Year: 2016
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Our new tool finds “hidden” WordPress pages exposed by just released WP REST API
In December WordPress 4.7 was released. The most cool part of this release was the inclusion of the WordPress REST API. In development for quite some time it was finally included in core. The WordPress REST API is great for developers because it makes it very easy to get all pages, posts and users from…
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Giphy reactions via SMS on an old CRT
Audience participation during a conference is tricky. You want it to be relevant so it’ll have to be some kind of tech that responds quickly. And at the same time it should be moderated, since the audience can write offensive stuff. Tricky stuff. For our track at Internetdagarna I’ve built a little something that hopefully does this,…
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Creative Technology @ Internetdagarna
Just after my blog post about how my family uses Slack, the nice people at IIS asked if I wanted to host a track at Internetdagarna in November. Since the blog post came about while misusing technology, I figured the track should be about this. The name of the track: Creative Technology (because that’s the fancy name for goofing around with web stuff).…
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Stupid Hackathon Sweden
In February 2016 an event took place in New York called “STUPID SHIT NO ONE NEEDS & TERRIBLE IDEAS HACKATHON”. The stuff from this hackathon both made me giggle and gave me hope. The last 10 years on the web has been mostly about Salesforce integrations, paywalls, content marketing, gulp-or-grunt, webscale NoSQL and a/b-testing. This is all…
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Time tracking via Slack
Time tracking in general sucks. And we don’t timetrack unless we work in projects that we bill by the hour. Since we live our lives in Slack, and are pretty decent developers, I figured we could make this suck slighty less. Each channel has a command called /timedude which takes a few options: /timedude add…
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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 accuracy points. A video posted by earth people (@earthpe0ple) on Feb 16, 2016 at 4:01am PST The biggest challenge we faced…
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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 that root password somehow were to get out… Well, we did not have a plan for such a thing. Sure,…
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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 bilkampanjer med konversationsteknik, reverse-engineerat Snapchat’s API till Europas första SnapChat-kampanj, hackat ihop det enda rimliga sättet att hitta bra band på SXSW, typ kopplat ihop MatHem med…
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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 machine: We are so used to the digital computer concept that it’s easy to think of an analog computer…
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Throwable 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 realized that an old invention of “throwable” images between devices would be possible today with the illusion of instant data sharing. This video demonstrates how an image can…
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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 it – we haz it. My family has been using Google Calendar for a few years. Me and my wife used to think that we…