It is hard to imagine a guitarist without any amplifier or guitar cabinet. Even more without any speakers, an electric guitar is hard to hear even at home. Today I want to show how to emulate guitar cabinet using Web Audio API. It is possible to recreate a sound made by top brand amp without the investment of thousands of dollars using convolution.

Modern Web becomes more and more powerful, especially with APIs giving developers access to hardware. One of such API – Web Audio. It gives you a set of low-level features to generate or process music right in your browser. Today I want to show you how to connect your electric guitar 🎸 (or any other electric instrument with wire connection, ex. bass) in a browser and control its volume level.

Any developer can’t imagine modern JavaScript without all infrastructure build around it. Everybody use webpack, gulp, lodash, react, your favorite project. We must be thankful to our community for all incredible changes have happened in front-end area during last years. To be a part of it means not only using libraries, modules, frameworks but creating own projects and contributing to repositories you’re using as well. So we have time to get goods and of course to give.

New features come to Web standards every day and their goal to improve user experience visitors of your web page. Sharing to social networks is one of the must-have features in modern web. Today I want to show how easy add native share widget for your users on Android devices with Chrome 55+.

Webpack 2 has been just released, it brings a lot of improvement and cool features, as well as breaking changes in configuration. Not all issues are easy to find by googling, to solve it fast. That is why I want to share tips that might help you to update you Webpack configuration and don’t break your bundle.

Comments are the vital part of communication with the audience. It fits for a lot type of websites starting from blogs finishing with e-commerce. Metalsmith is a static site generator, that means (in most cases) that developer doesn’t want to have a database and other back-end infrastructure to implement commenting functionality. But it not says that you can’t add it.