Category: Hacks
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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/
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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…
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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…
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Christmas gift to the Internet: Hundstallet WordPress plugin
I recently fell in love with _all_ the homeless dogs on the Hundstallet website. I’m sure everyone would. And seeing as dogs has been mans best friend for many years, i thought we’d better give something back. When installed, this WordPress plugin will override your theme’s 404 page and instead display a random homeless dog…
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Moving WordPress 2.6 posts to a new 3.x installation
You have an old 2.6 version of WordPress with 2 000+ posts and 100 000+ in total comments. Today you have installed a brand new WordPress 3.x blog and want to import all data from the old blog but it is just too much to export with the built in export function in WP 2.6.…
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Line-out scrobbler – when DJ’ing
When DJ’ing at Debaser Slussen yesterday, we decided to hook up the Line out scrobbler to the DJ mixer. I knew that Echonest wouldn’t be able to resolve all weird stuff we play, but was hoping for at least 70% success rate. Unfortunately we had a resolve rate of about 20%, which make our little…
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Line-out scrobbler
for years i’ve been trying to hijack music recognition services like shahzam to be able to recognize music. i’ve finally got this working thanks to the fine guys at echonest, who kindly provide a proper api for this. my proof of concept is running on a spare macbook. here’s how it works on the mac…
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kanjagcykla.nu
Vi som bara cyklar av estetiska skäl är rätt kräsna när det gäller väder. När man saknar skärmar vill man inte att det ska regna. Kanjagcykla.nu är en mobil webbapp som berättar för dig, utifrån var du befinner dig, om du kan cykla eller inte. I bakgrunden Koppling till yr.no:s API mongoDB med en massa orter…
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NOW On Roskilde
Now On Roskilde is a mobile application which users easily can add to their homescreen. It shows what’s on right now, together with related artists playing in the near future. Since nothing is playing right now (+ the correct feed hasn’t been published yet), the app is pretty worthless at the moment. There is a…
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Sami language detection – fugly hack!
so you want to know if a text string is in sami? sami is way too indie for google translate, so i made a really ugly hack to check if a sentence seems to be sami or not. it’s php, you can download and use any way you want. i have no idea what kind…
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hashimage.com
some days ago, my wife attended some kind of social media event, called ssmx. during the event my twitter feed was packed with twitpics, yfrog and instagrams, and i decided to make a quick hack. here it is: http://hashimage.com the idea is simple – you just feed it a hashtag and it will scour the…
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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 inside when your brand new html5 website won’t validate because your client decided to add a facebook like button. the facebook open graph protocol/namespace/api/whatever which…