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1-bit version 1.1 is on the App Store: a free open-source bridge for your music library, a stack of hard-won launch-week fixes, and the same bit-exact DSD and PCM playback to your USB DAC.

• 1-bit
• iOS
• DSD
• audio

Two weeks, three new music visualizers, and one absurdly satisfying landscape. Here's what changed in Sonogram — generative audio art for your eyeballs.

• Sonogram
• Three.js
• WebGL
• music visualizer
• audio visualization
• generative art
• changelog

An iOS app can't tell whether your Lightning or USB-C output is a $9 dongle or a $250 Audeze Cipher cable. Why Apple's audio API is opaque, and how 1-bit handles the gap honestly.

• 1-bit
• iOS
• audio
• DAC
• MFi
• AVAudioSession
• audiophile

An iOS music player for people who care how their music sounds — bit-exact PCM and DSD over DoP, straight from your NAS to your DAC. Now on the App Store.

• 1-bit
• iOS
• DSD
• audio
• launch

A photorealistic turntable, a snowy Alps landscape, an About page, ~130 commits — and a deep rewrite for frame-rate independence.

• Sonogram
• Three.js
• WebGL
• changelog

A deep dive into Sonogram, a full-stack web app that creates interactive 3D visualizations from audio mathematical properties.

• FastAPI
• Three.js
• DSP
• Generative Art
• Sonogram

A self-hosted hi-res music manager — 6,980 lines of Python, 408 KB of vanilla JS, zero frameworks, and one very patient AI.

• projects
• claude-code
• music
• python

The first post on ars.md — what this blog is about and why I'm writing.

• meta
• writing

Why I keep coming back to simpler tools, smaller APIs, and less code.

• software
• design