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stuartmemo

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Champion of the future, HTML and robots. Web Audio Personoid.
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stuartmemo··on RSS Feeds for Last.fm
I made Raygum to (hopefully) simplify what you're describing - https://raygum.com

Please email me (<username>@gmail.com) with any feedback or to rant about music apps in general!

stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Thank you! Feedback encouraged!
stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Still hacking away on Raygum - a nice place to keep your music brain.

I don't even know what that means.

https://raygum.com

stuartmemo··on Happy 808 day: The TR-808 Monograph
The 808 Monograph is the most comprehensive collection of facts, tech specs, and quotes about Roland's legendary TR-808 drum machine.
stuartmemo··on Our position on open-weights models
Do distilled models have to inherit guardrails? Can a model distilled from a “safe” model be made unsafe?
stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Still plugging away on Raygum. Think Letterboxd for music.

https://raygum.com

stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
That genuinely means a lot! Thank you!
stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Still chipping away on Raygum! Like Letterbox for music.

https://raygum.com

stuartmemo··on How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
Yeah, that's why they've used "reach" - the total number of users who could be exposed to the feature regardless of engagement.
stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Raygum. Like Letterboxd for music. But with no users.

https://raygum.com

stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Letterboxd for music - https://raygum.com

Trying to be much more though. Creates an abstraction over all the music streaming services so you can share playlists with anyone, regardless of what subscription they have.

stuartmemo··on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Thanks! Good shout, will definitely add support for YouTube. Pandora, however, is sadly blocked in the UK.
stuartmemo··on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Funnily enough, I'm trying to do this, and just posted in "What are you Working On?" Not sure I'll have much luck if Apple couldn't make it happen though! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268285
stuartmemo··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Raygum, a way to track and share your favourite music _outside_ of the big streamers: https://raygum.com
stuartmemo··on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
It's probably Jira. https://medium.com/question-park/all-aboard-the-ai-train-b03...
stuartmemo··on The Mellotron, an electronic keyboard of recorded samples, changed pop music
I made a little online version if anyone's interested - https://sodaphonic.com/instruments/mellotron
stuartmemo··on ffmpeg.wasm – a pure WebAssembly / JavaScript port of FFmpeg
I used this to make an in-browser audio converter. Performance is pretty good, but limited to a single thread compared to the cli version.

https://sodaphonic.com/convert

stuartmemo··on If I Made Another Monkey Island (2013)
Sounds like he got to do most of those things in Thimbleweed Park - https://thimbleweedpark.com/
stuartmemo··on Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser
Thanks! Yes, definitely. On the list.
stuartmemo··on Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser
Thanks for letting me know. Will look into it!
stuartmemo··on Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser
If you're using Chrome or Firefox, you can try it out by just recording something. Might not be clear enough, so thanks for the feedback!
stuartmemo··on Show HN: Sodaphonic – record and edit audio in the browser
I'm not sure I understand, what copyright issues can you envision?
stuartmemo··on Show HN: ReactCSS – Inline Styles with Support for React, Redux and React Native
Is there any benefit to using this over CSS Modules in React?

https://github.com/gajus/react-css-modules

stuartmemo··on Google Home
Weird, can a mod change the link to https? That seems to be working - https://home.google.com/
stuartmemo··on Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
Ok, here's the UK market - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-L...
stuartmemo··on Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
Amazon's best selling laptops - http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Computers-Accessories-Lap...
stuartmemo··on Are we really running out of helium?
The helium used in balloons is usually old recycled helium called "balloon air" - http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/23/0518247/scientist...
stuartmemo··on Web MIDI API
Just Chrome at the moment behind a flag. Currently being implemented in Firefox.

- chrome://flags/#enable-web-midi

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897

stuartmemo··on The Rise and Fall of John DeLorean
Regardless of whether you're interested in John DeLorean or not, you should checkout out Neon Neon's concept album about his life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LadgANhOhiI
stuartmemo··on The Guardian Is Being Swamped with 'Dark Traffic'
"executives at the company cannot figure out where it is coming from"

Maybe get the engineers to have a look instead.

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