Hi. I’m Jamie Smith, a front-end Web developer, musician and Scots leid enthusiast steidit in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Featured blog posts
TIL: ‘Hello, world’ in Z80 assembly language on the ZX Spectrum
I finally had a go at creating a machine code program and running it on a Speccy.
Writing some JavaScript to download files from the web, with help from an AI chatbot
A real-life example of boosting your productivity as a web developer with ChatGPT.
Finding the perfect domain name
Forget
.com. The new frontier of TLDs is where it’s at.Using the GitHub REST API to fetch and display gists
Authenticating with the GitHub API, enabling cross-domain Ajax fetching with CORS, implementing a basic caching system, installing a custom npm dependency, and more.
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.
Projects
JazzKeys.fyi
Tutorials for jazz and funk piano players.
Tripods
A puzzle game.
AnimalRights.fyi
A news aggregator covering animal rights and veganism.
Mak Forrit
Blog on culture, history, language, politics, the arts and more, written in Scots.