Crafting command-line scripts to calculate the most frequently used letters in Wordle (and finding an optimal sequence of starting words).
Developer. Podcaster. Nerd.
I’m a frontend developer, specializing in complex UI for web apps. I think there's still a lot of ways that design-focused and user-friendly web-tech can "make the world a better place" (🤮) and I'm enjoying being a part of that process.
Where to start
Don't know much about me? I'd say these posts are the most "representative" of the work I like to do. They're all deep-dives into something JavaScript-related, and follow a loose "tutorial/explainer" structure.
Generating a dynamic SVG visualisation of audio frequency data.
An introduction to the power of JavaScript's Web Audio API
Popular posts
These are the top performers from a page-view standpoint. (a.k.a. what Google thinks is my "best" content... )
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Static site generators: Hugo vs Jekyll vs Gatsby vs 11ty I have an obsession with SSGs, and Eleventy is my favourite (even better than Hugo, Jekyll, and Gatsby).
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What is a decibel, anyway? The decibel has always confused me. I did some research, and it turns out the decibel is actually pretty interesting.
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Getting to grips with SVG markup SVGs are complex, for sure, but that very complexity gives them their power. And we don't need to know the intricacies of the co-ordinate system to harness that power.
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Bullet Journal Revisited The Bullet Journal is a system for Getting Things Done. One nested pen-and-paper list that gets rewritten every morning.
More about me
I tinker with all sorts of things but my current interests are data-visualisation, web-audio, and modular synthesis. I enjoy building funny little interactive charts, and I cling onto my music-tech roots by creating FX modules and instruments that exist solely in-browser.
Lately I've gone deep into the world of Eurorack modualar synths, and cannot get enough of making music without computers. But first-and-foremost I make things for the web.
I work as a software engineer at J.P.Morgan, and used to work at Cronofy (where we encountered almost every timezone bug imaginable). I co-host the A Question of Code podcast and I spend most of the day glued to Twitter as @thomashazledine.