Chris Lowis

I’ve been on holiday for the last two weeks.

We’re currently camping in Norfolk.

School’s out for summer.

I’m fairly settled into a routine of three days in the office and two at home now.

Took the kids to play in the fountains at Granary Square today.

Another week of childcare disruptions.

N-‘s language skills are now at the bants level.

F- is teething.

My brother came to visit on Friday.

I celebrated my birthday yesterday.

It was F-‘s 1st birthday on Friday.

I had the most enjoyable week at work I can remember for a long time.

It was F-‘s first day at nursery on Wednesday.

We watched Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield on Thursday night.

I had the coronavirus vaccine on Friday.

Just when I was starting to feel a bit better, I managed to put my back out.

We’re all just about recovered from our bout of Covid.

All four of us came down with COVID this week.

My inlaws returned to Colombia on Wednesday.

F- is almost starting to crawl.

We returned to London this week.

Happy New Year.

These weeknotes are a bit late, but given I have no idea what day of the week it is, I think I can style it out.

My in-laws arrived and after a period of self-isolation and a negative COVID test, they finally got to meet F- for the first time. 🥲 I finished up at work for the year.

My in-laws arrived from Colombia on Friday.

Another quiet week.

I started working at FutureLearn again this week.

No weeknotes last week.

The halloween celebrations lasted all week at N-‘s nursery.

On Sunday morning both boys were up stupidly early (thanks daylight saving time), but last night was the first night F- has slept through without waking, so go figure.

On reflection, opening a weeknotes with “several years ago” is a bit of a cop-out.

Several years ago I felt faint on the way to work, so decided to head to my GP instead.

I’ve continued to work from the Outlandish office in Finsbury Park.

We have a new bathroom!

Avid readers of my domestic enumeration will recall that we’ve temporarily moved out of our flat while some brilliant builders rebuild our bathroom.

During lockdown our bath sprung a leak.

We spent this week in Dorset on holiday.

Back in London this week.

We’ve spent the week with my parents.

We’ve been busy refactoring the Manuals Publisher application that’s used by the UK government to publish things like The Highway Code.

I’ve created a new home for Web Audio Weekly www.webaudioweekly.com.

A brief history of synthesis with the Web Audio API At ScotlandJS in May this year, I gave a talk about the history of sound synthesis with examples built using the Web Audio API.

The Origins Of Computer Music At the 1st Web Audio Conference held at IRCAM in Paris in January 2015, I gave a talk on the Origins of Computer Music.

Introduction King Tubby sat at a mixing desk [credit] Dub music is a sub-genre of reggae.

I recently spoke to Adrian Holovaty the founder of Soundslice, an interactive sheet music application, about how it was built and his experiences of using the Web Audio API for commercial development.

Introduction In this post I want to give a brief overview of how you can help the adoption of the Web Audio API by writing tests for the W3C’s official test suite.

When we looked at monophonic synthesis in an earlier post on this blog the notes we played were produced by simply turning a Sine wave on and off using a Voltage Controlled Amplifier (VCA).

In my last post, I talked about playing notes with the Web Audio API using techniques inspired by monophonic synthesizers, such as the Minimoog.

The Web Audio API turns your browser into a powerful synthesizer.

I recently gave a presentation at Bacon 2013.