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Making headless screengrabs without PhantomJS

Ok this can be done with PhantomJS and it is probably better/simpler/etc. But if you, for any reason, can’t use PhantomJS to make screengrabs, here’s an over complicated alternative we came up with. wkhtmltopdf is an easy way of making screengrabs of webpage: $ wkhtmltopdf “http://google.com” googlescreendump.pdf Most package managers (at least Rpm and Aptitude) has it,…
Slack integrations so far; deploys, doorbells, reddit and lunch menus

On Earth People, we recently fell in love with Slack (Oh yes that’s an affiliate link that will give us both 100 dollar credit). It got us off Skype (which we didn’t really love anyway) and on to something that felt fresh. What really got us hooked was all the integrations we could do. Here’s…
Relaying push notifications to your own API

We recently made a campaign for Loka mineral water, where users together reveal the new flavors. This is done by using Snapchat. We send users snaps containing puzzle pieces, and when they make a screen grab of a specific piece – we put that piece in the puzzle on the website. Because of legal reasons…
Making car sound with web audio synthesis

We’ve fooled around with web audio synthesizers before, but never in a situation where mp3s would not also do the job. But in our recent Red Bull Racing game it really made sense to use a synth. The throttling sound is of course what it’s about. You want the speed of the car to control…
Chrome extension based campaign

Last year, our friends at TBWA\ asked us to create a Chrome extension for their client Adressändring. Adressändring’s services are normally used to forward mail when moving to a new place, and now they wanted to reach a younger demographic. This Chrome extension forwards a user’s social life by taking over banner space, much like…
Asynchronous game in real time

We made a game, a mobile racing game for Red Bull. Sort of in the trails of Chrome Racer, but even more fun we think. We used some cool stuff that we’ve written about here before – html5 audio, multiplayer gaming with websockets and node.js, but also stuff that was new to us, the vector…
SXSW lineup helper

We’re going to Austin again in March, for SXSW. It’s beyond great when it comes to live music. And tacos. But their official schedule is impossible to use due to the shear amount of gigs. Two years ago we created a little tool for ourselves and our friends called LASTSX.WS which mashed the lineup with…
WOW SUCH VIEWSTATE

https://github.com/EarthPeople/doge-state-for-wordpress
Place-a-pet, your animal shelter placeholder image service.

We’ve been using Placekitten.com for some time, and really love it. This service has two major flaws however: a) who are these cats? And do I really care? b) dogs are also nice. It doesn’t have dogs. The day before christmas, two years ago, we made a WordPress plugin which replaces the standard WordPress 404…
Integrating Snapchat

A client asked us what could be done, technically, with Snapchat. You may have heard about Snapchat this fall. It apparently has millions of users and are refusing to sell out to Facebook for billions of dollars. Many of us at Earth People have been using Snapchat for a few months, and like it alot.…
What WP plugins does a site use? Our tool have the answer!

We at Earth People have a bunch of WordPress plugins that we have developed over the years. Some of them are even pretty usable! That’s why whenever we hear about a new WordPress site being released here in Sweden, we eagerly try to find out if any of our plugins are being used. Previously that…
Creating a mobile event experience using social connections

Red Bull asked us to come up with something mobile and social for their Red Bull Weekender event in Stockholm. We love music, and planned on going to this event anyway, so figuring out the functionality was very fun and actually pretty easy. For non FB-connected users we pretty much show a lineup, in which…