waiting at the crossing down the Leith end of Princes St when the crossing started beeping with the green man, and an American man beside me turned to me:
- Gee, it makes a noise, what's that for?
- It's for blind people.
- Fuck me. In America we don't let blind people drive.
- Gee, it makes a noise, what's that for?
- It's for blind people.
- Fuck me. In America we don't let blind people drive.
Working on Princes St, Edinburgh:
“Excuse me, where’s Edinburgh castle?”
“Up there.”
“No, I meant *Edinburgh* castle.”
“Excuse me, where’s Edinburgh castle?”
“Up there.”
“No, I meant *Edinburgh* castle.”
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I remember waiting at the crossing down the Leith end of Princes St when the crossing started beeping with the green man, and an American man beside me turned to me:
- Gee, it makes a noise, what's that for?
- It's for blind people.
- Fuck me. In America we don't let blind people drive.
- Gee, it makes a noise, what's that for?
- It's for blind people.
- Fuck me. In America we don't let blind people drive.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!”
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!”
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Sunrise on Stob Dubh
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Sunrise on Stob Dubh
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Last light of the day in the Dolomites
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Last light of the day in the Dolomites
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I just released version 0.10.0 of SuperSonic - my web port of the powerful SuperCollider audio synthesiser.
It's feeling *really* good now, and I definitely think it's ready for people to start exploring.
Have a play and let me know what you think!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
It's feeling *really* good now, and I definitely think it's ready for people to start exploring.
Have a play and let me know what you think!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
SuperSonic - SuperCollider's Synthesis Engine in the Browser
SuperCollider's powerful scsynth audio synthesis engine running in the browser as an AudioWorklet. Zero installation.
sonic-pi.net
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I just released version 0.10.0 of SuperSonic - my web port of the powerful SuperCollider audio synthesiser.
It's feeling *really* good now, and I definitely think it's ready for people to start exploring.
Have a play and let me know what you think!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
It's feeling *really* good now, and I definitely think it's ready for people to start exploring.
Have a play and let me know what you think!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
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SuperSonic - my port of SuperCollider’s powerful synthesis engine scsynth now has improved metrics - opening up a window to the internals.
Play with the demo and see for yourself!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
Play with the demo and see for yourself!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
SuperSonic - my port of SuperCollider’s powerful synthesis engine scsynth now has improved metrics - opening up a window to the internals.
Play with the demo and see for yourself!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
Play with the demo and see for yourself!
sonic-pi.net/supersonic/d...
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SuperSonic is Ready for Tau5 | Sam Aaron
Get more from Sam Aaron on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This is the full SuperCollider synth running in a browser, high-performance and with an OSC API. Hard to overstate how powerful that is, and it's just the beginning.. Incredible work by @samaaron.bsky.social ...
cdm.link/supersonic-s...
cdm.link/supersonic-s...
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is the full SuperCollider synth running in a browser, high-performance and with an OSC API. Hard to overstate how powerful that is, and it's just the beginning.. Incredible work by @samaaron.bsky.social ...
cdm.link/supersonic-s...
cdm.link/supersonic-s...
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Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.
Same. When I made the grids on this page ecal.ch/fr/ the lines between the items were tricky to get right with ::after and ::before and so on. Roll on gap styles.
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Same. When I made the grids on this page ecal.ch/fr/ the lines between the items were tricky to get right with ::after and ::before and so on. Roll on gap styles.
Added an arrangement of one of my favourite tunes, In The Bleak Midwinter, for four horns, to the-dots.app.
the-dots.app/in-the-bleak...
Really this is note spelling test for Scribe (stephen.band/scribe/). Upshot: still not perfect, but getting close.
the-dots.app/in-the-bleak...
Really this is note spelling test for Scribe (stephen.band/scribe/). Upshot: still not perfect, but getting close.
