Thi Saturday morning, I was browsing through my SimpleAnalytics stats and saw one sorry number for a side-project I had forgotten about: launch.nuuz.io. All of zero visits in the last month. This was a one-page website of mine that listed a number of launch sites for new projects (e.g. ProductHunt, HackerNews, Reddit etc.), and what the public consensus was on the best day-of-the-week and/or time-of-day for posting a new project. It also showed a countdown for that ideal submission moment.| Peter Forret
Decades ago, back when I organised the first Belgian Barcamp events in Brussels (2006), I had a created a presentation of my own: I was scraping the ‘playing now’ feeds of several Belgian radio stations, using that data to detect ‘trending music’, new songs that started being played a lot on radio. I remember that one of the songs that came out of the algorithm was ‘Crazy’ by Gnarls Barkley, and since it was first time I heard that name, I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce it.| Peter Forret
This is a personal project of mine: I’ve recently recorded 2 hours of interview with my parents. The purpose is to have a record of their life stories, their memories, their anecdotes, told by them. The idea came to me when I heard some friends talk about their parents, who had passed away, and how they wished they had recorded their voices, their stories, their laughter.| Peter Forret
As I’ve mentioned before, I am doing a lot of research into using A.I. to facilitate cinema advertising operations. | Peter Forret
I’m doing lots of research these days on using A.I. (generative or other) in the daily operations of cinema advertising, which is my area of expertise.| Peter Forret
In 2007 I wrote a post “Learning Bulgarian in an Hour” based on this article: How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour. Let’s see how that works out with Hungarian.| Peter Forret
TL;DR: I decided to mirror the installation scripts for Unifi network controllers on GitHub using Bashew and GitHub Actions. Skip to the here marker to see the steps.| Peter Forret
If I wouldn’t be able to control myself, I would create a new website every week. Creating a website about … any topic really, helps me structure the knowledge I have or am in the process of collecting about it. The tools to create a new website have changed through the years. There was my Blogger period, my WordPress period, my Jekyll period. And now I am in my Mkdocs period.| Peter Forret
A recent trip to the U.K. showed me the reality of opening the Supercharger network to non-Tesla cars. I hadn’t really seen much of that in Belgium yet, but then I don’t use the Superchargers a lot when I’m close to home. The occupation rate of the stations I tried in the U.K. was higher than before (2021-2022), with anywhere from 25% to 75% of the stalls occupied by other brands. And that is not without its challenges.| Peter Forret
I’ve started using my setver bash tool for easy semver versioning of components and projects. One of the design decisions I made back then, is that I would always have a VERSION.md version file in the root of my project. This file only contains the current version number. This version is also stored in the composer.json (PHP), package.json (JS) files and git tags, but I wanted a system that also works for my bash projects. In the end, it turns out that was a clever decision.| Peter Forret
It all started with Instagram Reels showing me too many yummy cooking videos. I wanted to try some recipes out myself. But I didn’t want to have to keep my phone in the kitchen, and I didn’t want to have to keep unlocking it to see the next step. I wanted to print the recipe out, and have it on the counter while I was cooking. Wouldn’t it be cool if I could just print that video?| Peter Forret
