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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Syncing 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 = DC current. Orange = trig. White = ground. Turns out the kit actually speaks normal trig signal, and the internal trig is about the same as the trig…
Self-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 these files by cuteness”, “listen to these audio files for NSFW material” and other things a computer can’t do well (yet).…
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 detection, with pixel annotations of the corner of the mouth etc, plus unexpected values like sorrowLikelihood Landmark detection, with LatLon polygon boundaries…
Here 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 People we also use WordPress to build sites, so we thought that this it was a pretty cool and interesting fact that all…