Chris Lord

Computer programmer and banjo player, at Igalia since August 2019
London (UK)
Chris has spent a long time working on free and open source software and particularly enjoys combining systems and user-interface work. When not programming, he spends most of his time playing, teaching and gigging in bluegrass music circles, primarily on 5-string banjo.
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OffscreenCanvas, jobs, life
Hoo boy, it’s been a long time since I last blogged… About 2 and a half years! So, what’s been happening in that time? This will be a long one,...
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My Impossible Story
Keeping up my bi-yearly blogging cadence, I thought it might be fun to write about what I’ve been doing since I left Mozilla. It’s also a convenient t
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Goodbye Mozilla
Today is effectively my last day at Mozilla, before I start at Impossible on Monday. I’ve been here for 6 years and a bit and it’s been quite an exper...
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Free Ideas for UI Frameworks, or How To Achieve Polished UI
Ever since the original iPhone came out, I’ve had several ideas about how they managed to achieve such fluidity with relatively mediocre hardware. I m
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Machine Learning Speech Recognition
Keeping up my yearly blogging cadence, it’s about time I wrote to let people know what I’ve been up to for the last year or so at Mozilla. People keep...
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Open Source Speech Recognition
I’m currently working on the Vaani project at Mozilla, and part of my work on that allows me to do some exploration around the topic of speech recogni
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Web Navigation Transitions
Wow, so it’s been over a year since I last blogged. Lots has happened in that time, but I suppose that’s a subject for another post. I’d like to write...
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Efficient animation for games on the (mobile) web
Drawing on some of my limited HTML5 games experience, and marginally less limited general games and app writing experience, I’d like to write a bit ab
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Sabbatical Over
Aww, my 8-week sabbatical is now over. I wish I had more time, but I feel I used it well and there are certainly lots of Firefox bugs I want...
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