I am not much of a web programmer. I have written the odd website, I have supervised a few student projects, but I have never worked on any nontrivial JavaScript code base. Nevertheless, last week, I attended the Web Audio Conference 2017 in London. To put it succinctly: The web is home to fascinating people, but the technology is full of problems. Those people sure were amazing, though. I talked to a musician/programmer, who spent the last few years writing his own sequencer web app, and did...