Author Archives: david.humphrey

Experiments with audio, conclusion

By david.humphrey | Published: August 26, 2010
I’ve been working with an amazing group of web, audio, and Mozilla developers on a project to expose audio data to JavaScript from Firefox’s audio and video elements. Today those experiments are over. In December a few of us working on processing.js had an idea–what if we could visualize sound data coming out of an [...]
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On working with instead of on

By david.humphrey | Published: August 9, 2010
I read an account of an event I attend recently that gave me pause.  In it, the author argued that he had observed a gathering where technology formed the only basis for the interactions in the sessions, and that those in attendance were all of a kind, without diversity, and, on the whole, not interested [...]
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Fruit

By david.humphrey | Published: August 9, 2010
Our weekend was punctuated with experiences related to fruit.  It began with the most enjoyable visit to our local farmer’s market I’ve had, since we were all four able to ride the 10Km on bicycle.  Tricycles, training wheels, and now rails to trails–the girls are at an amazing stage. When we got to the market we [...]
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Update on DXR work

By david.humphrey | Published: August 6, 2010
As I wrote previously, I’ve switched to DXR work for the summer, and have been making some good progress over the past month.  I wanted to show you some of the things I’ve done, and where I’m going in the coming weeks. Much of my work thus far has been a backend rewrite.  This was long [...]
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“What we say no to”

By david.humphrey | Published: July 26, 2010
Paul Graham has an interesting essay up about the Acceleration of Addictiveness, in which he argues that our ability to refine and improve things through technology is leaving us increasingly susceptible to addictions, many of which develop too quickly for cultural norms to temper: As far as I know there’s no word for something we like [...]
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On the possibility of expressing love online

By david.humphrey | Published: July 21, 2010
Today a colleague of mine used an abbreviation online that I needed to look up.  I never was able to locate it, but while I searched, I found this one: ly – love you I wondered aloud on twitter that I’d never encountered this, and this thought caused me to pause to ponder whether expressions of love [...]
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Restarting DXR Development

By david.humphrey | Published: July 13, 2010
It’s summer and with the change in weather, I’m going to take a holiday from much of my work on web media and audio/visual code for Mozilla.  I’ll still be working on the audio data api patch, but the rest of my work I’m going to put on ice for a few months so I [...]
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On the Reading of Books

By david.humphrey | Published: June 26, 2010
Much of my time writing on this blog is spent advocating for the open web, and the potential it brings for distributed, global, collaboration.  I don’t believe in this any less, despite the critique that follows. At the same time that I am passionately involved in the creation of the open web, I am also intimately [...]
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Two Experiences with the Local

By david.humphrey | Published: June 26, 2010
1) I’ve been amazed this year at the amount of Canola planted in the fields in our county. I’m used to seeing a lot of soy beans, corn, and winter wheat. But the shock of Canola visually, a bright, beautiful, electric yellow, never ceases to give me pause. And this year it’s [...]
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Great Horned Owl

By david.humphrey | Published: June 13, 2010
One of the things I look for is the Great Horned Owl. When I was a small child I saw my first. It had been killed (by a car as I recall) and my uncle, a taxidermist, was going to stuff it. He brought my brothers and I to see it, and [...]
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