One of the most successful SEO pages we created while I was at Optimizely, was our A/B test sample size calculator. We created a fairly simple tool that visitors could use to calculate the audience size needed to reach stat sig on an A/B test. The page also had a bit of copy (helpful for …
Vibe Coding with ChatGPT
I’ve been having a lot of fun vibe coding with ChatGPT lately. I’ve been building websites since I was in middle school, but I am not an engineer by any means, and ChatGPT has helped me update some of my old websites. Case in point: La Voz Del Mambo, a salsa website I helped recover …
How to Get USB DDR Controllers Working on a Mac
So I got my girlfriend a pair of USB DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) controllers and figured it would be easy to get them setup on my Mac laptop with an emulator, but I ended up spending a few hours scouring various Reddit threads before I could get it working. The process isn’t too complicated once …
Thoughts on AI in the New Year
2023 was definitely the year that the AI market started to explode, with the revolution kicked off by ChatGPT & Dall-E blossoming into thousands of companies and apps built on top of or around competing technologies. Some of the exciting tech that came out of 2023 include: GPT-4, Claude, Bard, Mixtral and other foundation models …
The Limits of Superintelligence
“Superintelligence” by Nick Bostrom has become one of the most influential books on the subject of runaway superintelligence in AI, and how AI might be contained so that AI doesn’t lead to cataclysmic outcomes for humanity. It has definitely been a thought-provoking book, and one question I find myself asking after reading it, which ties …
Changing the Style of a Photo Using Generative Fill in Photoshop
Came across a neat little trick for changing the style of a photo (for example into a watercolor painting or oil painting) using Photoshop’s generative fill feature: Use @Photoshop Generative Fill to turn a photo into a watercolor painting (thanks to a tip from @BLTVPhotoshop). You can try this with everything (pencil drawings, textures, oil …
Words That Are Also HEX Colors
Came across a tweet the other day that low key blew my mind: The word "decade" is a valid hex color pic.twitter.com/AeFrQ9Z9MO — kepano (@kepano) June 19, 2023 In my 25+ years of web development, it never occurred to me that there are HEX colors which are also words in English! I tried using ChatGPT …
Custom AI Generated QR Codes
The latest thing on AI Twitter this week has been the beta launch of QuickQR, a generative AI that creates artistic QR codes based on a QR code and a prompt. I’ve been playing with the tool for the past half hour, and the servers already seem to be overloaded and it’s not generating any …
Creating a Salsa Dancing Robot using Wonder Studio
I finally got access to Wonder Dynamics, which uses AI to replace human actors in a video with CGI characters, and the first video I made has already gone viral on Instagram & Facebook: It was super easy to use the tool to replace my friend Jhonner with a robot in just a few clicks, …
Adobe AI Integration is a Game Changer
Adobe’s recent integration of AI functionality has truly been a game changer, that has had an actual impact on my workflow and capabilities as a photographer. Once recent use case: using generative fill (outpainting) in Photoshop to expand photos so they can be posted on Instagram. Instagram has a maximum 4×5 aspect ratio for photos, …