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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 you want...
View ArticleWhy 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 blog...
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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 appen....
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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 kill the doorbell users (mostly...
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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? We...
View ArticleHooking 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 5. Simple, sure, but it doesn’t feel like 2015....
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NFC + Krautmilen + Android
We needed to make something to measure timings during the running event Krautmilen. Equipment: Make a fugly Android app which could relay runners NFC keyring blips to a server API. Make a server API...
View ArticleFinding 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 of a recent project. And to make things even more challenging we...
View ArticleMandatory 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...
View ArticleThe Future of Grids
Our friend Emil Björklund has just published his third tidbit about CSS Grids. The future of web layout looks bright. Don’t miss part 1 and part 2.
View ArticleHere is a list of WordPress plugins that Sweden’s largest political parties use
TL;DR: We made a website: partiwebbsidor.se. WordPress is pretty big here in Sweden. Recently we found out that six of the largest political parties use WordPress on their main sites. Here at Earth...
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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 this kind of stuff back: Face...
View ArticleSelf-generating recursive art using Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk is an amazing API. It’s an API to humans, and yup that sounds super weird. I programmatically create a HIT – a Human Intelligence Task, using their API. Typical HIT’s are “sort...
View ArticleSyncing your Korg Littlebits to external trig
Syncing your Korg Littlebits sequencer can be a bit tricky unless you have the official break-out bits, or a SQ1 sequencer too hook it up to. I multimetered the cables between the breakout bits: Red =...
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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,...
View ArticleThrowable images
I have been playing around with the idea of instant communication between devices/browsers for a while now. Trying to find new ways of using WebSockets further than just text messages. Suddenly...
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An analog computer game on a modular synthesizer
Here’s a “Whac-A-Mole” type game made on a modular synthesizer, acting as an analog computer. We got excited at the office over some images of old analog computers. This is a pretty fresh look for a...
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Botanical – vår nya familjemedlem (in Swedish)
I snart tio år har Earth People skapat och utvecklat verktyg för att hjälpa tjänster att prata med varandra. Ofta utan att tjänsterna egentligen stöder detta. Vi har byggt feta amerikanska...
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Controlling ssh access with GitHub organizations
Ok, I’m coming clean. Controlling access to our various servers has been a mess. Sure, we’ve stored passwords in a safe way (1Password for teams ftw!) but what happens if someone leaves the company or...
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Inline video in Mobile Safari on iOS
Recently we released a game for one of our clients, Red Bull. The game feature two awesome breakdancers which you control. Hitting the markers at the beat of the music gives you performance and...
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