Latest Reading List

The WP Reading List plugin is designed to help organise and display books, magazines, articles, and anything else that you have read lately. This plugin allows users to display what they have read, attach text like a review or notes to it, and provide a link to where visitors can find the piece.

One of the first personal coding projects that I created was a WordPress plugin to display and record the books that I read. Here's everything that I have been reading recently:

Home Renovation

I like working with my hands, especially on projects where I am able to build something. I spent three years rebuilding and renovating my first house including all new wiring, plumbing, insulation, siding, drywall, front walk, driveway, and landscaping. This resulted in every room in the house changing to some degree which I really enjoyed from the architecture and layout perspective. I am eagerly looking forward to more DIY projects to keep me busy.

Music Theory

This project is for searching musical scales and chords which match a selection of notes. It is registered as a npm package and originally built with TypeScript.

There are 91 instrument tunings available and 26 scale and 51 chord types which produce 312 and 612 searchable variations, respectively.

When using the interface, left click on any instrument fret or key to select a note. Your selection will be indicated by a blue background around the note you chose. Clicking a second time designates this note as the root note. This is illustrated by a red background. Right click on any selected note or root note to clear it. After you are finished selecting the combination of notes you want to search for, hit the search button.

When the search has finished, the lists below the instrument will be populated with results that match the selected notes. Left click on any of these search results to apply it to the instrument above. Notes that are in the search result you selected but are not a user selected note will have a gold background. Click again on the same result to clear it from the instrument.

I am a primarily self-taught musician and when I started learning music theory I struggled to understand the relationship between notes in scales and chords across various instruments. I created this library to visually explore musical relationships in a more organised manner.

Bubbles

This animation is derived from an exhibit created for the Ontario Science Centre implementing AprilAge's face aging kiosk. Originally built in Velocity.js and ported over to Framer Motion.

Metronome

This metronome (and the larger website) is built with React and JavaScript and employs Web Workers and a self-correcting timer. The range of recorded variance is ±2 milliseconds off of true time.

To use the metronome, select your beats per minute using the input box in the top left corner and your note subdivision using the dropdown in the top right. Then press the "Start" button to begin the count. Left click on any subdivision to mute the beat which is indicated by a black icon. Left click again on the black icon to unmute it and remove the black indicator.