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Happy Sunday, and I hope your Sunday is going better than mine. One of my kids just went to use the dryer and sparks flew. I don't mean metaphorically. Nothing like the thought of replacing another major appliance to brighten up your day, amiright?!?!
Where I live could generously be called "warm", but is usually closer to the surface of the sun, especially in late summer. That's why when the weather is not oppressively hot, I try my best to enjoy it. We're mid-May now and honestly, this spring has been... pleasant. Suspiciously pleasant but I'll take what I can get.
On my birthday a few weeks ago, one of things I got was something I've wanted to play with for a while, the Divoom Pixoo64 pixel frame. This is pixel art frame you can hang on your wall and with an app, select art, clock faces, and more. It's fun, although the app itself isn't my favorite. But - what excites me is that it has an API you can use to change what's shown on the frame. I actually built a demo of this with Webflow you can see below:
My wife and I are both big music lovers, and I'm happy to have influenced her listening habits a bit and have loved what she's introduced me to. Given we both love music, we've also been known to sing along at times. (You can take a guess as to how well that goes.) She normally gets the lyrics right. I'm normally a bit more... loose in terms of how well I remember the lyrics. I was thinking about this and was curious how well AI could be used to identity lyrics and match them to a song, especially when the lyrics may not be exactly right. I spent some time hacking on it and here's what I built.
This is trivial as heck as the kids say, but I really want to explore Val Town more this year and I thought of a great, and simple use for it. Both my wife and I are big Saints fans (this is their year, honest) and attend most of the games. If they're not playing at home, we're absolutely watching it on TV. We both really enjoy watching football, but honestly, not enough to watch ESPN and follow the news.
Earlier this year, the epic ColorThief library had a pretty significant update. I blogged about a simple demo I built with it but I was fascinated by one particular demo on their site.
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