Where curiosity meets the command line.https://www.ars.md/en-ushttps://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-1-3-forgot-the-codename/https://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-1-3-forgot-the-codename/1-bit 1.3 is on the App Store. Opportunistic background library scans, composer/conductor/work fields for classical, a Listening Tips guide, a refined cellular streaming gate — and an easter-egg card that still calls this version 'Too Late, Too Soon'. Bridge 0.1.3 ships alongside. Same bit-exact DSD over DoP, no transcoding.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT1-bitiOSDSDaudioreleasehttps://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-1-2-too-late-too-soon/https://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-1-2-too-late-too-soon/1-bit 1.2 is live on the App Store. Admin-approved bridge pairing, on-bridge upscaled audio variants, per-share cellular streaming, and a quieter audio engine — same bit-exact DSD over DoP, native-rate PCM, no transcoding.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT1-bitiOSDSDaudioreleasehttps://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-1-1-is-out/https://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-1-1-is-out/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.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT1-bitiOSDSDaudiohttps://www.ars.md/blog/sonogram-april-2026-glow-up/https://www.ars.md/blog/sonogram-april-2026-glow-up/Two weeks, three new music visualizers, and one absurdly satisfying landscape. Here's what changed in Sonogram — generative audio art for your eyeballs.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSonogramThree.jsWebGLmusic visualizeraudio visualizationgenerative artchangeloghttps://www.ars.md/blog/when-no-dac-isnt-no-dac/https://www.ars.md/blog/when-no-dac-isnt-no-dac/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.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT1-bitiOSaudioDACMFiAVAudioSessionaudiophilehttps://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-is-out/https://www.ars.md/blog/1-bit-is-out/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.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT1-bitiOSDSDaudiolaunchhttps://www.ars.md/blog/sonogram-april-2026-update/https://www.ars.md/blog/sonogram-april-2026-update/A photorealistic turntable, a snowy Alps landscape, an About page, ~130 commits — and a deep rewrite for frame-rate independence.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSonogramThree.jsWebGLchangeloghttps://www.ars.md/blog/sonogram/https://www.ars.md/blog/sonogram/A deep dive into Sonogram, a full-stack web app that creates interactive 3D visualizations from audio mathematical properties.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTFastAPIThree.jsDSPGenerative ArtSonogramhttps://www.ars.md/blog/qobuz-claude-code/https://www.ars.md/blog/qobuz-claude-code/A self-hosted hi-res music manager — 6,980 lines of Python, 408 KB of vanilla JS, zero frameworks, and one very patient AI.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTprojectsclaude-codemusicpythonhttps://www.ars.md/blog/hello-world/https://www.ars.md/blog/hello-world/The first post on ars.md — what this blog is about and why I'm writing.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTmetawritinghttps://www.ars.md/blog/on-minimalism-in-software/https://www.ars.md/blog/on-minimalism-in-software/Why I keep coming back to simpler tools, smaller APIs, and less code.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoftwaredesign