Links For You (10/19/26)
Wowza - I'm like nearly a month late on this. This is where I'd try to come up with a good excuse, but I think if I just randomly point around at things and said... "life" most of you would completely understand where I'm coming from. It's been a difficult few months for myself, and for nearly every person I know. This week I'm going to try focus on the positive and the things that make me smile, and I hope all my lovely readers can do the same!
Make Music, Not War
First up is the appropriately named Hyperblam, a music making tool that lets you use a declarative language to create sick beats as the kids say. What does that look like? Here's one example:
<!-- bus! (master signal chain) -->
<chain-blam id="bus">
<gain-blam id="bits" gain="0.25" bypass>
<lfo-blam type="square" beats="0.001" prop="gain" gain="0.25">
<blam-blam from="#kick" prop="beats" value="0.001~0.003" chance="0.3"></blam-blam>
</lfo-blam>
</gain-blam>
<phaser-blam id="swoosh" center="6000" depth="4000" q="0.5" bypass></phaser-blam>
<analyser-blam id="analyser" smoothing="0.6"></analyser-blam>
</chain-blam>
And you can play the song this is a part of here:
See the Pen HYPERBLAM (HELLO HYPERBLAM) by Heydon (@heydon) on CodePen.
This UI library will make you jelly...
Jelly as in jealous - and again - that's what the kids say, right? Jelly UI is a UI web component library for "jelly" type interfaces. Think fat, but soft, bright colors and such. I love web components for libraries like this, and this one is on my list to try soon in a demo.
I copied a few samples from their docs and threw it in a CodePen:
See the Pen Jelly UI by Raymond Camden (@cfjedimaster) on CodePen.
Your new RSS Feed Reader
Last but definitely not least is an incredible new product from my buddy Robert - Feedhouse is an RSS reader, but with so many features it goes far beyond just RSS parsing. It has great social aspects (you can mark up and comment on items in your feed, you can share collections of feeds), it supports sites without RSS feeds, it lets you sign up for newsletters with a custom address and automatically parse the items into your feed, and so much more. If you want to learn more about how it's built, Robert wrote up a great post on it: Everything Feedhouse Does, From the Boring Parts Up.
Just For Fun
My readers know I'm a huge fan of covers and imagine my surprise when I discovered this one by School of Seven Bells... enjoy!