How to Build an App In 21 Days
Are LLMs finally making us more productive? Are they making our work better?
Programming for Creative People
Essays, tutorials, and hands-on projects about creative coding, Python, machine learning, and building unusual things with computers.
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Why Social Media has Captured Our Attention
And what we might be able to do about it
What I've Learned in the Past Year Spent Building an AI Video Editor
Lessons from An Unexpected Year in AI
$2 million for your idea with no equity-- writing your first SBIR application
How I went from an idea to submitted Phase I proposal
Building a Robot to Protect Cyclists from Bad Drivers
Part 1: A Data Pipeline to Understand Cyclist Dangers
10 Things I Didn’t Expect Before Building Generative AI for Six Months
A lot of short term wins, but no enduring victories
Building an AI Video Editor Prototype in 100 Days
Jumping into the deep end of the (GPU poor) machine learning pool
Open Source and the Battle of the GPU Poors
Will the GPU Poors Be Allowed to Participate in Artificial Intelligence?
Building a remote controlled skateboard ramp
Creating a platform for a self-driving skatepark
Tools Matter More than You Think
Tools determine what’s possible
Is Engineering Management Bullshit?
Gather all of the authority, none of the accountability
Humane Software and the Role of Developer Advocacy
A guide for engineers who care about the worlds they build
Building an App for Your Christmas Lights
Remote controlled Christmas lights with Flask and Expo
Lessons learned running a remote vendor conference in 2020
On running a remote conference
Deep Learning on the $99 Jetson Nano
Training a neural network from scratch to control lights through dance on a $99 computer
Building Dab and T-Pose Controlled Lights
Training a neural network to control lights through dance
10x Software Development for the Rest of Us
Strategies to multiply the effectiveness of our knowledge work
Building Machine Learning Services in Kubernetes
Using a microk8s development environment to build deep learning services
Recreating "The Clock" with Machine Learning and Web Scraping
Web scraping and data extraction from videos for generating video supercuts on Kubernetes
Build an Instagram "Pin" Effect in Python with Dlib
Using correlation tracking to pin images in video
Breaking a Wine Glass in Python By Detecting the Resonant Frequency
Detecting the Resonant Frequency of an Object with
Designing A Deep Learning Bird Camera Platform
Birding with Python, Machine Learning, YOLO, and the NVIDIA Jetson
Creating Gifs Automatically with Deep Learning
Using Mask RCNN to Extract and Generate Gifs Automatically
Learning to Program with Python, Music and A Video Synthesizer
Using the Critter and Guitari ETC and Python to Generate Interactive Art in Python and Pygame
Building a Self Contained Deep Learning Camera in Python with NVIDIA Jetson
Building a platform to interact with birds in the wild
Building a Poor Man's Deep Learning Camera in Python
Streaming a webcam to a deep learning model the hacker’s way
Vocal Range Detector in Python with Pygame and Music21
Building a voice controlled musical game from scratch
Voice Controlled Flappy Bird
Turning your voice into a video game controller with pitch detection and music theory
Video Synthesizer in Python with Pygame
Building a Video Synthesizer Using Onset Detection and aubio
Automatic Memes in Python with Face Detection
DEAL WITH IT in Python 3, Pillow, and Dlib
A Universe in One Line of Code with 10 PRINT
Generating a Universe with One Line of Code
Introduction to the Terminal
Introduction to the Terminal for New Programmers
Sorting Algorithms Visualized in Python
Using Python 3 and Scikit-Image
Snapchat Lens Effect in Python
Using Python 3, Dlib, and OpenCV
Generating Slit Scan Images in Python
Using Python 3, MoviePy, and PIL
How to Pick a Good Programming Project
How to pick a project that will help you learn
Computation Is Human Augmentation
Increasing the Calories We Have Available for Consciousness
Why Python
Should Be Your First Programming Language
Why Learn Programming
Learning to program is learning to think formally