Scribe
The Dots online fake book – In The Bleak Midwinter
the-dots.app
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Added an arrangement of one of my favourite tunes, In The Bleak Midwinter, for four horns, to the-dots.app.
the-dots.app/in-the-bleak...
Really this is note spelling test for Scribe (stephen.band/scribe/). Upshot: still not perfect, but getting close.
the-dots.app/in-the-bleak...
Really this is note spelling test for Scribe (stephen.band/scribe/). Upshot: still not perfect, but getting close.
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Incidentally it's my first outing with @deno.land's new Deno Deploy, and I'm quite impressed with the simplicity.
There are also a bunch of example lead sheets – the beginnings of my own responsive fake book! – which I used to test Scribe over the last few weeks at the-dots.app.
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Incidentally it's my first outing with @deno.land's new Deno Deploy, and I'm quite impressed with the simplicity.
There are also a bunch of example lead sheets – the beginnings of my own responsive fake book! – which I used to test Scribe over the last few weeks at the-dots.app.
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
There are also a bunch of example lead sheets – the beginnings of my own responsive fake book! – which I used to test Scribe over the last few weeks at the-dots.app.
I just published Scribe, a new music notation renderer in a custom element, . The documentation is at stephen.band/scribe/. Give it a ride and let me know what you think.
Scribe
Scribe is a CSS library and custom element for embedding responsive music notation on the web
stephen.band
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I just published Scribe, a new music notation renderer in a custom element, . The documentation is at stephen.band/scribe/. Give it a ride and let me know what you think.
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I've been working on tuplet detection and rendering in Scribe (my HTML/CSS music notation lib). It's not an easy problem to nail, but I'm starting to be happy with the results.
Scribe is nearly capable of rendering a decent lead sheet. You can see some early examples here: the-dots.app
Scribe is nearly capable of rendering a decent lead sheet. You can see some early examples here: the-dots.app
September 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I've been working on tuplet detection and rendering in Scribe (my HTML/CSS music notation lib). It's not an easy problem to nail, but I'm starting to be happy with the results.
Scribe is nearly capable of rendering a decent lead sheet. You can see some early examples here: the-dots.app
Scribe is nearly capable of rendering a decent lead sheet. You can see some early examples here: the-dots.app
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Computing some preliminary analysis over the #StateOfHTML pain points data and some …interesting patterns are emerging 🙃
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Computing some preliminary analysis over the #StateOfHTML pain points data and some …interesting patterns are emerging 🙃
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RIP Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025)
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23
September 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
RIP Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025)
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23
📸 Jeff Caltabiano, Brooklyn, NY, 5.25.23
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Thanks to 20+ years of cooperation via standards, most web devs are insulated from the reality that competition (or the threat of it) makes standards possible. It's a shock to recognise that Apple has broken the system so thoroughly that SDOs themselves are at risk:
infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...
infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...
Apple's Assault on Standards - Infrequently Noted
By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users might use against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives. This high-modernist…
infrequently.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Thanks to 20+ years of cooperation via standards, most web devs are insulated from the reality that competition (or the threat of it) makes standards possible. It's a shock to recognise that Apple has broken the system so thoroughly that SDOs themselves are at risk:
infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...
infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...
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From this week’s Beano.
August 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
From this week’s Beano.
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gradient.style has finally
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
August 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
gradient.style has finally
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source
🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...
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If you’re into #audio #plugins: you can currently get the Purafied Everything Bundle for – 99 % = 2 € (🤯) with the (explicit) code FUCKUADANDGUITARCENTER
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The Everything Bundle
The Everything Bundle is a remedy for your well-founded FOMO. Let’s be clear, this is every last plugin we’ve ever made. Not only did we save you the time inevitably adding each one to your cart, but ...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
If you’re into #audio #plugins: you can currently get the Purafied Everything Bundle for – 99 % = 2 € (🤯) with the (explicit) code FUCKUADANDGUITARCENTER
purafied.com/products/the...
purafied.com/products/the...