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Making a silly game using Google Cloud Vision and Instagram

I was recently invited to the first alpha release of Google Cloud Vision, which is a game changing new API from Google. I can programmatically upload any picture and get…

Mandatory reading for PHP devs

I just wanted to give this site I stumbled upon some credit: http://www.hackingwithphp.com/. I've been developing with PHP for about 15 years, but still the part about performance taught me quite a lot.…

Finding out sentiment

Say you want to find out if a user generated text is happy, sad, upbeat or hateful. Not so easy is it? We were given this task as a part…

Hooking up the voice intercom to Slack

The intercom from the street to our office was connected to an old GSM phone, and letting people in required us to pick up the phone and press the digit…

Figurerunning a corgi

I like running, and figurerunning makes it even more fun. Don't know what figurerunning is? Oh! Basically it's just GPS tracking helping runners draw dicks on maps while running. What's not to like?…

How to make a wind chime door bell

Our doorbell was already connected to the Internet via an Arduino, but we couldn't stand the sound it made. We needed a warmer sound, a sound that didn't make us want to…

Integrera Swish i egna tjänster

I'll write this in Swedish because it only applies to Swedes. Swish är ju en väldigt lyckad tjänst. Den har, liksom t.ex. Uber, förändrat ett beteende. Över 2 millioner svenskar använder…

Why doesn’t all my Instagram embeds in WordPress look the same?

Well, Instagram changed the response on their Oembed service sometime in December 2014. And WordPress caches all oembed lookups the first time they're displayed. This means that all of your little…

An API for Faking Swedish user details

Lorem Ipsum is great for generating place holder texts, and Placehold.it (and our own Place-A-Pet!) does the same job for images. Sometimes though, you need to create fake Swedish users. Say…

Let Slack tell you what songs are currently playing in the office

At Earth People, there's always music in the air (and the birds sing a pretty song). Most of the stuff we play is fairly unknown to most of us, and…