I’m a software engineer specializing in complex UI for web apps. I love all things frontend, but I'm also excited by the potential of new technologies (I'm looking at you, LLMs) to transform our relationship with data.
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.
Cosine similarity measures the angle between two vectors — the dot product divided by the product of their magnitudes. Here's what each part of the formula does.
How I used Delaunay triangulation and Voronoi diagrams to fix hover issues in my SVG charts (with React and D3.js).
An introduction to the power of JavaScript's Web Audio API
These are the top performers from a page-view standpoint. (a.k.a. what Google thinks is my "best" content... )
Visualising LLM embeddings in 3D space using SVG and principle component analysis.
I have an obsession with SSGs, and Eleventy is my favourite (even better than Hugo, Jekyll, and Gatsby).
A decibel is a ratio, not a fixed unit. That's why a jet engine can be '120dB' while a mixing desk's loudest reading is 0.
I tinker with all sorts of things but my current interests are AI-powered data processing, data-visualisation, and modular synthesis.
I enjoy building funny little interactive charts, and lately I've gone deep into the world of Eurorack modualar synths (I love making music without computers). But first-and-foremost I make things for the web.
I work as a lead software engineer at J.P.Morgan, and was previously in charge of frontend development at Cronofy. I co-host the (currently dormant) A Question of Code podcast and I spend most of the day glued to the Fediverse at @thomashazledine@mastodon.social.