Maybe you are familiar with those ticket booking systems where, at some point during the purchase flow, you have to choose a seat. This is usually done when selling tickets for games, movies, flights or concerts. Wouldn’t it be cool to have some kind of “realistic” preview of the seat, i.e. see the stage or …
Medis, a Redis GUI Client
The State of the Union Address as a Wes Anderson film
Nvidia Drive PX2
Some fascinating stuff by Nvidia: NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 allows the automotive industry to use artificial intelligence to tackle the complexities inherent in autonomous driving. It utilizes deep learning on NVIDIA’s most advanced GPUs for 360-degree situational awareness around the car, to determine precisely where the car is and to compute a safe, comfortable trajectory. …
Blurred Background Generator
This tool helps you to generate beautiful blurry background images that you can use in any project. It doesn’t use CSS3 gradients, but a rather unique approach. It takes a stock image, extracts a very small area (sample area) and scales it up to 100%. The browser’s image smoothing algorithm takes care of the rest. …
La Latina Map
Nice work by relajaelcoco: La Latina Map and Pocket Guide is a full colour illustrated project realized in collaboration with Walk with me, a smart company. The idea was to represent the essence of a sunny Sunday in La Latina borough in Madrid, outlining all the hidden and interesting corners. La Latina Map →
Scrapbook, PHP Caching Environment
// create \Memcached object pointing to your Memcached server $client = new \Memcached(); $client->addServer(‘localhost’, 11211); // create Scrapbook cache object $cache = new \MatthiasMullie\Scrapbook\Adapters\Memcached($client); // set a value $cache->set(‘key’, ‘value’); // returns true // get a value $cache->get(‘key’); // returns ‘value’ Scrapbook is a caching environment for PHP. The cornerstone is key-value-store, which sets a …
Design for the bigger problem
Great stuff by my friend Thomas Byttebier: When designing user interfaces, the same rule of thumb applies: never start designing anything until you deeply understand the problem at hand. Go back to research, talk to real users. Be that 3-year old kid again that answers every answer with another ‘why?’ until all conversations ultimately end …
How Art Can Transform The Internet
Maybe the aesthetic value of internet art is measured by its ability to help us see the internet, just as as a novel can help us see language. I really like the mentioned “rainbow effect” which we can see in satellite images, as it gives us an insight in how exactly satellite imagery works (which …
Getting the share count of a URL
At work I’m working on a project in which we need to track the share count of a URL. Below are my quick notes. In all examples I’m getting the share count of https://www.facebook.com/. Note that I’m using the jq notation to extract the actual result from the response. Just GET it Facebook Request: curl …