An open source song QR scanner
In my previous blog post I wrote about the popularity of musical board games and the possibility of creating an open source variant. Today I put my money where my mouth is and share a first version of an open source song QR scanner
Make a hit of your own open source music game
This Christmas holiday there was a lot of hype around a musical game where you have to guess songs and put them in the right place in the timeline. The game is now sold out everywhere and also offers no way to use your own music selections, despite Spotify integration. This makes the idea of an open source variant that offers more freedom interesting.
From fumbler to wizard: in search of the optimal flow
Sometimes I can watch in fascination as others do their jobs. Some are incredibly clumsy, while others seem to have the efficiency and speed of some kind of PC wizard.
The Joys and Challenges of DevOps for Feature-Focused Engineers
LLM-generated article to put into words how I feel about DevOps.
Web scraping tactics and considerations
In this post I discuss measures against web scraping and how to circumvent them. To be used ethically.
BeReal: A system design challenge
The new social media app BeReal is an interesting case from a software system design perspective.
Reprogram the government
Unfortunately, the (Dutch) government is not known for being in good shape digitally. This is quite problematic, because services such as the Tax Administration, in particular, should be able to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.
Groningen: Then and now
The website of the Beeldbank Groningen offers beautiful historical photographs and other images of the province of Groningen.
Guess the price
Last week I made a new application for guessing prices on products. This dutch website can be found at www.raaddeprijs.nl.
Recordbingo on Github
Today I put the code for my RecordBingo project public on GitHub: https://github.com/theys96/muziekbingo/.
Hugo Fuse Search
This week I started a new project: hugo-fuse-search. It’s a dynamic search component for Hugo websites.
Go Hugo!
Today I deployed a new version of my personal website. I switched to a static site powered by the static site generator Hugo (gohugo.io).
Europa
Another project I put on GitHub recently: “Europa” is a browsergame I made in highschool to play with friends.
Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
I started putting some interesting hobby-/study-projects on GitHub to make sure they are preserved. Today I added the code I used for experimenting with the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (Frankle & Carbin) for neural networks: github.com/theys96/lottery-ticket-hypothesis.
RecordBingo
My bingo game with songs has been moved (from bingomusico.com) to recordbingo.com where I hope to expand it and build it into a minimum viable product.
Project Euler
For fun I have started again solving projecteuler.net problems.
Bingo Musico!
One of my current projects is a bingo game with songs. It can be found on BingoMusico.com [not anymore, now: recordbingo.com].
Bachelor's Final Project
For my computer science bachelor’s degree I am working on a reimplementation of a computer vision algorithm known as COSFIRE.
Haskell Parser Generator
For my studies I am working on a parser generator in Haskell for Haskell, a programming language that turned out to be very suitable for this purpose. GitHub repo: github.com/Theys96/HParser.
Created site
Site created on 2012-12-26.
Busy thinking of stuff to add.