An Office Tour in Pieces
I’ve been experimenting as a TikTok (and YouTube Shorts) creator. Let me explain. I recently shot a home office tour (thanks to my daughter Molly who was my camera operator) but when I started to edit it I just didn’t love it. I might still release it, but what I was inspired to do instead was to make a bunch of little videos showing off one specific thing in my office rather than a long video going over everything at a high level.
Read moreEgg.js Hits 1,500 GitHub Stars
I love putting easter eggs in the applications I write, and years ago I wrote the Egg.js javascript library to make that easier. My little silly library is used around the globe and it has 1,500 stars on GitHub! Anyway, here’s a video I made about it.
Read moreI Made an Arcade Cabinet
As a kid in the 80s and 90s there were a few things that you could see in a friend’s house that would immediately impress you. Examples would be, a second fridge, usually in the garage, one of those big projection TVs, or, and this is the big one, a full stand-up arcade cabinet.
Read moreSomeone Made a Hackers DVD Robot
It’s common knowledge that I love the movie “Hackers” and if you haven’t seen it you should…and in the meantime, you might not find the post all that interesting. For the rest of us: Someone made a tape robot that works the same way as it does in the movie scene where Zero Cool is fighting with Acid Burn over the local TV station!
Read moreAI Headshots Sorta Work
I gave AI headshots a try and it’s not bad. Some are quite good, but I’d call it a 7/10 over all. I made and attached a grid of the results, but I mixed in one real picture. Any guesses? The hardest part was that it required 10-20 selfies with different backgrounds and outfits, but since I don’t take a lot of selfies I had to run around my house finding backgrounds and changing clothes for 30 minutes to generate enough training data!
Read moreA Decade of Clojure at Studio71
What is Clojure and why did it fit for Studio71? Clojure is a programming language (a dialect of Lisp) that excels at concurrency and data processing. Clojure runs on top of Java so it’s runs in all of the places Java runs and can use all of the Java libraries already out there (hello, Google and AWS libraries!
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