official.fm labs
ofmlabs on github. official.fm.

The Idea

Our mission at Official.fm Labs is quite simple: make the web a better place for audio, or better yet, make the web the best place for audio to be. We're a small, fast moving team dedicated to this task, our work often being writing open source libraries that push the limits of the web as we know it. We are working with a lot of cutting-edge technology that we believe shouldn't be cutting-edge anymore, trying to make the possibilities available to everyone, everywhere. This means JavaScript codecs, audio processing and other things that come with the territory. Pioneering on these new technologies, we also believe in good faith that we should communicate our learnings to give back to the community by blogging about our work, speaking about it publicly, and helping out in organizing events where this is possible.

The Team

  • Jussi Kalliokoski

    Barbarian Commander, loving father & husband, enthusiastic about every aspect of making music. Full-time family-man, full-time coder, full-time musician: sleep deprived.

    Likes: Modular synths, over the top fantasy, sunlight.

    Idols: Linus Torvalds, Ritchie Blackmore.

    Links: Twitter, Github, Website.

  • Nick Markwell

    Programming polyglot, a monkey's uncle, enthralled by nearly everything math- or computer-related. Official.fm Labs' resident server kicker.

    Likes: Math, reinventing the wheel for my own amusement, Ruby.

    Idols: Robert Johnson (grandfather), Liz Krane.

    Links: Twitter, Github, Website.

  • Devon Govett

    JavaScript pirate, author of JS projects like PDFKit and many others, blogger at Badass JavaScript, and most recently at Official.fm Labs working on implementing various audio codecs in JavaScript. Suffice it to say that I like JavaScript, a lot!

    Likes: Music, Apple, JavaScript.

    Idols: Jack Dorsey, Steve Jobs.

    Links: Twitter, Github, Website.

  • Jens Nockert

    Battle Programmer, working with sound in almost every shape and form: speech, music, noise. At Official.fm Labs and as a student. Working on quite a few projects at Labs, most recently on the different audio codecs.

    Likes: Floating point, bacon, weird music.

    Idol: Paul Ziff.

    Links: Twitter, Github, Website.