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My family uses Slack. It’s pretty interesting.

Everything changed for the better when we started using slack at work. We've made countless custom integrations; doorbells, intercoms, travel cards, reddit, lunch menues, git hooks, server monitoring, you name…

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…

Let Slack nag you that it’s time to return that commuter pass

Another week, and yet another Slack integration here at Earth People. This time we've added an integration to the public transport system here in Stockholm. At Earth People we like to…

Relaying push notifications to your own API

We recently made a campaign for Loka mineral water, where users together reveal the new flavors. This is done by using Snapchat. We send users snaps containing puzzle pieces, and…

automated screendump creation

i recently had to create jpg thumbs of the first frame from a bunch of videos. doing this manually is not really an option if you have 100 files or…

html5 validation with(!) facebook opengraph

html5 is that new, cool(?) technology which you should(?) be using when making new sites. but, being the thorough developer you are - it just eats you up from the…

Getting stats from the Facebook Like button your way

So you've implemented the Facebook Like button, and you'd like to know - programmatically - what your users Like on your site. This is a bit of a pain, since…

php class for ffmpeg

i've had a few projects over the last years where i've needed to convert some video file to flv, generate a thumbnail and get the video's duration. i've never really…

search for artist from iTunes

So, say you got this one great track in iTunes, and you want to look for more music from the same artist. Here's a simple little script that can ease…