Category: earthpeople.se

  • Botanical – vår nya familjemedlem (in Swedish)

    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…

  • How we created an API to our coffee machine and how we abused the 418 I’m a teapot

    We needed(?) a REST API to our coffee machine. So I put a Twine next to it, and made it call back over HTTP to a webhook on one of our servers. This webhook logs all the temperature changes, and now anyone can query the dataset via our REST API. It just returns if the coffee…

  • Instagram bingo

    Instagram bingo

    This is a game that’s perfect for a company event, like our own Helsinki kick off. You get a list with stuff that you’re supposed to capture with your smartphone camera, tag properly and upload to instagram. Some of them are bound to a place, some not. Hard task – more points. In the field…

  • Y U NO HAZ API???

    Y U NO HAZ API???

    i really, really despise stuff without a public api. then i realized we don’t even have one ourselves. gah! (i also realize that this is of little value to anyone, but i just couldn’t stand hating myself.) earthpeople.se json api: – http://earthpeople.se/api/

  • Experiment 002

    Experiment 002

    In our second experiment we’ve been playing around with the Instagram API. The basic idea was to create mosaic images from Instagram photos tagged with something we like, for instance #cats (internet is made of cats, anyway). To begin with, we fetch a gazillion images with the tag in question. By resizing the images to…

  • our www – experiment 001

    our www – experiment 001

    the new earthpeople.se is an experiment driven website, where we try out ideas in the background, where the actual content stays the same over time. we just love fiddling around with www, and we thought it would be a good idea to showcase this somehow. the base of the website is a codeigniter install, with…