Hi. I’m Jamie Smith, a front-end Web developer, musician and Scots leid enthusiast steidit in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Latest blog posts
Using the GitHub REST API to fetch and display gists
Topics covered include: authenticating with the GitHub API, enabling cross-domain Ajax fetching with CORS, implementing a basic caching system, installing a custom npm dependency, and transforming Markdown and highlighting code on the front end
Keeping audio and visuals in sync with the Web Audio API
Audio and visuals out of sync when using the Web Audio API? There’s a property for that.
A calendar and weather forecast in the terminal
A couple of cool terminal tricks to get calendars and the weather, plus how to assign aliases and pass arguments to bash functions.
Building an animated piano keyboard with JavaScript and MIDI
How I built a simple on-screen keyboard for my jazz piano tutorial website JazzKeys.fyi.
All* my macOS keyboard shortcuts
*Not literally all, but certainly those which I find most useful, and which also might not be all that widely known.
Tripods: an HTML5 puzzle game
I spent part of lockdown finishing a game I began building in 2013.
Projects
Tripods
A puzzle game.
JazzKeys.fyi
Tutorials for jazz and funk piano players.
wrestle.buzz
A real time RSS aggregator.