🔊 Slipstream

Slipstream was born out of a problem. In March of 2020 my company sent everyone home to quarantine as the Covid-19 pandemic took off in Los Angeles. I'm incredibly lucky to have the kind of job that didn't disappear with the lockdowns, but it was still a weird, stressful time.

Something that made the ensuing months easier to handle was the explosion in digital performance. Some of my favorite artists started streaming regularly, digital radio stations really took off, and they both become important to me in a way they hadn't been when I could catch concerts live almost any night of the week. I wasn't alone either: friends and coworkers started sending me new streams to check out all the time.

There was one downside to all this streaming: it was kind of tough to wrangle in the browser. Sometimes I'd be in the middle of listening to a digital radio station when I'd get thrown a link to a live performance I had to check out. Sometimes two artists I liked were playing simultaneously and I'd either need to miss one or attempt to jump between both performances. Switching between tabs and platforms while muting and unmuting was a pain, and it wasn't always easy to track down past streams I'd enjoyed when I wanted to listen to them again later on.

So I designed and built a browser plugin to handle all that.

Slipstream is a Google Chrome extension that lets you easily toggle between streams, silence or close streams with a single click, and save sets of streams for later.

It's a private extension you can't find in the Chrome store, but if you want to give it a try, just give me a shout.