I sat down with Heydon Pickering in the newest episode of the Smashing Hour. Full transparency: I used to be nervous as heck. I’ve admired Heydon’s work for years, and regardless that we run in comparable circles, this was our first time assembly. You understand how you construct some issues up in your thoughts and sorta psyche your self out? Yeah, that.
Heydon is nothing in need of a gentleman and, I’ll be darned, straightforward to speak to. As is the case with any Smashing Hour, there’s no script, no agenda, no nothing. We discover ourselves moving into the weeds of accessibility testing and documentation — or the shortage of it — earlier than sliding into the stuff he’s actually keen on and enthusiastic about in the present day: styling sound. Dude pulled out a demo and walked me (and everybody else) by the fundamentals of the Internet Audio API and the way he’s utilizing it to visualise sounds in tons of groovy ways in which I now need hooked as much as my turntable by some means.
